Fortinet further expands
integration with Amdocs for
secure SD-WAN services
embedded with native and scalable
SD-WAN capabilities. This combined
solution, with the proper automation and
orchestration layer on top of SD-WAN,
provides the critical service agility and
ability to quickly and efficiently scale to
a large number of customers and sites.
Fortinet’s carrier-grade Secure SD-WAN
solution can be deployed on customer
premises, in data centres and in the
public cloud, allowing service providers
the scalability to offer new revenue-
generating services to enterprises of
any size, small or large. These include
managed SD-WAN services, advanced
security services and SD-Branch
services thanks to the Physical and
Virtual Network Functions (PNF and
VNF) of Fortinet’s industry-leading
Secure SD-WAN solution.
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The ability of service providers to
deliver scalable commercial SD-WAN
and security services traditionally
requires significant investment in
time and resources. The solution and
partners’ ecosystem on which these
services are based on may require
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complex integration and testing that will
result in a long time to market and high
costs. In the very competitive and fast
evolving service offering market for SD-
WAN and security, the pre-integrated
solution from Fortinet and Amdocs
significantly reduces the time and effort
required for the solution’s onboarding
within a service provider’s environment
– thus providing accelerated time to
market, reduced costs and improved
return on investment.
The Amdocs service life cycle
management and orchestration solution
empowers service providers to rapidly
define, launch, fulfil and operate Fortinet
Secure SD-WAN full range of next-
generation firewall security services
“Partnering with Fortinet allows us to
further enable service providers to
deliver differentiated managed secure
SD-WAN services while improving
time to market. Multi-site, mid-market
and enterprise customers represent a
growth opportunity for CSPs. Our pre-
integrated service life cycle management
and orchestration capabilities including
SD-WAN, application-aware routing
and best-of-breed next-generation
firewall (NGFW), simplify and accelerate
the creation of service offerings for
this growing market,” said Anthony
Goonetilleke, Group President of Media,
Network and Technology, Amdocs. u
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ortinet, a global leader in broad,
integrated and automated
cybersecurity solutions,
has announced the integration of
Fortinet Secure SD-WAN with Amdocs’
extensible orchestration solution to
empower service providers to deliver
managed SD-WAN and security services
across customer premises, data
centres and the cloud, while reducing
deployment and operational costs.
In addition, with the PNFs and VNFs,
service providers are uniquely
positioned to evolve their SD-WAN
services to provide revenue-generating
managed services from headquarters,
branches and data centres through the
WAN and into the public cloud.