Fortinet to Buy Meru Networks for $44M
SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT), the global leader in high-performance cyber security solutions, and Meru Networks (NASDAQ:MERU), a leader in intelligent Wi-Fi networking, today announced a definitive agreement for Fortinet to acquire Meru. The acquisition is synergistic with Fortinet’s secure wireless vision and enterprise growth focus, broadens the company’s solutions portfolio, and expands its opportunity to uniquely address the $5B global enterprise Wi-Fi market with integrated and intelligent secure wireless solutions. Leading the trend to provide broad security for wired and wireless networks and devices, Fortinet also announced today a new FortiGuard mobile security subscription service to protect mobile devices and applications across the enterprise.
Easy and efficient deployment, flexibility and scalability are factors that favor Wi-Fi based solutions. Along with these factors, the bring your own device (BYOD) concept has brought the power of convenient connectivity and efficiency to end-users who have come to expect secure access to their enterprise network, regardless of location. All of this has driven widespread adoption of Wi-Fi by enterprises of every size. However, thisexpansion of the network to unknown and untrusted mobile devices creates significant IT security risks amidst the most dangerous cyber threat environment enterprises have ever experienced. Fortinet’s innovative convergence of security and wireless is critical and creates value for customers by broadening an integrated, secure network fabric and enabling protection of transmitted information, while allowing efficient management of the network and devices.
