Fortinet introduces firewall for hyperscale data centers and 5G networks

Fortinet®, a global provider of broad, integrated, and automated cybersecurity solutions, has announced the FortiGate 4800F series of hyperscale firewalls, which set new security, scale, performance, and innovation standards to meet the needs of hyperscale customers and 5G mobile network operators (MNOs).

FortiGate 4800F offers the highest performance figures of any compact firewall, with Security Compute Ratings that deliver up to 34x better performance than competitor solutions, including the ability to support an average of 19x more connections per second. It is powered by 16 of Fortinet’s seventh-generation network processors (NP7).

John Maddison, EVP of Products and CMO at Fortinet said, “No other firewall is better suited to support hyperscale and 5G. Not only is FortiGate 4800F the industry’s fastest compact hyperscale firewall, with 2.4 Tbps of capacity, but it is also the only 4RU chassis on the market that includes 400GbE, 200GbE, and 50GbE ports, which allows hyperscale customers and mobile network operators to seamlessly scale their business without disrupting operations. The combination of performance and scalability packed into our latest firewall will help future-proof organizations’ investments in hyperscale data centers, especially with the rise of 5G and as the volume and velocity of data continues to accelerate at an unprecedented pace.”

Large enterprises and mobile network operators are constantly striving to do more with less. Higher performance in a smaller footprint for firewalls means security becomes an enabler for 5G adoption, allowing mobile providers to deliver new use cases for enterprises, critical industries, and infrastructure. It also ensures that enterprise customers, such as high-speed e-commerce, cutting-edge research facilities, financial institutions, and cloud providers, have access to the performance, scalability, and security required to meet escalating business demands. Additional advantages of achieving higher performance in a smaller form factor include lower costs for space, cooling, and power.

With these outcomes in mind, Fortinet’s commitment to pushing the limits of security performance has resulted in the most powerful compact firewall yet: the FortiGate 4800F. This latest model of Fortinet’s flagship line of firewalls, with a 4RU chassis and 400GbE, 200GbE, and 50GbE interfaces, enables MNOs to secure 5G networks with the following capabilities:

• Accelerates 5G adoption with secure IP connectivity and support for 19x more connections per second: Massive machine-to-machine communications require secure IP connectivity to untrusted environments such as the internet, edge sites, and the cloud, which 5G enables. With massive carrier-grade NAT (CGNAT) performance and hardware logging, the FortiGate 4800F enables MNOs to secure massive scale and performance for IP connectivity to external networks and domains. FortiGate 4800F supports 25 million connections per second, giving MNOs the capacity they need to handle traffic surges and large sustained loads of subscriber connections today and in the future. Enterprises with high-performance requirements can consolidate multiple firewalls into a single unified system, host on-premises applications, and provide the necessary user experience.
• Secures 5G radio access network (RAN) traffic and core connectivity with 19x faster IPsec VPN performance: With the increased scale of 5G radio and the sharing of RAN among operators to reduce costs, the FortiGate 4800F provides a cost-effective security gateway (SecGW or SEG) to handle the RAN scalability and security requirements for both the user and control planes.