Fortinet has announced two new flagship multi-threat security appliances that consolidate firewall and Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) performance with application-based security protection for large enterprises. As noted in the company’s product news release statement, the new FortiGate-3950B appliance delivers up to 120 Gbps of low-latency firewall inspection performance to help secure the most demanding enterprise environments, and the FortiGate-3951B appliance, which incorporates internal storage, can scale up to 100-Gbps of firewall performance.
“The highly versatile FortiGate-3950B and FortiGate-3951B appliances can be deployed for a wide range of broad security services while also maintaining network performance, due to integrated WAN optimization and greatly enhanced firewall and IPS technologies. In addition to functioning as dedicated enterprise-class firewalls with tightly integrated IPS and complete application control and security, the FortiGate-3950B and FortiGate-3951B can also be deployed to include any combination of IPSec/SSL VPN, antivirus/anti-malware, web filtering, anti-spam, data loss prevention, and voice security services, all determined by the customer for maximum deployment flexibility.”
