SoC Architecture Design Enables up to 1Gbps Firewall Performance

Fortinet’s FortiGate-60C and FortiWifi-60C multi-threat security appliances, integrating the company's innovative system-on-a-chip (SoC) architecture, which combines a traditional system CPU with Fortinet’s proprietary FortiASIC content and network processors, delivers much more efficient content inspection processing and 1Gbps of firewall inspection performance.

The FortiGate-60C and FortiWifi-60C are designed for small branch offices of distributed enterprises, SOHOs and small businesses, and service providers delivering managed services in customer premise equipment (CPE) deployments. The new appliances deliver enterprise-grade security performance at a breakthrough price point—delivering a tenfold increase in firewall throughput over its predecessors—and include the full version of FortiOS 4.0 MR2 firmware. Unlike comparably-priced competitive UTM devices, FortiGate-60C and FortiWifi-60C appliances feature a secure digital high capacity (SDHC) card slot for storage expansion, 3G network connectivity, local logging and reporting, WAN optimization and simplified set-up through its USB interface.

To maximize deployment flexibility, the FortiGate-60C and FortiWifi-60C incorporate a SDHC card slot and ExpressCard slot for 3G wireless communications. The appliances include 4GB of SDHC storage for event logging. The ExpressCard slot supports a 3G wireless card for secure mobile deployments or redundant WAN connections to ensure data availability. In addition, like other FortiGate appliances, the FortiGate-60C can be remotely managed by the FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer platforms. The FortiGate-60C and FortiWifi-60C also simplify initial set-up and ongoing configuration using their USB interface and embedded FortiExplorer set-up software. The FortiExplorer wizard automatically launches when the appliance is connected to a Microsoft Windows PC and allows basic configuration to deploy devices onto the network or make configuration changes.

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