Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT), a global leader in broad, integrated and automated cybersecurity solutions, today announced the FortiGate 2600F, Fortinet’s latest network firewall that enables security-driven networking to protect multiple edges including hybrid data centers, multi-cloud environments and large-scale remote workforces.
John Maddison, EVP of Products and CMO at Fortinet said, “Enterprise organizations are accelerating their digital innovation initiatives while also having to secure a remote and hybrid workforce. In this complex environment, deploying enterprise-class security anywhere is essential. Fortinet’s security-driven networking approach accelerates the convergence of networking and security to protect any edge, including enterprise data center, WAN, and cloud edges – all from a single network firewall platform.”
Powered by Fortinet’s purpose-built security processing units (SPUs), NP7 and CP9, the FortiGate 2600F offers some of the highest performance figures in the industry with Security Compute Ratings of up to 10 times higher than competitor solutions to enable the following use cases for large enterprises:
FortiGate 2600F vs. Competitors
Below is a comparison of the top network firewalls on the market against the FortiGate 2600F series. Security Compute Rating is a benchmark (performance multiplier) that compares FortiGateperformance versus the industry average of competing products across various categories that fall within the same price band.
Specification | FortiGate2601F | Industry Average | SecurityComputeRating | Palo AltoNetworksPA-5220 | Check PointSG-6700 | CiscoFPR-2140 | JuniperNetworksSRX4100 |
Firewall | 198Gbps | 29Gbps | 7x | N/A | 26Gbps | 20Gbps | 40Gbps |
IPsec VPN | 55Gbps | 5.9Gbps | 9x | 11Gbps | 4.61Gbps | 3.2Gbps | 5Gbps |
Threat Protection | 20Gbps | 7.9Gbps | 2.5x | 10Gbps | 5.8Gbps | N/A | N/A |
SSL Inspection | 20Gbps | 1.7Gbps | 10x | 1.9Gbps1 | N/A | 1.4Gbps | N/A |
Concurrent Sessions | 24M | 3.5M | 7x | 4M | 2M | 3M | 5M |
Connections Per Second | 900k | 167k | 5x | 180k | 164k | 75k | 250k |
1NSS Labs NGFW 2019 Performance Comparative Report
Powered by Security-Driven Networking and the Fortinet Security Fabric
Fortinet security processing units (SPUs), including the NP7 and CP9, are engineered to radically increase the speed, scale, performance, efficiency and value of Fortinet solutions while greatly improving user experience, reducing footprint, and lowering power requirements. Fortinet solutions, including the FortiGate 2600F, deliver security-driven networking and a platform approach via the Fortinet Security Fabric, which converges networking and security across the entire connected environment and provides protection whether on-premise, virtual or cloud-based environments using any device or application.
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