Fortinet FortiBalancer Application Delivery Controller

The Fortinet FortiBalancer Series of Application Delivery Controllers optimize the availability, user experience, performance and scalability of mobile, cloud and enterprise application delivery from anywhere-to-anywhere.

The range of FortiBalancer appliances is designed for fast, secure and intelligent acceleration of demanding applications and traffic aggregation in enterprises of all sizes. The feature rich appliance form factor results in ease of integration with traditional data centers, virtualized datacenters and cloud infrastructures, while delivering outstanding business value. Using the platform APIs, IT administrators can integrate FortiBalancer appliances with virtualized IT infrastructures to dynamically provision IT resources based on real-time application traffic demands.

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The three different FortiBalancer models; FortiBalancer 400, FortiBalancer 1000 and FortiBalancer 2000 allow for a variety of different deployments depending on an organization's specific requirements. Each model utilizes multi-core processor technology and ASIC acceleration for linear scalability. This enables the FortiBalancer series appliances to handle heavy Layer 4 through 7 traffic loads while delivering unmatched performance and scalability for small, medium and large enterprises.

Since FortiBalancer appliances are fully aware of Layers 4 through 7 application traffic, connections, transactions, and content; IT departments can create event-driven policies for intelligent distribution of application traffic across web and application servers, while eliminating the need to replicate content across multiple servers.

FortiBalancer Benefits

1.5 to 10 Gbps throughput and 1M to 8M concurrent connections allows for small enterprise through to cloud-scale performance levels
Full range of Layer 2 through Layer 7 load-balancing methods
Intelligent traffic management for optimized application delivery and availability
Server offloading for improved application acceleration, scale and TCO
Local/global load balancing and clustering for 99.999% application uptime
Built-in caching, compression, SSL processing and TCP connection multiplexing for 50% or more improvement in user experience
SSL encryption for securing and protecting applications without impacting performance
Browser based Web user interface for ease of management
API's for integration with applications, virtual and datacenter management tools and 3rd party products
Appliance form factor for simplified deployment
Support for both proxy and transparent modes
Deployable in one-arm and two-arm configurations

FortiBalancer Features & Benefits

2 to 10 Gbps throughput and 1M to 8M concurrent connections allows for small enterprise through to cloudscale performance levels
Intelligent traffic management for optimized application delivery and availability
Server offloading for improved application acceleration, scale and TCO
Local/global load balancing and clustering for 99.999% application uptime
Built-in caching, compression, SSL processing and TCP connection multiplexing for 50% or more improvement in user experience
ASIC accelerated SSL offload for securing and protecting applications without impacting performance
Browser based Web user interface for ease of management
Appliance form factor for simplified deployment

Application Availability

The FortiBalancer series of appliances deliver 99.999% uptime for enterprise application services with intelligent local, global and link load balancing. These appliances provide health check mechanisms for automatic fail over of application services. This results in 24x7 application availability while reducing business continuity risks.

Application Aware Intelligence and Control

The application aware appliance eliminates application performance bottlenecks, reduces application deployment complexity and provides seamless application integration. These appliances are fully aware of Layers 4 through 7 application traffic, connections, transactions, and content. This enables IT departments to create event-driven policies for intelligent distribution of application traffic across web and application servers, while eliminating the need to replicate content across multiple servers. Using the platform APIs, IT administrators can integrate FortiBalancer appliances with virtualized IT infrastructures to dynamically provision IT resources based on real-time application traffic demands.

SSL and Server Offloading

Response times and server utilization are dramatically increased as the FortiBalancer series appliances offloads server intensive 1024-bit and 2048-bit SSL processing, TCP connection management, data compression and HTTP request processing from servers.

Unified Voice, Video and Data Delivery

The FortiBalancer series appliances are optimized for unified delivery of voice, video and data application services with its rich set of load balancing and content switching policies. These appliances can support multiple virtual IPs for enabling individual application services, with a given set of availability, acceleration and security policies that are specific to delivering voice, video or data.

FortiBalancer Model Comparison

Specifications	Model 400	Model 1000	Model 2000
Hardware Specifications
Throughput	2 Gbps	4 Gbps	10 Gbps
Max Connections	1 Million	4 Million	8 Million
Layer 7 RPS	140,000	230,000	1.15 Million
SSL TPS	7,500	13,500	22,500
SSL Throughput	1 Gbps	1.6 Gbps	5 Gbps
Memory	4 GB	8 GB	16 GB
Port Configuration	4 x GbE	8 x GbE + 2 x SFP	12 GbE + 4 x SFP
USB Interfaces	2	2	2
Management	SSH CLI, Direct Console DB9 CLI, SNMP, Single Console per Cluster, XML-RPC	SSH CLI, Direct Console DB9 CLI, SNMP, Single Console per Cluster, XML-RPC	SSH CLI, Direct Console DB9 CLI, SNMP, Single Console per Cluster, XML-RPC, Out of Band Management - RJ45
Power Supply	Single	Single	Dual
Environment
Power Required	90-264 VAC
Power Consumption	126W	136W	160W
Operating Temperature	32° to 113°F (0° to 45°C)
Storage Temperature	-13 to 158 °F (-25 to 70 °C)
Humidity	0 to 90% non-condensing
Compliance
Standards	IEC 60950-1, CSA 60950-1, EN 60950-1, ICES-003, EN 55024, CISPR 22, AS/NZS 3548, FCC, 47FR part 15 Class A, VCCI-A
Safety	CSA, C/US, CE, UL
Dimensions
Height x Length x Width (in)	17 (W) x 15 (D) x 1.75 (H)	17 (W) x 15 (D) x 1.75 (H)	17 (W) x 22.5 (D) x 3.5 (H)
Height x Length x Width (cm)	43 (H) x 38 (L) x 4.4 (W)	43 (H) x 38 (L) x 4.4 (W)	43 (H) x 57 (L) x 8.9 (W)
Weight	17.2 lb (7.8 kg)	17.2 lb (7.8 kg)	28 lb (12.7 kg)
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