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Fortinet FortiExtender

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What is Fortinet FortiExtender?

FortiExtender is the wireless WAN offering from Fortinet.

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Fortinet FortiExtender WAN Solutions

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Steven Quach
Finance Analyst in Finance and Accounting at CHCN (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Fortinet FortiExtender allows our agency to have secure and stable network connectivity. Fortinet FortiExtender provides broadband access to the internet and allows for our agency's business integration with practices that require remote connections to complete our work. Fortinet FortiExtender is easy to use, not too difficult to implement and manage and is a good WAN solution.

Pros

  • Provides WAN solutions
  • Ease to manage
  • User friendly

Cons

  • Price can be costly to maintain
  • Tech support could be better
  • Better integration with mobile devices

Most Important Features

  • WAN connectivity
  • Cloud access
  • Secure network

Return on Investment

  • Costly to implement
  • Good coverage and secure
  • Stable product

Alternatives Considered

Fortinet FortiGate

Other Software Used

Microsoft Teams

FortiExtender, Solution for your connectivity in the organization

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Mohit PrasadView profile
Automation Engineer in Engineering at Eureka Electrosoft Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

With Fortinet Security, FortiExtender helps to achieve high-end internet scalability and high-end connectivity in the organization. IT's wireless scalability and out-of-the-band management enabled us to achieve the scalability and easy connectivity of the internet in the organization. The cloud-based management increased efficiency and helped us manage the user and other related activities for monitoring and planning.

Pros

  • Failover protection by supporting multiple bands.
  • Cloud based management helping to manage the system from anywhere.
  • Integration with the Fortinet firewall.

Cons

  • Third-Party integration
  • Lower update footprints
  • Global configuration

Most Important Features

  • Flexible connectivity
  • Easy installation with plug-n-play system.
  • High end cloud management

Return on Investment

  • Increased the overall connectivity and efficiency within the organization.
  • Improved the overall latency.
  • Easy integration that helped to work with connectivity and firewall at the same time.

Alternatives Considered

Fortinet FortiGate

Fortinet FortiExtender the best 5G supporting solution

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Maiko SvanidzeView profile
Lecturer Invited Specialist in Information Technology at Business and Technology University (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As a learning entity, Business Technology University has several libraries and labs, where students should be able to make homework and have access to some cloud platforms to stay up-to-date and use proper materials and test labs. Using old, outdated, and insecure products is inappropriate for a learning institution. So there were some challenges, namely: stable and secure connection, the ability to monitor the sessions, ability to optimize the working process.

Pros

  • Secure and stable connections
  • Easy to manage
  • Integration with other parts of Fortinet Fabric

Cons

  • Improve functionality for cellphones
  • Single Sigh On configurations and integrations
  • Provide more detailed case studies

Most Important Features

  • 5G Support
  • Access for remote branches
  • Cloud based management

Return on Investment

  • It helped students to be online and use lab recourses more effectively.
  • There is less security cases caused by third party mobile devices.
  • The learning process became more comfortable.

Alternatives Considered

Cisco 5520 Wireless Controller and Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN (CloudGenix)

Other Software Used

Tenable.sc, Bitdefender GravityZone, Proofpoint Insider Threat Management (ObserveIT), Proofpoint Email Fraud Defense

A wireless WAN that has become a necessity for our company in a jiffy.

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Arthur LoganView profile
Volunteer in Information Technology at CommsVolunteers.org (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We added this Wireless WAN in our company to assist all of our departments as well as to provide us backup when our cable network gets failed due to any of the causes. It is great in providing us backup in critical situations and is also managing some of the department’s critical processes. We are integrating it with other Fortinet security.

Pros

  • the coverage it provides us is amazing.
  • It is secure and this is one of the basic reasons to choose this WAN solution.
  • The stability of it is another plus.
  • Installation is very easy and can be done even without the assistance of any technician.

Cons

  • It is good when any problem occurred in our fiber cables but when it gets problematic then there isn’t any way out for us and its graphic interface is not helpful.
  • Its support team is useless and didn’t help in any regard.
  • The price is not in our favor.

Most Important Features

  • Security.
  • Coverage.
  • Stability.

Return on Investment

  • We no longer fear if the fiber cable network gets collapsed as it is a great backup for us.
  • The critical processes of our company work without any pause.
  • The kind of secure network we are enjoying has paid us off.

Other Software Used

Avast Business Antivirus, Cisco 3504 WLAN Controller, Hoot Meetings

FortiExtender

Incentivized
Aaron Ford
IT Support in Information Technology at GateKeeper Systems (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Fortinet's fortiextender for our parking lot on warehouse WIFI backup system. It works great when our primary WIFI system needs to be updated or simply fails. Fortinet's platform works seamlessly with our Fortinet Firewall.This product is fairly easy to configure and provides easy access GUI for future patching.

Pros

  • Ease of use
  • Easy setup
  • Easy management

Cons

  • N/A

Most Important Features

  • Wireless access
  • Constant access
  • Mobility

Return on Investment

  • Positive impact by allowing us to continue business operations

Alternatives Considered

Ubiquiti Networks UniFi and Cisco 1000 Series Connected Grid Routers (CGR 1000)

Other Software Used

Cisco 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 1000), Ubiquiti WLAN