Patents Granted for Inventions in Network-based IP Service Delivery Platforms Used by Carriers and Managed Service Providers (MSPs)

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 09, 2006 - Fortinet, the pioneer and leading provider of multi-threat security solutions, today announced that it has recently been awarded three new patents for networking inventions by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The patents strengthen Fortinet's IP and patent portfolio and provide the company with ownership of key innovations that ideally address the telecommunications carrier and service provider markets.

Fortinet has been granted U.S. patent number 7,096,383 for a system that enables virtual router failover in a network routing system; U.S. patent number 7,111,072 for a system for packet routing; and U.S. patent number 7,116,665 for methods and systems for supporting multiple customers via a distributed provider edge device. These inventions pertain to how Internet-based services and security can be implemented by carriers, or how managed service providers (MSPs) can deploy these services from a central device at a provider's network instead of at a customer site. In addition to these three new patents, Fortinet has more than 60 patents pending with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

"Carrier-based, or 'cloud-based,' delivery of virtualized security and other services has become the preferred method for most telcos and service providers because it allows them to efficiency scale their security service deployments and to do so more cost effectively," said Ken Xie, Fortinet founder, president and CEO. "These new patents both strengthen Fortinet's intellectual property portfolio and enable us to build upon our impressive success in the high-end market through the delivery of enhanced technology and services."

With a sharp focus on the high-end market, Fortinet is successfully addressing the needs of service providers – including telcos, mobile operators, and managed security service providers (MSSPs) – with its FortiGate? family of multi-threat security systems. The strong demand for Fortinet's FortiGate-5000 Series -- the industry's only Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture (ATCA)-compliant security systems -- has resulted in numerous sales wins around the world and helped Fortinet become the fastest-growing network security vendor in the high-end market (source: IDC, 2006).

Fortinet FortiGate systems deliver comprehensive network and content protection through the integration of eight essential security applications and services - including antivirus, firewall, VPN, intrusion prevention (IPS), anti-spam, anti-spyware, Web filtering and traffic shaping. The systems are kept up to date automatically by Fortinet's FortiGuard? subscription services, which provide continuous updates to ensure protection against the latest viruses, worms, Trojans, and other threats - around the clock, and around the world. FortiGate multi-threat security systems, along with management solutions and highly differentiated reporting and logging, provide a reliable platform upon which to build a managed security service.

For more information on Fortinet's high-end solutions, visit: http://www.fortinet.com/products/providers.html

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Fortinet 是整合式威脅管理 (UTM；Unified Threat Management) 安全設備市場的領導廠商。履履獲獎的 FortiGate™ 系列產品，為 ASIC 硬體加速式多重威脅防護安全設備，曾獲 Network Computing Magazine 2004 年度資安產品獎，以及 2003 年網路產業年度防火牆產品獎等，為新世代的即時網路防護系統。FortiGate™ 可偵測透過網路傳輸，來自電子郵件或是網站的危險資料威脅，像是病毒、蠕蟲、網路入侵及不適當的網站內容等，而且不會影響網路效能。FortiGate™ 系列產品是業界唯一通過六種 ICSA 認證 (伺服器防毒、客戶端防毒、防火牆、IPSec、SSL、NIDS) 的資訊安全設備，以整合式且易於管控的平台，提供全方位的網路層與應用層服務。Fortinet 名列 Light Reading 雜誌前 10 大私有公司，以及 Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal 前 50 大快速成長公司第 4 名，企業總部位於加州 Sunnyvale。

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