Specifications include, but are not limited to: The purpose of this Request for Proposal (RFP) is to solicit sealed proposals to establish a contract through fair and competitive negotiations for Network Infrastructure upgrades. East Noble School Corporation’s current network infrastructure uses a FortiGate 2500E firewall. East Noble has also recently upgraded some switch equipment with FortiGate switches and access points with FortiAPs. The FortiNet Security Fabric offers single pane of glass management of both switches and access points for core management features and does not require additional management licensing of the switches or access points through a FortiGate firewall. This feature allows integration of identity management, reporting, web filtering, DNS filtering, application control and network security to be easily managed and automatically integrated between the firewall, switches, and access points. FortiSwitch 548D-FPOE Layer 2/3 FortiGate switch controller compatible PoE+ switch with 48 GE RJ45, 4x 10 GE SFP+ and 2x 40 GE QSFP+ ports, 48 port PoE with maximum 750 W limit. FortiGate switch controller compatible. FortiSwitch 448E-FPOE Layer 2/3 FortiGate switch controller compatible switch with 48 GE RJ45, 4x 10 GE SFP + ports, 48 port PoE+ with maximum 772 W limit. FortiGate switch controller compatible.
