Fortinet FG-1000F – FortiGate Firewall

Guide price: Price range: £27,365.57 through £34,206.96 Ex. VAT

Overview

The Fortinet FortiGate 1000F is a 2U rack-mount next-generation firewall built on Fortinet NP7 and CP9 security ASICs. It delivers extremely high firewall and VPN throughput with low latency, combined with flexible 100 GbE, 25 GbE, 10 GbE and multi-gigabit connectivity. Running FortiOS, the FG-1000F provides large-scale unified security for enterprise edge, data-centre perimeter and high-performance WAN environments.

Ideal deployment / environment
The FortiGate 1000F is designed for enterprise WAN-edge security, high-capacity data-centre perimeter protection and service-provider gateway roles that demand very high throughput, large VPN scale and flexible interface speeds. Its combination of 100 GbE, 25 GbE and multi-gigabit ports supports high-speed internet ingress, cloud connectivity and inter-data-centre links.

It is also well matched to hybrid-cloud, SD-WAN and distributed enterprise infrastructures, securing large volumes of encrypted and unencrypted traffic while maintaining low latency and consistent inspection performance across critical network paths.

Key Features​

  • Firewall throughput up to 198 Gbps and packet forwarding up to 201 Mpps
  • IPsec VPN throughput up to 55 Gbps with very high concurrent session capacity
  • Security services performance: IPS up to 19 Gbps, NGFW up to 15 Gbps, Threat Protection up to 13 Gbps
  • High-speed interfaces: 2 × 100 GbE QSFP28, 8 × 25 GbE SFP28, 16 × 10 GbE SFP+, 8 × multi-gig RJ45, plus HA and management ports
  • Enterprise hardware design: 2U chassis with dual hot-swap AC power supplies and front-to-back airflow

Technical Specifications

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