{"id":740,"date":"2020-01-26T15:50:11","date_gmt":"2020-01-26T11:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techxmedia.com\/?p=740"},"modified":"2025-04-18T02:14:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T22:14:55","slug":"fortinet-teams-up-with-formula-es-bmw-i-motorsport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/fortinet-teams-up-with-formula-es-bmw-i-motorsport\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortinet teams up with Formula E\u2019s BMW i Motorsport"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Fortinet has joined<a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/BMW\"> BMW<\/a> i Andretti Motorsport as the official partner for their Formula E team as part of Fortinet\u2019s commitment to accelerate innovation, high performance and energy efficiency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>John Maddison, EVP of products and CMO at Fortinet<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> \u201cFortinet\u2019s involvement in Formula E is a natural fit as it strongly aligns with our focus on engineering and high performance. To accelerate the processing of security and networking functions, we design our own unique security processors. These purpose-built Fortinet SPUs radically increase the speed, scale and performance of our solutions, setting industry Security Compute Rating records. We\u2019re excited to be part of Formula E and to join forces with BMW i Andretti Motorsport team.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ABB FIA Formula E Championship is the world\u2019s first racing series for fully-electric single-seater cars. These electric cars deliver immense acceleration and performance while pushing the development of e-mobility forward. Like Formula E, Fortinet drives digital innovation through our breadth of offerings that make up the Fortinet Security Fabric. Fortinet\u2019s products powered by Fortinet SPUs are engineered with the same emphasis on acceleration, high performance and energy efficiency. Given these synergies, Fortinet has partnered with the BMW i Andretti Motorsport team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Accelerating CPU\nPerformance with Fortinet SPUs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fortinet SPUs outpace what is available in the\nmarket with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fortinet.com\/corporate\/about-us\/newsroom\/press-releases\/2019\/fortinet-s-latest-security-processor-accelerates-the-industry-s-best-selling-next-generation-firewall.html\">highest Security\nCompute Ratings<\/a> for the\nfollowing benchmarks:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Stateful\nFirewall throughput<\/li><li>IPsec VPN\nperformance<\/li><li>Concurrent\nsessions<\/li><li>Sessions\nper second <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Fortinet Family of SPUs is specially designed security processors that provide unmatched performance at a fraction of the cost of traditional CPUs, providing accelerated network security, accelerated graphics rendering and accelerated AI in the cloud. Fortinet\u2019s FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall appliances are powered by the following security processors:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Content Processor 9 (CP9): The CP9 protects applications while optimizing the user experience with the least performance degradation. The CP9 works as a CPU co-processor, taking on resource-intensive security functions such as SSL\/TLS decryption \u2013 including TLS1.3 \u2013 IPS and antivirus.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>System-on-a-Chip\n4 (SoC4): Fortinet\u2019s SoC4 is a purpose-built\nsecurity processor that has achieved the highest Security Compute Ratings in\nthe industry to support customers\u2019 WAN Edge transformation. SoC4\nconsolidates network and content processing functions on a single chip to\ndeliver fast application identification, steering and overlay performance. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Network Processor\n6 (NP6): Fortinet\u2019s NP6 works with\nFortiOS&nbsp;functions delivering superior firewall performance for IPV4, IPV6\nand multicast traffic with ultra-low latency down to three microseconds.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> \u201cFortinet\u2019s involvement in Formula E is a natural fit as it strongly aligns with our focus on engineering and high performance. 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