Fortinet has introduced the FortiGate 7081F Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW), promising data centers more protection against threats, better performance, and increased energy efficiency.
The new firewall is a hybrid mesh firewall, an integrated security platform that offers protection for hybrid IT environments, including branch offices, campuses, data centers, public and private clouds, and remote employees.
The FortiGate 7081F firewall claims to offer up to five times the performance, up to twice the threat protection, and up to two times the IPSec VPN throughput, with up to 1.2 Tbps of throughput and a capacity of 312 Gbps of threat protection. It is also up to 60 percent more efficient in watt consumption for the number of Gbps for threat protection compared to other vendors.
The FortiGate 7081F has an eight-slot chassis for up to six Fortinet Processor Modules (FPMs) and 400GE ports. It is powered by the Fortinet ASIC, featuring the NP7 network processor and the CP9 content processor. The NP7 offers VXLAN hardware acceleration and IPsec Elephant flows, as well as acceleration for network functionality such as IPv4, IPv6, Multicast, GRE, and IPsec decryption. The CP9 content processor is a co-processor for the main CPU, providing offloading of computationally intensive processes and content inspection for enhanced security functionality, as well as real-time inspection for application identification and full network visibility.
Fortinet also adds FortiOS, FortiGuard AI-Powered Security Services, intrusion prevention, and application control to the new firewall.
