FortiGate-VM16 Fortinet SD-WAN Connector | Virtual Firewall, Enterprise

Keep secure access consistent as your environment expands beyond the data center. FortiGate-VM16 is designed as an SD-WAN connector for FortiSASE Secure Private Access, giving infrastructure teams a virtual firewall control point for distributed connectivity and policy enforcement. It fits organizations that need to extend trusted access into cloud and remote environments without introducing another hardware dependency. This model is positioned for teams that want tighter alignment between access policy and network routing. By pairing virtual firewall capabilities with SD-WAN connectivity, it helps direct traffic through controlled paths while supporting private access use cases across branch, cloud, and hybrid deployments. That makes it a practical fit for environments where user access, application reachability, and segmentation must stay aligned. Because it is delivered as a virtual connector, FortiGate-VM16 is well suited to modern infrastructure stacks where agility matters, but control cannot be compromised. It supports a cleaner operating model for security teams that need to scale access services without reworking physical network design. For organizations standardizing on FortiSASE, it provides a focused way to extend policy enforcement into the places users and workloads now live.