Fortinet FortiSwitch 348G

Forty-eight ports split half Gigabit, half 2.5 Gigabit - with MACsec throughout.

Multi-Gigabit Where It Earns Its Keep

A floor rarely needs 2.5 Gigabit on every port - access points and a few workstations do, desks and phones do not. The 348G splits the difference in hardware: twenty-four multi-gigabit ports for the devices that can use them and twenty-four Gigabit for everything else, which costs less than forty-eight multi-gigabit ports and wastes nothing.

MACsec and Multi-Gigabit at the Access Layer

The 300 Series is where FortiSwitch adds MACsec - link-layer encryption between the switch and the device - and makes 2.5 Gigabit the standard access speed. For a campus where the cabling runs through shared risers or between buildings, encrypting the link itself closes a gap that VLAN separation does not. A Trusted Platform Module and an 8 GB drive come as standard.

Managed as an Extension of the Firewall

A FortiSwitch can run standalone, but the reason to buy one alongside a FortiGate is FortiLink: the switch becomes a logical extension of the firewall, so ports, VLANs and network access control are configured in the same console as the security policy. That removes the usual split between the team that owns the switch and the team that owns the firewall, and it is why NAC on these switches costs nothing extra.