Fortinet announced enhanced AIOps capabilities across its entire networking portfolio, including the artificial intelligence-based network operations management for 5G/LTE gateways.
When combined with the latest AIOps enhancements to Fortinet’s Secure SD-WAN and Wired/Wireless LAN portfolio, network operations teams have access to even more dynamic insights and event correlation across their entire network, making FortiAIOps the most complete AIOps network management platform in the industry.
The network has never been more critical for business success with accelerated digital innovation and the continued growth in the hybrid workforce. NOC teams are increasingly relying on artificial intelligence-based management tools like AIOps to maximize network visibility, improve the response time to anomalies and reduce ticket volume to remediate potential network issues.
FortiAIOps builds on this rich history in AI and ML to bring visibility to NOC teams by applying these principles to all layers of the network. Unlike many networking vendors, Fortinet uniquely converges networking and security across the LAN, Wireless LAN, and WAN and ties everything together with a single operating system and management console.
Fortinet takes this one step further by integrating not just security, but also AIOps across the entire network to allow organizations to gain actionable Day 2 network insights that proactively optimize networks. Specifically, FortiAIOps provides configuration recommendations for hardware and software, and offers simplified resolution to trouble tickets.
Fortinet has advanced its FortiAIOps capabilities in the following ways:
SD-WAN
Fortinet was named a Leader in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SD-WAN for the third consecutive year for Fortinet Secure SD-WAN. Fortinet Secure SD-WAN benefits from enhanced FortiAIOps capabilities, including the ability to track metrics such as interfaces, system resources, and ISP bandwidth, as well as dynamically compute SLA baselines to ensure that the best performance is always achieved.
Wired/wireless LAN
From its inception, FortiAIOps has supported the Fortinet Wired/Wireless LAN portfolio, including FortiSwitch and FortiAPs. This latest release enhances Fortinet’s existing Wired/Wireless LAN AIOps capabilities by improving its ability to provide NOC teams with real-time visibility of potential issues before network users are negatively impacted. Additional enhancements deliver configurable SLAs, allowing teams to customize and fine-tune their preferred network metrics to best represent their network health.
5G/LTE gateways
The addition of AIOps capabilities to support FortiExtender 5G/LTE gateways makes Fortinet the only vendor providing AIOps on a 5G/LTE link. This critical evolution of AIOps expands visibility for NOC teams and allows analysis of data down to the WAN link level, not just at the SD-WAN abstraction level. This helps IT teams better diagnose issues and ensure resiliency.
Analyst validation
“Fortinet is delivering enhanced AIOps capabilities and consistent security across the LAN, Wireless LAN and WAN, which are of growing importance to digitally enabled enterprises. Fortinet’s ability to give networking teams access to high-quality insights that enable them to proactively optimize the network across SD-WAN, Wired/Wireless and 5G/LTE gateways – from a single platform and management console – is a valuable feature of the company’s networking portfolio,” said Brandon Butler, IDC Research Manager, Enterprise Networks.
Fortinet has spent the past decade maturing its AI and ML technology to analyze over 100 billion global security events a day covering all types of threats and attack techniques, which in turn informs over 1 billion daily security updates to Fortinet’s products. These latest enhancements are another significant step towards truly autonomous and self-healing networks that converge networking and security,” said John Maddison, EVP of Products and CMO at Fortinet.