Whereas the trial of an alternative free-source security solution with firewall, authentication and web filtering from January until June 2016 proved not to be suitable for our needs and has caused more issues due to blocking of wrongly categorized web sites and some low cost solution were tried with technical support involved, which too proved not to work as expected, and
Whereas the better solutions are all commercial, and generally more expensive than Fortigate which we used before, it is
To continue using the service of Fortigate and pay for it until the end of 2016, when the service normally expire (as regulated by the company) at the total cost of 4,674 US dollars (or approximately 164,550 Baht) from the discretionary IT budget.