Fortinet FG-600F – FortiGate Firewall

Guide price: Price range: £11,395.67 through £14,244.59 Ex. VAT

Overview

The FortiGate 600F is a 1U rack-mount next-generation firewall appliance built for mid-to-large enterprises, data centres, and SD-WAN or perimeter security deployments. It combines high-bandwidth routing and firewall capacity with multi-gigabit port flexibility and Fortinet’s accelerated SPU hardware (NP7/CP9). This makes it a capable security gateway for high-throughput networks needing consistent packet inspection and VPN capability under FortiOS.

Ideal deployment / environment
The FortiGate 600F performs strongly as a WAN-edge or data-centre perimeter firewall for organisations needing high throughput, multi-gigabit connectivity and robust VPN performance. Its port flexibility suits campus uplinks, high-capacity internet ingress, or SD-WAN edge roles.
It also fits multi-tenant or distributed enterprise networks and data-intensive environments that require traffic inspection, IPS, SSL decryption and VPN tunnel consolidation — all without sacrificing performance. The combination of throughput, interface density and session capacity makes FG-600F a pragmatic choice for consolidating routing, firewall and VPN tasks into a single appliance.

Key Features​

  • Firewall throughput up to 139 Gbps (IPv4 / IPv6, 1518-byte UDP) and 70 Gbps at 64-byte packets
  • Packet forwarding capacity up to 105 Mpps.
  • IPsec VPN throughput up to 55 Gbps
  • SSL-VPN throughput 4.3 Gbps
  • SSL inspection around 9 Gbps.
  • IPS up to 14 Gbps
  • NGFW throughput up to 11.5 Gbps; threat protection throughput 10.5 Gbps.
  • Ports: 16 × GE RJ45, 8 × GE SFP, 4 × 10GE SFP+, 4 × 25GE SFP28 / 10GE SFP+ ultra-low latency slots, plus 2 × GE RJ45 (Mgmt/HA) ports.
  • Supports up to 8 million concurrent TCP sessions, 550,000 new sessions/sec, and up to 10,000 firewall policies.

Technical Specifications

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