Fortinet has announced the availability of its FortiGate-3600A appliance. The FortiGate-3600A also offers increased deployment flexibility by including additional ports and slots that can be leveraged for wide area network interfaces. Competitive multi-threat security appliances typically offer 30 to 50 percent less firewall throughput than what can now be offered by the FortiGate-3600A.

In addition to higher performance, customers are demanding integrated WAN connectivity with their security devices. The FortiGate-3600A includes expansion slots that provide deployment flexibility via standard-based AMC network adaptor modules, enabling customers to adapt to a variety of WAN technologies and future internal network technologies such as 10-GigE. The use of AMC expansion modules is in line with Fortinet's commitment towards designs that are based on industry-wide hardware standards, including ATCA and MicroTCA, which offer flexibility and cost efficiencies to the end user.

Besides accommodating customer's increasing need for higher-speed security solutions, the FortiGate-3600A delivers a number of 'industry firsts' through new features and benefits that include Fortinet's next generation Content Processor-6 (CP-6) FortiASIC that increases content inspection performance, delivering improvements of 50 percent for firewall as well as boosting the performance of content processing functions. The

FortiGate-3600A is Fortinet's first system to incorporate its next generation FortiASIC, which, over time, will be included in all Fortinet products. FortiGate-3600A is available now through Fortinet's global network of channel partners. The price of the product is 25 lakh and the product is already available in India

Contact: Vishak Raman
Tel: 080-25325800
E-mail: vraman@fortinet.com

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