Smart Data Centers Feature Editorial

Fortinet, a provider of network security appliances, and Spirent Communications, a provider of integrated performance analysis and service assurance systems, announced the results of the performance tests conducted on the FortiGate-3040B.

Built from the ground up by Fortinet (News - Alert), FortiGate-3040B appliances combine three essential elements to achieve these benefits: custom hardware including FortiASIC processors, high port density, and multi-threat security from the FortiOS operating system. Moreover, whether protecting virtualized infrastructure, cloud-providing infrastructure, or traditional IT infrastructure, the inclusion of 10-GbE ports and up to 40 Gbps of firewall performance make this appliance a very pragmatic security solution for high-bandwidth networks. 

Testing with Spirent solutions demonstrated that the FortiGate-3040B delivers a steady 40 Gbps of performance in both UDP (News - Alert) and TCP traffic through four 10 Gbps Ethernet ports and supports full line-rate application traffic with zero packet loss. The appliance also achieved latency as low as 3.94 microseconds under 100 percent load. Other test results unveiled that the FortiGate-3040B supports up to 5,600,000 concurrent sessions and 160,000 transactions per second.  

The UDP traffic throughput test was performed with Spirent (News - Alert) TestCenter. The test has been conducted with a mix of packets, including 66, 594 and 1518 byte packets, and showed performance of 130 million packets per second. The amount of latency introduced by the FortiGate-3040B was minimal, with an average of 7.14 microseconds and getting as low as 3.94 µs at 64 bytes and zero packet loss. 

The TCP traffic throughput test was performed with the Spirent Avalanche. The test has been conducted under the following parameters: three-way TCP handshakes; TCP Window Size at 64kB; and 10 HTTP transactions in 1 TCP connection. It showed application data performance of 37, 65 Gbps throughput, which is equivalent to 40 Gbps of line-rate Ethernet. 

Spirent stated that its TestCenter platform has become the standard for testing high-end security products in complex networks. Large enterprise and data center environments must protect their most critical assets while, at the same time, keeping up with the increased bandwidth requirements of their network. The test of FortiGate-3040B validates the robustness, performance, and stability Fortinet's customers can expect from this high-end network security system.