Ooredoo Qatar selects Fortinet to enhance its SD-WAN solution

Fortinet has been chosen by Ooredoo Qatar to deploy its Secure SD-WAN solution to expand Ooredoo’s Enterprise EDGE portfolio.

“Ooredoo is a problem solver with the best ICT solutions to address business challenges,” said Thani Ali Al Malki – Executive Director Business at Ooredoo Qatar.

He added, “In an entrepreneurial environment faced with increasingly sophisticated security challenges, the peace of mind inherent in Enterprise EDGE built on Fortinet solution will reassure business customers across Qatar, which will then contribute to the complete customer satisfaction for which we aim.”

“We are pleased to strengthen our partnership with Ooredoo Qatar, and enable them to provide secure SD-WAN services to its customers,” said Alain Penel, Regional Vice President – Middle East, Fortinet.

He added, “Through our unique security-driven networking strategy which tightly integrates an organization’s network infrastructure and security architecture, Fortinet is enabling Ooredoo with the capability to scale its network and change without compromising security operations while providing superior end-user experience and higher performance to support business customers in their digital transformation efforts.”

Enterprise EDGE is Ooredoo’s managed SD-WAN service, which allows businesses to build networks by combining services from a variety of WAN connections. Ooredoo now offers a new capacity unrivalled by traditional connection offerings, having changed its network to be SD-WAN certified.

Ooredoo now has access to a security-driven networking architecture that combines SD-WAN capability with next-generation firewall security in a single offering with Fortinet Secure SD-WAN. This strategy aligns with Ooredoo’s goals of enabling business customers to take use of the Ooredoo Advantage, hence becoming Ooredoo ‘Best for Business.’

Fortinet Secure SD-WAN is a software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) solution that improves user experience and streamlines operations at the WAN edge. Customers of Ooredoo will benefit from a secure SD-WAN solution that combines a next-generation firewall with powerful SD-WAN networking features to effectively safeguard data and applications while also providing a high level of visibility, reporting, management, and scalability. It can also be used in conjunction with other conventional connectivity services as National IPVPN, Business Internet, Business Broadband, or Mobile Broadband.

Ooredoo’s technical capability means that the new forms of managed customer premise equipment (CPE) will add value to conventional connectivity services by providing enhanced SD-WAN networking features such as application-aware traffic steering, dynamic path selection with service-level agreement (SLA) measurements, and self-healing capabilities, as one of the first service providers in the market to offer an in-country SD-WAN solution.