RAD Adds Fortinet's Virtual Solutions to Its Distributed NFV Solution Suite

Fortinet, a global leader in high-performance network security, has announced that RAD, a leading Telecom Access solutions and products vendor, has selected Fortinet's FortiGate®-VM virtual Next-Generation Firewall appliance for best-of-breed security in its offering for Distributed Network Functions Virtualization (D-NFV) at the customer edge. Fortinet said that its FortiGate-VM supports all leading hypervisors including VMware, Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, KVM and Citrix XenServer, among others.

The joint solution, available via the RAD D-NFV Alliance ecosystem, is designed for service providers and Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) and represents another milestone in Fortinet's strategy to provide feature-rich virtual security solutions for enterprises and service providers. RAD's D-NFV is aimed to help service providers and MSSPs to quickly and easily roll out new advanced network and security capabilities including optional service chaining, with minimal upfront capital expenditures. 

According to Fortinet, FortiGate-VM in RAD's D-NFV engine offers its service provider customers a comprehensive virtual security platform for protection from a broad array of threats across physical, virtual and hybrid environments. These features, deployed according to customers' needs, include antivirus, firewall, VPN, intrusion prevention (IPS), antispam, antispyware, Web filtering and traffic shaping amongst others, added Fortinet.

Ulik Broida, VP Marketing and Business Development at RAD
RAD and Fortinet were among the first innovators to publicly demonstrate a live, ETSI-approved Proof-of-Concept (PoC) that integrates Fortinet'ssecurity platform within our Distributed Network Functions Virtualization offering. Via the RAD D-NFV Alliance, this combined solution is now available to our customers, who can enjoy broad security solutions that are highly reliable and easy to manage, maintain and scale.

Patrice Perche, vice president, International Sales and Support at Fortinet
Our technology integration with RAD's latest offering further demonstrates Fortinet's ongoing commitment to service providers and MSSPs in enabling a new generation of carrier-grade NFV deployments for businesses that look at taking advantage of the flexibility of virtualized services in their premises. Many telco/service providers turn to us today for building their security services. We are recognized as a leading security vendor in that space because of our unique mix of performance, virtualization and carrier-grade networking and management functionality.