Fortinet Leverages Spirent Solutions to Validate Best-In-Class Performance of FortiGate-3810D

SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwired - March 24, 2015) - Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT) -- a global leader in high-performance cyber security solutions, and Spirent Communications plc. (LSE: SPT), a leading provider of testing solutions for networks, devices and services, today announced the results of performance tests conducted on the FortiGate®-3810D, the latest Fortinet firewall appliance designed for large enterprises, Communication Service Providers (CSPs) and data center environments.

Consumption of applications and content has dramatically increased the bandwidth demands traversing organizations' network infrastructure. Networks are becoming rapidly oversaturated as the volume of data center traffic is seeing a 10X jump from the industry standard 10 Gbps Ethernet (GbE). This trend calls for appliances with core network bandwidth capabilities approaching 100 GbE and beyond. Fortinet's FortiGate-3810D was engineered with 10X performance in mind, the fastest in the industry. 

Spirent's test results validate the high performance and scalability delivered by the FortiGate-3810D. No other 3U appliance form factor firewall on the market can match those results today.

Testing with Spirent solutions showed that the FortiGate-3810D -- which comes standard with six 100-Gigabit Ethernet ports, all in one compact 3U appliance form factor -- delivers a steady 292 Gbps Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) throughput and 317 Gbps User Datagram Protocol (UDP) throughput with zero packet loss at 512 bytes packet size. The appliance also achieves latency as low as 4.23 microseconds (µs) under 100% load, and tests confirmed there is no performance degradation between IPv4 and IPv6 traffic. Other test results unveil that the FortiGate-3810D supports more than 100 Million concurrent sessions and a setup rate of 550,000 new connections per second.

With such results, the FortiGate-3810D proves to address the stringent throughput and connectivity requirements of today's large enterprises and data center environments. Those requirements are the result of the growing volume of data generated by rich multimedia service offerings, the trend for data center consolidation, the proliferation of smart mobile devices, and industry or government regulations such as "Roam like at Home" in Europe.