Fortinet announced the FortiGate 90G, the first Secure SD-WAN appliance and NGFW with the new security processing unit 5 (SP5) ASIC that delivers industry-leading AI-powered threat protection performance, scalability, and power efficiency at a cost-effective price. This new addition to Fortinet’s Secure Networking portfolio expands the company’s ability to deliver consistent security, unified management, analytics, and FortiGuard AI-Powered Security Services across the entire hybrid network.
Introducing the FortiGate 90G with SP5 ASIC
The new FortiGate 90G series of next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) delivers enterprise-grade secure networking capabilities, such as hybrid mesh firewall, SD-WAN, and SD-Branch, to distributed edges. FortiGate 90G is also the foundation for customers’ SASE and zero-trust journey to enable secure internet access, secure private access and secure SaaS access.
FortiGate 90G is fully integrated with FortiGuard AI-Powered Security Services, providing advanced intrusion prevention for deep packet inspection of SSL/TLS traffic, web security services, such as DNS and URL filtering for blocking of access to malicious domains and URLs, and content security, such as inline sandboxing to stop zero-day and other file-based threats.
This new suite of firewalls is the first to ship with the SP5 ASIC, Fortinet’s fifth-generation ASIC technology announced earlier this year with the ability to accelerate and concurrently run 2x more applications—for example, NGFW, zero-trust network access (ZTNA), SD-WAN, and SSL inspection—compared to the previous generation. The power of FortiGate 90G with Fortinet’s SP5 ASIC and FortiGuard AI-Powered Security Services is showcased in the below Security Compute Rating table, which compares the top firewalls on the market against the target performance numbers of the FortiGate 90G series:
| Specification | FortiGate 90G | Security Compute Rating | Industry Average | Palo Alto Networks PA-450 | Check Point Quantum 3600 | Cisco Meraki MX85 | Juniper SRX340 |
| Firewall Throughput | 28 Gbps | 9x | 3.13 Gbps | 3.5 Gbps | 3.3 Gbps | 1 Gbps | 4.7 Gbps |
| NGFW Throughput | 2.5 Gbps | 2.6x | 0.96 Gbps | N/A | 1.5 Gbps | N/A | 0.42 Gbps |
| IPSec VPN | 25 Gbps | 16.3x | 1.54 Gbps | 2.2 Gbps | 2.71 Gbps | 0.5 Gbps | 0.73 Gbps |
| Threat Protection | 2.2 Gbps | 2.3x | 0.96 Gbps | 1.4 Gbps | 0.78 Gbps | 0.7 Gbps | N/A |
| Connections per Second | 124K | 4x | 31K | 51K | 32K | N/A | 10K |
| Power Consumption | FortiGate 90G | Energy Efficiency | Industry Average | Palo Alto Networks PA-450 | Check Point Quantum 3600 | Cisco Meraki MX85 | Juniper SRX340 |
| Watts/Gbps Firewall Throughput | 0.87 W | 28.8x | 25.06 W | 11.71 W | 7.58 W | 55 W | 25.69 W |
| Watts/Gbps IPsec VPN Throughput | 0.94 W | 81.1x | 76.26 W | 18.64 W | 9.26 W | 110 W | 167.12 W |
| BTU/h per Gbps of Firewall Throughput | 2.97 BTU | 17.4x | 51.8 BTU | 40.29 BTU | 25.76 BTU | N/A | 6 BTU |
Empowering Today’s Hybrid World by Converging Networking and Security
Growing and scaling digital business while protecting a distributed infrastructure and supporting a hybrid workforce has never been more critical or complex. That’s why Fortinet’s Secure Networking portfolio converges networking technologies with FortiGuard AI-Powered Security Services across all edges to close security gaps and help organizations achieve a better user experience. Today’s news reinforces Fortinet’s commitment to continue to expand and integrate key secure networking technologies across the following areas:
- Hybrid mesh firewall for data center and cloud
- Secure SD-WAN for branch offices
- SASE for remote users and branch offices
- Universal ZTNA for remote users and campus locations
- WLAN/LAN for branch offices and campus locations
