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Fortinet taps hyperscale customers, 5G network operators with new next-gen firewall

Fortinet taps hyperscale customers, 5G network operators with new next-gen firewall
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US-based cybersecurity firm Fortinet has launched the FortiGate 4800F series of ‘next-generation’ firewalls in India to meet the requirements of hyperscale customers and 5G mobile network operators (MNOs).  

Hyperscale customers are those who require very high throughputs in their datacentres for securing encrypted data, such as telecom players, banks and government.  

Powered by 16 of Fortinet’s seventh generation network processors (NP7), the company said that the new solution offers the “highest performance figures of any compact firewall, with security compute ratings that deliver up to 34 times better performance than competitor solutions, including the ability to support an average of 19 times more connections per second”.   

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Vishak Raman, vice president of sales, India, SAARC & Southeast Asia at Fortinet claimed that no other firewall is better suited to support hyperscale and 5G. He added, “Not only is FortiGate 4800F the industry’s fastest compact hyperscale firewall, with 2.4 Tbps of capacity, but it is also the only 4RU chassis on the market that includes 400GbE, 200GbE, and 50GbE ports, which allows hyperscale customers and mobile network operators to seamlessly scale their business without disrupting operations.”   

According to an official statement, FortiGate 4800F can support some 25 million connections per second to give MNOs the capacity they need to handle surges in traffic and large sustained loads of subscriber connections. Enterprises with ultra-performance needs can also converge multiple firewalls into a single unified system, host on-premises applications, and deliver the required user experience.  

The combination of performance and scalability packed into our latest firewall will help future-proof organisations’ investments in hyperscale datacentres, especially with the rise of 5G and as the volume and velocity of data continues to accelerate at an unprecedented pace.”  

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FortiGate 4800F also offers what the company claims is the industry’s highest SSL-inspection performance as well as support for the latest TLS 1.3 standard. This also ensures network blind spots are eliminated by enabling full visibility of clear-text and encrypted network flows.  

While the company hasn’t revealed the price of the solution, it said, “Enterprise customers such as high-velocity e-retail, cutting-edge research facilities, financial institutions, and cloud providers have access to the performance, scalability, and security they need to meet escalating business needs.”    

Reduced costs for space, cooling, and power are additional benefits to achieving higher performance in a smaller form factor, it said.   

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Fortinet also reported higher financial results for Q2 2022, driven by the demand for its core platform and platform extension services, and a growing number of large orders. The company noted an increase of over 50% y-o-y in the number of transactions larger than $1 million and expects results to go higher in the third quarter.  


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