Grupo Universal
Grupo Universal, a Dominican Republic conglomerate, is comprised of 10 subsidiaries that provide insurance, financial, and other services. With 55 years in the making, Grupo Universal is an established innovator in the Dominican Republic and is known for helping the greater community with products and services. With these ideals in mind, they launched their digital and technological transformation in 2017.
To keep pace with today’s digital economy, Grupo Universal wanted to decentralize infrastructure, enable secure wireless connectivity, and provide high-performance networks to meet user and technological demands. With Fortinet, Grupo Universal IT teams were able to integrate FortiGate Secure SD-WAN with other Security Fabric solutions, deploying high-performance communications infrastructure with end-to-end security. Additional Security Fabric integrations enabled network access control for devices across the network, all managed with a single pane of glass.
Learn more about Grupo Universal’s journey of selecting and deploying the Fortinet Security Fabric in this case study.
Business Impact
Improved performance and communications speeds with redundant links across all locations
Cost savings of $30,000 per year in communication links and $70,000 per year in WAN optimization
Faster cloud access and cloud-hosted applications with local breakouts
