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were next in line with between 6 and 7%. Several African countries have experienced
triple-digit growth rates in Internet usage in 2003 and 2004, including Cote
d'Ivoire, Morocco, Senegal, Sudan and Tanzania .researchandmarkets.

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, Fortinet -- the confirmed
market leader in Unified Threat Management (UTM) and only provider of
ASIC-accelerated, network-based antivirus firewall systems for real-time
network protection -- today announced its collaboration with leading
Information Technology (IT) distributor Telio has enabled the company to
rapidly increase its presence in the North African and French overseas
departments and territories (DOM-TOM) markets and win significant deals with
dozens of major customers in the region, including:

-- Algerie Telecom,
-- La Banque d'Algerie,
-- The Tunisian Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research
-- The Tunisian Post Office,
-- The Moroccan Department of Social Security
-- Arobase Telecom on the Ivory Coast
-- The State of Burkina Fasso
-- Comptoir Francais d'Afrique et d'Outre-mer (CFAO)
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-- The Conseil General de la Guyanne
-- Eurapharma and the central hospitals in Martinique and Guadaloupe
-- The World Handball Championships in Tunisia

Kais Ouerfelli , President and CEO Telio said: "Over the last few months
we have seen demand for the best in class security applications of Fortinet
systems increase constantly in the region.

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The company works with high profile resellers and Systems
Integrators like Unisys, IBM GS, CFAO, Bull, Netcom, Alcatel, and Dimension
Data. This compares with over
50% penetration in developed countries.com
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com/cgi-bin/prnh/20040820/RESEARCH )
Africa remains the least connected continent in the world both from the
view of the total bandwidth feeding the entire continent and from an Internet
penetration perspective.

Subjects include:

- The broadbanding of Africa - policies, initiatives, projects
- Internet statistics and market analyses
- Barriers to Internet development
- Internet and broadband infrastructure
- International bandwidth and local connectivity
- Community telecentres
- The emergence of xDSL in Africa
- Internet via satellite
- Wireless Broadband
- Local, national and regional ISPs
- The role of the mobile networks and 3G
- VoIP telephony liberalisation and grey markets

Countries profiled:

- Algeria
- Angola
- Benin
- Botswana
- Burkino Faso
- Cameroon
- Chad
- Cote D'Ivoire
- Democratic Republic of Congo
- Egypt
- Ethiopia
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Kenya
- Lesotho
- Libya
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mauritius
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nigeria
- Senegal
- South Africa
- Sudan
- Swaziland
- Tanzania
- Tunisia
- Uganda
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe

For more information visit
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Fortinet addresses this problem with its flagship FortiGate family of
integrated network security platforms.

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All of
Fortinet's FortiGate systems are ICSA-certified in four distinct applications
areas, offer easy to manage and provide cost-effective network-level and
content -level protection at the network edge. While Internet uptake increased from less than
500,000 in 1995 to over 12 million in early-2004, its use remains
comparatively minuscule due to the lack of telecoms infrastructures in many
regions and high prices.

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About Fortinet (http://www. FortiGate systems are the only security products that are
quadruple-certified by the ICSA (antivirus, firewall , IPSec, NIDS), and
deliver a full range of network-level and application-level services in
integrated , easily managed platforms. DUBLIN, Ireland, Research and Markets
(http://www.

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(Logo: http://www. By early-2004, overall Internet penetration in
Africa was around 1.

Tunisia is a country situated on the North African Mediterranean coast.

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Combating these threats requires a
unified threat management approach which tightly integrates critical security
functions on a single hardware platform .
While Africa is still struggling to ensure universal availability of basic
voice services , the implementation of broadband networks is still very limited
but has picked up momentum during 2003 and 2004.

It has borders with Algeria to the west and Libya to the south and east.

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Telio distributes Fortinet's family of market-leading high-performance
integrated network security appliances in French-speaking North Africa and
French overseas departments and territories (DOM- TOM), including Tunisia,
Algeria, Morocco, The Ivory Coast, Burkina Fasso, Guiana, Martinique and
Guadeloupe.

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Unified Threat Management for Combating Attacks
Both enterprises and service providers throughout North Africa and the
DOM-TOM regions face similar network and content security issues as businesses
around the world -- threats that are increasing in sophistication, number,
virulence and speed of propagation.

Research and Markets: African Broadband and Internet Markets Analyzed

5 %, with the highest penetration recorded in Reunion
(over 20%) followed by the Seychelles (around 14%).

It had a population of 9,924,742* in 2003.

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of 2005 - African Broadband and Internet Markets to their offering .

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Fortinet Wins Significant Deals in North Africa and DOM-TOM With Distribution Partner Telio

Major Government, Telecommunication Carrier, Banking, Healthcare and
Recreation Customers Adopt Fortinet 's FortiGate(TM) Network Security Platforms

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Companies here want to limit
operational expenses and demand a reliable, easy to manage and high
performance system that virtually eliminates network downtime.
"Major customers throughout North Africa and DOM-TOM -- and around the
world -- are increasingly adopting Fortinet's FortiGate family of systems as a
result of recognizing the superior security, performance and value they
provide," said Andre Stewart, Fortinet's vice president , EMEA. "We are very
pleased with the success we've had with Telio, an established distributor in
these regions, and believe they are well poised to continue to take our
products out to the market through a highly developed network of value added
resellers and systems integrators.com/reports/c14193

Laura Wood
Senior Manager
Research and Markets
press@researchandmarkets .

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Named to the Red Herring Top 100
Private Companies, Fortinet is privately held and based in Sunnyvale ,
California.

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Fortinet is the confirmed leader of the Unified Threat Management market .

The official language is Arabic, and most of the population speak it, although French is often used commercially.

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FortiGate systems are kept up
to date automatically through Fortinet's family of FortiGuard (TM) subscription
updates, which ensure 24x7 protection against the latest viruses, worms,
Trojans , spyware and other threats. They detect and eliminate the most damaging, content-based threats
from e-mail, Web and file transfer traffic such as viruses, worms, intrusions,
inappropriate Web content and more in real time -- without degrading network
performance. New operators with fresh capital are
needed to provide broadband connectivity to and within the continent and to
serve what is becoming a very attractive telecom market opportunity for both
equipment and service providers.
This annual report offers a wealth of information on the African Broadband
and Internet markets .

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With a range of systems to meet the
needs of customers of all sizes, from small businesses to enterprises to
MSSPs, FortiGate systems deliver real-time complete content protection through
the integration of a broad range of security functions -- including antivirus,
firewall, virtual private networking (VPN), intrusion detection and
prevention, content filtering, traffic shaping, and anti-spam.

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Growth is slower than world averages and is less than
half the growth rate of mobile.

The vast majority of citizens (~98%) are Muslim.

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Its award-winning FortiGate(TM) Series of ASIC-accelerated antivirus
firewalls, winner of the 2003 Networking Industry Awards Firewall Product of
the Year and the 2004 Security Product of the Year Award from Network
Computing Magazine, are the new generation of real-time network protection
systems.