Charter Business^® Selects Fortinet to Power Managed Security Services

Charter Deploys more than 200 FortiGate® Security Systems to Deliver Unified Security Functionality to Business Customers

FOR RELEASE November 2006

St. Louis, Missouri – Charter Business^®, a division of Charter Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTR), today announced that it has deployed more than 200 Fortinet high-performance FortiGate® integrated security systems to its broadband business Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) customers throughout the country.

“Charter Business can now provide broadband business customers a cost-efficient and flexible enterprise-level security system without the complexity associated with integrating and managing multiple standalone systems,” said Jim McGann, Corporate Vice President for Charter Business.

Charter Business focuses on provisioning broadband services for small businesses and connecting home-based workers to remote branch offices that require stringent access and security measures, comparable to large enterprises. An initial challenge for Charter was having the ability to deliver security solutions similar to those of large enterprises to businesses with conservative budgets. Deploying point solutions for firewall, antivirus and intrusion prevention (IPS) would cause a business customer's initial purchase and management costs to significantly increase.

“We recognized a critical need to integrate multiple security functionality into a range of multi-threat security systems that did not compromise performance relative to standalone, single-functional security alternatives,” said Mr. McGann.

Charter's stringent requirements for its integrated solution, included multiple security functionality, high performance and central management. To date, Charter Business has deployed the FortiGate systems in more than 200 customer networks. Because of the centralized management capability of Fortinet's solution, Charter Business is also positioned to rapidly scale its managed security services as it expands into new markets.

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Media Contact:

Fortinet, Inc
Jennifer Leggio,
408.486.7876
jleggio@fortinet.com

Charter Communications
Anita Lamont,
314.543.2215
anita.lamont@chartercom.com

About Charter Communications

Charter Communications, Inc. is a leading broadband communications company and the third-largest publicly traded cable operator in the United States. Charter provides a full range of advanced broadband services, including advanced Charter Digital® Cable TV entertainment programming, Charter Business^® Internet access service, and Charter Business^® Phone services. Charter Business^® similarly provides scalable, tailored and cost-effective broadband communications solutions to business organizations, such as business-to-business Internet access, data networking, Cable TV and music entertainment services and business telephone. Charter's advertising sales and production services are sold under the Charter Media® brand. More information about Charter can be found at www.charter.com.

About Fortinet

Fortinet is the pioneer and market leading provider of ASIC-accelerated unified threat management (UTM) systems, which are used by enterprises and service providers to increase their security while reducing total operating costs. Fortinet solutions were built from the ground up to integrate multiple levels of security protection--including firewall, antivirus, intrusion prevention, Web content filtering, VPN, spyware prevention and anti-spam -- providing customers a way to protect multiple threats as well as blended threats. Leveraging a custom ASIC and unified interface, Fortinet solutions offer advanced security functionality that scales from remote office to chassis-based solutions with integrated management and reporting. Fortinet solutions have won multiple awards around the world and are the only security products that are certified eight times over by the ICSA (firewall, antivirus, IPSec, SSL, IDS, client antivirus detection, cleaning and antispyware). Fortinet is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California.