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fortinet FortiGate 1200D vs paloalto PA Series PA-5050

Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Fortinet FortiGate 1200D is a 2U high-density enterprise datacenter firewall delivering 72 Gbps of firewall throughput and 48 Gbps of IPsec VPN throughput. The Palo Alto Networks PA-5050 is a 2U datacenter firewall delivering 10 Gbps of firewall throughput, 5 Gbps of threat prevention throughput, and 4 Gbps of IPsec VPN throughput.

fortinet FortiGate 1200Dpaloalto PA Series PA-5050
Brandfortinetpaloalto
Statusend-of-supportend-of-support
ReleasedFeb 2015Apr 2011
Form factor2U rack2U rack
Interfaces4x 10GbE SFP+, 16x 1GbE SFP, and 16x 10/100/1000BASE-T RJ-45 ports2x 10GbE SFP+, 8x 1GbE SFP, and 12x 10/100/1000BASE-T RJ-45 ports
Firewall throughput72 Gbps stateful inspection throughput10.0 Gbps App-ID firewall throughput
Vpn throughput48 Gbps IPsec VPN throughput—
Threat protection4 Gbps threat protection throughput—
PowerDual redundant hot-swappable AC or DC power supplies—
Threat prevention—5.0 Gbps threat prevention throughput
Ipsec vpn—4.0 Gbps IPsec VPN throughput
Concurrent sessions—Supports up to 2 million concurrent sessions and 120,000 new sessions per second

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