FortiExtender 3G/4G Wireless WAN Extender

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The future is wireless, and with 5G and innovative LTE connectivity solutions, your WAN can be faster than ever. Fortinet FortiExtender leverages the scalability and flexibility of LTE (3G and 4G) and 5G wireless WAN to empower you to grow more connected, across operations and devices located anywhere and everywhere.

FortiExtender offers wireless connectivity for nearly any operational network. Whether mobile sites, vehicle fleets, field forces, or OT and IoT environments, a FortiExtender solution exists to help you achieve resilient and high-performance connectivity, anywhere.

Less Than 99% Is Never Acceptable

The number of connected devices organizations need to manage is growing rapidly, and new technologies such as SD-WAN and 5G are transforming the way businesses operate. Establishing and maintaining internet connectivity across an increasingly distributed environment is critical for business execution and competitiveness, but it can be a challenge for conventional networking approaches. These challenges include:

Networks are sprawling and the number of connected devices is growing
Continuous connectivity is critical for business continuity and competitiveness
Cable/DSL also offers less than 99.999% uptime—and it can’t be deployed everywhere
MPLS networks are costly and not scalable for current business needs

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Today’s Connectivity Challenges

Establishing and maintaining internet connectivity across an increasingly distributed environment is critical. However, conventional networking approaches include challenges such as:

Distributed Device Networks. Networks are sprawling and the number of connected devices is growing
Business Continuity. Continuous connectivity is critical for business continuity and competitiveness
Network Reliability. Cable/DSL offers less than 99.999% uptime—and it can’t be deployed everywhere
Cost. MPLS networks are costly and not scalable for current business needs

Resilient, Fast Connectivity, Everywhere

FortiExtender delivers a wide array of redundancy, performance, and functionality to fit nearly every wireless use case.

5G speed: With FortiExtender 5G, you can enjoy network speeds up to ten times conventional 4G LTE. This assures network performance suitable for nearly every operational task and requirement.
High-availability wireless: Deploy FortiExtender to cost-effectively add redundancy and resiliency to your network. FortiExtender offers dual modem, dual SIM appliance options, increasing resiliency by four times. This ensures optimized wireless connectivity and the cellular infrastructure to provide broadband speeds that can be used in a failover or load-balancing configuration. For those locations without wired broadband options, FortiExtender can also serve as the primary internet connection, enabling reliable connectivity for branch, remote, and mobile networks.
Flexible Connectivity for SD-WAN Business that want to use multiple WAN connections including SD-WAN, can use FEX as one of those Wireless WAN links with LTE and 5G. Additionally, end users can use the FortiExtender wireless interface to create SD-WAN rules and performance SLA’s.

Flexible Deployment and Manageability

FortiExtender offers a wide range of flexible deployment and management options, providing infrastructure leaders with the option to manage appliances using Fortinet’s FortiGate NGFW, FortiExtender Cloud, or locally at the appliance level.

Secure access service edge (SASE) at the thin branch

Leverage FortiExtender 5G, LTE, or even LAN Ethernet to onboard users located at pop-up offices and thin branch networks. With FortiExtender, deploying and managing FortiSASE is fast, simple and intuitive.

FortiExtender LTE Differentiators

Scalable Connectivity Anywhere

FortiExtender and FortiExtender Cloud offers secure, scalable and cost-effective centralized management for retail and wireless-only use cases

Extending the Fortinet Security Fabric

FortiExtender seamlessly integrates with and extends the utility of SD-Branch solutions with LTE

Making Mobile Networks High-avaliable Networks

FortiExtender offers ruggedized, highly available solutions for mobile and IoT/OT use cases

Product Details

FortiExtender provides a reliable WAN connection to a firewall, such as a FortiGate, using the cellular LTE infrastructure, 3G, 4G, and 5G (planned). These connections are commonly used as a second broadband connection for reliability or increased throughput. But those businesses that want to use multiple WAN connections, including for SD-WAN, can also use FortiExtender for one of those WAN links. Another common use for FortiExtender is to deploy it as a primary connection for a location where cellular LTE is the preferred broadband option. Retail stores or kiosks processing point-of-sales (POS) transaction might also opt for a highly secure LTE network to meet PCI compliance requirements. FortiExtender can also be managed independently, using an attached FortiGate or through the FortiExtender Cloud service. For more information on FortiExtender Cloud, Contact Us!