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Fortinet's Unified Threat Management (UTM) solutions are well regarded and provide indepdentedly reviewed and tested levels of protection against numerous threats.
In addition to fully stateful firewalls (typical in most consumer products) Fortigate and FortiWifi products support:-
-* Full control of incoming and outgoing traffic flow (ie nothing can leave or enter the protected network unless explicitly permitted).
-* Anti-virus protection which can be applied to any firewall flow (removing viruses before traffic hits the end device).
-* Botnet/ Command & Control server mitigation (preventing outgoing and incoming connections from known Botnet/ Command & Control servers).
-* Web Filtering (which allows categories of sites to be allows or blocked. eg media streaming sites can be blocked to prevent excess bandwidth useage).
-* Application control (allowing specific applications to be allowed or blocked. eg BitTorrents can be blocked to prevent downloads of potentially copyright information)
-* Dynamic updating of services to protect against new threats.
-* Support of entrprise features such as VLAN, QoS, Additional Wireless Access Points and advanced routing configurations.
While these features can be complex to setup they offer excellent levels of granularity, security and filering which make them useful in a larger or more advanced network.
== Fortigate/ FortiWifi Pre-requisities for IPv6 on A&A ISP ==
Native IPv6 on A&A's network requires:-
-* WAN Interface Assignment based IA.
-* Delegation of a block of IPv6 addresses based on DHCP-PD
This is described on the A&A website here https://support.aa.net.uk/Category:IPv6
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