Fortinet FortiAP Reviews

Name: Fortinet FortiAP
Brand: Fortinet
Rating: 4 (11 reviews)

4.2 out of 5

11 reviews
90% willing to recommend

What is Fortinet FortiAP?

Fortinet’s wireless LAN equipment leverages Secure Networking to provide secure wireless access for the enterprise LAN edge. Our solution tightly integrates with the Fortinet Security Fabric to offer built-in security, end-to-end network visibility, and automated threat response. You can easily manage your wireless network and security with a single console to minimize administration time.

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Fortinet FortiAP is the #16 ranked solution in top Wireless LAN solutions. PeerSpot users give Fortinet FortiAP an average rating of 8.4 out of 10. Fortinet FortiAP is most commonly compared to Aruba Wireless: Fortinet FortiAP vs Aruba Wireless. Fortinet FortiAP is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 43% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 13% of all views.

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Yati Gharat

Chief Technology Officer at Litmus

FortiAP is very good in an indoor environment, but we are struggling with the outdoor environment. That is where we are having certain issues. We are not 100% happy with it. With the indoor environment, we are okay, but we are facing some issues when certain voice-related calls go from wireless points. There are certain drops, and we have faced these issues on an ongoing basis. We also have other vendors such as Aruba and Meraki, and we do not face any issues when there is a Teams or Zoom meeting going on. It could be that FortiAP is okay, but that particular device or appliance is not capable of handling that much load of voice and video. This might be the issue. RF Spectrum Analysis helps to understand what is the coverage and hotspots related to a particular access point, but then when we bought it, we did heat mapping through different vendors. If there are any rogue APs, we can identify them with RF Spectrum Analysis. We can see what the coverage area is, but there are some issues with that. Some of the offices have thick glasses, or the cabins are different, so in the RF coverage, what is shown is not what we get on the practical grounds. There are some issues with signal performance. It has the basic functionality that is mostly used, but there are certain devices that are not able to interconnect. When there is any issue or problem, if the administrator can get some information about that, that will be good. With Meraki and Aruba, we get certain beautiful things. If those can be integrated into this solution, it will be more beneficial, but we understand that being a security company, Fortinet's focus is on security.

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Rui Ribeiro.

Director of Infrastructure at CSAT

The deployment is very specific to each office, and to each building. It is not just plug-and-play. It shouldn't be either. If you want something really robust and a mash of APs and everything working accordingly, the deployment requires going to the building and getting the plans. We have to understand the volume, displays, the walls, the windows - everything inside the building so as to distribute better. With Cisco and Ruckus, it's only connectivity. You just go and install it and connect. With Forti AP, if you want things to work properly, you need to measure, note the parameters, and go and physically install it. Once that is done, it works well. It's set and forget. You don't have to worry about it. It all boils down to whether you have a stack of Fortinet or whether you have just the AP. The clients we have, have Fortinet stacks. Since they're Fortinet clients, we do their job. We study the place, we study the blueprints, we study the location, and we implement the AP according to the location. The configuration itself just takes five minutes. That is easy. You put in the IP and Fortinet does all the work. If you do the pricing correctly, once you plug into the network and register the AP with Fortigate, it's set and forget - unless you want SSIDs or a specific guest account. In that case, you'll have a little more work to do.

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Preshit Lanjekar

Network SME at Capgemini

The FortiAP configuration process is very easy. It is very easy to configure those APs because when you manage them with FortiAP, you have to plug them into the network cable. Once FortiGate discovers them, we must configure a single profile for all those APs. Once we map that profile, it will be automatically configured. FortiAP meets the client's requirements. These features are already available in Fortinet products. If you're asking about data importing, these APs are already controlled using FortiGate. Using FortiGate, we can export data, generate reports, and monitor client activity, including identifying the top talkers. Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

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Fortinet FortiAP mindshare

As of October 2024, the mindshare of Fortinet FortiAP in the Wireless LAN category stands at 2.0%, up from 0.0% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"The solution supports recent security components like encryption or hashing algorithms. We can control the APs from FortiGate Firewalls and integrate those APs into FortiGate. You don't have to purchase a separate controller for it."
"The product's deployment phase is very easy since its documentation part is available in the public domain."
"The setup was straightforward."

Room for Improvement

"The improvement factor could be in APs. Also, it could have a control, like MAC address."
"The support offered by the solution has certain shortcomings, making it in areas where improvements are required."
"There is room for improvement in the product by expanding the number of SSIDs that can be broadcast."

Pricing

"The product is available at a very comfortable price for my company compared to the other products available in the market. The prices of products from Meraki and Aruba are high compared to those of Fortinet."
"We purchased perpetual licensing, and additional costs may vary depending on the services acquired from Fortinet."
"If I compare it with the other enterprise products, the price is good."

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