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John Maddison, Senior VP of Products and
Solutions at Fortinet
“
IT’S INVALUABLE
TO HAVE THE
SECURITY
PERFORMANCE
AND SEAMLESS
PROTECTION
THAT FORTINET
PROVIDES
ACROSS OUR
PHYSICAL AND
CLOUD-BASED
DOMAINS.
of these technologies is also increasing
bandwidth, throughput and session capacity
requirements that are driving enterprises to
modernise their edge networks.
Additionally, the expanded digital attack
surface and complex threat landscape is
escalating the need for advanced security
protections that can be applied with speed
and scale across all connected devices.
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INTELLIGENTCIO
Security appliances need to be able to
deliver the high performance required to
protect encrypted traffic at the enterprise
edge with a compact, modern interface that
can seamlessly grow capacity in a smaller,
efficient physical footprint.
The next-generation
of FortiGate
Fortinet’s new F-series includes the FortiGate
6300F and FortiGate 6500F, which are high-
performance, compact and easy to manage
NGFW appliances that are integrated within
the Fortinet Security Fabric.
• Advanced security capabilities and
performance: The 6000F series are the
industry’s fastest NGFW appliances,
delivering advanced threat protection
and SSL inspection performance to
handle massive volumes of traffic at the
network edge.
• High speed and flexible interfaces: High
density zSFP+ and QSFP28 interfaces
support 10G, 40G, 100Gbps and new
25G data rates to provide high speed
connectivity and increased flexibility
as enterprises migrate to higher
density designs.
• Security Fabric Integration: FortiGate
firewalls serve as the foundation of the
Fortinet Security Fabric and run FortiOS,
the world’s most deployed network
security operating system. The Fortinet
Security Fabric provides broad, integrated
and automated security that is required
to protect the vast digital attack surface
created by digital transformation.
Next-generation
hardware architecture
An industry first for a security appliance,
Fortinet’s next-generation hardware
architecture leverages compact internal
processing cards that are miniaturised
versions of the blades typically used in
cutting-edge modular security chassis. Each
processing card combines multiple 12-core
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