Fortinet and Ixia have announced the results of Ixia’s CloudStorm and BreakingPoint testing solutions used to validate the performance of Fortinet’s recently announced FortiGate 3980E and 7060E enterprise firewalls.
Ixia’s rigorous testing methodology resulted in Fortinet’s FortiGate 3980E enterprise firewall demonstrating 1 Tbps (Terabit per second) firewall performance, and the FortiGate 7060E enterprise chassis firewall delivering 100 Gbps (Gigabit per second) of NGFW throughput. The testing results, along with the first public demonstration of the performance testing, will be available in the Fortinet booth #3627 during the RSA Conference scheduled for February 13th– 17th, 2017.
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.