Fortinet FortiBalancer
Application Delivery Controller
The Fortinet FortiBalancer Series of Application Delivery Controllers optimize the availability, user experience, performance and scalability of mobile, cloud and enterprise application delivery from anywhere-to-anywhere.
The range of FortiBalancer appliances is designed for fast, secure and intelligent acceleration of demanding applications and traffic aggregation in enterprises of all sizes. The feature rich appliance form factor results in ease of integration with traditional data centers, virtualized datacenters and cloud infrastructures, while delivering outstanding business value. Using the platform APIs, IT administrators can integrate FortiBalancer appliances with virtualized IT infrastructures to dynamically provision IT resources based on real-time application traffic demands.

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FortiBalancer Benefits
- 2 to 10 Gbps throughput and 1M to 8M concurrent connections allows for small enterprise through to cloudscale performance levels
- Intelligent traffic management for optimized application delivery and availability
- Server offloading for improved application acceleration, scale and TCO
- Local/global load balancing and clustering for 99.999% application uptime
- Built-in caching, compression, SSL processing and TCP connection multiplexing for 50% or more improvement in user experience
- ASIC accelerated SSL offload for securing and protecting applications without impacting performance
- Browser based Web user interface for ease of management
- Appliance form factor for simplified deployment
The FortiBalancer appliance series of application delivery appliances are unique in their ability to provide unparalleled scalability and performance in compact 1U and 2U form factors. The FortiBalancer series appliances utilize multi-core processor technology and ASIC acceleration for linear scalability. This enables the FortiBalancer series appliances to handle heavy Layer 4 through 7 traffic loads while delivering unmatched performance and scalability for small, medium and large enterprises.
Features
Application Availability
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The FortiBalancer series of appliances deliver 99.999% uptime for enterprise application services with intelligent local, global and link load balancing. These appliances provide health check mechanisms for automatic fail over of application
services. This results in 24x7 application availability while reducing business continuity risks.
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Application Aware Intelligence and Control
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The application aware appliance eliminates application performance bottlenecks, reduces application deployment complexity and provides seamless application integration. These appliances are fully aware of Layers 4 through 7 application traffic, connections, transactions, and content.
This enables IT departments to create event-driven policies for intelligent distribution of application traffic across web and application servers, while eliminating the need to replicate content across multiple servers. Using the platform APIs, IT administrators can integrate FortiBalancer appliances with virtualized IT infrastructures to dynamically provision IT resources based on real-time application traffic demands.
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SSL and Server Offloading
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Response times and server utilization are dramatically increased as the FortiBalancer series appliances offloads server intensive 1024-bit and 2048-bit SSL processing, TCP connection management, data compression and HTTP request processing from servers.
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Unified Voice, Video and Data Delivery
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The FortiBalancer series appliances are optimized for unified delivery of voice, video and data application services with its rich set of load balancing and content switching policies. These appliances can support multiple virtual IPs for enabling individual application services, with a given set of availability, acceleration and security policies that are specific to delivering voice, video or data.
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Models
Throughput |
2 Gbps |
4 Gbps |
10 Gbps |
Max Connections |
1 Million |
4 Million |
8 Million |
Layer 7 RPS |
140,000 |
230,000 |
1.15 Million |
SSL TPS |
7,500 |
13,500 |
22,500 |
SSL Throughput |
1 Gbps |
1.6 Gbps |
5 Gbps |
Memory |
4 GB |
8 GB |
16 GB |
Port Configuration |
4 x GbE |
8 x GbE + 2 x SFP |
12 GbE + 4 x SFP |
USB Interfaces |
2 |
2 |
2 |
Management |
SSH CLI, Direct Console DB9 CLI, SNMP, Single Console per Cluster, XML-RPC |
SSH CLI, Direct Console DB9 CLI, SNMP, Single Console per Cluster, XML-RPC |
SSH CLI, Direct Console DB9 CLI, SNMP, Single Console per Cluster, XML-RPC, Out of Band Management - RJ45 |
Power Supply |
Single |
Single |
Dual |
Power Required |
90-264 VAC |
Power Consumption |
126W |
136W |
160W |
Operating Temperature |
32° to 113° F (0° to 45°C) |
Storage Temperature |
-13 to 158 °F (-25 to 70 °C) |
Humidity |
0 to 90% non-condensing |
Standards |
IEC 60950-1, CSA 60950-1, EN 60950-1, ICES-003, EN 55024, CISPR
22, AS/NZS 3548, FCC, 47FR part 15 Class A, VCCI-A |
Safety |
CSA, C/US, CE, UL |
Height x Length x Width (in) |
17 (W) x 15 (D) x 1.75 (H) |
17 (W) x 15 (D) x 1.75 (H) |
17 (W) x 22.5 (D) x 3.5 (H) |
Height x Length x Width (cm) |
43 (H) x 38 (L) x 4.4 (W) |
43 (H) x 38 (L) x 4.4 (W) |
43 (H) x 57 (L) x 8.9 (W) |
Weight |
17.2 lb (7.8 kg) |
17.2 lb (7.8 kg) |
28 lb (12.7 kg) |
FortiBalancer Videos
Fortinet FortiBalancer Application Delivery Controllers Video Data Sheet
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