fortinet FortiGate 7000E vs paloalto PA Series PA-7080
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 Palo Alto Networks PA-7080 is a 14-slot 19U modular next-generation firewall chassis delivering up to 700 Gbps of firewall throughput and 350 Gbps of threat prevention throughput.
| fortinet FortiGate 7000E | paloalto PA Series PA-7080 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | fortinet | paloalto |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Oct 2016 | Oct 2015 |
| Form factor | modular chassis | modular chassis |
| Form factor | 14U modular chassis with front-to-back high-volume cooling | 19U modular rack chassis with high-volume cooling architecture |
| Firewall throughput | Up to 450 Gbps stateful firewall throughput | Up to 700 Gbps App-ID firewall throughput |
| 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 | Full hardware redundancy across power, cooling, switch fabric, and management planes |
| Slots | — | 14 slots (up to 10 Network Processing Cards, 2 Switch Management Cards, 2 Log Processing Cards) |
| Threat prevention | — | Up to 350 Gbps threat prevention throughput |
| Ipsec vpn | — | Up to 160 Gbps IPsec VPN throughput |
| Session capacity | — | Supports up to 160 million concurrent sessions and 2.8 million new sessions per second |
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