Their UTM firewalls are outstanding, support impeccable, RMA process superb. Firmware updates are a PITA because of the random changes, like taking out DHCP relay from the GUI requiring CLI. Their sizing calculator is pretty spot on. They do a decent trade in for competitor replacement, just send a serial and certificate of destruction. It does suck if you dont do the maintenance contract you lose some of the UTM like webfiltering They have some 3com partnership, or they bought hem, something to that effect. Their switches are a bit big for the britches, I wasnt impressed.
It can get pricey though On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Paul Stewart <[email protected]> wrote: > Interesting …. Anyone use Fortinet gear for anything else? They keep > hitting my radar for certain applications but have no real hands on with > it…. They seem to make a lot of options… > > > > *From:* Af [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *That One Guy > /sarcasm > *Sent:* Wednesday, November 18, 2015 5:34 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Phone System > > > > we do fortinet only > > You can do it without a problem > > its a good system as long as you realize is a voip pbx in a box, its not > as configurable as some, but thats the beauty, you have a clear line of can > do and cannot do > > Its designed to be an end user system as in you sell it to a customer and > they manage it through their support contract with fortinet > > We have one customer who did that, he has had good success with self > management, and hes a dolt at times. > > They bought Talkswitch so its actually a rebranded but seasoned system > > The virtual pbx is more scalable, but without conversion hardware it > doesnt do pots > > > > > > On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Matt <[email protected]> wrote: > > We are looking at upgrading our phone system. Looking at Fortinet. > We have two locations now with separate phone numbers. Wanting to > link the systems over Internet so we can help each other out when one > location or other has too many lines ringing. > > What is everyone else using for a phone system and how do they like it? > > > > > > -- > > If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team > as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team. > -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
