Fortinet launches the world’s first Terabit firewall appliance

BANGALORE, INDIA: Fortinet today expanded its top-tier enterprise firewalls for enterprise, data center, and service provider customers with FortiGate 7060E and 3980E.

Ken Xie, founder, chairman of the board and chief executive officer at Fortinet said, “Cloud computing, IoT, and a hyper-connected digital economy have been straining enterprise IT resources and rapidly increasing the performance demands required from today’s security solutions. Enterprises cannot afford to sacrifice their network performance or their security features in this highly competitive and constantly evolving landscape.”

The FortiGate 3980E is the world’s first security appliance to achieve Terabit per second (Tbps) firewall performance and the FortiGate 7060E delivers 100 Gigabit per second (Gbps) of next-generation firewall throughput in a chassis form-factor.

The FortiGate 3980E is ideally suited for enterprises that need very high network throughput and deep inspection delivered in a compact form factor that reduces the footprint and operating costs.

Fortinet’s new 7060E represents the most advanced enterprise firewall solution and is ideal for large enterprise, data center, and service provider deployments that cannot afford to compromise on throughput, scale, and advanced security capabilities.

The modularity and flexibility of the 7060E, combined with high NGFW throughput enables flexible deployment options that span from the network edge to the data center core, including advanced internal segmentation firewall configurations.

Both enterprise firewalls leverage Fortinet’s advanced Security Processing Units (SPU) to deliver performance, scale, and Security Fabric defenses so large enterprises don’t have to compromise between security features or network speed disruption.

FortiGate 7060E and 3980E will be available by the end of the first quarter of 2017.