Fortinet has achieved a landmark victory ! Fortinet is
definitively the 'Fastest Firewall in the World' !!
The FortiGate 5001b chassis and 14 5140 blades have been thoroughly
tested by a 3rd party testing system at their offices (BreakingPoint HQ, Austin
Texas) and passed all 'real world' packet tests for firewall at over 550
Gbps !!
Test Highlights
The Fortinet 5000
series achieved processing of almost 560 Gbps of traffic through the firewall.
Specifically:
UDP 1518B = 559 Gbps @ 45M Packets Per Second (PPS)
UDP 64B
= 547 Gbps @ 813M PPS
UDP IMIX = 557 Gpbs
@ 170M PPS
HTTP 64K = 542 Gpbs
@ 977K CPS
HTTP 1B = 26 Gbps @
2.6M CPS
Application
traffic = 122 Gbps @ 219K new CPS
Using the same equipment, the IPS functionality test with real world
web 2.0 traffic like Facebook, Pandora music, Outlook Web Access, AOL Instant
Messenger, etc passed at over 122 Gbps and 219K new connections per second.
"This is the fastest firewall we have ever seen and definitely
the fastest that has ever passed a BreakingPoint test." Dennis Cox, Founder and CTO of BreakingPoint "By
comparison the closes test performed was in 2009 on a Juniper SRX at only 150
Gbps firewall traffic and 109 Gbps application traffic."
This is exciting news for Fortinet. It proves the power and
quality of the Fortinet architecture for comprehensive security while
maintaining high quality, low latency throughput.
Hope this may help you in the last few weeks of closing!! We
will be providing you more information and end user deliverable in the next few
days.