Fortinet announced a new high performance, compact network firewall appliance for enterprise data centers, large service providers, cloud providers and carriers. The new FortiGate-3700D is able to achieve up to 160 Gigabits per second (Gbps) firewall throughput. Using Fortinet’s new custom NP6 ASIC, the FortiGate-3700D is able to deliver best-in-class performance, low latency and IPv4 to IPv6 performance parity. Fortinet is the first network security company to deliver 100 Gbps+ firewall throughput and 40 GbE ports in a compact appliance, which redefines the standard for price per gigabit protected, price per port density, power dissipation per gigabit and space per gigabit. This performance improvement lowers both capital and operational costs for customers while providing the highest performance and lowest latency available.
The new FortiGate-3700D leverages FortiOS 5, the industry’s most advanced network security operating system. FortiOS is a security-hardened, purpose-built operating system that is the foundation of all FortiGate network security platforms. It can be used across large or small enterprise infrastructures and multiple security application personalities.
FortiOS 5 allows for flexible deployment models within the data center such as core firewall, which provides very high performance firewall with ultra low latency or edge firewall, which can be used to serve internal or external communities with varying trust levels using different firewall personalities, including firewall + VPN, firewall + IPS, NGFW, advanced threat protection and more.
Indian data centre and enterprise cloud services provider NxtGen has been using Fortinet’s data centre grade FortiGate security appliances. As NxtGen’s network handles over 5 million sessions per second, low latency on the network is critical to the cloud infrastructure performance.
“Having customers like Zapak, Bigadda Shop, Reliance Games and Manipal Ankur, we need to ensure that our firewall does not become a bottleneck. Fortinet’s solutions provide us with fast firewall throughput for data center and cloud customers, and the best ROI for managed security services,” said A S Rajgopal, MD & CEO of NxtGen Datacenter & Cloud Technologies.
“For some time our data center customers have been asking us for higher firewall throughput and high speed port connections as they consolidate data centers around a 40 or 100 Gbps switching infrastructure/fabric. We have an aggressive roadmap to deliver on these requests starting with the FortiGate-3700D,” said Michael Xie, founder, CTO and vice president of engineering for Fortinet.