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(CNW Lu Ningning interview) With the popularity of BYOD, the focus of SME network infrastructure is shifting from wired network to wireless network. Wireless network deployment has become the trend of future network deployment, especially for SMEs and branches. Some even started deploying and using wireless networks since the day they were founded. This kind of easy-to-use network office method can improve the office efficiency of employees and save costs and profits for SMEs. On the other hand, the status quo of SMEs is not optimistic. Significant problems such as the transformation of household equipment to commercial equipment, unreasonable network planning, insufficient wireless network, Internet export congestion and many security risks have severely restricted the business development of enterprises, and the inefficiency of work and the poor Internet experience are inevitable.
The founder of Grid Information, 3W Coffee CIO Han Wei believes that the biggest difference between wireless network and wired network is that the former is far less reliable than the latter, and many external factors can affect the network quality. Take SMEs as an example. If you build a wired network, you can buy a switch to complete the data transmission with quality and quantity. The wireless network is not. Even if you have done the planning work in advance, the quality of the network after completion is 100%. Satisfied. Limited by the size and budget of the enterprise, the IT deployment of SMEs is generally lacking. Although domestic SMEs have widespread network security risks, they can only form a small amount of procurement needs. At present, SMEs have little ability to deploy professional IT security technicians. Even industry users cannot provide an IT operation and maintenance staff for each chain or branch. More generally, network administrators have to take on multiple roles, and the control of the network and security cannot be comprehensive.
Both the development of Internet applications and the popularity of BYOD have placed higher demands on the network infrastructure of SMEs. Driven by these rigid demands, multi-line access and LAN de-wiredization have become a major trend, which has become the trigger for a new round of network infrastructure upgrades for SMEs.
Connect & Secure to Simple Network Security
Fortinet product marketing manager Zhai Yitao introduced: "The Connect & Secure solution is customized for Fortinet customers this year. For the security access, the core of unlimited connectivity, the flat thinking is injected into the network equipment to transform the basic network architecture. First priority, security As an upper-level value-added concept, Fortinet has launched a series of innovative products. The FortiGate-140D-PoE deployed in 3W coffee is one of the representative products."
3W coffee has three floors, one is a public coffee shop, the second is a conference and activity center, and the third is an incubator. This network structure is very close to the real deployment scenario of the SME network. Among the many product solutions that meet the requirements of the network architecture of small and medium-sized enterprises, the three-tier option of 3W coffee deploys Fortinet's Connect & Secure solution.
The equipment was placed in the 3W coffee-grain information joint laboratory on the third floor. Han Han also took the reporter to visit the laboratory to experience the impact of this product. Han Wei introduced that the other two layers need to use a series of devices such as access switches and wireless controllers for wireless network deployment, while the three-layer wireless network access, management and Internet exports are all concentrated on the FortiGate-140D-PoE. On the device. From the appearance of the experience, it really saves a considerable part of the cabinet space.
3W experience after use
After talking about the experience after use, Han Wei feels deeply about this solution:
First of all, management is simple, greatly improving the efficiency of network use. Network bandwidth costs are a part of the company's operating costs. The rapid development of Internet applications has made corporate office network exports more congested, and bandwidth pressure is increasing. Han Wei believes that the current rigid demand for domestic SMEs lies in strong WLAN and export flow control. If network traffic can be effectively controlled and shaped, it will undoubtedly maximize the use of network bandwidth and save network broadband procurement costs.
The basis of all this is fine-grained application recognition. According to reports, FortiGate can identify more than 3,000 applications, including sub-applications of various complex applications, such as file transfer and QQ voice in QQ, and can also be accurate for large network bandwidth consumers such as P2P download, network disk and online music. Identification and effective control. For bursty traffic, the FortiGate's own traffic shaping capabilities also help users perform effective QoS based on business needs.
Han Wei introduced that Fortinet has launched a wireless network planning/management tool called FortiPlanner for its wireless product solution. The user interface is very sophisticated, full-featured, and the function tree is arranged very healthy. It can help users to plan wireless networks before the construction, and give corresponding analysis reports. After the network is built, it can be used as a monitoring system to output dynamic heat maps in real time, providing data support for the tuning of wireless networks.
In addition, reports generated automatically by the firewall are also very friendly, and the data presented is the most important to know. Every day, he refers to the previous day's policy report, traffic, links, user identities, and number of users. These can be displayed in great detail. This report helps to avoid serious network events.
FortiGate analysis report part of the screenshot
At the same time, Fortinet products seamlessly integrate security and wireless. The FortiGate 140D-POE provides the functions of multiple network devices such as user POE access switches, wireless ACs, and multi-function security gateways. FortiGate consolidates disparate network and security devices into a single device, eliminating the numerous security and management issues that come with multiple devices and vendors, while device-based licensing models, as well as integrated wireless controllers and WAN optimization , saving users equipment procurement costs.
Finally, unifying the strategy and making the infrastructure from a security perspective is very consistent with the user's logic. The traditional network deployment method is to interconnect and control the AP through the access switch or the wireless controller (AC). That is, the wireless network and the wired network are separated, and unified policy configuration and deployment cannot be performed. For the traffic in the wireless network. It is also impossible to achieve deep visualization.
FortiGate tightly integrates access switches and wireless controllers into the firewall. All APs connect directly to this security platform and forward all traffic centrally, allowing wireless and wired networks to use the same security and access control policies. The administrator can quickly manage both wired and wireless networks through a single window, while visualizing wireless traffic to the same depth as a wired network.
Fortinet's SMB solutions and deployments bridge the gap between network access and switching and security, and are implemented through a single management platform, ensuring that devices do not become a bottleneck for SMB networks when providing effective security features Multi-device, multi-vendor, multi-management systems, and multiple access methods are no longer a headache for SMB users, allowing SMEs to exchange limited IT resources for the highest quality network experience and security. In this regard, Han Wei interestingly concluded that the FortiGate-140D-PoE is too simple and easy to use. It is undoubtedly the development dividend for most SME users. It can help SMEs solve the problem of wireless network planning adjustment. An important booster for growth.
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