Partners
Technology Partners
SSI partners with only the best technology solution companies to provide our customers with the most efficient products available today. This best of breed approach assures that our recommendations are always superior to our competitors. Before we align with a partner, we go through extensive research and implementation to assure that the product attached to our name holds the same high standards as Systems& Solutions Inc. You can be assured that if we provide service and support for a product, we know it is the best solution possible. Simply stated, if we did not believe our partner products were the absolute best available, they would have never been selected.
FORTINET
Fortinet’s Security Fabric ensures all components (FortiGate, FortiSwitch, FortiAP, FortiVoice) communicate with each other and share telemetry. With Fortinet FortiLink you have threat prevention from the core network NGFW to the access layer. With a single console you can see the firewall, switch, access points and manage your environment from a central pane of glass.
Overview of Fortinet
Legacy Ethernet LANs face many challenges including exponential growth in devices and applications, increased throughput demands from wireless LANs, and complex security implementations. Rather than asking how to secure traditional Ethernet LANs, Fortinet takes a security centric approach offering Ethernet as an extension of the security infrastructure through FortiSwitch and FortiLink. FortiSwitch offers a broad portfolio of secure, simple, and scalable Ethernet switches ideal for Secure SD-Branch and applications ranging from desktop to data center.
Many K-12 school districts are rapidly transforming their networks to implement eLearning and other digital programs to enhance student learning across distributed campuses. In addition to improving new educational platforms, there are large amounts of financial and personally identifiable information (PII) that must be protected. As these networks continue to transform to deliver better learning experiences across campuses, cybersecurity for K-12 school districts is often overlooked, making schools prime targets for cybercriminals.
Lean IT staffs can find it difficult to meet the growing demands of security for K-12 school districts—many of which do not have a dedicated cybersecurity employee. They must meet a variety of compliance requirements, such as the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA), manage siloed security devices, and ensure that their campus is equipped with physical monitoring systems to keep students safe.
Physical and cybersecurity for K-12 school districts require a unified, cost-effective solution that expands to all campuses and helps meet compliance. An integrated approach not only alleviates the strain on lean IT teams but also helps them achieve their ultimate goal—delivering a network that streamlines education while securing students.
Single-Pane-of-Glass Management
Small IT teams are often responsible for managing networking, cybersecurity, and physical surveillance systems. Fortinet delivers a single-pane-of-glass management system to reduce complexity and control all of these functions in a unified console.
Fortinet management and analytics provides powerful and simplified network orchestration, automation, and response for on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. Fortinet management and analytics technologies have been tested for more than a decade and is deployed by thousands of customers around the world across all major industry verticals.
As enterprise networks morph and change with digital transformation, once relied upon tools have become outdated and obsolete. Yet, many are still deployed alongside newer technology stacks, creating a complex environment that does not interoperate. Enterprises deploy an average of 75 different vendor solutions that lack shared threat intelligence—a cybersecurity hurdle that is often compounded with a lack of skilled cybersecurity personnel to manage these networks.
Simplified network orchestration, automation, and response helps consolidate complex point products, and is compatible with Fortinet solutions and all Security Fabric-ready partners.
Insider Threat Prevention
Secure internal, east-west traffic by intelligently segmenting the network to quickly detect and contain threats with intent-based segmentation that is powered by FortiGate next-generation firewalls (NGFWs). Protect against accidental or malicious insider threats with user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) from FortiInsight, automate response with FortiDeceptor, and control who and what has access to the network.
Rationalizing IT Operations
As a result of digital innovations, many K-12 school districts are left grappling with how to protect the expanded attack surface. Often, they purchase and deploy an array of point solutions as new issues arise, unintentionally creating an expensive, unintegrated, and siloed security architecture in the process. This type of infrastructure creates numerous operational inefficiencies that lean security teams struggle to manage, making effective threat detection a complex burden.
https://www.fortinet.com/
Cisco Meraki: a complete cloud-managed networking solution
– Wireless, switching, security, WAN optimization, and MDM, centrally managed over the web
– Built from the ground up for cloud management
– Integrated hardware, software, and cloud services
Leader in cloud-managed networking
– Among Cisco’s fastest-growing portfolios: over 100% annual growth
– Tens of millions of devices connected worldwide
Recognized for innovation
– Gartner Magic Quadrant, InfoWorld Technology of the Year, CRN Coolest Technologies
Simplify your IT infrastructure as you create a more dynamic and flexible datacenter with proven server and datacenter virtualization solutions built on VMware vSphere, the industry’s leading virtualization platform. Ensure continued IT innovation while meeting enterprise application SLAs, and increase time-to-market for application provisioning and upgrades.
VMware virtualization helps you reduce capital expenses through server consolidation and improve operating expenses through automation, while minimizing lost revenue by reducing both planned and unplanned downtime.
To achieve the same magnitude of benefits for the datacenter as a whole, virtualize your entire infrastructure: use VMware vCloud Suite to abstract, pool, and automate all datacenter resources—servers, storage, networking, security, and availability—and combine them with automated operations management and policy-based provisioning. The result is a Software-Defined Datacenter: an infrastructure platform that delivers the full efficiency and agility of cloud computing.
Microsoft Gold
Founded in 1975, Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.
Hubbell’s extensive end-to-end product offering includes high-performance connectivity and cabling systems, PoE Midspan solutions, racks, cabinets, raceway and delivery systems, cable management accessories, and fiber optic products for commercial, industrial, and residential environments.
http://WWW.HUBBELL-PREMISE.COM
Siemon (CI Contractor)
Established in 1903, Siemon is an industry leader specializing in the manufacture and innovation of high quality, high-performance network cabling solutions. Headquartered in Connecticut, USA, with global offices and partners throughout the world, Siemon offers the most comprehensive suite of copper and fiber cabling systems available. Siemon Labs invests heavily in R&D and development of industry standards, underlining the company’s long-term commitment to its customers and the industry. At Siemon, everything we do is guided by a shared global vision… “To be a reliable partner, an expert whose advanced technology and services provide high quality, high performance network infrastructure solutions, anywhere in the world.” …and we judge our success by how we execute the Siemon Vision – by how we deliver Siemon value to our partners and customers, every day, in every part of the world. A Higher Standard of Expertise
- Siemon Labs – the heart of Siemon innovation
- Over 400 active patents related to structured cabling standards participation – leading the groups that lead the industry
- Dedicated resources focused on understanding and supporting the unique needs of your vertical market
- Over 100 years of customer-driven telecommunications knowledge
A Higher Standard of Technology
Siemon leads the market in technology and innovation, ensuring the widest choice of forward-thinking cabling solutions available.
- Category 5e pioneers since 1994
- Category 6/Class E products in 1998
- Category 7A/Class FATERA in 1999
- Industrial Ethernet RJ-45 Connector in 2001
- 10 Gb/s suite of copper and fiber products since 2003
- BladePatch high density push-pull patch cord in 2004
- 500Mhz Quick-Ground Connectors in 2006
