Securely Optimise User Experience

This guide will help you understand SD-WAN technology’s key characteristics and advantages and what to look out for when choosing an SDWAN solution, including questions to ask vendors.

This ebook provides 10 short case studies of organizations across industries that have deployed Fortinet Secure SD-WAN. The details of each company’s successful SD-WAN journey can serve as a helpful guide for your own organization’s SD-WAN experience.

When considering SD-WAN solutions, there are three key requirements to look for to address these trends. An effective solution will offer integrated capabilities needed to enable efficient management and operations, excellent quality of experience (QoE) for both end-users and IT staff, and comprehensive security.

A unified platform for SD-WAN can ensure consistent protection and simplify network infrastructure.

Fortinet is recognized as a Challenger in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SASE Platforms.

The Fortinet Secure SDWAN solution provides organizations with the requisite functionality to accelerate the implementation of a zero-trust initiative.

Discover why Secure SD-WAN is the essential foundation for SASE, enabling unified management, stronger security, and optimized cloud performance.

An intelligence network is turning to Fortinet to help scale its data center architecture and elevate its security posture by embedding new levels of AI-powered security. Learn more.

Major global bank securely connects and improves the resiliency of thousands of remote ATMs with one rugged platform for 5G, SD-WAN, and security with FortiGate Rugged 70G NGFW. Learn more.

Independent testing of Fortinet's Secure SD-WAN solution was conducted by CyberRatings.org and earned the highest "Recommended" rating. Learn more.

Read why Fortinet was selected by this company for its network modernization program to make network management easier.

Simplifying the deployment and management of SD-WAN networks is a key consideration when evaluating a WAN edge solution. Learn how the all-new Fabric Overlay Orchestrator makes it easier to set up and manage new SD-WAN regions.

Adding Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) and AIOps to SD-WAN benefits both the business and IT sides of an organization. Read to learn more.

Read about a global fuel distribution company which chose to build its business on advanced Fortinet FortiGate NGFWs and Secure SD-WAN, gaining greater performance and functionality—plus greater value. Learn more.

Customers continue to shift to SD-WAN architectures so they can realize all the benefits that a WAN Edge solution can bring to their networks.

Cloud connectivity is a chore. The big 3 public clouds in North America– AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud–each have their own networking constructs, quirks, and management interfaces.

When doing initial exploration of SD-WAN, network engineering and operations leaders should use the following list of questions to determine which solution is best.

Operational technology (OT) industries are rapidly undergoing digital transformation just like other organizations. However, the nature of OT environments means they will require security and networking features that IT-only environments may not. Locations may be remote and/or require equipment that can stand up to unusual environmental conditions. Nonetheless, distributed OT assets need to be connected to the enterprise in a safe, reliable, and cost effective manner

SD-WAN solutions have become increasingly popular as organizations request fast, scalable, and flexible connectivity among different network environments, and seek to lower overall total cost of ownership (TCO) while preserving user experience.

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Secure SD-WAN connectivity has become mission-critical for organizations needing to intelligently interconnect their remote locations quickly and securely. The challenge is that many SD-WAN solutions don’t meet those requirements.

As modern IT environments become more distributed, the attack surface and corresponding risk from them increases. Organizations can’t afford to have any blind spots and must leverage data from the network and real-time analysis to enable their zero trust initiatives.

Software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) provides greater application performance, centralized management across branch networks, and lowered operating costs.

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Enterprise firewalls have been forced to adapt to the new security challenges that come with digital transformation and a growing remote workforce.

Fortinet Unified SASE addresses the full scope of hybrid workforce security through a comprehensive, single-vendor approach that tightly integrates software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) with cloud-delivered security service edge (SSE), simplifying operations while ensuring consistent protection from the network edge to remote users.

The Fortinet SD-WAN Underlay and Application Monitoring Service provides administrators with a comprehensive suite of features to enhance user experience.

Fortinet SD-WAN Overlay-as-a-Service provides a simple and easy on-demand secure connectivity between locations without the need for IT technical expertise.

FortiSASE is a cloud-delivered security service edge (SSE) solution that provides always-on secure access to private applications.

Fortinet Secure SD-WAN addresses today’s WAN challenges, combining next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) with integrated solutions for management and analytics to centralize and simplify SD-WAN operations.

Extend Your Fortinet Security Fabric to the Azure Cloud

Fortinet offers a tailored solution combining Secure SD-WAN and Overlay-as-a-Service (OaaS) for small and midsized businesses (SMBs) to empower WAN infrastructure transformation while ensuring comprehensive secure internet connectivity, optimizing collaboration across sites, and enhancing application performance.

