Friday, September 17, 2010

FortiGate-110C Is Coming


After Fortinet updated SOHO and Enterprise solutions with FortiGate-50B/60B and FortiGate-310B most of us were waiting for some SMB solution to fit in the middle. One of the main problem of mid-class products of Fortinet was absence of Gigabit Ethernet ports on SMB devices. Also price/performance of FortiGate-100A and 200A was quite poor when compared to 60B model.


Recently we found on few sites information regarding upcoming FortiGate-110C model that should fill in the gap...



So in short FG-110C will have:
  • 2 x 10/100/1000 Ethernet Ports
  • 8 x 10/100 Ethernet Ports
  • Firewall Performance - 500Mbps
  • IPS Performance - 200Mbps
  • VPN Performance - 100Mbps (and 1500 IPSec VPN tunnels)
  • Antivirus Performance - 65Mbps
  • Number of sessions - 400,000 (10,000 new sessions/second)
When combined together these features provide unique combination that will allow Fortinet to better compete in the SMB segment. However low performance numbers on FW/VPN will limit the impact of new product launch as most of FW/VPN vendors already have the same horsepower in much smaller and cheaper devices. Let's hope that Fortinet intentionally left 200's index free and we will see a 200A's replacement quite soon.

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