FortiGate-5140B-Operating as the cornerstone of high-performance security infrastructures, the FortiGate-5140B combines native 40-GB Ethernet support with a highly flexible and reliable ATCA-compliant architecture.

The FortiGate-5140B is a high-performance, carrier-grade chassis that provides maximum expandability and configuration flexibility to help address the increasingly complex security needs of next-generation service providers, large enterprises, and telecommunications networks.

Operating as the cornerstone of high-performance security infrastructures, the FortiGate-5140B combines native 40-GB Ethernet support with a highly flexible and reliable ATCA-compliant architecture. As a result, the platform accommodates and optimizes the performance of a wide range of Fortinet's consolidated security, secure switching, centralized management, and secure messaging blades. Offering industry-leading performance, reliability, and scalability, the FortiGate-5140B's security capabilities protect multi-tenant, cloud-based security-as-a-service, and infrastructure-as-a-service environments.

World's Fastest Firewall

Recently, BreakingPoint found the FortiGate-5140B to be the world's fastest firewall. It handled 526 Gbps of blended application traffic and security attacks during recent massive-scale testing. These definitive real-world tests were created using the BreakingPoint FireStorm CTM, the industry's only product capable of creating stateful application traffic at the massive-scale required to stress today's high-performance firewalls. During the tests, the BreakingPoint FireStorm CTM was able to push 526 Gbps of real-world traffic from applications such as Facebook, Pandora radio, and AOL Instant Messenger, through the FortiGate-5140B. The appliance performed at speeds that were three times faster than any competitor's published results and maxed out at 559 Gbps of UDP traffic. Putting the performance in context, the FortiGate-5140B can inspect 10,000 downloaded iTunes songs or 228,000 average-size web pages every second.

Performance Matters

As a business grows and volumes of data increase, it becomes increasingly important to make sure the security solution in place is not becoming a productivity- and profit-killing bottleneck. This is especially true for financial services firms operating networks that require proprietary data to be protected while maintaining low latency during client transactions. Additionally, transaction-intensive businesses, such as e-commerce sites and retail data centers, can benefit from a high-performance security appliance like the FortiGate-5140B as it can accelerate their business while helping to protect credit card data and personal information to comply with PCI DSS regulations.

The Secret Is in the ASIC

The FortiGate-5140B achieves its high performance through the use of custom FortiASIC processors that are built on a technology platform first engineered at Fortinet more than 10 years ago.

FortiASIC processors provide the performance acceleration to block emerging threats, meet rigorous third-party certifications, and ensure that a particular FortiGate appliance does not become a network bottleneck. Competing firewall manufacturers, on the other hand, tend to use consumer off-the-shelf processors (COTS) in their products. The downside to this approach is that such general purpose processors are not designed with security in mind and cannot meet the security demands of today's high-speed networks. With IPv6 performance of up to 100 Gbps, the FortiGate-5140B is also the world's fastest IPv6 firewall.