fortinet FortiGate 100D vs paloalto PA Series PA-500
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Fortinet FortiGate 100D is a 1U rack-mount enterprise firewall that anchored mid-sized corporate perimeters for years. The Palo Alto Networks PA-500 is a classic 1U rack-mount enterprise next-generation firewall that introduced dedicated control plane and data plane processing to corporate branch perimeters.
| fortinet FortiGate 100D | paloalto PA Series PA-500 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | fortinet | paloalto |
| Status | end-of-support | end-of-support |
| Released | Aug 2012 | Apr 2008 |
| Form factor | 1U rack | 1U rack |
| Interfaces | 22x 10/100/1000BASE-T RJ-45 ports (with 2x shared 1GbE SFP ports) | 8x 10/100/1000BASE-T RJ-45 traffic ports and 1x dedicated management port |
| Firewall throughput | 2.5 Gbps stateful firewall throughput | 250 Mbps App-ID firewall throughput |
| Vpn throughput | 450 Mbps IPsec VPN throughput | — |
| Threat protection | 210 Mbps threat protection throughput | — |
| Form factor | 1U rack enclosure with internal power supply | 1U rack enclosure with internal power supply |
| Threat prevention | — | 100 Mbps threat prevention throughput |
| Ipsec vpn | — | 50 Mbps IPsec VPN throughput |
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