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Leading Indian Travel Management Company Secures Business with Fortinet FortiGate Systems

BTI Sita Selects Fortinet over Competitors for Multi-site Security Deployment

DELHI; India, September 19, 2005 - Fortinet - the confirmed market leader in Unified Threat Management and only provider of ASIC-accelerated, network-based multi-threat security systems for real-time network protection- today announced that BTI (Business Travel International) Sita Business Travel, a leading travel management company in India, has selected Fortinet's FortiGate™ integrated network security applicances to secure its business data. BTI Sita evaluated security solutions from a number of vendors, including Juniper, Cisco, and SonicWall, before deciding on Fortinet's solutions.

"We chose Fortinet over the others because it gave us the best scalability, upgradeability, efficient bandwidth management and optimization, superb content filtering, and awesome reporting facilities. All at the best price points," said ichard Bright, Head-IT at BTI Sita. "Fortinet gives us the best security at high performance, but low costs."

BTI Sita, owned by Kuoni Travel Group, the largest travel company in India, provides total travel solutions for business travel, incoming and outbound leisure travel, and money transfer products and services. Headquartered in New Delhi, BTI Sita has 13 locations in major cities across India. Previously, the company was running a decentralized network environment, with most of its data kept in Foxpro databases. ecently, the company has begun re-architecting its network and data infrastructure, consolidating data, and rolling out new Enterprise esource Planning (EP) and Centralized eservation System (CS) initiatives. With the move from a X.25 network with no Internet access to a TCP/IP network with connectivity to the Internet, and the deployment of new applications that relied heavily on mail servers, the company decided that it was time to develop and implement a security strategy.

The company found that, in addition to providing high-levels of security without compromising network performance, the FortiGate platforms also integrated well with their existing Active Directory network and provided security-reporting facilities - all necessary criteria for selection.

BTI Sita purchased several FortiGate platforms, including:

    About BTI Sita (www.bti-india.com)

    Business Travel International (BTI) is the world's leading travel management organisation operating in over 100 countries. In 2000, Kuoni India acquired SITA World Travel, a forerunner in the inbound, incentive and business travel market. In 2002, Kuoni India's business travel activity affiliated itself with BTIÐInternational and was re-launched as a separate division under the brand name BTI (Business Travel International).With substantial global capabilities and specialist local expertise, BTI is the acknowledged expert in the delivery of corporate travel solutions.

    About Fortinet (www.fortinet.com)

    Fortinet is the confirmed leader of Unified Threat Management market. The company's award-winning FortiGate™ series of ASIC-accelerated multi-threat security systems, winner of the 2004 Security Product of the Year Award from Network Computing Magazine and 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 e-mail and Web traffic such as viruses, worms, intrusions, inappropriate Web content and more in real time - without degrading network performance. Fortinet's solutions are the only security products that are certified seven times over by the ICSA (firewall, antivirus, IPSec, SSL, IDS, client antivirus detection and cleaning), and deliver a full range of network-level and application-level services in integrated, easily managed platforms. Named a Light Reading Top 10 Private Company and #4 on Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal's "Fast 50" list, Fortinet is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California.

     

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