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When chronic network outages and limited security visibility threatened legislative operations, Pennsylvania’s Legislative Data Processing Center replaced its failing infrastructure with a unified Fortinet security platform. The result: Significantly reduced downtime, improved LAN and VPN performance, consolidated management across all devices, and faster detection of malicious activity. Read this customer story for lessons learned.<\/p>\n

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For Pennsylvania;s Legislative Data Processing Center (LDPC), network downtime isn’t just an IT problem–it can halt the state legislature’s ability to vote. \ud83d\udd12
\nWhen chronic outages and an unresponsive vendor put operations at risk, the LDPC replaced its legacy infrastructure with a unified Fortinet platform, gaining dramatically lower downtime, more reliable VPN performance, and the visibility needed to detect malicious activity faster.
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