BreakingPoint Names FortiGate 5001B with 5140B Fastest Firewall in the World!

Feb. 2, 2012 - PRLog -- Fortinet has again capitalized on its foundation of speed and security–performance and protection and has passed numerous tests to be declared “The Fastest Firewall in the World”!

In a recent 3rd party high performance throughput test, Fortinet successfully processed and protected 559 Gbps of real-world firewall traffic. With application control technology active, it performed at 526 Gbps -managing simultaneous web applications of Facebook, Farmville, AOL Instant Messaging, Pandora Radio, and other popular web traffic. It was also able to process in FortiGate 5140 with FortiGate the mid-high hundreds (to millions depending on test) of 5001B Blades at BreakingPoint connections per second!

In a secondary test, the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) was tested with HTTP 64K real-world application traffic - and it surpassed 122 Gbps with over 219K connections per second. This means that in high demand environments where large volume of data, people, and devices need connectivity, Fortinet is the optimal solution. Financial services environments of processing trading data, e-commerce sites transacting in web sales and search requests, retail data centers certifying credit cards and other businesses where data security is paramount, can all rest assured they are empowering their business while also protecting their environment and customers.
Fortinet is very proud of this landmark achievement! The foundation of multi-threat security based on high performance, purpose built appliances transcends across all Fortinet products. So whether a customer is using a single appliance, managing a highly distributed environment or hosting a robust datacenter, they can be confident that Fortinet is delivering the highest quality security for their needs.

Fortinet is distributed in the Philippines by MSI-ECS.  For more product information, please contact Marie Cristhabelle Chua of the Commercial Technology Division at bchua@msi-ecs.com.ph or +63-2688-3709/ +63-9209-651-332.