UTM Security with Fortinet

Chapter 2

FortiGate Hardware Overview

Information in this chapter:

• FortiGate Hardware Overview

• Evolution of Firewalls

• The Fortinet Way

• Evolution of FortiGate

• Current FortiGate Platforms

• Virtualized Appliances

• FortiGate Custom Hardware Accelerations Overview

• Features of the Last Four Generations of Content Processor (CP) ASIC Functionalities

• Features of the Network Processor (NP) ASIC Functionalities

• FortiGate Hardware Accelerations Behaviors

- Firewall Acceleration using NP ASIC

- VPN Acceleration using NP and CP ASIC

- UTM Acceleration using CP and SP ASIC

• The ‘Black Art’ of FortiGate Sizing

• Sizing Data Gathering

• Assessing The Recommended FortiGate Solution

- Feature Capabilities

- Feature Capacity

- Performance Capabilities ...