Fortinet Inc. announced a new high performance security blade for the world's fastest firewall, the FortiGate-5001C. The new FortiGate-5001C blade provides large data centers as well as private and hybrid cloud deployments with consolidated security capabilities and uncompromised network performance. The broad security features and exceptional throughput and ultra-low latency of the new blade are also ideal for large Internet gateways as well as centralized Managed Security Services Providers (MSSPs).

The FortiGate 5001C blade, running on FortiGate-5000 series chassis, combined with Fortinet's line of virtual machine security technologies, offers the most complete, flexible and high performance family of core-to-perimeter data center and cloud security solutions on the market. Service providers, carriers and large enterprises can deploy the FortiGate family of physical and virtual devices to help protect their virtualized environments and multi-tenant environments to satisfy subscriber requirements, achieve policy compliance or meet industry best practices. The new FortiGate-5001C is a high-performance security blade that leverages the industry's most advanced network security operating system, FortiOS 5. The new blade integrates a wide range of critical security services and native 10-Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) support for FortiGate-5000 chassis-based platforms. Delivering up to 40 Gbps of firewall throughput and up to 17 Gbps of IPSec throughput, the FortiGate-5001C integrates essential security functions in a compact Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture (ATCA)-compliant blade form factor.

This includes next generation firewall, virtual private network, application control, intrusion prevention, antimalware and Web filtering. By consolidating multiple security services while delivering extremely high throughput with ultra-low latency, the FortiGate-5001C protects low-latency networks and multi-tenant cloud customers against the latest blended threats and Web-based attacks. In addition, Fortinet's virtual domain (VDOM) and administrative domain (ADOM) technologies enable granular control over the deployment of the new security blade to partition networks on the basis of individual customers, groups of subscribers and/or business units.

Each blade features four 10-GbE ports to provide exceptional scalability needed to help protect large enterprises and carrier networks. To deliver uncompromised network throughput performance, the FortiGate-5001C blades feature the latest FortiASIC processors that optimize session rates and accelerated IPS performance. Unlike competing firewall manufacturers that rely on off-the-shelf processors, Fortinet develops its own customized processors that have established the FortiGate-5000 as the world's fastest firewall.

To simplify the management and analysis of physical and virtual security infrastructures deployed in complex data centers and multi-tenant cloud environments, Fortinet provides single-pane-of-glass management with the FortiManager family of physical and virtual management devices. The FortiManager centralized management allows security administrators to configure and manage thousands of physical appliances and virtual machines. The FortiAnalyzer family of physical and virtual devices provides centralized logging and reporting, which enables administrators to analyze, report and archive security event, network traffic, Web content and messaging data to accurately measure policy compliance.