SK Telecom Selects Fortinet FortiGate-3950B High-End Network Security Appliance

SK Telecom, the premier telecommunications provider in Korea, selected Fortinet's FortiGate-3950B high-end network security appliance to help protect its 24-million subscribers using its 3G and 4G LTE services against increasing malicious attacks.

In order to cope up with the higher throughput and protection demand resulting from the increased traffic generated by its 3G and 4G LTE services as well as its subscribers' broader use of smartphones and tablets, SK Telecom needed to upgrade its legacy network security infrastructure.

After going through various security appliances from major vendors, SK Telecom zeroed on Fortinet's FortiGate-3950B solution for its unmatched performance, flexibility, feature-richness and ease of management.

FortiGate-3950B appliances have been purchased by SK Telecom for carrier-grade NAT service and for 10G firewall protection of its content server farm. The implementation of the same will help the telco provider to apply up to 10 million concurrent session firewall performance, SSL & IPSEC VPN, NAT/PAT, ALG-SIP, DP and QoS features over its service at no additional cost.

The implementation will also help SK Telecom to offer greater stability in its services by preventing service delays caused by traffic overload and ensure high availability.

Combining high-performance hardware and a modular design, Fortinet's FortiGate-3950B, an integrated network security appliance, delivers up to 120 Gbps of firewall performance, the fastest firewall throughput available in any appliance form factor.

The FortiGate-3950B also boasts of highest overall consolidated security performance among the FortiGate appliance line and wire-speed firewall performance at 10-GbE and GbE link speeds to ensure high throughput and low latency at minimum cost.

“The technology choice of SK Telecom further demonstrates that, through its groundbreaking security, performance and scalability, our FortiGate-3950B is a powerful solution for large enterprise customers,” said Patrice Perche, senior vice president of International Sales and Support at Fortinet, in a press release.

“With this customer success, Fortinet will continue to aggressively target the enterprise market and service providers at large, which all require rapid processing for massive Internet transaction volumes.”

In related news, Nokia Siemens Networks, a provider of telecom equipment and solutions, announced that SK Telecom will triple its broadband capacity and offer five times faster data download and seven times faster upload speeds from July 2011.

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