Fortinet’s Secure, Simple, Scalable Ethernet Solutions
2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure
Legacy Ethernet LANs face many challenges including exponential growth in devices and applications, increased throughput demands from wireless LANs, and complex security implementations. Rather than asking how to secure traditional Ethernet LANs, Fortinet takes a security driven networking approach offering Ethernet as an extension of the security infrastructure through FortiSwitch and FortiLink. Features such as NAC are included with no additional licensing. FortiSwitch offers a broad portfolio of secure, simple, and scalable Ethernet switches ideal for Secure SD-Branch and applications ranging from desktop to data center.
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LAN Edge equipment from Fortinet converges networking and security into a secure, simple to manage architecture with a single focal point for management and configuration. By leveraging Secure Networking Fortinet allows you to secure the LAN Edge without the need for costly and complex licensing schemes.
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FortiSwitches are available in a variety of models to address needs from the access layer to the datacenter. All models can be managed and configured directly from the FortiGate.
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24 port PoE+ with maximum 370 W limit |
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48 x GE RJ45 ports, 4 x GE SFP |
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4 port PoE+ with maximum 65 W |
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8xGE RJ45 + 2 SFP ports |
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8 port PoE+ with maximum 130 W |
Please see the product page for more information on these and many more product features.
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24 GE RJ45 + 4 SFP |
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24 port PoE+ with maximum 370 W limit |
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48 GE RJ45 + 4 SFP |
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24 GE RJ45 + 4 SFP ports |
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24 GE RJ45 + 4 SFP ports |
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12 port PoE+ with maximum 180 W limit |
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48 GE RJ45 + 4 SFP ports |
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24 port PoE+ with maximum 370 W limit |
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48 GE RJ45 + 4 SFP ports |
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48 port PoE+ with maximum 740 W limit |
Please see the product page for more information on these and many more product features.
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24 x GE SFP ports, 4 x 10 GE SFP+ uplinks |
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1GbE 24 port 4X 10GbE |
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250 W POE 421 FPOE |
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16 x GE RJ45 ports, 8 x MGIG 2.5 GE UPOE (60W) ports, 2 X MGiG 5GE ports, 4X 10GE SFP+ |
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Full POE 8 Port UPOE |
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421 W POE 421 FPOE |
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1GbE 48 port 4X 10GbE |
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772W POE 421 FPOE |
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24 GE RJ45, 4x 10 GE SFP+ and 2x 40 GE QSFP+ |
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24 GE RJ45, 4x 10 GE SFP+, 2x 40 GE QSFP+ |
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48 GE RJ45, 4x 10 GE SFP+ and 2x 40 GE QSFP+ |
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48 GE RJ45, 4x 10 GE SFP+ and 2x 40 GE QSFP+ |
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48 port PoE+ with maximum 750 W limit |
Please see the product page for more information on these and many more product features.
With 10 or 40 Gigabit Ethernet access ports and a high throughput backbone, FortiSwitch Data Center Switches are ideal for top-of-rack server or firewall-aggregation applications. These high-speed switches are also well suited for enterprise network core or backbone network installations.
Please see the product page for more information on these and many more product features.
FortiSwitch Rugged switches deliver all of the performance and security of the trusted. FortiSwitch secure, simple, scalable Ethernet solution, but with added reinforcement that makes them ideal for deployments in challenging environments.
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8x GE RJ45 PoE+, 4x GE SFP slots |
FortiLAN Cloud centralizes the lifecycle management of stand-alone FortiSwitch Ethernet switches and FortiAP wireless access points with a simple, intuitive, and easy-to-use cloud interface—accessible from anywhere.
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Balancing support for business-critical applications and devices while securing them can be an overwhelming task. FortiSwitch offers a secure simple and scalable approach enabling customers to deploy Ethernet access in a secure framework through Security-driven networking.
Read what end users say about FortiSwitch on Gartner Peer Insights.
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“Making strides to become the industry leading network AND security company.”
“We have always had success in deploying and scaling Fortinet technologies to fit our business needs. The hardware build and quality is top notch, the security features are second to none, and the company stands behind their products. We have, however, had challenges with overall stability of new OS versions at times and Fortinet has been slow to adopt and build robust cloud management suites unlike their competitors.”
– Infrastructure and Operations in the Services Industry
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“Fortinet - Four out of Fortinet”
“Our experience with Fortinet has always been great and the partners they use has equally been reflective of this relationship. Advise has always been professional and in the best interests of my organisation not necessarily what will create more revenue for the vendor and this brings a high level of trust not only in Fortinet but the people who represent them.”
– Head of Operations in the Healthcare Industry
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“Superior hardware with offerings to fit just about any project”
“Fortinet has exceeded all of our expectations in allowing us to test various product lines before purchasing which helped us choose the right products for our environment. Fortinet makes great hardware, but sometimes the licensing for support doesn't match properly with the hardware.”
– Senior Network & Server Administrator in the Education Industry
Gartner Peer Insights reviews constitute the subjective opinions of individual end users based on their own experiences, and do not represent the views of Gartner or its affiliates.
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Fortinet’s Ethernet switches provide integration with many leading vendors as part of the Fortinet Security Fabric.
Below is a list of current Product Alliance Partners:
Aislelabs is a location analytics and marketing automation platform designed for brick & mortar enterprises across multiple verticals. Aislelabs products, deployed on Fortinet infrastructure, enables end-to-end customer behavioral analytics by not only tracking how customers behave within the space, but also tools to engage them online and offline.
Auvik’s cloud-based software simplifies and automates network monitoring and management for IT managed service providers. Auvik gives MSPs better visibility, documentation, and monitoring for their client networks, and automates many time-consuming network tasks. With Auvik, MSPs have an efficient and profitable way to manage their client networks. The Auvik and Fortinet integration provides mapping, alerting, and configuration management for Fortinet products.
CyGlass is an AI based SaaS security platform that uses network data to uncover, pinpoint, and respond to advanced cyber threats that have evaded traditional security controls.
The Cynerio-Fortinet joint solution equips healthcare IT security teams with comprehensive security and remediation policies that ensure uninterrupted clinical services. Armed with detailed insights into medical device behavior, impact, and criticality, hospitals can enforce customized cybersecurity policy using ACLs, VLANs, NAC and firewalls.
ForeScout Technologies is transforming security through visibility. ForeScout offers a highly scalable, heterogeneous platform that provides Global 2000 enterprises and government agencies with agentless visibility and control of traditional and non-traditional devices, including IoT devices, the instant they connect to the network.
Gigamon provides active visibility into physical and virtual network traffic, enabling stronger security, and superior performance.
Industrial Defender ASM® solutions deliver cybersecurity, compliance and change management for Industrial Control Systems (ICS). Over the last decade, the organization has successfully developed and delivered a single unified platform to secure and manage heterogeneous control environments for critical infrastructure operations.
Keysight is dedicated to providing tomorrow’s test technologies today, enabling our customers to connect and secure the world with their innovations. Together with Fortinet, Keysight enables visibility, security, and validation for Zero Trust environments.
Restorepoint’s solutions help organisations and service providers reduce cost, manage unforeseen risks, and to accelerate change management across their multi-vendor network infrastructures. Using our cost-effective products, customers can quickly automate Network Outage Protection, Compliance Auditing, and Privileged Access Management and to simplify Bulk Change Management.
Sensilla provides an innovative IT Security system for detecting Lateral Movement, Incident Response, Vulnerability Monitoring, and Microsegmentation. Together with Fortinet, the companies deliver a comprehensive view of all network communications and an ability to discover, monitor, and protect all network systems.
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This full working demo lets you to explore the easy-to-use FortiSwitch GUI. From the interface dashboard, you will see a high-level overview of the switch, including system information and resource utilization. The switch port interface gives you a graphical representation of the switch, enabling you to view and manage the administrative and link status of each port, as well as configure features such as Spanning Tree Protocol.
How do you secure and enable the edges of your network? The wired and wireless network poses a challenge to network administrators faced with limited IT budget and staff. Fortinet’s LAN Edge solution leverages the FortiSwitch to provide secure Ethernet access that is simple to deploy and easy to scale from the smallest remote branch to a campus. Learn more on how the Fortinet LAN Edge provides a software-driven, artificial intelligence enabled LAN here.
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Local-area networks (LANs) in campus settings are dynamic and complex, making them challenging to secure and manage. By leveraging the FortiGate Next Generation Firewall as a LAN controller, IT can simplify their work load by consolidating functions into a single management interface that converges both networking and security. Learn more here.
Securing the wireless at new branches can be expensive, difficult, and time consuming to deploy. The same simplicity, manageability, and security offered in our Secure SD-WAN solution leveraging the FortiGate NGFW can be carried over into wired and wireless access management to create a Secure SD-Branch. FortiSwitch, integrate directly into the FortiOS security infrastructure via our FortiLink protocol. Learn more here.
Security Fabric Integration with FortiLink
No Touch Provisioning and Management with FortiLink
Highly Scalable
Unparalleled Visibility
Enable voice, data, and wireless traffic across a single network
Virtual Stacking
Fortinet’s Ethernet switches can be managed standalone or integrate directly into the Fortinet Security Fabric via the FortiLink protocol. FortiLink is a key supporting technology of the FortiSwitch, that enable its ports to become extensions of the FortiGate security appliance. When connected via FortiLink the security polices of the FortiSwitch can mirror the FortiGate making Firewall interfaces and Switch ports equally secure. Centralized management through the FortiGate simplifies deployment and provisioning of FortiSwitch with no touch auto-discovery, one click VLAN and security policy assignment. With an integrated access layer, the FortiGate provides consolidated visibility and reporting easing management and troubleshooting. These features are included and have no licensing fee. FortiSwitch can also be managed without a FortiGate and for these types of deployments at scale our FortiSwitch Manager supports up to 2500 switches utilizing a similar network design as FortiGate managed, but without security.
