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Fortinet FortiAP-S Series Deployment Manual

Fortinet FortiAP-S Series Deployment Manual

Secure cloud-managed wireless lan solution

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FortiAP-S Series Deployment Guide
Secure Cloud-managed Wireless LAN Solution

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Summary of Contents for Fortinet FortiAP-S Series

  • Page 1 DEPLOYMENT GUIDE FortiAP-S Series Deployment Guide Secure Cloud-managed Wireless LAN Solution...
  • Page 2 Cloud Wi-Fi offering. It But most Cloud Wi-Fi solutions fall short on content and application security, leaving offers the same network security businesses vulnerable to cyber-threats. Fortinet’s secure cloud-managed Wi-Fi addresses this capabilities found in Fortinet’s shortcoming completely. controller-managed enterprise...
  • Page 3 Based on the FortiCloud provisioning and management uncontrolled. Still, neither approach is ideal. service, and a new class of access points the - the FortiAP-S series - it With the FortiAP-S series all traffic from any type of user can be...
  • Page 4 Secure Cloud-managed Wireless LAN Solution What makes the FortiAP-S series access points so special is they contain advanced security functions embedded in the AP hardware. This new class of AP is equipped with extra memory and twice the processing power of typical thin APs, which enables them to perform real- time security processing at the network access edge, not in the cloud or on the corporate LAN.
  • Page 5 WLAN controller and management gear. Hosted by Fortinet, the FortiCloud service is provided free of charge. It gives businesses a single dashboard for managing the infrastructure and security for the entire network, and offers unlimited network scalability with all the benefits of centralized management.
  • Page 6 FortiCloud let you identify the serial number FortiAP-S series APs may be positioned on a global map, with of APs that belong to your business. As each AP powers-on for the...
  • Page 7 Where FortiAP-S series APs differ from other Fortinet AP product lines, and conventional thin APs from other WLAN vendors, is how they handle real-time content and application security. Once configured and operational, they download the latest threat, exploit and application signatures from FortiGuard Labs to memory on the AP hardware itself, and can immediately enforce web filtering and application controls and offer protection against network intrusions, viruses and a host of other cyber-threats.
  • Page 8 IPS: Fortinet Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), technology latest firmware and their assigned radio profiles, then automatically embedded in the FortiAP-S series APs protects the network from select the best channel and power settings for the prevailing RF both known and unknown threats, blocking attacks that take conditions.
  • Page 9 Web Filtering or Application Control features on value propositions of Cloud Wi-Fi is the shift from CAPEX to OPEX. FortiAP-S series APs to block access to OTT video services such While this might seem attractive, some vendors are gouging 15%-...
  • Page 10 WAN. Internet or other wireless devices. Using the FortiAP-S series as an overlay to an existing network VoIP phones, RFID/barcode scanners and many Wi-Fi enabled lets businesses control and protect guest traffic and devices, while medical devices such as heart monitors, I/V pumps are based bringing relief to the corporate network.
  • Page 11 Fortinet enters a binding written contract, signed by Fortinet’s General Counsel, with a purchaser that expressly warrants that the identified product will perform according to certain expressly-identified performance metrics and, in such event, only the specific performance metrics expressly identified in such binding written contract shall be binding on Fortinet. For absolute clarity, any such warranty will be limited to performance in the same ideal conditions as in Fortinet’s internal lab tests.