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Fortinet's FortiGate-620B Earns Top Honors as eWeek Channel Insider Best Product of the Year
(Marketwire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) SUNNYVALE, CA, December 23 / MARKET WIRE/ --
Fortinet? -- the pioneer and leading
provider of unified threat management (UTM) solutions -- today announced
that its FortiGate-620B enterprise security appliance has been named one of
the top 10 products of the year by eWeek Channel Insider. After scoring
high marks in a recent eWeek Channel Insider review, Fortinet's latest
ASIC-based appliance, with 16 Gbps firewall and 12 Gbps VPN throughput, was
selected as the number one network security product of 2008.
eWeek Channel Insider reviewed roughly 200 products throughout the year,
but the Fortinet FortiGate-620B's ability to offer a "plethora of
protection" for enterprises pushed the product to the top of its class.
Solutions were evaluated on innovation, functionality, up-sell and
value-add service opportunities and market potential, coupled with the
vendor's channel support program. eWeek Channel Insider Reviewer and
Executive Technology Editor Frank Ohlhorst lauded Fortinet for offering
"excellent channel support and keep[ing] partners involved in the upgrade
and renewal processes, helping them to derive residual income."
The FortiGate-620B is the second in a family of enterprise-class products
that leverages the accelerated performance and expanded network
capabilities typical of Fortinet's highest-end systems. The FortiGate-620B
appliance was praised for its ability to "do less with more" by integrating
eight core security functions, including antivirus, intrusion prevention
(IPS), spyware prevention, anti-spam, Web content filtering, traffic
shaping, VPN and firewall. Customers can choose to purchase FortiGate
appliances for all of these functionalities, or integrate just a few
functions. Expandable up to 24 ports, the FortiGate-620B offers the highest
port density in its class, which is the key driver behind the flexibility
that enterprise companies can now have for internal network security
segmentation.
"Fortinet's channel has been an instrumental part of our success and we
continually strive to equip our partners with valuable, innovative and
necessary products to solve their customers' challenges," said Anthony
James, vice president of products at Fortinet. "We're happy to receive
this accolade from eWeek Channel Insider as it publicly echoes the positive
feedback and market demand for this very high performance, fully integrated
mid-enterprise security solution."
About Fortinet (www.fortinet.com)
Fortinet is the pioneer and leading provider of ASIC-accelerated unified
threat management, or UTM, security systems, which are used by enterprises
and service providers to increase their security while reducing total
operating costs. Fortinet solutions were built from the ground up to
integrate multiple levels of security protection -- including firewall,
antivirus, intrusion prevention, VPN, spyware prevention and anti-spam --
designed to help customers protect against network and content level
threats. Leveraging a custom ASIC and unified interface, Fortinet solutions
offer advanced security functionality that scales from remote office to
chassis-based solutions with integrated management and reporting. Fortinet
solutions have won multiple awards around the world and are the only
security products that are certified in six programs by ICSA Labs:
Firewall, Antivirus, IPSec VPN, SSL VPN, Network IPS, and Anti-spam.
Fortinet is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California.
Copyright ? 2008 Fortinet, Inc. All rights reserved. The symbols ? and
(TM) denote respectively federally registered trademarks and unregistered
trademarks of Fortinet, Inc., its subsidiaries and affiliates, including,
but not limited to, the following trademarks: Fortinet, FortiGate,
FortiGuard, FortiManager, FortiMail, FortiClient, FortiCare, FortiAnalyzer,
FortiReporter, FortiOS, FortiASIC, FortiWiFi, FortiSwitch, FortiVoIP,
FortiBIOS, FortiLog, FortiRespons and, FortiDB. Other trademarks belong to
their respective owners. Certain statements in this release attributed to
third parties, such as certain statements or conclusions attributed to the
eWeek Channel Insider, have not bee independently verified by Fortinet and
Fortinet does not separately endorse or adopt such statements.
Media Contact:
Kim Nguyen
Fortinet, Inc.
(408) 486-7819knguyen@fortinet.com
Copyright ? 2008 Marketwire
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