Important terms for FortiSwitch

We are going to use the following terms in the rest of the document:

FortiSwitch is the hardware used to aggregate the wired and wireless connections on the LAN edge, providing different layouts of physical ethernet or modular (SFP) ports and Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) capabilities, depending on the models.
FortiSwitchOS is the operating system, CLI, and control system of the FortiSwitches.
FortiLink is Fortinet’s proprietary protocol that secures communications and implements the controls for configuring FortiSwitches from the FortiGate.
VLAN or virtual local-area network is a smart virtual wire that interconnects devices of the same network. When managed from a FortiGate, the VLANs created on the FortiSwitches become network interfaces used in the Firewall Policies.
Segmentation can create multiple VLANs to separate different network segments, thereby achieving a better network design, and minimizing the spread of potential breaches at Layer 2.

We are going to use the following terms in the rest of the document:

FortiSwitch is the hardware used to aggregate the wired and wireless connections on the LAN edge, providing different layouts of physical ethernet or modular (SFP) ports and Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) capabilities, depending on the models.
FortiSwitchOS is the operating system, CLI, and control system of the FortiSwitches.
FortiLink is Fortinet’s proprietary protocol that secures communications and implements the controls for configuring FortiSwitches from the FortiGate.
VLAN or virtual local-area network is a smart virtual wire that interconnects devices of the same network. When managed from a FortiGate, the VLANs created on the FortiSwitches become network interfaces used in the Firewall Policies.
Segmentation can create multiple VLANs to separate different network segments, thereby achieving a better network design, and minimizing the spread of potential breaches at Layer 2.