Case Study: Smart Fit achieves fast, reliable connectivity and 50% network cost savings with Fortinet Secure SD-WAN

The Largest Network of Fitness Centers in Latin America Uses Fortinet Security Fabric to Accelerate Innovation

Smart Fit, Latin America’s largest fitness chain with more than 1,000 branches and 3 million customers, needed reliable, standardized connectivity to support real-time services (access control, virtual classes, IoT devices and inter-branch competitions). Legacy infrastructure lacked automation and visibility, causing risky manual firmware updates, misconfigurations of user access, and insufficient network segmentation for scaling digital services.

Smart Fit deployed Fortinet solutions — FortiGate NGFWs, Secure SD-WAN, FortiSwitch, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer and FortiDeploy (initially across 400+ sites) — to centralize management, automate deployments and segment traffic. The result was fast, uninterrupted connectivity, clearer device visibility, centralized policy enforcement, a 50% reduction in link costs and a 90% drop in IT time spent on routine operations, enabling secure scaling and faster innovation.

Smart Fit

Valter Sobral

Infrastructure Manager