Fortinet Delivers Industry's First Secure Content Processing Systems That Enable Virus Scanning, Content Filtering, and Other Applications to be Deployed as Network Services

Business Wire, May 6, 2002

The series' integrated capabilities also reduce equipment costs as well as administration and maintenance requirements. A single, automatic update to the FortiGate SCPG protects an enterprise against new attacks, ensuring that it need not remain exposed (or cut off from Internet access) until every host in the enterprise has been updated individually with the latest anti-virus software.

Strong Response From Customers

Enterprise customers are very positive about the FortiGate Series.

"Until we learned about Fortinet, we had considered

shutting down Internet access whenever we learned of a new

attack until we were certain that every one of our desktops,

laptops, and servers had updated anti-virus protection," said

Francis Leong, system administrator at Agile Software, Inc.

"We've tested the FortiGate product extensively, and we're

extremely impressed with its capabilities, performance, and

ease of management. We originally planned to use FortiGate

just to enhance our virus protection, but we now feel

confident that we can improve our security and lower our costs

by using the FortiGate products to deliver a full range of

services at the edge of our network."

Service providers have also reacted enthusiastically to the FortiGate Series.

"Comparing the FortiGate family side-by-side with

conventional products demonstrates just how impressive the

performance numbers are," said Gang Sheng, senior engineer at

Beijing Telecom.

A Comprehensive Product Line from SOHO to Service Provider

All FortiGate SCPGs employ the ABACAS technology, which is based on two key elements:

-- The FortiGate-50 and FortiGate-100 SCPGs for SOHO, telecommuter, and branch
office applications provide from 30 Mbps to 95 Mbps of throughput, are easily
installed using the browser-based Installation Wizard, and are attractively
priced.

-- The FortiGate-200 and FortiGate-300 SCPGs provide the best combination of
performance and value for small and medium-sized businesses and branch offices,
with 160 Mbps of capacity and support for up to 1,500 concurrent VPN tunnels
(with triple-DES encryption). These systems also support 20 Gigabyte internal
hard drives for logging and analysis of usage and attacks.

-- The enterprise-class FortiGate-400 SCPG delivers 300 Mbps of throughput and
supports an extended database that includes thousands of virus and worm
signatures. A high-availability port and fail-over logic to support redundant
configurations makes the FortiGate-400 ideal for mission-critical applications.


-- The FortiGate-2000 carrier-class device lets large enterprises and service
providers deliver high-value, high-availability, managed security and
content-control services. It supports real-time, anti-virus scanning, 500,000
concurrent sessions, 5,000 VPN tunnels, and 2 gigabits/second of firewall
throughput. Redundant power supplies and a high-availability port with
transparent fail-over ensure non-stop operation.

The FortiGate family provides a wide range of price/performance points for diverse network environments. All models provide anti-virus protection, keyword and URL-based content filtering, stateful-inspection firewall, IPSec VPN, and intrusion detection functions as standard features. All models except the FortiGate 50 also provide traffic shaping as a standard function.