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Score: 3.17
Editor’s note: This is a summary of our testing of this product, for a full rundown of how it fared in our testing across 10 UTM categories, please see our full coverage.
Fortinet’s FortiGate 3600A is in the midrange of Fortinet’s broad UTM firewall product line, which starts at SOHO devices and moves its way up to a carrier-sized chassis. Fortinet’s strength lies in its hardware-acceleration technology. While many other firewall vendors are jumping to designs that maximize the use of off-the-shelf components, Fortinet continues to develop custom silicon both in the network processor and content analysis parts of its products. Not every product has the same level of acceleration technology, but the 3600A is certainly a winner when it comes to high-speed virus scanning.
The challenge Fortinet has had, and continues to have in the version of the product we evaluated, is its ability to bring the FortiGate 3600A to the level where it can compete successfully in the enterprise. However, we found the FortiGate 3600A’s simplistic management interface unsuitable for enterprise configuration tasks.
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Sonicwall Rocks!!By Anonymous on March 4, 2009, 4:22 amWell.. well.. well.. Where am I suppose to be?? At the sonicwall site or at this site... which talks about shit product.. ASIC sucks!!!
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The O/S is the same... only the speed is differentBy Joel Snyder on November 13, 2007, 6:22 amAs we pointed out in the How We Tested, there was encouragement on our part to hit the 1Gbps rate more precisely and not "overpower" us with hardware, since that...
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FortinetBy Christine Burns on November 13, 2007, 6:04 amThanks for you comment. As is standard operating procedure in all all NWW tests, the vendor picked which product to include in the test after reading the proposed...
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RE: Fortinet FortiGate 3600ABy Isaac BOCCARA on November 12, 2007, 7:52 pmDear sir, I read your differents comments and was surprise that you choose the FG3600A appliance when Fortinet launch FG3016B and FG3810A. I think that you...
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