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Now, you can bring together multiple products, a router, a firewall, SD-WAN appliance, switches, APs, and all of that, from different vendors, hook them together and make them work. I mean, what's the advantage or what's the key differentiator that the SD Branch solution from Fortinet delivers? Thanks Patrick. As you mentioned, Fortinet's SD Branch solution is based on industry-leading next-generation firewall, secure SD-WAN, industry-leading as well, and FortiLink LAN. So the uniqueness about the SD Branch solution from Fortinet is seamless integration and, I would say, organic integration of these different solutions, underlying solutions and products, and providing unique values, unique benefit in terms of total cost of ownership, easy provisioning, you know, low maintenance type advantages for sure, and giving AIOps-driven reliability and, you know, high availability of also end-to-end solution. Well, a key part of Fortinet's messaging and positioning is about convergence. Where does that fit into SD Branch? So what we have heard from customers, and we understand it very well, that there is a, you know, demand for ease of operations, you know, easy maintenance, and obviously low cost at the same level, while having end-to-end secure functionality in your network. So that's where the convergence story comes from, and with our products, we provide the best solution that's possible. How about the management aspect of it? You still have different things being connected together, even with convergence. How do you manage the SD Branch? The beauty of our solution is, depending on the scale of your network, scale of your SD Branch deployment, you can have FortiGate switches and APs, extenders, as we just discussed. But as you move beyond, it's scalable. You can scale up, scale down. For example, for large-scale system, you can introduce FortiManager into the mix for managing, you know, geographically distributed solution based on the same underlying component. All right. Well, Sandeep, thank you very much for that information. Brought to you live from the Tech Expo at Fortinet Accelerate 25. If you missed out, watch for Accelerate InFocus, coming to your region later this quarter.
