How To Set Up Your Fortiwan; Registering Your Fortiwan; Planning The Network Topology; Wan, Lan And Dmz - Fortinet FortiWAN Handbook

How to set up your FortiWAN

These topics describe the tasks you perform to initially introduce a FortiWAN appliance to your network. These topics
contain the necessary information and instructions to plan network topology, using Web UI and Configure network
interfaces on FortiWAN. These topics introduce some key concepts for deploying FortiWAN, but you are assumed to
have and be familiar with the fundamental concepts related networking knowledge.

Registering your FortiWAN

Before you begin, take a moment to register your Fortinet product at the Fortinet Technical Support web site:
https://support.fortinet.com
Many Fortinet customer services such as firmware updates, technical support, and FortiGuard services
require product registration.
For more information, see the Fortinet Knowledge Base article

Planning the network topology

FortiWAN is the appliance designed to perform load balancing and fault tolerance between different networks. The
network environment that a FortiWAN is introducing into might be various, especially with multiple WAN links and
various WAN type. A plan of network topology before adding FortiWAN recklessly into current network would be
suggested to avoid damages.

WAN, LAN and DMZ

Wide Area Network
WAN (Wide Area Network) is the network that geographically covers a large area which consists of
telecommunications networks. It can be simply considered the Internet as well. An internal user can communicate with
the Internet via a telecommunications (called Internet Service Provider as well) network connected to FortiWAN's WAN
ports. The transmission lines can be classified as xDSL, leased line (T1, E1 and etc.), ISDN, frame relay, cable
modem, FTTB, FTTH and etc.
Local Area Network
LAN (Local Area Network) is the computer networks within a small geographical area without leased
telecommunication lines involved. In this document, a LAN is considered as a private LAN which is a closed network to
WAN. FortiWAN plays the role routing communications between LAN and WAN.
Demilitarized Zone
DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) is a local subnetwork that is separated from LAN for security issues. A DMZ is used to locate
external-facing server farm which is accessible from an untrusted network (usually the Internet), but inaccessible to
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