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Fortinet Unveils Industry’s First SD-WAN ASIC to Accelerate and Secure the WAN Edge
New FortiGate 100F Powered by SD-WAN ASIC Delivers 10x Higher Performance, New SD-WAN Features Within FortiOS 6.2 Deliver Improved Application
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[{"type":"text","content":"New FortiGate 100F Powered by SD-WAN ASIC Delivers 10x Higher Performance, New SD-WAN Features Within FortiOS 6.2 Deliver Improved Application ExperienceORLANDO, Fla., April 09, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Accelerate 19 --John Maddison, EVP of product and solutions, Fortinet\"The WAN edge is now a part of digital attack surfaces, but the edge of your network must never be a bottleneck. For branch offices, the ability to provide best-of-breed WAN Edge -- including SD-WAN, WAN optimization, security and orchestration -- with optimal performance and security is critical to enable the digital experience. Fortinet's SoC4 SD-WAN ASIC allows organizations to realize security-driven networking whether they have 100 or 10,000 branch offices.\"News SummaryFortinet® (NASDAQ:FTNT), a global leader in broad, integrated and automated cybersecurity solutions, today announced new secure SD-WAN offerings, including the industry's first SD-WAN ASIC, to further enable organizations to implement security-driven networking.As organizations adopt SD-WAN for faster and more cost-effective connectivity, security remains their top challenge. In a recent Gartner report, \"72% of the respondents said that security was their topmost concern when it comes to their WAN.\"1 In response, Fortinet continues to empower customers to deploy security-driven networking with the following new innovations:The industry's first SoC4 SD-WAN ASICFortiGate 100F Appliance, delivering 10 times faster performanceNew SD-WAN features within FortiOS 6.2Fortinet 360 Protection ServicesThese innovations support the most pressing customer challenges by addressing the following use cases:Use Case #1: Digital Transformation at the Enterprise WAN EdgeSaaS and multi-cloud application usage is increasing and with it the need to make the WAN Edge \"application aware.\" In response, Fortinet is introducing the industry's first SoC4 SD-WAN ASIC, which delivers the industry's fastest application identification and steering for more than 5,000 applications. This allows users to avoid delays in accessing their applications and accelerates overlay performance, providing low latency and the best possible user experience for business-critical applications.Also announced today, FortiGate 100F Next-Generation Firewall powered by the new SoC4 SD-WAN ASIC combines SD-WAN functionalities with advanced s...