FortiAP Reviews

Name: FortiAP
Brand: Fortinet
Rating: 4 (7 reviews)

4.1 out of 5

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Fortinet’s wireless LAN equipment leverages Secure Networking to provide secure wireless access for the enterprise LAN edge. Our solution tightly integrates with the Fortinet Security Fabric to offer built-in security, end-to-end network visibility, and automated threat response. You can easily manage your wireless network and security with a single console to minimize administration time.

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FortiAP is the #17 ranked solution in top Wireless LAN solutions. PeerSpot users give FortiAP an average rating of 8.2 out of 10. FortiAP is most commonly compared to Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN: FortiAP vs Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN. FortiAP is popular among the small business segment, accounting for 38% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 12% of all views.

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Yati Gharat

Chief Technology Officer at Litmus

Mar 27, 2024

FortiAP is very good in an indoor environment, but we are struggling with the outdoor environment. That is where we are having certain issues. We are not 100% happy with it. With the indoor environment, we are okay, but we are facing some issues when certain voice-related calls go from wireless points. There are certain drops, and we have faced these issues on an ongoing basis. We also have other vendors such as Aruba and Meraki, and we do not face any issues when there is a Teams or Zoom meeting going on. It could be that FortiAP is okay, but that particular device or appliance is not capable of handling that much load of voice and video. This might be the issue. RF Spectrum Analysis helps to understand what is the coverage and hotspots related to a particular access point, but then when we bought it, we did heat mapping through different vendors. If there are any rogue APs, we can identify them with RF Spectrum Analysis. We can see what the coverage area is, but there are some issues with that. Some of the offices have thick glasses, or the cabins are different, so in the RF coverage, what is shown is not what we get on the practical grounds. There are some issues with signal performance. It has the basic functionality that is mostly used, but there are certain devices that are not able to interconnect. When there is any issue or problem, if the administrator can get some information about that, that will be good. With Meraki and Aruba, we get certain beautiful things. If those can be integrated into this solution, it will be more beneficial, but we understand that being a security company, Fortinet's focus is on security.

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Rui Ribeiro.

Director of Infrastructure at CSAT

Aug 30, 2023

The deployment is very specific to each office, and to each building. It is not just plug-and-play. It shouldn't be either. If you want something really robust and a mash of APs and everything working accordingly, the deployment requires going to the building and getting the plans. We have to understand the volume, displays, the walls, the windows - everything inside the building so as to distribute better. With Cisco and Ruckus, it's only connectivity. You just go and install it and connect. With Forti AP, if you want things to work properly, you need to measure, note the parameters, and go and physically install it. Once that is done, it works well. It's set and forget. You don't have to worry about it. It all boils down to whether you have a stack of Fortinet or whether you have just the AP. The clients we have, have Fortinet stacks. Since they're Fortinet clients, we do their job. We study the place, we study the blueprints, we study the location, and we implement the AP according to the location. The configuration itself just takes five minutes. That is easy. You put in the IP and Fortinet does all the work. If you do the pricing correctly, once you plug into the network and register the AP with Fortigate, it's set and forget - unless you want SSIDs or a specific guest account. In that case, you'll have a little more work to do.

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Jared Carmouche

Senior Cyber Security Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Aug 28, 2023

We deploy it for our clients, in conjunction with the FortiGate and FortiSwitch for their wireless networking connectivity When you deploy it with those other tools, the FortiGate and the FortiSwitch, it's very easy to manage from an administrative perspective. You can manage it from the same…

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Valuable Features

"If we have FortiClient installed on multiple devices, it is seamless to connect with FortiAP. It supports passwordless authentication as well. That is a great thing about it."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy, especially with FortiGate or your FortiManager in place."
"The most valuable aspect of Fortinet FortiAP is the support."

Room for Improvement

"FortiAP is very good in an indoor environment, but we are struggling with the outdoor environment."
"The product fails to offer default access points to deal with the areas revolving around configurations."
"I would like to have automation capabilities that would help us reduce the configuration steps."

Pricing

"If I compare it with the other enterprise products, the price is good."
"The devices under Fortinet are not expensive. The solution's licensing part is expensive."
"Fortinet FortiAP offers a more cost-effective solution compared to Palo Alto and Check Point."

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