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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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Comments (5)
Are you kidding? By stiennon on September 8, 2008, 9:48 amHow do you compare Fortinet to Juniper and Crossbeam? Juniper does not have a single box that can deliver AV, IPS, Firewall, routing, SSL VPN, and URL filtering....
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Fact check...By Witty Name on September 8, 2008, 12:02 pmIt's funny how you say that no one else has the features of Fortinet. Check out http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/2007/111207-utm-firewall-test.html, which specifically...
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What about SonicWALL?By Anonymous on September 8, 2008, 1:33 pmFrom a price to performance perspective, SonicWALL's new line of multi-core eClass Network Security Appliances embarasses Fortinet, Juniper and Crossbeam. See Joel...
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SonicWALLBy Anonymous on September 8, 2008, 6:53 pmI see a lot of obvious fluff and smoke and mirrors around Sonicwall's new platform including a clear lack of industry testing to prove their performance claims of...
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Fortinet? by far too StrongBy Anonymous on September 17, 2008, 4:41 amCisco, Juniper etc... barely surviving, they are OLD SCHOOL. These overated giants of their time (10 years ago) would want to become Microsoft version of internet...
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