Fortinet Partners with Ixia to Test and Validate World’s First Terabit Firewall

Fortinet (NASDAQ:FTNT), the global leader in high-performance cybersecurity solutions, together with Ixia (NASDAQ:XXIA), a leading provider of network testing, visibility, and security, today announced the results of Ixia’s CloudStorm™ and BreakingPoint™ tests used to validate the performance of Fortinet’s recently announced FortiGate 3980E and 7060E enterprise firewalls. Ixia’s rigorous method resulted in 3980E delivering 1 Tbps (Terabit per second) firewall performance, and the 7060E enterprise chassis firewall demonstrating 100 Gbps (Gigabit per second) of NGFW throughput and the results, along with the first public demonstration, will be available in Fortinet booth #3627 during the RSA Conference scheduled for February 13^th – 17^th 2017.

As quoted in the press release:

Ixia’s CloudStorm, the first multi-terabit network security test platform, was selected by Fortinet to conduct very large-scale demonstrations and proof of concept validations to demonstrate real-world performance for their customers. Ixia’s BreakingPoint application test solution emulates a real-world mix of network traffic at the terabit level and simultaneously scales bandwidth, connection rate and concurrent flows.  This enables Fortinet customers to validate the capacity, efficiency, and resiliency of the Fortinet next gen firewall platforms, as well as make faster and more informed decisions in the vendor selection process.
CloudStorm simulates 2.4 terabits of mixed applications, as well as malicious traffic, to test the critical elements of complex data centers, including server applications, storage workloads, and network security devices. As a result, it can validate the efficacy of the application and threat detection engines of NGFW, measure the impact of SSL traffic on performance, and assess Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) mitigation techniques. This enables Fortinet customers to validate the performance of their hyperscale data centers, while improving the security resiliency of their network.

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