Fortinet first to deliver 1 Tbps throughput performance

Network security provider Fortinet has come out with its new FortiGate 5144C solutions; with this the company becomes the first to deliver one terabit per second firewall thoughput.

The solution will safeguard carriers and enterprise data centers with world’s fastest firewall. It would protect big data, cloud, infrastructure and software as a service platforms, a statement said.

The throughput performance offers 10GbE, 40GbE and 100GbE connectivity options.

“Major market drivers, such as big data, cloud-based services and the explosion of Software as a Service translates to data centers needing exceptionally fast and secure security platforms to protect their applications and data,” said Ken Xie, founder and CEO of Fortinet.

'Others have claimed to have the fastest firewall, but no other vendor has actually delivered this level of performance and security, which enables customers to build out their data centers for the future, knowing that their firewalls will not be a choke point,” he added.

The FortiGate 5000 Series is built for large scale enterprise data center and carrier-class environments. It includes fully redundant, hot-swappable power supplies, fans and firewall blades for maximum uptime.

The new 5000 Series is comprised of a new chassis — the FortiGate 5144C, new controller networking blades (5903C/5913C) and new security blades (5001D) that utilize the latest NP6 network processor to deliver 40 Gbps firewall throughput per ASIC.