Fortigate-5000 series

Features: Fortinet, provider of multi-threat security solutions, has

announced to strengthen its high-end product portfolio with new load-balancing

switch and high-performance security blades for its FortiGate-5000 series, the

AdvancedTCA (ATCA)-compliant security systems.






Targeted at telecommunication carriers, managed security service providers (MSSPs),
and large organizations with bandwidth-intensive requirements, the

FortiController-5208 switch and FortiGate-5005 security blades work together to

boost security scalability in 10 gigabit Ethernet (GbE) networked

environments.

The FortiController-5208 blade includes two 10GbE interfaces and eight 1GbE

interfaces, making it ideal for high-performance core and data center network

deployments. It also provides switch-based interconnection to distribute traffic

to other FortiGate blades and load balances between them for increased

performance and scalability.






The new FortiGate-5005 blade provides a full range of flexible network security
software modules -- including firewall, antivirus, antispyware, intrusion

prevention system (IPS), anti-spam, Web content filtering, VPN, and traffic

shaping — that can be deployed individually or in a combination of security

modules, depending on customer requirements.






FortiGate-5005 and FortiController-5208 blades work together to deliver
multi-gigabit antivirus, antispyware, firewall, VPN and intrusion prevention

system (IPS) performance and scalability.






Ken Xie, founder, president and CEO of Fortinet, said, “The strong demand for
and success of our high-end product offerings among telecommunication carriers,

MSSPs and enterprises has helped Fortinet become the fastest-growing network

security vendor in the high-end market.”






“Our new FortiController-5208 and FortiGate-5005ATCA blades extend the
benefits of our FortiGate-5000 Series to 10GB network environments and increase

security performance, scalability and deployment flexibility,” he added