GERMANTOWN, Md., March 19, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Hughes
Network Systems, LLC (Hughes), a global leader in SD-WAN technology
and services, announced today that it was named Fortinet's 2017
Global Partner of the Year. Hughes was honored during Fortinet's
Accelerate 18 global partner and user conference, an annual
gathering of more than 2,300 top customers and partners from around
the world. The Fortinet 2017 Partner of the Year Awards recognize
outstanding cybersecurity sales, customer experience, collaboration
and marketing achievements from the company's distributors,
resellers and service providers.
The Hughes and Fortinet relationship spans 12 years and includes
over 50,000 units deployed and managed for customers to ensure the
security and performance of their networks. The Hughes Secure
SD-WAN Gateway integrates Hughes broadband optimization tools and
SD-WAN technology with Fortinet's leading UTM security into a
single unit, providing exceptional premise edge security and
network optimization.
At Accelerate 18, Hughes was also announced as a new member of
the Fortinet Fabric-Ready partner program. Through this program,
Hughes will leverage the managed SD-WAN Gateways and security
services to allow for the rapid reporting and coordinated reaction
to security events throughout the network.
"Hughes and Fortinet have a shared vision for enabling
distributed enterprises to better compete and embrace digital
transformation under the umbrella of a robust and secure,
high-performance network. Now customers can focus on their business
rather than their network," said Mike
Tippets, VP Enterprise Marketing at Hughes Network
Systems.
"We are excited to honor Hughes as Fortinet's 2017
Global Partner of the Year," said Patrice
Perche, senior vice president, Worldwide Sales and Support
at Fortinet. "Hughes has played a critical role in delivering the
advanced protections of the Fortinet Security Fabric to the market
in 2017 and has demonstrated exceptional leadership in driving
customer security and success. We congratulate their achievements
and look forward to continued success for all of our partners in
2018."
Accelerate 18 offers a unique opportunity for partners and
customers to gain insights about Fortinet's Security Fabric
architecture, provide direct feedback to Fortinet leadership, learn
to maximize Fortinet's enablement programs, and share best
practices with the cybersecurity industry's best and brightest. You
can learn more details about the Fortinet Partner program here.
For more information on the partnership and how to leverage
Hughes' Secure SD-WAN solutions please visit:
business.hughes.com.
About Fortinet
Fortinet 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 330,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their
businesses. Learn more at http://www.fortinet.com, the
Fortinet Blog, or FortiGuard Labs.
About Hughes Network Systems
Hughes Network Systems,
LLC (HUGHES) is the global leader in broadband satellite technology
and services for home and office. Its flagship high-speed satellite
Internet service is HughesNet®, the world's largest
satellite network with over 1.2 million residential and business
customers across North and South
America. For large enterprises and governments, the
company's HughesON® managed network services provide
complete connectivity solutions employing an optimized mix of
satellite and terrestrial technologies. The JUPITER™ System is the
world's most widely deployed High-Throughput Satellite (HTS)
platform, operating on more than 20 satellites by leading service
providers, delivering a wide range of broadband enterprise,
mobility and cellular backhaul applications. To date, Hughes has
shipped more than 7 million terminals to customers in over 100
countries, representing approximately 50 percent market share, and
its technology is powering broadband services to aircraft around
the world.
Headquartered outside Washington,
D.C., in Germantown,
Maryland, USA, Hughes operates sales and support offices
worldwide, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation
(NASDAQ: SATS), a premier global provider of satellite operations.
For additional information about Hughes, please
visit www.hughes.com and follow @Hughes_Corp on
Twitter.
About EchoStar
EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS) is a premier global provider of
satellite communication solutions. Headquartered in Englewood, Colo., and conducting business
around the globe, EchoStar is a pioneer in secure communications
technologies through its Hughes Network Systems and EchoStar
Satellite Services business segments. For more information,
visit echostar.com. Follow @EchoStar on Twitter.
©2018 Hughes Network Systems, LLC, an EchoStar company. Hughes
and HughesNet are registered trademarks and JUPITER is a trademark
of Hughes Network Systems, LLC
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