Fortinet® – a market-leading network security provider and worldwide leader of unified threat management (UTM) solutions – today announced the FortiGate-200B, an affordable enterprise grade security appliance which is ideal for deployment in remote and branch office locations.
The FortiGate-200B appliance uses hardware-acceleration to enable wire-speed performance and network segmentation. Accelerated security ensures that broad security protection does not slow down application performance, or impact on network availability. Fortinet offers a complete range of enterprise grade security appliances, including the FortiGate-200B, FortiGate-310B, FortiGate-620B and the recently announced FortiGate-1240B.
Fortinet’s new network security appliance delivers high port density with 16 ports, all of which are accelerated with FortiASIC™ processors, offering 5 Gbps firewall and 2.5 Gbps IPSec VPN throughput.
The FortiGate-200B appliance is expected to be generally available in December and will ship with the newest version of Fortinet’s operating system, FortiOS 4.0 MR1.
“Our mid-enterprise product family is intended to deliver the best possible security performance and functionality at every price point, even at the entry-level segment supported by the FortiGate-200B,” said Anthony James, vice president of products, Fortinet. “In the highly competitive mid-enterprise segment, we believe we have delivered four very competitive, high-value products to meet the diverse and demanding requirements of this customer segment.”
Product Detail
The FortiGate-200B appliance is Fortinet’s entry-level platform that utilises both network (NP2) and content (CP6) FortiASIC processors. The product offers:
• Highest firewall/IPSec performance with 5 Gbps and 2.5 Gbps performance, compared to its closest competitor which offers 1.5 Gbps firewall and 6.25 Mbps IPSec performance
• High port density with 8 GbE and 8 fast Ethernet ports. All 16 ports are ASIC-accelerated with content (CP6) processors, while 4 ports are additionally accelerated with network (NP2) processors
• Firewall inspection of up to 500,000 concurrent sessions. The, nearest competitor offers 300,000.
Additional information about the FortiGate-200B appliance can be found at http://www.fortinet.com/products/fortigate/200B.html
*Based on publicly available data
Product Availability
The FortiGate-200B is available in December 2009.
Fortinet products are distributed in Australia by Ingram Micro, Firewall Systems, and Whitegold Solutions. Australian pricing for the FortiGate-200B begins at $3,395 ex GST.
Fortinet products are distributed in New Zealand by Ingram Micro and Firewall Systems. New Zealand pricing for the FortiGate-200B begins at $4,295 ex GST.
About Fortinet (www.fortinet.com)
Fortinet is a leading provider of network security appliances and the market leader in Unified Threat Management or UTM. Fortinet solutions were built from the ground up to integrate multiple levels of security protection -- including firewall, VPN, antivirus, intrusion prevention, Web filtering, spyware prevention and antispam -- designed to help customers protect against network and content level threats. Leveraging a custom ASIC and unified interface, Fortinet solutions offer advanced security functionality that scales from remote office to chassis-based solutions with integrated management and reporting. Fortinet solutions have won multiple awards around the world and are the only security products that are certified in five programs by ICSA Labs: Firewall, Antivirus, IPSec VPN, Network IPS and Antispam. Fortinet is based in Sunnyvale, California.
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