The Fastest Firewall with 1 Tbps Throughput Performance

Network security provider Fortinet introduces its fastest FortiGate 5144C solutions that delivers the one terabit per second firewall thoughput. The solution offers 10GbE, 40GbE and 100GbE connectivity options. It will safeguard carriers and enterprise data centers as well as big data, cloud, infrastructure and software as a service platforms.

Ken Xie, founder and CEO of Fortinet, said that "Major market drivers, such as big data, cloud-based services and the explosion of Software as a Service translates to data centers needing exceptionally fast and secure security platforms to protect their applications and data." He further added "Others have claimed to have the fastest firewall, but no other vendor has actually delivered this level of performance and security, which enables customers to build out their data centers for the future, knowing that their firewalls will not be a choke point."

The new FortiGate 5000 Series would provide high security via NP6 ASICs which is built for large scale enterprise data center and carrier-class environments. It comprised of a new chassis - the FortiGate 5144C, new controller networking blades (5903C/5913C) and new security blades (5001D) that utilize the latest NP6 network processor to deliver 40 Gbps firewall throughput per ASIC. As well as, it includes fully redundant, hot-swappable power supplies, fans and firewall blades for maximum uptime.