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Excellent value hardware, patch discipline is on you
4.0/5overall, average of the five axes
Deployment effort4
Support quality3
Features vs promises4
Pricing transparency5
Return on investment4
What happened
For a manufacturing estate with 30 sites the price-performance is unbeatable and the hardware is reliable. The honest caveat is that edge appliances have been a favourite target, and we have had to move to a patch-within-days posture for SSL VPN specifically after the 2024 FortiOS advisories. If your change process cannot support that, the saving is not a saving.
Worked well
Price to throughput ratio. Hardware reliability across 30 sites. FortiManager makes multi-site policy sane.
Did not
You must be able to patch edge devices fast. Some features work better in an all-Fortinet estate than alongside other vendors.
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