Fortinet’s FortiGate-3810D Produces Best-in-Class Performance

Fortinet and Spirent Communications plc. (LSE: SPT), leading provider of testing solutions for networks, devices and services, today announced theresults of performance tests conducted on the FortiGate®-3810D, the latest Fortinet firewallappliancedesigned for large enterprises, Communication Service Providers (CSPs)and data center environments.

Testing with Spirent solutions showed that the FortiGate-3810D – whichcomes standard with six 100-Gigabit Ethernet ports, all in one compact 3U appliance form factor – delivers a steady 292 Gbps Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) throughput and 317 Gbps User Datagram Protocol (UDP) throughput with zero packet loss at 512 bytes packet size. The appliance also achieves latencyas low as 4.23 microseconds (µs) under 100%load, and tests confirmed there is no performance degradation between IPv4 and IPv6 traffic. Other testresults unveil that the FortiGate-3810D supports more than 100 Million concurrent sessions and a setup rate of 550,000new connections per second.

“With the availability of the FortiGate-3810D, Fortinet is enabling organizations to deploy core firewalling in high speed, high data volume environments, without compromising overall performance and security.” said Michael Xie, founder, president and CTO of Fortinet. “We are able to objectively demonstrate the outstanding performance and quality of the FortiGate-3810D, which delivers an unmatched mix of throughput, flexibility and security for its price class.”
This 100-GbE network security appliance is the only 100-GbE port inits class and includes the latest FortiASIC™ network processors (NP6) and content processors (CP8), which accelerate next generation firewall and VPN functions, eliminating traffic bottlenecks in such high speed environments, Fortinet said.