Name: Fortinet Wireless LAN
Rating: 6.3 (16 reviews)
Author: Fortinet

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Cisco offers the Meraki (MR) line of wireless access points supporting basic LAN with inbuilt antivirus (NAC), cloud management with network-wide access control, and location analytics, as well as support for indoor and outdoor spaces of various sizes across different product models.

Cisco Meraki Wireless Access Point

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Cisco's Meraki MR Series is a wireless LAN solution.

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Fortinet headquartered in Sunnyvale, California offers Wireless LAN products.

Fortinet Wireless LAN

Wireless LAN Tools perform various network functions like optimizing traffic, maintaining reliable service across the LAN's range, and providing secure access to the LAN.

Likelihood to Recommend

Support Rating

Fortinet

Zero-Touch Provisioning

Additional access points can be added to a network with little to no configuration necessary.

WLAN Performance Monitoring

Dashboards, analytics, and other visualizations that show performance metrics for the network.

Topology Maps

Trees, lists, and other visualizations that show which specific devices are connected through the network.

Layer 7 Visibility

The product’s ability to show and interact with network operations at the application level. For example, it may monitor or restrict bandwidth consumed by specific web applications or websites.

Power over Ethernet Support

The product’s support for power over ethernet (PoE) connections instead of standalone power cables.

Wireless Security

The product’s security features. This may include support for standards like WPA, built-in security features such as traffic isolation, and alerts for suspicious activity.

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Access points

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Ease of management

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Home

Wireless LAN Tools

Fortinet FortiGate

FortiAP

We have implemented Fortinet WLAN at some of our Branch offices to ensure proper connectivity for our teams. Security was core, and with hybrid workforce realities, especially with multiple offices, we needed to have a solution in place that offered easy connectivity to all of our users. Setup was easy for our IT team, which is always a plus!

Product Usage

Pros and Cons

Provide secure wifi
deploys easily
facilitates users connectivity when moving between offices

Things done well

requires manual updates
Access points cost vs performance
support isnt always efficient

Things done poorly

Fortinet offers great Security features and is one of the leaders on that, and integrating Wireless LAN infrastructure with Access points proved to work rather seamlessly. Ease of management, single platform and ability to customize licensing as per needs were elements in favor of adding the Wireless LAN solution from Fortinet to our security portfolio.

Easy of deployment
Powerful integration to other Fortinet products
industry leading Security features

Most Important Features 3.4.21

single vendor management for better cost control
ability to scale
quick and easy setup

Return on Investment

as a stand-alone product, the Fortinet wireless LAN solution isn't the most powerful, nor compelling out there. Others, like Cisco Meraki, offer great products, with added wifi features at a similar price point, but where Forti shines, is when integrated into a network with firewall enablement such as Fortigate. Overall, it stacks up well with others and is a solution that needs to be evaluated in a purchasing project.

Alternatives

Fortinet FortiGate, Cisco Meraki MR, FortiAP

Other Software Used

Fortinet Wireless LAN 2021-10-21 09:04:54

Webex Meetings

Microsoft Teams

Webex Contact Center

As a Fortinet solution reseller, we obviously deploy a lot of their solutions in-house, either in our production environment or lab environment to showcase to customers. We use FortiGate as routeurs, FortiSwitch and FortiAP for our LAN and Wireless needs prod environment. So all our security/infrastructure is manage with Fortinet products. Obviously, our wifi is provided by FortiAPs.

Really easy to configure
Really easy to manage
Great value for price

Better to work with a Fortinet partner, their support is inadequate.
Maybe a lack of security features when using it without Fortigate

Fortinet has a great portfolio of access points for indoor and outdoor needs, low and high density and even access points for ruggedized needs. So you can find the appropriate access point for pretty much all scenarios, from office to storage or outdoor environments. We can find all you need to roll out small to large deployments.

Less management cost
Less expensive to buy

Cisco Meraki also have a great Wifi solution and easily managed as well (even more user friendly). But, at the end, FortiAP just offer quite the same experience for less bucks. In greater deals, Meraki can sometimes be more agressive and compete on pricing structure, in this case, I would probably prefer Meraki MR solution.

Microsoft Teams, Cisco Webex Meetings, Cisco Webex Contact Center

Fortinet Wireless LAN 2021-05-21 15:22:45

Mojo Networks

WatchGuard Secure Wi-Fi Cloud

We have built a WiFi, all-in-one solution, and created a product for existing and future customers. The all-in-one includes all Fortinet products: Firewall, Switch, and Access Points. This solution, compared to Meraki's all in one solution, is at a price-point to which customer like, without having to give up features.

Ease of configuration.
Ease of management.

In the web portal, it would be nice if you could create a customer, assign that customer all the devices in the solution, and have a single pane glass to manage them all. Right now you need to access different web links to manage the devices.
The security feature set could be a bit more sophistication, like an Arista AP which polices the air.

The Fortinet solution works in all scenarios due to the choice of access points. It is able to suit any environment.  The access points will perform in any indoor or outdoor environment, and Fortinet support is second to none.  They will assist you from beginning to end; ensuring your solution is working as it should.

The cost of management decreased,
End-users connect flawlessly to the solution and are able to be productive when they are mobile.

As far as features, Fortinet has them all. When compared to Meraki and WatchGuard, it comes out miles ahead.  The biggest difference is price.  You pay less for the Fortinet, but you do not lose the features you need to have a great solution.

Cisco Meraki MR Series and WatchGuard Secure Wi-Fi Cloud

Fortinet offers excellent support.  They will work with you until the solution is doing what it is designed to do, within its capabilities.  They also do an excellent to follow-up with the end-user prior to closing the ticket.

Support

Cisco Meraki MR Series, WatchGuard Secure Wi-Fi Cloud, Mojo Networks

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Fortinet Wireless LAN

Overview

What is Fortinet Wireless LAN?

Forti WLAN - great addon to Fortigate

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Product Details

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Compare with

Cisco Meraki Wireless Access Point

Ubiquiti Networks UniFi

Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers

Aruba Instant Wi-Fi Access Points

Ruckus ICX Switches

Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers

Extreme Wireless Access Points

Cisco Catalyst 9100 Access Points

Meraki MR

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