{"id":2295,"date":"2020-04-13T14:22:17","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T10:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/?p=2295"},"modified":"2025-04-17T23:59:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T19:59:21","slug":"growing-number-mssps-leverage-fortinet-secure-sd-wan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/growing-number-mssps-leverage-fortinet-secure-sd-wan\/","title":{"rendered":"MSSPs leveraging Fortinet Secure SD-WAN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Fortinet\u00ae<\/a> announced\nincreasing global momentum with managed security service providers (MSSPs), including\nNode4, Zain Jordan and Liquid Networx, leveraging Fortinet\u2019s Secure SD-WAN\nsolution to provide customers additional high-value services. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

SD-WAN provides\norganizations reliable and cost-effective connectivity to support their digital\ninnovation goals. Recent research from IDC<\/a> found that the SD-WAN infrastructure market is poised to\nreach $5.25 billion in 2023. As an increasing number of businesses look\nto deploy SD-WAN, many are turning to MSSPs to fill skill shortages and other gaps\nwithin their teams. MSSPs can fill this growing\nneed by creating value-added services for customers that want to enhance user\nexperience and reduce WAN complexity and cost, while securing their\ndistributed networks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

John\nMaddison, EVP of products and CMO at Fortinet <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFortinet\u2019s\nglobal partners leverage our innovative Secure SD-WAN solution to take\nadvantage of the new business opportunities presented by the rapidly growing\nSD-WAN market. Increasingly, MSSPs\nin particular are delivering new managed services built on Fortinet\u2019s Secure\nSD-WAN solution to meet customers\u2019 evolving business needs. Our MSSP partners\nrealize that delivering connectivity-only SD-WAN services is not sustainable long-term\nand are choosing to differentiate their services through the inclusion of\nsecurity, which Fortinet Secure SD-WAN uniquely provides offering networking\nand security functionalities through a single offering.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fortinet Enables MSSPs to Unlock SD-WAN Opportunity <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recognizing\nthis opportunity, Node4, Zain Jordan and Liquid Networx join\na growing number of MSSPs who have chosen Fortinet Secure\nSD-WAN to deliver new managed services to their customers. Fortinet\u2019s Security-Driven\nNetworking approach to SD-WAN integrates both networking and security\nfunctionalities in one offering, enabling MSSPs to offer advanced security\nacross their WAN infrastructure with a significantly lower total cost of\nownership (TCO). Below is an overview of how three of Fortinet\u2019s\npartners are utilizing Fortinet Secure SD-WAN to benefit their customers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Node4<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Node4\nuses\nFortinet\u2019s SD-WAN technology to provide Secure SD-WAN managed services to its customers in the\nUnited Kingdom. Its offering provides customers with security at the edge for\nenhanced protection to multi-site businesses and Quality of Service (QoS) to\nprotect voice and latency-sensitive applications, maximizing user experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFortinet gives us a competitive advantage over other service\nproviders as we\u2019re able to provide continual service innovation in line with\nour customers\u2019 biggest SD-WAN challenges and requirements,\u201d shared Paul Bryce,\nCCO at Node4. \u201cSince using Fortinet\u2019s Secure SD-WAN solution, Node4 has seen\nour business grow with an increase in network sales, all while reducing our\noperating costs and overall TCO by about 40 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, using Fortinet\u2019s Secure SD-WAN technology in its own\nnetwork has also allowed Node4 to improve performance for its cloud and SaaS\nservices, which contribute up to 80 percent of Node4\u2019s network traffic, by\nblending MPLS and internet facing connectivity. As a result, Node4 can provide its\ncustomers with accelerated cloud connectivity by reducing latency and removing\nWAN complexities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zain Business<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zain Business\nselected Fortinet to deliver Jordan\u2019s first secure SD-WAN managed services to\nexisting and new enterprise customers. Through its new services built on\nFortinet\u2019s Secure SD-WAN solution, Zain Business can ensure customers run their\napplications with advanced security, performance and reliability, helping\ncustomers realize their business goals. Zain Business\u2019 new SD-WAN service is\nparticularly beneficial for distributed enterprises in verticals such as\nbanking and retail with distributed branches and locations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe addition of\nthese services powered by Fortinet Secure SD-WAN to our portfolio will make\nZain Business a one-stop-shop for all information and communications technology\n(ICT) services required by many of today\u2019s businesses, including connectivity,\nsecurity, cloud, colocation and WiFi management,\u201d said Mohannad Audeh, Director\nof the Enterprise Business Unit at Zain. Business. \u201cZain Business\u2019 customers\nwill benefit from our simple and cost-efficient SD-WAN offering that delivers\nsecurity and enhanced connectivity all in one.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zain Business is\nalso using Fortinet solutions to enhance its overall security services with Fortinet\u2019s\nNext-Generation Firewall, Unified Threat Management, Advanced Threat Protection\nwith Sandboxing and SIEM offerings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SD-WAN provides organizations reliable and cost-effective connectivity to support their digital innovation goals. Recent research from IDC found that the SD-WAN infrastructure market is poised to reach $5.25 billion in 2023. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9685],"tags":[365,206,1100,1117,814],"contributor":[],"class_list":["post-2295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events-middle-east","tag-connectivity","tag-fortinet","tag-mssp","tag-networking_","tag-security_"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Fortinet-Formula-E-Official-Partnership-min-1.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"News Desk","author_link":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/author\/rabab\/"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2295"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=2295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}