City of Mumbai Chooses Fortinet to Provide Wireless Internet Access to Citizens of India’s Commercial Capital and Largest C...
July 03 2017 - 8:00AM
Vijay Kumar Gautam, Principal Secretary Information
Technology, Government of Maharashtra“The Mumbai WiFi
project plays a crucial role in empowering our citizens digitally.
Our goal was to cover all major areas in the city with public WiFi
in order to make important government services available online.
Because of the hyper-connected nature of our public infrastructure
today, an ambitious project like this requires technology that can
scale and be flexible to enable more users, devices, and
applications over time.”
News Summary
Fortinet® (NASDAQ:FTNT) – the global leader in high-performance
cybersecurity solutions, today announced that the Maharashtra
Information Technology Corporation (MITC) has selected Fortinet to
provide wireless Internet access to the citizens of Mumbai,
India.
- Fortinet’s access points provide WiFi Internet access for the
public in Mumbai and are deployed in more than 500 locations across
the city for the Mumbai WiFi project. The WiFi network is also
planned to be used for smart transportation in the near
future.
- This deployment is part of the state government’s digital
empowerment program, and Fortinet beat several other enterprise
wireless providers to win the deal.
- Fortinet is uniquely able to support the technical
implementation of this project with its wireless R&D center in
Bangalore.
- In the first phase of the Mumbai WiFi project, the Maharashtra
Government has deployed a combination of Fortinet indoor and
outdoor access points with omnidirectional antennas, wireless
controllers, and a wireless manager to provide simplified
deployment and scaling, voice mobility, and the high performance
needs required.
Digital
Empowerment of Mumbai
Mumbai is home to 20.5 million people and is the commercial
capital and the largest city in India. The Government of
Maharashtra launched the Mumbai WiFi project to cover all major
areas in the city with public WiFi hotspots to ensure that
government services are available online to its citizens. Later
this year, the WiFi network will also be used for smart parking and
smart transportation, by providing real-time updates on the routes
and available capacity of various modes of public transport in the
city. The introduction of WiFi hotspots in Mumbai expands on the
government’s vision of making Maharashtra the country’s first
digital state.
Fortinet Secure Access Solution
Securing public communications over WiFi, such as personal
information, financial transactions, and mobile device data
sharing, involves much more than simply managing network access
control. As organizations change the way they deploy access
networks, connect devices, and the number and types of
network-connected wireless devices and mobile applications grows
exponentially, IT leaders must deal with the difficult task of
balancing the requirements of network security with the flexibility
to onboard a growing number and diversity of clients.
Users want fast WiFi and a smooth experience across wired or
wireless networks and IT leaders need reduced complexity of network
management, application management, and device management. Typical
WiFi solutions cannot satisfactorily address these requirements.
Fortinet's Secure Access solution delivers three WLAN deployment
options to meet the different WLAN requirements of today's
enterprises. In addition to WLAN services, our complete secure
access portfolio also provides the most flexible security with
end-to-end enforcement enabled by the Fortinet Security Fabric.
Supporting Quote
“BYOD and the Internet of Things (IoT) are creating new attack
vectors that put critical assets within public or private networks
at risk. As more users, devices, and applications are added to WiFi
networks, organizations need secure, enterprise-class WiFi that can
deliver a superior experience for all users. Secure access needs to
extend consistent security policies to the very edge of the network
where most vulnerabilities target. Security cannot happen at the
expense of high-availability, speed and density of coverage which
are all must-haves in a public WiFi network.”- John Maddison,
senior vice president of products and solutions, Fortinet
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About Fortinet
Fortinet (NASDAQ:FTNT) secures the largest enterprise, service
provider, and government organizations around the world. Fortinet
empowers its customers with intelligent, seamless protection across
the expanding attack surface and the power to take on
ever-increasing performance requirements of the borderless network
- today and into the future. Only the Fortinet Security Fabric
architecture can deliver security without compromise to address the
most critical security challenges, whether in networked,
application, cloud, or mobile environments. Fortinet ranks #1 in
the most security appliances shipped worldwide and more than
310,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses. Learn
more at http://www.fortinet.com, the Fortinet Blog, or
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