Fortinet selected by MITC to provide wireless Internet access to Mumbai citizens
Fortinet has 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 Wi-Fiinternet access for the public in Mumbai and are deployed in more than 500 locations across the city for the MumbaiWi-Fi project. The Wi-Fi 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 programme, and Fortinet beats several other enterprise wireless providers to win the deal.
Vijay Kumar Gautam, Principal Secretary, Information Technology, Government of Maharashtra, said, "MumbaiWi-Fi project plays a crucial role in empowering our citizens digitally. Our goal was to cover all major areas in the city with public Wi-Fi in order to make important government services available online. Because of the hyperconnected nature of our public infrastructure today, an ambitious project like this required technology that could scale and be flexibile to enable more users, devices, and applications over time.”
Fortinet is uniquely able to support the technical implementation of this project with a wireless R&D center in Bangalore. In its first phase of the MumbaiWi-Fi 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.
Users want fast Wi-Fi 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.
Rajesh Maurya, Regional Vice-President, India & SAARC, Fortinet, said, “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, more devices, and more applications are added to Wi-Fi networks, organizations need secure, enterprise-class Wi-Fi 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 Wi-Fi network.”
Tags: Fortinet, MITC, wireless Internet access, Mumbai citizens, Maharashtra Information Technology Corporation, MumbaiWi-Fi project, Vijay Kumar Gautam Principal Secretary, Fortinet Security Fabric, Rajesh Maurya fortinet
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