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Fortinet's FortiGate™ Enterprise Security Appliances Secure the Multi-gigabit Network Designed by iNOC at the Radiological Society of North America's (RSNA) Annual Meeting
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov. 28, 2005
- Fortinet - the pioneer and market leader of Unified Threat Management and only provider of ASIC-accelerated, network-based multi-threat security systems for real-time network protection
- today announced that its FortiGate enterprise security appliances have been deployed to secure the multi-gigabit network at the Radiological Society of North America's (RSNA) Annual Meeting at McCormick Place in Chicago, held from Nov. 27 -Dec. 2. RSNA is the medical industry's largest international meeting with over 700 vendors and 62,000 attendees, including radiologists, allied health scientists, hospital executives and healthcare consultants.
Fortinet's FortiGate enterprise security appliances are protecting the tradeshow's massive high-speed communications network that supports the conference, dubbed RSNAnet, which is designed and managed by iNOC, a global provider of Network Operations Center (NOC) services and Fortinet Partner. RSNAnet spans multiple exhibit halls across two million square-feet, has about 120 network closets and uses Gigabit Ethernet and OC-48 (Optical Carrier 48) transport. Premium Ethernet services are delivered by a flexible Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) enabled network over a resilient IP/MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching) core using Marconi BXR-5000 routers and Extreme Summit7i/5i switches. In addition, wireless hot spots across the show floor are enabled with Meru Networks' WLAN System, which provides quality of service (QoS) and load balancing in high user-density environments.
Multiple FortiGate-500A and FortiGate-800 systems, which are ASIC-accelerated multi-function enterprise security appliances, are deployed both internally on every network segment, as well as externally on Internet connections providing firewall, antivirus, intrusion prevention and VPN services. iNOC has been designing, building and managing RSNAnet for the last six years, and this is the third year that Fortinet's FortiGate security appliances have protected the network. To manage and monitor the network, iNOC builds a temporary NOC at the Convention Center.
"Protecting the multi-gigabit RSNAnet at this year's RSNA conference with over 62,000 attendees requires comprehensive network security functionality that does not adversely affect network performance, and can be deployed quickly and seamlessly to protect our massive temporary network," said Rick Smith, vice president of engineering and services for iNOC. "Fortinet's ASIC-accelerated FortiGate systems fit our requirements again this year by providing the security functionality and performance we need, all in an enterprise security appliance form factor that is easy to deploy, configure and manage."
About iNOC (www.internetnoc.com)
iNOC provides Network Operations Center (NOC) services for Enterprises and Service Providers that need to reduce costly downtime of their IT and Telecommunications Infrastructure. iNOC's clients are concerned about lack of standard procedures and processes, information security and disaster recovery and look for a 24x7x365 monitoring and management solution that is delivered by an experienced team. iNOC offers a reliable, secure and cost-effective management solution by leveraging tightly integrated proprietary software tools, processes and redundant 24x7x365 NOCs to help Enterprises and Service Providers accomplish their strategic objectives and achieve industry compliance.
About Fortinet (www.fortinet.com)
Fortinet is the confirmed leader of Unified Threat Management market. The company's award-winning FortiGate™ series of ASIC-accelerated multi-threat security systems, winner of the 2004 Security Product of the Year Award from Network Computing Magazine and the 2003 Networking Industry Awards Firewall Product of the Year, are the new generation of real-time network protection systems. They detect and eliminate the most damaging, content-based threats from e-mail and Web traffic such as viruses, worms, intrusions, inappropriate Web content and more in real time - without degrading network performance.
Fortinet's solutions are the only security products that are certified seven times over by the ICSA (firewall, antivirus, IPSec, SSL, IDS, client antivirus detection and cleaning), and deliver a full range of network-level and application-level services in integrated, easily managed platforms. Named a Light Reading Top 10 Private Company and #4 on Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal's "Fast 50" list, Fortinet is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California.
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