FortiGate-110C Is Coming To Town

After Fortinet updated SOHO and Enterprise solutions with FortiGate-50B/60B and FortiGate-310B most of us were waiting for some SMB solution to fit in the middle. One of the main problem of mid-class products of Fortinet was absence of Gigabit Ethernet ports on SMB devices. Also price/performance of FortiGate-100A and 200A was quite poor when compared to 60B model.


Recently we found on few sites information regarding upcoming FortiGate-110C model that should fill in the gap...



So in short FG-110C will have:

• 2 x 10/100/1000 Ethernet Ports
• 8 x 10/100 Ethernet Ports
• Firewall Performance - 500Mbps
• IPS Performance - 200Mbps
• VPN Performance - 100Mbps (and 1500 IPSec VPN tunnels)
• Antivirus Performance - 65Mbps
• Number of sessions - 400,000 (10,000 new sessions/second)

When combined together these features provide unique combination that will allow Fortinet to better compete in the SMB segment. However low performance numbers on FW/VPN will limit the impact of new product launch as most of FW/VPN vendors already have the same horsepower in much smaller and cheaper devices. Let's hope that Fortinet intentionally left 200's index free and we will see a 200A's replacement quite soon.

There is no official pricing available yet, but some of the sites are already offering it at less than 2000 GBP including 1-Year Bundle Support.

Preliminary datasheet is available here or here.