Granite Earns Fortinet’s SD-WAN Partner of the Year Award

QUINCY, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Granite Telecommunications, a leader in advanced communications solutions, announced today that it was named Fortinet’s SD-WAN Partner of the Year. The Fortinet Partner of the Year Awards recognize dedicated and distinguished partners around the world. Fortinet’s channel partners play a critical role in helping Fortinet secure users, devices, applications, and edges everywhere.

The SD-WAN Partner of the Year has fully maximized the business opportunity with Fortinet’s market-leading Secure SD-WAN solution and successfully deployed SD-WAN across their customer base enabling a Security-driven Networking approach.

“Granite is proud to be a leading partner in delivering Fortinet SD-WAN to our customers,” said Rob Hale, Granite’s President & CEO. “Given the explosion of cloud-based applications, the importance of security, network visibility and optimization has never been greater. Our partnership with Fortinet has enabled us to design, deploy and manage advanced network solutions that protect thousands of customer sites with managed SD-WAN hardware, software and services.”

In response to growing demand for advanced networking solutions, Granite has established an SD-WAN lab, where network engineers and customers can build proof-of-concept designs, evaluate hardware and software alternatives, test firewall rules, and inform development of successful rollout plans. A wide range of Fortinet devices are available in the Granite SD-WAN lab.

About Granite

Granite delivers advanced communications solutions to businesses and government agencies throughout the United States and Canada. The $1.7 billion company serves more than two-thirds of Fortune 100 companies. Founded in 2002, Granite has grown to be one of the largest independent telecommunications providers in the US by simplifying sourcing and management of voice, data and cellular service. Today, Granite supports customers with a wide range of advanced business communications services, including access, UCaaS, mobile voice and data, and MSP solutions for SD-WAN, monitoring and network management. Granite employs more than 2,000 people at its headquarters in Quincy, Mass. and ten regional offices nationwide. For more information visit granitenet.com.