Solutions and technologies
Fortinet Secure SD-WAN consists of several components:
- FortiGate NGFW, which runs FortiOS, is the core of Secure SD-WAN
- Fortinet ZTNA Access Proxy, which runs natively in FortiOS, starting in FortiOS 7.0
- FortiManager for the orchestration and management plane
- FortiAnalyzer for advanced analytics and automation
- FortiPortal to provide a scalable and flexible customer self-service portal
Fortinet Secure SD-WAN solution can be extended to Secure SD-Branch. SD-Branch consists of the following components:
- FortiSwitch to provide security on the wired LAN edge
- FortiAP to provide WiFi access to users
Another essential component is FortiDeploy, which allows zero touch deployment and provisioning of the entire SD-WAN and SD-Branch solution.
The following image shows the components of the Fortinet Secure SD-WAN and SD-Branch solution. Fortinet is the only vendor that comprehensively covers the entire solution, with a consistent security posture for WAN security and access layer security.
The design principles and use cases described in this document are based on the following software version for each component:
- FortiGate, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, FortiAP, and FortiSwitch version 6.4
- FortiPortal version 6.0
This section includes the following topics: