Ah. Nope I haven't seen any larges ones yet. No truckloads of AI for you! Their go-to changed from (legacy MC) controllers to FG-managed, with cloud (AFAIK) in a distant 3rd . I may get in trouble for saying that, and it's likely changing as all the vendors are (as you noted) leveraging the cloud compute power for AI. Fortinet has a strong R&D team and process, puts most of their money back in to product development vs. marketing so they have that going for them and could certainly come of from behind in the WiFi arena.
I believe it is still free to create a cloud account and take it for a spin (at least with the UI) - FortiAP Cloud is now FortiLAN Cloud - https://fortilan-login.forticloud.com I will say in the lab our team has played with some of the FortiSwitches and they have some neat features and have their place in the world, especially for highly distributed/branch office use cases. There's even what I'd call "NAC-light" built in - which is confusing when they have an actual FortiNAC product - but it's neat nonetheless. [cid:image002.png@01D77D5E.7C8C8260] ___________ Jennifer Minella, CISSP Consulting Advisor, Network & Cyber Security Carolina Advanced Digital, Inc. www.cadinc.com<http://www.cadinc.com/> j...@cadinc.com<mailto:j...@cadinc.com> 919.460.1313 Main Office 919.539.2726 Mobile/text [CAD LOGO EMAIL SIG] IMPORTANT UPDATES: Starting August 1st my role with the company will change to a part time contractor advisory role, and you may be working with other teammates for certain projects. From: Lee H Badman <lhbad...@syr.edu> Sent: Monday, July 19, 2021 7:15 PM To: Jennifer Minella <j...@cadinc.com>; WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: WIRELESS-LAN Digest - 15 Jul 2021 to 16 Jul 2021 (#2021-109) Duh! Cloud. And buckets of AI. Truckloads full. 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