Provides enterprise traffic processing capabilities and intelligent security features
Meeting requirements such as bandwidth, throughput, session capacity, and security

Fortinet Korea announced the 'FortiGate 6000F' firewall series.

This firewall supports a new hardware processing architecture to pack the proven performance of Fortinet chassis-class products into a compact appliance form factor, providing intelligent security features along with the ability to handle increasing enterprise traffic.

The FortiGate 6000F Series is a firewall optimized for the enterprise network edge, supporting the prioritization of threat protection and cryptographic inspection throughput in a form factor that enables ease of deployment, high density, and high energy efficiency. Furthermore, designed based on Fortinet's next-generation hardware architecture, it delivers chassis-class performance, resilience, and capacity in a compact appliance form factor. It provides SSL-encrypted traffic decryption inspection, threat protection, next-generation firewall performance, and the throughput and speed to meet the security requirements of enterprise edge traffic.



With the increasing use of mobile devices and IoT, the volume of encrypted data at the enterprise network edge is growing. Consequently, requirements for bandwidth, throughput, and session capacity necessary to integrate cutting-edge technologies at the edge are also increasing.

Furthermore, as the scope of digital attacks expands and the threat landscape becomes more complex, the need for intelligent security for connected devices is growing. Therefore, the optimal security appliance must occupy a small physical space while seamlessly scaling up traffic processing capacity, and provide the high performance required for encrypted traffic protection at the enterprise edge through a compact, state-of-the-art interface.

Next-generation FortiGate
The 'FortiGate 6000F' series includes the 'FortiGate 6300F' and 'FortiGate 6500F'. These products are compact NGFW appliances that allow for granular and easy management and are integrated with Fortinet Security Fabric technology.

Intelligent security features and performance: The 6000F series provides excellent Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) and SSL inspection performance, enabling it to handle massive traffic at the network edge.
High-speed and flexible interfaces: High-density zSFP+ and QSFP28 interfaces support 10G, 40G, 100Gbps, and the new 25G data rates, providing high-speed connectivity and excellent flexibility for enterprises transitioning to high-density designs.

Security Fabric Integration: FortiGate Firewall's 'Fortinet Security Fabric,' which provides extensive and integrated automated security features, runs on Forti OS, a network security operating system.

Next-generation hardware architecture
Fortinet's next-generation hardware architecture utilizes compact internal processing cards, which are miniaturized blade versions commonly used in state-of-the-art modular security chassis. Each processing card integrates multiple 12-core CPUs, SPU security-dedicated processing chips, a Gen 9 content processor chip (CP9), and a Gen 6 network processor chip (NP6) into a single unit. The FortiGate 6000F series can support up to 10 individual processing cards in a 3U appliance.

This product offers benefits such as resilience and session expansion, while delivering intelligent security features at groundbreaking speeds not seen in existing compact appliance form factors. Additionally, this architecture provides features such as hardware load balancing by utilizing new custom dedicated DP3 (Distribution Processors) chips that intelligently distribute tasks among individual processing cards.

"John Maddison, Senior Vice President at Fortinet, said, 'The FortiGate 6000F high-end firewall series is based on a new architecture that provides best-in-class threat defense and cryptographic inspection performance, enhancing enterprises' defensive capabilities and seamlessly meeting the changing requirements of business.'"