Plus, the chips can drive enough processing horsepower to support zero-trust network access (ZTNA) traffic on FortiGate firewalls, Peter Newton, senior director of product management at Fortinet, told SDxCentral. It also allows the system to use up to 60% less power, which is in line with Fortinet’s commitment to achieving carbon neutrality by 2030. “It’s not even in the same ballpark when people are using these off-the-shelf CPUs,” referring to Fortinet’s competitors. The chips enable “sometimes 10 to 20 times faster” connections per second compared to similar products, he claims.
“We are the only firewall company that designs our own ASICs for our products,” Maddison said.
Powered by Fortinet’s custom seventh-generation network processor ASIC, FortiGate 600F targets the campus edge deployments and brings the vendor’s data-center-class capabilities to its mid-range line. To better support more flexible and distributed firewall deployments, Fortinet added new appliances to this portfolio, including FortiGate 600F, 3700F, and 70F series. The FortiGate firewall portfolio is designed based on this convergence strategy. “The ideal platform for convergence is a firewall.” “We truly believe that convergence is starting to happen between networking and security,” Fortinet CMO John Maddison told SDxCentral.
To address supply chain constraints, Fortinet re-engineered its firewalls to enable alternative part sourcing. Fortinet today announced three new next-generation firewalls (NGFW) for campus, branch, and hybrid data center environments.
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