FortiVoice Unified Communications delivers quality calling, conferencing, chat, fax, and more in a single platform, with flexible deployment options in cloud, hardware, and virtual machines.

Tech Bytes podcast from the Packet Pushers. Today we talk to Fortinet customer Batteries Plus.

Learn more about Fortinet’s SD-Branch solution and how it can protect your expanding network edges to deliver security, agility, and performance.

Leroy Merlin shares how Fortinet’s integrated security and networking platform helps the company centrally manage its 50+ stores, data centers, and the cloud, delivering real time visibility, protection, and operational efficiency for a lean IT team.

Overlay-as-a-Service powered by FortiGate Cloud Advanced Services is a turnkey service that securely provides simplified and rapid provisioning of interconnected locations as well as setting up overlay policies.

Fortinet Secure SD-WAN customers across industries are realizing tremendous measurable benefits. Some of these benefits include cost savings, speed of deployment, boost in IT efficiency, improved performance, reduced risks and increase network uptime.

In this customer panel, leaders from Grupo Bimbo, IHG, and Itaú discuss their experiences deploying Fortinet Secure SD-WAN across thousands of locations. Gain insights into the challenges they encountered, the strategic reasons behind their selection of Fortinet, and the significant business outcomes realized through this solution.

Fortinet Secure SD-WAN is Foundational for a Seamless Transition to Fortinet Unified SASE. If you are currently using Fortinet Secure SD-WAN, learn how easy and within minutes you can extend consistent security posture/efficacy with application resiliency, delivered as a service, hosted by Fortinet to secure all of your hybrid workforces with FortiSASE

In this demo we will walk through the Fortinet Secure SD-WAN solution on 7.6. Our latest release includes over 20 new features, including our new FortiAI assistant and SD-WAN Manager.

Fortinet SD-WAN Overlay-as-a-Service (OaaS) is a SaaS turnkey service that provides central policy management and simple, easy, and on-demand secure connectivity between locations. Customers will realize cost savings, continuous operation, and simplicity with minimal IT expertise required.

Overlay-as-a-Service is a turnkey service that securely provides simplified and rapid provisioning of interconnected locations.

The FortiGate 90G series of next generation firewalls (NGFWs) are designed to deliver the highest performance and efficiency in a compact, fanless desktop form factor to address the complex power and security needs in small offices and branches.

Many modern enterprises have adopted SD-WAN and welcomed the simplified management, increased network speeds and agile operations that it brings. FortiOS 7.2 delivers on simplicity, scalability and speed of deployment.

See how Fortinet Secure SD-WAN integrates AI to simplify complex network operations and improve speed and accuracy.

SD-WAN has revolutionized modern networking, and emerging technologies like SASE, GenAI, and Zero Trust are now expanding its possibilities for the future.

Watch this webinar to gain visibility into application performance, identify and troubleshoot application delivery problems quicker, and proactively monitor and manage user experience.

With Fortinet Secure SD-WAN, organizations can improve application experience, secure connectivity, and enhance operations, all leading to improved user experience.

Join us to hear from our guests with Forrester Consulting Group as they provide an in-depth overview of a recent study and more about the business outcomes and benefits that Fortinet Secure SD-WAN has had on organizations in multiple industries.

Join experts as they discuss a successful zero-trust approach. This webcast is ideal for anyone at any organization interested in zero-trust security and successfully deploying it.

Join our experts to learn how an integrated solution can unify all edges for a more reliable, secure, and fast network.

The increase in work-from-anywhere employees and sophisticated cyberattacks are transforming WANs. Secure SD-WAN is the de facto solution to tackle these trends, but how can Secure SD-WAN help organizations moving to a Zero Trust Edge architecture? Attend this webcast and get advice from IDG and Fortinet experts.

Three common use cases show how Fortinet delivers the full benefits of an SD-WAN architecture without sacrificing security.

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4 Big Advantages of Secure SD-WAN

Find out how Fortinet's Secure SD-WAN customers are reducing network costs, reducing instances of malware and increased business agility.

Enabling partners to deliver broad and integrated security and networking services

From managed SD-WAN to Managed SD-Branch Services

Network engineering and operations leaders are looking to software-defined wide area networks (SD-WAN) to support the influx of traffic and applications driven by digital transformation (DX). These applications improve staff productivity while creating new business opportunities, but they also reshape corporate networking and security needs. In response, many organizations are beginning to rethink their traditional WAN architecture. SD-WAN has emerged as a replacement, but many SD-WAN implementations also present serious challenges—from inadequate security to high total cost of ownership (TCO). Understanding these issues is key to navigating the increasingly complex market for WAN edge technologies.

Several factors should be evaluated as organizations consider adopting unified SASE to extend the benefits of existing secure SD-WAN deployment to WFA users.