Fortinet (FTNT) Serves Up Secure SD-WAN To Volkswagen Groupe
Zacks Investment Research | Mar 21, 2019 11:01PM ET
Fortinet (NASDAQ:FTNT) recently announced that its FortiGate Secure Software-Define Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) has been adopted and deployed by French retail group Volkswagen (DE:VOWG_p) Groupe Retail France across more than 70 branches.
The company’s next-generation firewalls have enabled its SD-WAN capabilities to help Volkswagen Groupe adopt a hybrid WAN that will connect various WANs and route traffic over several links including Multiprotocol Label Switching.
This solution aided Volkswagen Groupe to achieve a secure LAN and WAN integration, thereby allowing it to differentiate various types of traffic across its WAN. This assists Volkswagen Groupe to manage latency and focus on business-critical applications and traffic.
Growing customer accounts bode well for Fortinet as the upside is helping the company boost its revenue growth.
In the past year, shares of the company have returned 64.7%, outperforming its Zacks Investment Research
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