Fortinet FortiGate Ranked as the Fastest Firewall in the World
FortiGate-5140B handles 526 Gbps of real-world traffic from applications
Feb 10, 2012
Fortinet has brought to light its Fortinet FortiGate-5140B which handled 526 Gbps of blended application traffic and security attacks during recent massive-scale testing. These definitive real-world tests were created using the BreakingPoint FireStorm CTM, the industry’s only product capable of creating stateful application traffic at the massive-scale required to stress today’s high-performance firewalls.
During the tests, the BreakingPoint FireStorm CTM was able to push 526 Gbps of real-world traffic from applications such as Facebook, Pandora radio and AOL Instant Messenger, through the FortiGate-5140B. The FortiGate 5140B performed at speeds that were three times faster than any competitor’s published results and maxed out at 559 Gbps of UDP traffic. Putting the performance in context, the FortiGate-5140B can inspect 10,000 downloaded iTunes songs every second or 36 Million songs per hour, or it can inspect 228,000 average size Web pages every second or 821 million pages per hour.
“It’s time for firewall vendors to back up their performance claims under realistic network loads,” said Michael Xie, founder and CTO at Fortinet. “This test proves definitively that Fortinet provides the world’s fastest firewall confirming our commitment to providing customers with an uncompromised combination of security and performance. And this is only the beginning, as we work to continue to push the Fortinet performance envelope even further in the future”.