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SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 2, 2004 – Fortinet –
the only provider of ASIC-powered, network-based antivirus
firewall systems for real-time network protection – will
be presenting at the Thomas Weisel Partners Tech 2004 Conference
in San Francisco on February 4 at the Fairmont Hotel. President
and chief executive officer Ken Xie will address key institutional
investors and analysts at 10:20 a.m. PST on the company's
leading security technology, rapid market acceptance, and
key plans for 2004 and beyond. Of the more than 140 companies
scheduled to present at the conference, Fortinet is one of
only a small number of privately held companies participating
in the by-invitation-only event.
Thomas Weisel Partners is a merchant bank providing investment
banking, institutional brokerage, private client services,
private equity investing and asset management exclusively
focused on the growth sectors of the economy. The Firm's distinctive
competence is combining deep domain expertise with bulge bracket
execution capability. The team at Thomas Weisel Partners has
approximately 500 employees, including 64 partners, and is
headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices in
New York, Boston and Menlo Park.
About Fortinet (www.fortinet.com)
Fortinet's award-winning FortiGate™ series of ASIC-accelerated
antivirus firewalls, winner of the 2003 Networking Industry
Awards Firewall Product of the Year, are the new generation
of real-time network protection systems. They detect and eliminate
the most damaging, content-based threats from email and Web
traffic such as viruses, worms, intrusions, inappropriate
Web content and more in real time – without degrading
network performance. FortiGate systems, the only security
products that are quadruple-certified by the ICSA (antivirus,
firewall, IPSec, NIDS), deliver a full range of network-level
and application-level services in integrated, easily managed
platforms. Named to the “Visionaries” category in
the 2003 Gartner Enterprise Firewall Magic Quadrant, Fortinet
is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California.
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