Fortinet : Realize 100% ROI in Five Years or Sooner with Fortinet Secure SD-WAN

SD-WAN is one of the biggest networking success stories of the past decade. The rapid transition to remote work, combined with continuing digital transformation, accelerated SD-WAN adoption in 2020. According to a  report by IDG Research Services and Masergy, over 90% of organizations are expected to eventually adopt an SD-WAN solution. And the rate of adoption is setting an impressive pace. The Dell'Oro Group, for example, expects worldwide sales of SD-WAN technologies to grow at a compounded annual growth rate of 24% over the next five years.

Gartner Recognizes Fortinet for WAN Edge Infrastructure and Network Firewalls

The SD-WAN market itself has become crowded and confusing, making it difficult for organizations to make informed decisions about the best solution to choose. Gartner has been a long-time measure of the quality of networking and security solutions and the fact is, Fortinet is the ONLY vendor to be named a Leader in both the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls and for WAN Edge Infrastructure for the same product - the FortiGate Next-generation Firewall. Any company would be proud to be named a Leader in either of these industry-recognized reports. But being named a Leader in both-for the same FortiGate platform with the same management console-is not just something to celebrate (which we do!), it also has significant implications for any organization looking to deploy advanced connectivity and world-class security in a single, simple to deploy and manage solution.

If this accolade in itself doesn't impress, here are some additional reasons to take a look at Fortinet Secure SD-WAN, with real facts and figures from our customers:

70% SD-WAN ROI in 3 years, 100% SD-WAN ROI in 5 years

One of the advantages of Fortinet's fully integrated SD-WAN solution is the rate at which companies can realize a full return on their investment (ROI). Fortinet customers average 70% ROI in three years, and most, including customer HR Path with projected infrastructure cost savings of at least US$13,000 per site per year, realize full return on investment in just five years. In fact, customers around the world are realizing significant ROI, including Rollins Inc, which expects a $5 million return on investment (ROI) over the next five years, Waste Management, Inc., which reduced their overall WAN costs by 65%, and The Paper Store, which realized a total cost savings of $1 million.

There are a number of reasons why Fortinet Secure SD-WAN is so cost-effective. It starts with the sort of table stakes advantages any SD-WAN solution provides, such as the savings that come from transitioning from static-and often expensive-MPLS connections to more flexible and affordable broadband.

But Fortinet goes well beyond that. Fortinet Secure SD-WAN consolidates SD-WAN, Routing, a Wireless Controller, and built-in LTE connectivity…all on the most tested and recognized next-generation firewall on the market…and built around a common operating system and centralized management and orchestration system. No one else can do that.

As a result, organizations that choose Fortinet Secure SD-WAN enjoy CAPEX savings related to WAN Edge consolidation and no bandwidth-based pricing limitations, and OPEX savings related to automation capabilities that reduce man hours and improve productivity, not to mention Fortinet Secure SD-WAN has the lowest TCO per Mbps of performance of any vendor at $3.50, a figure that is independently verified by NSS Labs.

Industry-Leading Performance

Of course, cost is only part of the solution. Today's organizations run on applications. And application access and user experience are all about performance. Fortinet's Secure SD-WAN solution is designed to ensure the fastest possible access to critical cloud-based applications, without ever sacrificing a moment of performance for security-something no other SD-WAN vendor can ensure. As with ROI, the best evidence of our industry-leading performance lies with our customers. Here are a few examples:

• Senati: Realized a 60% improvement in bandwidth optimization, combined with better visibility into WAN bandwidth usage
• Waste Management, Inc.: Improved their SD-WAN performance by close to 38 times.
• Rollins Inc: Increased network speeds at all of their branches by 7X-10X.
• Creditas: Migrated 100% of their workforce from on-site to remote work in two days thanks to the performance and flexibility provided by Fortinet Secure SD-WAN.

And here are just a few reasons why Fortinet Secure SD-WAN is able to outperform the competition:

• Fortinet Secure SD-WAN is powered by the world's only ASIC-accelerated SD-WAN and ASIC-accelerated security, ensuring performance as much as 15X greater than competitive solutions for the same cost.
• Our organically developed Secure SD-WAN solution is purpose-built from the ground up to weave all functions into a single, integrated system. This in-house architecture ensures a level of performance simply unavailable from a solution resulting from the merger of disparate solutions through M&A that have to be stitched together later.
• Because Fortinet Secure SD-WAN is built on a platform purposely designed to support multiple solutions, it is able to provide a broad product portfolio with built-in variants-including LTE, WiFi, and POE, along with a full suite of advanced security solutions. Most other vendors can't begin to deliver a similarly robust solution.
• Fortinet also provides the industry's most expansive and accurate application identification to ensure optimized access to business-critical applications, whether SaaS, Cloud, or UCaaS. All told, we support rapid identification and accelerated access to over 5,000 business-critical applications. No other vendor provides this.

And a whole lot more

Rapid Deployment: A single management and orchestration console ensures that connections, advanced routing functionality, and a full spectrum of security are not only easily configurable, but can work together as a single, seamless system. Customer Kennards Hire was able to implement a highly optimized, rapid rollout-only requiring 20 minutes to bring a branch's networking and security services online. As a result, they were able to deploy a full SD-Branch solution (SD-WAN connectivity and application optimization combined with local WAN access and security) to 180 branches in just eight weeks.

Easy Expansion to All Edges: SD-WAN is FAR more than simply connecting branch offices to cloud services or the core network. Fortinet Secure SD-WAN can also run natively in every major public cloud environment, scale to support large data centers, sit on an at-home desktop, and be deployed in every corner of the network. This can ensure and enable a wide range of fast and secure connections from anywhere to anywhere, from the WAN Edge to the LAN Edge (SD-Branch), OT Edge, Data Center edge, and Cloud Edge (SASE).

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Gartner, Magic Quadrant for WAN Edge Infrastructure, Jonathan Forest, Andrew Lerner, Naresh Singh, 23 September 2020

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls, Rajpreet Kaur, Adam Hils, Jeremy D'Hoinne, 9 November 2020

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