Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access Scalability

DP
vice president at IMP Solutions

The scalability is strong because everything resides in FortiGate, so the switching and wireless itself is all fine. You can scale the network to twice the size it is today with no problem. However, you need to upgrade the FortiGate back end. It's not like the current FortiGate will allow you to do all those extra switches and wireless access points without an upgrade on the back end. 

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Ofelia Madriz V. - PeerSpot reviewer
General Manager at Continex S.A.

It is very scalable. Our clients are small, medium, and large businesses. Fortinet has been traditionally more into the small and medium sizes, but in the last two years, that has changed. We can see Fortinet switches in corporates and large enterprises, including banks.

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Volodymyr Khorenzhyi - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at Thunder Software Technology Co., Ltd.

There are around 50 end users using this solution. Currently, our office isn't expanding, so I don't anticipate a rise in user count. 

However, if that changes and wired connections become necessary for workstations (everyone uses wireless now), FortiSwitch would be my main choice for scaling the solution.

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Raphael Haroun  Ikyagh - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at Letshego

It is a scalable product. We have over 60 end users using this solution. 

Other branches have fewer users, like 15 to 20. But at the head office, a lot of web traffic passes through it.

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PB
CEO at Acteo IT Services

For us in the SMB market, everything has been working very well. So, we are not doing very big deployments.

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JM
IT Manager at Gandia Consulting Group

The scalability it provides is excellent, capable of handling large networks effectively. However, there are challenges related to scalability in terms of pricing. We deployed FortiSwitch in South America, where the minimum workforce at one location is approximately five thousand employees. Additionally, at another client's site, there are approximately three thousand employees. Moreover, there's a company locally with a workforce ranging from small to medium to large, totaling around five hundred employees, where FortiSwitch has proven effective.

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Prasanth Kailasam - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Client Manager at GBM

We have three to four customers using the solution.

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BrunoClicque - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at iTeam

We have around 100 Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access users in our organization. It needs to be more scalable. It is challenging in terms of expansion and requires purchasing additional units. I rate the scalability an eight out of ten.

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Hamza Shami - PeerSpot reviewer
IT and Operations Manager at a marketing services firm with 11-50 employees

We have 250 users using this solution.

I rate the solution’s scalability an eight out of ten.

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SC
Regional IT at PMGL

We used to get issues where people bring in their own devices, and once they get access to a network cable, they just plug into the network point and had access to browse the Internet. Now, even though all ports are connected to switches, you won't get anything if the port is not enabled.

About 500 people at our company use the solution.

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JO
Network and Telecommunication Manager at a educational organization with 201-500 employees

FortiSwitch is scalable. You add switches to scale it up. It isn't difficult. 

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Olev-Lilleste - PeerSpot reviewer
Sales Manager at Bearnet AS

My biggest client has around 4000 users. I rate the tool's scalability a seven out of ten. 

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FransLegdeur - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at Falco Networks

I give the scalability of the solution an eight out of ten.

We currently have 200 people using the solution.

Depending if opportunities arise we will consider expanding this implementation to include remote offices and other locations.

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MS
Senior Enterprise Network Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

It is a scalable solution. The scalability of the solution depends on the hardware. We like stacking the number of switches but the solution is not owing any number, it is fixed. All our clients are enterprises. I rate the scalability an eight out of ten.

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WB
IT consulant at a healthcare company with 11-50 employees

I would say that it's fantastic. Once you get the handle of how FortiGate is designed, their interface, how they think, that's the part that's scalable. When I shift from the 60 up to something far more sophisticated and faster, I don't have to go through a horrific learning experience. In other words, it's an easy shift, and I think that's the part that's useful. I'm counting on that as this business grows.

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Akshay Sali - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Support Engineer at MaaHee Technologies

Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access is scalable. 

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EmilVisdal - PeerSpot reviewer
System Consultant at I team

Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access has very good scalability.

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Javier Jacob Sanchez Partida - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

I rate the product a nine out of ten. 

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AJ
Director of Communications and Data Management at Reich Global IT FZCO

The tool is very scalable. I rate the scalability an eight out of ten. Our customers are SMBs.

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CR
Director at REDCO

The solution is easy to scale.

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DP
vice president at IMP Solutions

Scalability is also pretty good. Our clients are generally SMB. 

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Marcio-Santos - PeerSpot reviewer
Ceo & Creative Director at Redstout

We have 40 Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access users working on a pilot project for our organization. In comparison, Cisco is a more scalable product.

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Olajide Olusegun - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Team Lead at Atlas Security

The solution is scalable.

We have approximately three big clients (with approx. 10,000 users) who are utilizing Fortinet switches.

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Lotfi Bel Hadj Yahia - PeerSpot reviewer
Administrateur at Geiser

This solution is easy to scale.

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DD
Network Security Engineer at Technicom Mali

It is pretty simple to scale. 

Fortigate can manage FortiSwitch, and there are a lot of things that you can do with your FortiGate at configuration. When you have to deploy FortiSwitch, you just need to plug it in, push the configuration from FortiGate, and go.

We are not using FortiSwitch as a company. We have a lot of clients using it. However, we only use FortiSwitch for clients that already have a Fortinet product to have the benefits of the Fortinet fabric. We have about five customers using FortiSwitch.

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MJ
Senior Manager Business Development at Prolink Computers Pvt Ltd

I rate the product’s scalability a seven out of ten.

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GG
Senior Network Engineer at Netcotech

I would rate the scalability of this solution a 10, on a scale from one to 10, with one being the worst and 10 being the best.

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BA
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

This solution is scalable. We are a small site running only three switches, but from what I have heard, it's pretty easy to scale because of the looping feature. It uplinks and can automatically be used from your management console. I haven't done a big system, so I don't know what that would be like.

My entire company is running on Fortinet, and we have two people managing the entire environment for over forty users.

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GF
Technical Support Engineer at Point PC

There aren't special features that resolve any scalable requirements. There are scalable possibilities with other features of the 4G Gates unit but this is not so scalable.

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JH
Senior Network Security Advisor at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access has good scalability.

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MR
CEO at C-Selection Technologies

We have clients who use the same product with a different number of users — between 20 to 100 users. I do not see any problem with performance or scalability in different implementations or different network architectures.

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MR
CEO at C-Selection Technologies

With my experience I think the scalability is pretty good for medium size businesses. 

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YA
Tech Manager at Global tec

The solution can scale, but there are some limitations. Our partner just started using the solution so I'm not sure how many people they have on it at this time.

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DD
Network Security Engineer at Technicom Mali

FortiSwitch can be managed and controlled by FortiGate. The configuration is done on FortiGate. To scale, you just need to purchase some other switches, even they are not really the same model of the one deployed. With two or three clicks, we can scale them to the other switch.

With the university example, where it is not fully functional, there are almost 2000 or 3000 students who are using the access points to access the WiFi, which are connected to the switch. 

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TN
Sales engineer/Technical support engineer at Vietnet

It is easy to scale. We have about 3 to 400 users and plant to increase the number of users.

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RJ
Firewall Engineer at a marketing services firm with 1-10 employees

I have found the solution to be scalable.

We have between 100 and 1,000 users using the solution in my organization.

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GV
ICT Architect at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

The scalability is fine.

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Buyer's Guide
Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
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