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Wired, WLAN Gartner Magic Quadrant: Crowded Leader Quadrant Anchored By Aruba, Cisco
Gina Narcisi
The 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure report features an overall slimmed-down list of networking players but a busy Leader quadrant that includes mainstays Aruba and Cisco.
Visionary: Fortinet
Fortinet comes to market with its FortiAP and FortiSwitch products that tightly integrate with the company’s network security capabilities—its FortiGate security appliances and FortiLAN cloud-based management platforms. Fortinet continues to invest in integrating and consolidating its network and security portfolio into its cloud and virtual server management platforms. The company targets a wide range of customers, from the midmarket to large enterprises, across various sectors.
Strengths
The company offers LAN, WLAN and security that are tightly integrated under a unified operating system— FortiOS—and cloud management platform. Fortinet’s FortiAIOps AI engine provides further network assurance, such as event correlation and issue remediation, across security, wired and wireless.
Weaknesses
Still a security-first player, Gartner said Fortinet’s networking footprint is significantly lower than its revenue share in the firewall market and the company’s switching portfolio cannot adequately support a high-density enterprise network, distribution or core switching that is required at very large enterprise scale.
