Once an application is identified and FortiGate NGFWs are aware of it, the firewalls are able to enforce the business policies network administrators have established for how network resources can be used. It can identify and classify applications coming in from encrypted cloud traffic thanks to the SD-WAN’s encryption inspection capability. Application Identification and Awarenessįortinet regularly updates a database of over 5,000 applications, which the Fortinet Secure SD-WAN uses to identify and classify applications from the first packet that reaches the NGFW. Significant features of the offering include application identification, application awareness, path remediation, automatic failover, and single pane of glass management. The Fortinet SD-WAN is near the top of the market, competing with the Cisco SD-WAN and VMware SD-WAN, which both have larger market revenue shares, as of early 2020 according to an August 2020 article by SDxCentral. However, the SD-WAN vendor’s software can still run on third-party universal CPE (uCPE) or in the cloud. Fortinet’s custom ASICs are in proprietary customer premises equipment (CPE) appliances. The Fortinet Secure SD-WAN focuses on security by consolidating networking appliances into the FortiGate next-generation firewall (NGFW) that runs virtual network functions (VNFs).įortinet SD-WAN benefits largely come from the appliances that use the system-on-chip 4 (SoC4) application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) to power functions like application awareness and automated path intelligence.
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