FORTIGATE-3950 SERIES

The FortiGate-3950 series of multi-threat security appliances offers you unmatched performance, flexibility, and security for your large enterprise networks. The FortiGate 3950B and 3951B appliances combine high performance hardware and a modular design to deliver the fastest firewall throughput available in any appliance form factor. It also protects your network with Fortinet's unmatched depth and breadth of security services.

FortiGate-3950 Series Benefits

  • 120 Gbps firewall throughput and very low latency ensures your policy enforcement won't affect network performance
  • Modular design makes it easy for you to deploy exactly the performance you need today and in the future
  • Advanced FortiASIC designs maximize throughput and deliver wire-speed firewall performance at 10-GbE and GbE link speeds
  • Redundant, hot-swappable power supplies minimize single-point failures
  • Available FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer integration simplifies security management, reporting, and analysis while reducing operating expenses
  • FortiGuard Subscription Services deliver automated, real-time, and up-to-date protection against security threats

FortiGate-3950 SERIES Features FG-3950B FG-3951B
Firewall Throughput (512 / 1518 byte UDP packets) 20 Gbps / 120 Gbps 1,2 20 Gbps / 100 Gbps 1,2
Firewall Throughput (64 byte UDP packets) 20 Gbps / 120 Gbps 1,2 20 Gbps / 100 Gbps 1,2
IPSec VPN Throughput (AES-256 + SHA-1) 8 Gbps / 48 Gbps 1,2 8 Gbps / 40 Gbps 1,2
Antivirus Throughput 1.5 Gbps 1.5 Gbps
IPS Throughput More than 10 Gbps 1,3 More than 10 Gbps 1,3
Concurrent Session / New Sessions per second 10 Million / 175,000 10 Million / 175,000
Total Network Interfaces 8 / 18 1 8 / 16 1
Hardware Accelerated 10-GbE SFP+ Interfaces 2 / 12 1 2 / 10 1
Hardware Accelerated 1-GbE SFP Interfaces 4 4
Non-Accelerated 10/100/1000 Interfaces 2 2
Transceivers Included Two SR SFP+ Two SR SFP+
Fortinet Mezzanine Card (FMC) Expansion Slot 5 4
Fortinet Storage Module (FSM) Expansion Slot 0 4 (Total) / 3 (Available)
Included Local Disk-Based Storage No Yes - 1 64GB FSM-064 (Expandable to 4 FSM-064)
All performance values are "up to" and vary depending on system configuration. Antivirus performance is benchmarked using HTTP traffic (32 Kbyte objects).
1. Higher figure uses FMC modules to achieve the stated performance.
2. Maximum firewall and VPN system performance is based on fully populated system with FMC-XD2 modules.
3. Maximum IPS performance is based on the targeted performance of the FMC-XG2 module and a system populated with four FMC-XG2 modules.
fortigate 3950series

As an incubator, we have a shared services environment but that doesn't mean that we want everything, such as intellectual property, between our customers shared. It was therefore critical that we have a solution to securely partition each customer's network but still allow for shared resources such as printers and Internet access. Fortinet's FortiGate systems enabled us to achieve this by virtualizing network security, which also helped free-up network bandwidth and increase our network performance.

Mike Dailey, Executive Director
Frederick Innovative Technology Center