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fortinet FortiGate 300D vs paloalto PA Series PA-3050

Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Fortinet FortiGate 300D is a 1U rack-mount enterprise security appliance engineered for mid-sized enterprise networks. The Palo Alto Networks PA-3050 is a 1.5U enterprise next-generation firewall delivering 4 Gbps of firewall throughput, 2 Gbps of threat prevention throughput, and 500 Mbps of IPsec VPN throughput.

fortinet FortiGate 300Dpaloalto PA Series PA-3050
Brandfortinetpaloalto
Statusend-of-supportend-of-support
ReleasedJun 2014Apr 2012
Form factor1U rack1.5U rack
Interfaces4x 10/100/1000BASE-T RJ-45 and 6x 1GbE SFP optical ports8x 10/100/1000BASE-T RJ-45 and 8x 1GbE SFP optical ports
Firewall throughput8 Gbps stateful inspection throughput4.0 Gbps App-ID firewall throughput
Vpn throughput7 Gbps IPsec VPN throughput—
Threat protection600 Mbps threat protection throughput—
ProcessorsFortinet NP6 network processor and CP8 content processor—
Threat prevention—2.0 Gbps threat prevention throughput
Ipsec vpn—500 Mbps IPsec VPN throughput
Sessions—Supports up to 500,000 concurrent sessions and 50,000 new sessions per second

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