fortinet FortiGate 3400E vs paloalto PA Series PA-5430
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Fortinet FortiGate 3400E is a 3U high-density datacenter firewall providing six 40G/100G QSFP28 ports and twenty-two 10G/25G SFP28 interfaces. The Palo Alto Networks PA-5430 is a 2U high-performance datacenter firewall delivering 93 Gbps of firewall throughput, 52 Gbps of threat prevention throughput, and 45 Gbps of IPsec VPN throughput.
| fortinet FortiGate 3400E | paloalto PA Series PA-5430 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | fortinet | paloalto |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Feb 2019 | Nov 2021 |
| Form factor | 3U rack | 2U rack |
| Interfaces | 6x 40G/100G QSFP28, 22x 10G/25G SFP28, and 2x Gigabit Ethernet ports | 4x 40G/100G QSFP28, 16x 10G/25G SFP28, and 2x Gigabit copper ports |
| Firewall throughput | 160 Gbps stateful firewall throughput | 93.0 Gbps App-ID firewall throughput |
| Vpn throughput | 90 Gbps IPsec VPN throughput | — |
| Threat protection | 13 Gbps threat protection throughput | — |
| Processors | Multiple Fortinet NP6 network processors and CP9 content processors | — |
| Threat prevention | — | 52.0 Gbps threat prevention throughput |
| Ipsec vpn | — | 45.0 Gbps IPsec VPN throughput |
| Concurrent sessions | — | Supports up to 15 million concurrent sessions and 500,000 new sessions per second |
| Power supplies | — | Dual redundant hot-swappable AC or DC power supplies |
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