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fortinet FortiGate 1500D vs paloalto PA Series PA-5060

Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Fortinet FortiGate 1500D is a 2U datacenter next-generation firewall delivering 80 Gbps of firewall throughput and 50 Gbps of IPsec VPN throughput. The Palo Alto Networks PA-5060 is a 2U high-capacity enterprise datacenter firewall delivering 20 Gbps of firewall throughput, 10 Gbps of threat prevention throughput, and 4 Gbps of IPsec VPN throughput.

fortinet FortiGate 1500Dpaloalto PA Series PA-5060
Brandfortinetpaloalto
Statusend-of-supportend-of-support
ReleasedMar 2014Apr 2011
Form factor2U rack2U rack
Interfaces8x 10GbE SFP+, 16x 1GbE SFP, and 16x 10/100/1000BASE-T RJ-45 ports8x 10GbE SFP+, 4x 1GbE SFP, and 12x 10/100/1000BASE-T RJ-45 ports
Firewall throughput80 Gbps stateful firewall throughput20.0 Gbps App-ID firewall throughput
Vpn throughput50 Gbps IPsec VPN throughput—
Threat protection5.5 Gbps threat protection throughput—
ProcessorsDual Fortinet NP6 network processors and CP8 content processors—
Threat prevention—10.0 Gbps threat prevention throughput
Ipsec vpn—4.0 Gbps IPsec VPN throughput
Sessions—Supports up to 4 million concurrent sessions and 120,000 new sessions per second

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