Swisscom Deploys Fortinet Security Portfolio for Data Center Protection

The largest telecom operator in Switzerland, Swisscom has selected FortiGate high performance data center firewall, FortiManager security management appliance and FortiAnalyzer network security logging, analysis and reporting solutions to protect its data center infrastructure. Fortinet's FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer appliances serve to unify visibility and processes for Swisscom's geographically distributed team of 30 administrators.

Fortinet said that its ability to virtualize high performance firewall capabilities was central to Swisscom's investment, future proofing the scale and flexibility of security for its service delivery data center. The security of its service delivery infrastructure is an important component of the Swisscom 2020 corporate strategy, said the company. 

Gianpiero Tavano, Network & Security Development Engineer, Swisscom
A key part of our long-term strategy is to build the best possible data center infrastructure for over 100 different customer-facing services, and to achieve this we've chosen Fortinetas our solution for high-performance firewalling. Swisscom implemented the FortiGate 3700D, a high-performance data center firewall. The Fortinet appliance enables ultra high-performance protection, which can be far more rapidly rolled out to new services thanks to its segmentation and virtualization (VDOM) capabilities.

Patrice Perche, VP, International Sales & Support, Fortinet
We are pleased to count Swisscom among our customers, demonstrating yet again that Fortinet's solutions are ideal to meet the most stringent security requirements of the telecom industry. The rapid transformation of the data center along with changing business needs have resulted in security requirements dramatically different from those related to legacy data center applications.