Fortinet Users ???

[rmmagow]

Hi All,

I am looking for anyone who has active experience using the Fortinet series of Firewall, IPS, AV etc appliances. I am evaluating some new firewalls and Fortinet is coming close to the top in funtionality. I need some real-world users to help with my decision.
My company has about 5000 users, 75 offices with all inbound and outbound traffic going through two hub-like sites. Cisco backbone, MPLS. Internet connection speeds are 100 meg one site and 45 meg at the secondary site. Not too much e-commerce but a lot of filterd http type traffic outbound. I currently use Checkpoint, Bluecoat (w/Websense) and Nortel Contivity for VPN access and VPN tunnels. It appears I could do most if not all of this with a single hefty Fortinet solution.
So, is this a good box or a lot of hype. I am a real network engineer and am looking for real-world opinons, good and bad. THANK VERY MUCH!!

 

[cmeagan656]

We use the Fortigate-60. We only have one site and 20 - 25 users. We've had it for about 5 years and never had any problems with the hardware OR the support. The one thing that we don't use on it is the spam filter because we were already using XWall and found it had more options than the Fortigate-60's spam filter.

VPN works well but make sure you purchase enough licenses (sold separately, at least in the Fortigate-60's case) to cover the maximum number of simultaneous VPN connections that you'll have.

The anti-virus is great as a perimeter anti-virus.

Cheers.