Fortinet taps Internet Penetration in India expands Investment in R&D, Support and Business Expansion
Fortinet has announced its expanded operations in the Indian Territory to foster its position in enterprise/infrastructure WiFi solutions and log the network security market.
After North America, the company has its second largest R&D facilitiy in Bangalore. The Fortinet Innovation Centre here will develop state-of-the-art algorithms that secure large enterprise networks running mobile and IoT devices, and location-based services.
Inaugurating the Innovation centre at Bangalore, Patrice Perche, senior executive vice president, Worldwide Sales and Support at Fortinet said, “Today, most connected devices use WiFi as their default connectivity standard. With the proliferation of IoT, seamlessly blending WiFi access with network protection is an integral part of the Fortinet Security Fabric. With the WiFi industry growing at double-digit rates, the research activities carried out by this team are highly relevant not only in the Indian market but all over the world”.
India Technical Assistance Centre will also support Europe, Middle East and Africa. Catering the EMEA and SAARC, The Advanced Support Services team will provide post-sales support to customers through regular proactive activity reporting, and assignment of designated support engineers or service delivery managers to manage complex and critical deployments.
“In Bangalore, we are building enterprise class WiFi systems that seamlessly onboard and switch customers between WiFi and LTE networks,” said Kishore Reddy, Vice President of Engineering & Country Manager, Fortinet Innovation Centre. “Our research team will also provide business intelligence to customers who have very large on-premise WiFi deployments. The investments to expand the R&D infrastructure here augment Fortinet’s plans to increase its share in the global wireless market.”
Withal, the company’s strategy of encompassment includes domain specialists to provide network security expertise to every major industry – Government, Telecom, Healthcare, BFSI, Retail, Manufacturing and Education.
To thee coming time, Fortinet plans to conduct regionalised training and threat updates for customers and partners across the country.
The WiFi research facility adds to the vendor’s Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) R&D team in Hyderabad, which builds the hardware logic for its DDoS attack mitigation appliances.
