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Dave Power
vice president at IMP Solutions
When they switched to Fortinet, they did so for a couple of reasons, the main one being operational simplicity. Most of the customers have fewer people available to support their networks.
They can't have something complex because they don't have enough people, and there's turnover, too. They need something simpler so a new person can come in and easily pick it up. Fortinet is by no means simple, but it's easier to manage than Cisco and Aruba. Fortinet is 30 to 40 percent cheaper than Cisco or Aruba, and that's a significant issue in IT budgets today.
View full review »I used Cisco and Ubiquiti switches but chose FortiSwitch and haven't regretted it.
View full review »I have used Cisco. I find Fortinet much easier to manage compared to Cisco switches.
Moreover, we needed to transition to newer technologies and equipment as part of a broader diversification strategy. So, we switched to what they were using.
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Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access
May 2024
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Patrick Blitstein
CEO at Acteo IT Services
We have worked with Cisco and a few other vendors. The deployment is easier with Fortinet.
In very complex environments, there is an advantage with Cisco switching, but that doesn't affect us much because we are not in that specific market.
I have worked with Cisco and HP. We switched to Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access for better pricing.
View full review »We have used Cisco and Ubiquiti switches. FortiSwitch frees you every time you set the switches or configure them over and over again. It is much better than other solutions.
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Samuel Cudjoe
Regional IT at PMGL
Before this, we were using Ubiquiti wireless access points. However, because that was not enterprise-level, the company policy changed that we should only use enterprise-level devices, and Fortinet was chosen over Cisco. We changed all the Ubiquiti access points to FortiAPs and all the switches that used to be HPE to FortiSwitches, and the firewall also is FortiGate so that they'll all work together to get alerts.
View full review »We chose the product because we worked with Fortinet's firewalls and switches and wanted to explore it hands-on.
View full review »I prefer using Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access for small or medium businesses due to affordable pricing, ease of installation, and support. However, I recommend Cisco for enterprises as it is more trustworthy.
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Drissa DOUMBIA
Network Security Engineer at Technicom Mali
FortiSwitch is not our primary choice in terms of a switch. We often use Cisco Switch, however, sometimes we also use FortiSwitch.
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Mandar Joshi
Senior Manager Business Development at Prolink Computers Pvt Ltd
We use Sophos, Aruba, and Cisco.
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BrianAmenya
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Previously we were with Cisco, but we were already using FortiMail and received the distribution for Fortinet. We purchase Fortinet firewalls.
The firewall and the mail were already working for us, so we thought that would just do everything with Fortinet. Then we can use our company to demonstrate what Fortinet has to offer.
We have multifactor authentication running on Fortinet, FortiAnalyer, and FortiManager.
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GalFuchs
Technical Support Engineer at Point PC
We used to use HP only and we still sell that. We now sell 50% FortiSwitch and 50% of our customers are staying with the HP switches.
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Senior Network Security Advisor at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
We have used other solutions, such as Cisco.
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Joel Corniel
Encargado de operaciones TIC at ONE
We are also using Aruba, although we are considering switching over completely to Fortinet.
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Truc Ngo
Sales engineer/Technical support engineer at Vietnet
We switched to Fortinet FortiSwitch Secure Access because it can integrate to the firewall in FortiGate. This means that we can centralize the management console on the firewall to manage the security and network on one brand. It lowers the cost of management.
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Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access
May 2024
Learn what your peers think about Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: May 2024.
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