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Charter Business™ Selects Fortinet to Power Managed Security Services
Charter Deploys more than 200 FortiGate™ Security Systems to Deliver Unified Security Functionality to Business Customers
FOR RELEASE November 2006
St. Louis, Missouri – Charter Business™, a division of Charter Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: CHTR), today
announced that it has deployed more than 200 Fortinet high-performance FortiGate™ integrated security systems
to its broadband business Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) customers throughout the country..
“Charter Business can now provide broadband business customers a cost-efficient and flexible enterprise-level
security system without the complexity associated with integrating and managing multiple standalone systems,”
said Jim McGann, Corporate Vice President for Charter Business.
Charter Business focuses on provisioning broadband services for small businesses and connecting home-based workers
to remote branch offices that require stringent access and security measures, comparable to large enterprises. An
initial challenge for Charter was having the ability to deliver security solutions similar to those of large enterprises
to businesses with conservative budgets. Deploying point solutions for firewall, antivirus and intrusion prevention (IPS)
would cause a business customer's initial purchase and management costs to significantly increase.
“We recognized a critical need to integrate multiple security functionality into a range of multi-threat security systems
that did not compromise performance relative to standalone, single-functional security alternatives,” said Mr. McGann.
Charter's stringent requirements for its integrated solution, included multiple security functionality, high performance
and central management.
To date, Charter Business has deployed the FortiGate systems in more than 200 customer networks. Because of the centralized
management capability of Fortinet's solution, Charter Business is also positioned to rapidly scale its managed security
services as it expands into new markets.
About Charter Communications
Charter Communications, Inc. is a leading broadband communications company and the third-largest publicly traded cable operator in the
United States. Charter provides a full range of advanced broadband services, including advanced Charter Digital® Cable TV entertainment programming,
Charter High-Speed™ Internet access service, and Charter Telephone™ services. Charter Business™ similarly provides scalable, tailored and cost-effective
broadband communications solutions to business organizations, such as business-to-business Internet access, data networking, Cable TV and music entertainment
services and business telephone. Charter'sadvertising sales and production services are sold under the Charter Media® brand. More information about
Charter can be found at
www.charter.com.
About Fortinet
Fortinet is the pioneer and market leading provider of ASIC-accelerated unified threat management (UTM) systems, which are used by
enterprises and service providers to increase their security while reducing total operating costs. Fortinet solutions were built
from the ground up to integrate multiple levels of security protection--including firewall, antivirus, intrusion prevention, Web
content filtering, VPN, spyware prevention and antispam--providing customers a way to protect multiple threats as well as blended
threats. Leveraging a custom ASIC and unified interface, Fortinet solutions offer advanced security functionality that scales from
remote office to chassis-based solutions with integrated management and reporting. Fortinet solutions have won multiple awards
around the world and are the only security products that are certified eight times over by the ICSA (firewall, antivirus, IPSec,
SSL, IDS, client antivirus detection, cleaning and antispyware). Fortinet is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California.
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Media Contact:
Anita Lamont, Charter Communications
Office: (314) 543-2215
Email: Anita.lamont@chartercom.com
Jennifer Leggio, Fortine, Inc
+1 408-486-7876
jleggio@fortinet.com