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Fortinet extends its FortiGate-5000 series product line
September 2008 by Emmanuelle Lamandé
Fortinet announced expanded 10-gigabit Ethernet (GbE) support for its FortiGate-5000 series product line. Three new products being announced contribute to Fortinet’s chassis-based product line, and extend 10-GbE on a per-blade basis as well as for blade-to-blade communications.
At the heart of Fortinet’s modular 10-GbE product suite is its FortiGate®-5001A multi-threat security blade, which offers more availability, redundancy and scalability. Complementing the FortiGate-5001A blades are the following new 10-GbE products, which together enable up to 182 Gbps of firewall performance:
– FortiSwitch-5003A hub blade allows 10-Gbps inter-blade communications within the FortiGate-5000 Series chassis to load-distribute incoming traffic across multiple security blades;
– RTM-XB2 (Rear Transition Module) is a new component of the FortiGate-5000 Series that acts as the channel for 10-GbE communications between the FortiGate and FortiSwitch blades.
All FortiGate-5000 Series systems combine Fortinet’s hardware and software offerings to provide one or all of a broad array of security applications – firewall, antivirus, intrusion prevention, VPN, spyware prevention and antispam. When deployed as a consolidated solution, FortiGate systems bring together a broad multi-threat network security platform.
The FortiGate-5000 family consists of three chassis models – the two-slot FortiGate-5020, five-slot FortiGate-5050, and 14-slot FortiGate-5140 – each of which can be populated with FortiGate-5001A blades that provide security functions and/or FortiSwitch-5003A blades that provide high availability clustering functions. All FortiGate-5000 Series chassis and blades comply with the AdvancedTCA industry standard, a series of specifications for the next generation of carrier grade communications equipment. These specifications incorporate the latest trends in high speed interconnect technologies, next generation processors, and improved reliability, manageability and serviceability, resulting in a new blade and chassis form factor optimized for communications.
Availability:
All three products will be available and shipping in September 2008.
