Fortinet turns up speed on security

Fortinet security device protects large data centers, carriers

Fortinet is introducing cards for its FortiGate 5000 unified-threat-management chassis that let it support 10Gbps Ethernet connections designed to protect large corporate data centers. (Learn more about UTM products.)

The company previously offered 10Gbps Ethernet on a per-blade basis, enabling 10Gbps in and out of the chassis. But it's 10Gbps Ethernet communications between blades that is new.

The three cards are a security blade that handles processing at 10Gbps throughput, a switching blade with eight 10Gbps Ethernet network ports and an Ethernet bridge blade that distributes input from the switching blade onto the security blade.

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Fortinet is introducing cards for its FortiGate 5000 unified-threat-management chassis that let it support 10Gbps Ethernet connections designed to protect large corporate data centers. (Learn more about UTM products.)

The company previously offered 10Gbps Ethernet on a per-blade basis, enabling 10Gbps in and out of the chassis. But it's 10Gbps Ethernet communications between blades that is new.

The three cards are a security blade that handles processing at 10Gbps throughput, a switching blade with eight 10Gbps Ethernet network ports and an Ethernet bridge blade that distributes input from the switching blade onto the security blade.

The Fortigate UTM gear competes against UTM products from Juniper and Crossbeam, among others.

The Fortigate 5001A Security Blade includes a firewall, VPN support, intrusion prevention, antivirus, antispam and URL filtering. It costs $55,000. The FortiSwitch 5003A Networking Blade has SFP+ ports and costs $65,000.

The Rear Transition Module (RTM) XB2 blade supports 10Gbps backplane fabric for connecting the other two cards. It costs $13,000.

All the new cards are available.

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