Summary: <br> We all know Fortinet as a security company, but they also provide wireless products. They actually started to do wireless when their customers asked them to secure their own Wi-Fi Networks. This year at Mobility Field Day 4, they wanted to talk about their overall wireless offering. <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> If you want to catch back with the presentations and watch them, here are the links you need:<br> <br> <br> <br> * Fortinet Catching Up with Fortinet: <a href="https://vimeo.com/showcase/6218644/video/354230492">https://vimeo.com/showcase/6218644/video/354230492 </a>* Fortinet SD-Branch: Enabling Securing the WAN & Access Edge: <a href="https://vimeo.com/showcase/6218644/video/354230576">https://vimeo.com/showcase/6218644/video/354230576</a>* Fortinet Securing an IoT World: A Deeper Dive on FortiNAC: <a href="https://vimeo.com/showcase/6218644/video/354230739">https://vimeo.com/showcase/6218644/video/354230739</a>* Fortinet Managing the RF with FortiWLM: <a href="https://vimeo.com/showcase/6218644/video/354230876">https://vimeo.com/showcase/6218644/video/354230876</a>* Fortinet FortiLabs: A Peek Behind the Curtain: <a href="https://vimeo.com/showcase/6218644/video/354230955">https://vimeo.com/showcase/6218644/video/354230955</a><br> <br> <br> <br> For more insights from the other delegates, please read the following articles:<br> <br> <br> <br> * Forti-Much to Appreciate at Mobility Field Day 4 by <a href="https://twitter.com/wirednot">Lee Badman</a>: <a href="https://wirednot.wordpress.com/2019/09/12/forti-much-to-appreciate-at-mobility-field-day-4/">https://wirednot.wordpress.com/2019/09/12/forti-much-to-appreciate-at-mobility-field-day-4/</a> <br> <br> <br> <br> Fortinet Presenters: Chris Hinsz, Director, Products and Solutions – Wireless.<br> <br> <br> <br> In this episode, we talk about some of the interesting topics discussed during the event.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> A FortiSolution for Everything!<br> <br> <br> <br> The Fortinet portfolio is very impressive. It feels like they pretty much do everything! Here is their offering for branch offices that they call “Extended Branch Office”:<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> In terms of their wireless portfolio, here is a list of some of the thing they support (this list is not exhaustive):<br> <br> <br> <br> * Wi-Fi 6 APs* Multi-Gig switched with UPoE support* Multiple types of controllers for the Forti-APs (FortiGate, Dedicated Controllers or Cloud)* FortiNAC solution* FortiWLM monitoring solution<br> <br> <br> <br> I especially like the fact that you can manage the APs from the FortiGate. In smaller networks, it could be an ideal solid solution.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Wi-Fi 6 APs<br> <br> <br> <br> Fortinet is bringing their new Wi-Fi APs to the market: <a href="https://www.fortinet.com/content/dam/fortinet/assets/data-sheets/fortiap-u-series.pdf">FortiAP-U431F & FortiAP-U433F</a>. <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> And it is also their first tri-radio access point. The access point will actually be able to operate in different modes:<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> The last mode presented is very interesting. It would allow to use all radios to provide Wi-Fi access service (2 radios for the 5Ghz band and the third one for the 2.4Ghz band). This is something that we don’t often see offered with tri-radio APs. We typically see the third radio used to do some sort of monitoring or testing.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> FortiWLM – Managing the RF<br> <br> <br> <br> FortiWLM is a RF manager that pairs up with the wireless controller. It is used to perform complexe RF investigation.
