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Fortinet (News - Alert), a provider of network security solutions, has released its new FortiGate-3700D network firewall appliance. The new firewall makes use of FortiASIC network processor technology to deliver IPv4 to IPv6 performance parity.

Built with four 40 GbE (QSFP+) and 28 10GbE (SFP+) ports, the FortiGate-3700D is designed to deliver 160 Gigabits per second (Gbps) firewall throughput.

Fortinet explained that the FortiGate-3700D gives users the flexibility to choose the firewall personality that best fits their requirements at the network edge or core. Users can take advantage of the high port density for physical segmentation of their network, as well as virtual domains (VDOMs) for virtual segmentation.

Powered by the new FortiASIC NP6 processor, the new FortiGate-3700D is described as the first data center appliance to deliver performance parity for IPv4 and IPv6 traffic. The appliance aims to enable users to up with their evolving network by significantly increasing VPN performance.

FortiOS 5, which runs the FortiGate-3700D, allows for flexible deployment models within the data center such as core firewall, including a  high performance firewall with ultra-low latency, or an edge firewall, which can be used to serve internal or external communities with varying trust levels.

Some other notable features and benefits of the FortiGate-3700D include a compact 3U form factor, easy network operations via a standardized platform family; freedom to add integrated security technologies such as IPS, App Control and VPN; and cloud-ready multi-tenant support and APIs for rapid orchestration.

Michael Xie, founder, chief technical officer and vice president of engineering at Fortinet, said, “For some time our data center customers have been asking us for higher firewall throughput and high speed port connections as they consolidate data centers around a 40 or 100 Gbps switching infrastructure/fabric. We have an aggressive roadmap to deliver on these requests starting with the FortiGate-3700D. Not only have we delivered the required throughput, but we’ve done it at a CAPEX and OPEX (News - Alert), compact form factor, latency and port density not seen in the industry thus far.”