FORTISWITCH™ PLATFORMS

The FortiSwitch family of Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and 10 GbE switching platforms meet the growing needs of high-speed interconnect applications driven by server virtualization, data center consolidation, and parallel and cloud computing applications. With FortiSwitch hardware at the core, network operators can build wire speed, resilient, scalable, ultra-low latency fabrics with the simplicity and robustness of standard Ethernet. Fortinet's vScale™ multi-path traffic switching and Dynamic Congestion Avoidance features switch data flows to the lowest latency path - avoiding congestion while maintaining full Ethernet compliance.

FortiSwitch Platforms Benefits

  • Increased flexibility and scalability when deployed in a two-tiered Clos architecture that can significantly scale the number of 10GbE devices supported in a single Ethernet fabric
  • Ultra-low latency and lossless 10 GbE fabric delivers peak performance, regardless of the application
  • Traffic moving across the fabric will be routed around any bottlenecks in real time for the lowest possible latency
  • Up to 144 ports per FortiSwitch-1000 Chassis, for up to 576 ports in a standard seven-foot rack
  • Low energy requirements with an average power consumption of less than 25 W per port

Learn More

Choose a specific model from the left navigation, download a datasheet from our resource center (http://www.fortinet.com/resource_center/), or visit the FortiSwitch micro-site to learn more about FortiSwitch Ethernet fabric switching platforms ( http://www.fortiswitch.com/)

FortiSwitch Platforms

Fortinet provides us with a secure environment in a simplified management scheme and very low maintenance. The performance of Fortinet's firewall is second to none. All the required security functions are truly integrated, and the ease of configuration of the FortiGate appliances allowed us to carry out the initial deployment within two weeks in spite of a relatively large and widespread installed base. Today, implementing new VPN tunnels with hotels is a matter of an hour or less. Our goal is to replace the existing ISDN connections from several thousand hotel customers with VPN connections.

Marcus Schmid, Director of IT Projects and Services
Amadeus Hospitality