Fortinet FG-1800F – FortiGate Firewall

4x 40GE QSFP+, 12x 25GE SFP28/10GE SFP+, 2x 10GE HA, 8x GE SFP, 18x GE RJ45 ports

Guide price: Price range: £28,568.66 through £35,710.82 Ex. VAT

Overview

The FortiGate 1800F is a 2U rack-mounted next-generation firewall designed for large data-centres, enterprise WAN edges and service-provider environments. It delivers very high firewall and VPN throughput, broad interface flexibility including 40 GbE/25 GbE/10 GbE connectivity, and full FortiOS unified security services.

Ideal deployment / environment

The FortiGate 1800F is tailored for enterprise or service-provider cores, data-centre perimeters, and high-throughput WAN-edge gateways that require VPN termination, encrypted traffic handling and high-speed interconnects.

FG-1800F fits multi-site enterprises, distributed cloud/hybrid-cloud architecture, or multi-tenant hosting environments, and is also well suited for centralised security, secure inter-data-centre links, high-capacity internet uplinks and aggregated VPN backbones.

Key Features​

  • Firewall throughput: 198 / 197 / 140 Gbps (1518 / 512 / 64-byte UDP)

  • Packet forwarding capacity: 210 Mpps; firewall latency ≈ 3.22 µs (64-byte UDP)

  • IPsec VPN throughput: 55 Gbps; SSL-VPN: 11 Gbps

  • Security-service throughput (enterprise mix): IPS 13 Gbps, NGFW 11 Gbps, Threat Protection 9.1 Gbps

  • Ports: 16 × GE RJ45, 8 × GE SFP, 12 × 25 GE SFP28 / 10 GE SFP+, 4 × 40 GE QSFP+, plus HA/management ports — supporting multi-speed uplinks and aggregation.

  • Up to 12 million concurrent TCP sessions (expandable to 40 million with Hyperscale license)

  • 750,000 new sessions/sec (up to 2 million with license)

  • 100,000 firewall policies.

Technical Specifications

Full specifications for this model are listed below.

Additional information

Weight 3 kg
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