Fortinet FortiGate 7000E vs Juniper SRX Series SRX5800
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Fortinet FortiGate 7000E is a 14U carrier-grade modular chassis firewall delivering up to 450 Gbps of firewall throughput, 200 Gbps of IPsec VPN throughput, and 100 Gbps of threat protection throughput. The Juniper SRX5800 is a 16-slot 16U modular security services gateway delivering industry-established firewall scale for global telecommunications service providers, hyperscale cloud operators, and sovereign government networks.
| Fortinet FortiGate 7000E | Juniper SRX Series SRX5800 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Fortinet | Juniper |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Oct 2016 | Mar 2008 |
| Form factor | modular chassis | 16U modular chassis |
| Form factor | 14U modular chassis with front-to-back high-volume cooling | 16U modular rack enclosure with dual high-output cooling fan trays |
| Firewall throughput | Up to 450 Gbps stateful firewall throughput | Up to 2 Tbps stateful firewall throughput with full SPC3 deployment |
| Threat protection | Up to 100 Gbps next-generation threat protection throughput | — |
| Blades | Modular chassis accommodating FortiGate processing and interface blades | — |
| High availability | N+1 power supply shelves, redundant cooling modules, and hitless controller failover | — |
| Slots | — | 16 modular line card slots, dual routing engines, redundant switch fabric cards |
| Vpn throughput | — | Up to 400 Gbps IPsec VPN throughput |
| Session scale | — | Up to 260 million concurrent sessions and 3.5 million new sessions per second |
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