Fortinet Announces FortiGate 40F, Secure SD-WAN Appliance

BW Online Bureau Feb 17, 2020

Fortinet, an integrated and automated cybersecurity solutions, today announced the FortiGate 40F, a new Secure SD-WAN appliance powered by Fortinet’s patented SoC4 SD-WAN ASIC for small and midsize businesses. FortiGate claims it to be the most affordable Secure SD-WAN appliance in the market. It features the smallest form factor of all FortiGate appliances, with options for built-in LTE or built-in WiFi to enable a wide range of organizations to deploy Fortinet Secure SD-WAN.

"With today’s addition of FortiGate 40F, we are continuing to deliver flexibility for SD-WAN deployments and enabling small and midsize businesses to realize consistent user experience and simplified operations with Fortinet Secure SD-WAN,” said Rajesh Maurya, Regional Vice President, India & SAARC at Fortinet.

It is available now in three different versions:

FortiGate 40F for deployment within minutes: For large distributed organizations with small footprint locations and limited IT staff.

FortiGate 40F with LTE for reliable connectivity anywhere: For mobile or remote locations where an outage will significantly impact the business.

FortiGate 40F with WiFi for Secure SD-Branch from a single appliance: For locations with limited space.

The FortiGate 40F delivers the following Security Compute Ratings:

Specification	FortiGate 40F (SoC4 ASIC)	Industry Average	Security Compute Rating	SonicWall TZ350	Watch Guard T15	Cisco Meraki MX 64	VMware VeloCloud 510	Cisco Viptela vEdge 100
Firewall	5 Gbps	0.55 Gbps	9x	1 Gbps	0.4 Gbps	0.25 Gbps	N/A	N/A
IPSEC VPN	4.4 Gbps	0.19 Gbps	23x	0.43 Gbps	0.15 Gbps	0.1 Gbps	0.2 Gbps	0.1 Gbps
Threat Prevention	0.60 Gbps	0.21 Gbps	3x	0.34 Gbps	0.09 Gbps	0.2 Gbps	N/A	N/A
SSL Inspection	0.31 Gbps	0.065 Gbps	4x	0.065 Gbps	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Concurrent sessions	700,000	143,000	5x	90,000	100,000	N/A	240,000	N/A