Fortinet announced the introduction of a powerful multi-threat security appliance that meets the performance and deployment flexibility demands for small-to-medium sized businesses and branch offices of large enterprises and delivers significant headroom for growth. The new FortiGate-100D integrates a broad range of attack recognition and prevention technologies into a single platform to help smaller networks successfully protect users, data, and systems against targeted attacks aimed at penetrating networks and stealing valuable information. The introduction of the FortiGate-100D coincides with a number of market dynamics calling for high performance network security. First, network bandwidth requirements are soaring due to increasing business use of data-intensive social media applications that frequently embed rich video content. Second, users are deploying multiple mobile devices including…

Cable operators are at the core of the cable TV revolution, supplying popular family shows, news, movies, sports, documentaries and other products to a growing swarm of eager subscribers. Consumers are increasingly willing to pay for entertainment that suits their interests. For example, the introduction of high-definition (HD) TV vastly improved the quality of shows and attracted subscribers, even as disposable income dropped. New networks and channel offerings have also strengthened the Cable Network industry's appeal to consumers. "Revenue is expected to increase at an annualized rate of 5.2% over the five years to 2012, despite a drop in advertising spending that stemmed from increased competition from other media (including the internet) and lower corporate profit," IBISWorld industry analyst Agata…