The average customer may need some professional help with the initial installation. As you buy more equipment over the next three or four years, you shouldn't need any professional assistance. If the people who were there during the initial install are still around, they should be able to deploy it and integrate it into the network without any help.

We deployed it ourselves. For the deployment, connect it with Ethernet cables to a FortiGate, access the FortiGate console, connect the switch, and configure it there. Easy for basic setups, but complex authentication like 802.1x can be tricky. It is possible but a bit complex. 

I had assistance from a consulting firm for the deployment. An expert helped, so it went smoothly.

There was a team of four people. 

The deployment takes two to three hours. Normally, there's one technician who does that. We have some maintenance procedures, but it's not difficult. It's pretty straightforward.

The deployment process typically takes around twenty-five minutes, although this timeframe may vary depending on the client's specific requirements. This is because creating policies within FortiSwitch involves several steps, including setting up Secure profiles and addresses, creating policies, and then applying the Secure profiles to these policies. Additionally, some fine-tuning may be necessary to ensure that the policies interact effectively and function as intended. We did it in-house, and one person was enough for everything. 

Maintaining the system is straightforward, although it comes at a significant cost. The main console for managing FortiSwitch, a fully managed service, is priced at approximately ninety thousand dollars per unit.

We have a managed service provider, so they are the ones we work with. They manage our backend systems, so they are the ones that did the deployment.

I do the deployment myself. 

The implementation was completed in-house. We are FortiGate-authorized resellers and do all the implementations ourselves.

The initial setup of the product was managed by one of the in-house teams in the company.

We have an in-house team that was responsible for deployment.

There are two people on the team that handle maintenance.

I implemented Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access by myself. 

I'm an integrator. I can deploy the solution easily myself.

I implemented this solution and did not use an integrator or a vendor.

We do the deployment ourselves. 

We are official partners with Fortinet so we do installations for ourselves and other companies as well.

I handled the implementation myself.

We implemented it through an in-house team.

I did the implementation of the solution.

We have one technician who can operate the solution.