Fortinet FortiADC-4000F
Application Delivery Controllers

Overview:

The FortiADC Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) optimize the availability, user experience, performance and scalability of Enterprise Application Delivery. The FortiADC family of physical appliances delivers fast, secure and intelligent acceleration and distribution of demanding applications in the enterprise.

Optimize Application Delivery

With bandwidth demand growing faster than budgets and cyber attacks constantly on the rise, it can be challenging to securely and efficiently deliver applications at the speed your users expect. Fortinet ADC appliances optimize the availability, user experience, and scalability of enterprise application delivery. They deliver fast, secure, and intelligent acceleration and distribution of even the most demanding enterprise applications.

FortiADCs ensure application security and performance with:

• Application-aware intelligence for smart distribution of application traffic
• Bandwidth prioritization through Quality of Service (QoS) policies
• 24x7 application availability through automatic failover, global server load balancing, and link load balancing to optimize WAN connectivity
• Web application firewall to defend against application vulnerabilities

High-performance, Secure Application Delivery

• Comprehensive server load balancing for 99.999% application uptime
• Server offloading for improved application acceleration, scale and TCO
• Intelligent traffic management for optimized application delivery and availability
• Hardware-based SSL offloading
• Authentication Offloading
• Included Global Server Load Balancing
• Included Link Load Balancing
• Web Application Firewall with automatic updates
• Scripting for custom load balancing and content rewriting
• Appliance and virtual machine form factors
• Accelerate content delivery with dynamic compression
• Prioritize applications and manage bandwidth using Quality of Service (QoS) policies

Features and Benefits

• Advanced Layer 7 Load Balancing
  Intuitive L7 policy-based routing to dynamically rewrite content to support complex applications and server configurations.
• SSL Offloading, Forward Proxy, and Visiblity
  Hardware and software-based SSL offloading reduces the performance impact on your server infrastructure. Also provides SSL visibility, decryption and re-encryption for FortiGate to easily inspect traffic for threats.
• Global Server Load Balancing
  Included Global Server Load Balancing distributes traffic across multiple geographical locations for disaster recovery or to improve user response times.
• Link Load Balancing
  Link Load Balancing distributes traffic over multiple ISPs to increase resilience and reduce the need for costly bandwidth upgrades.
• IP Reputation
  IP Reputation Service protects your applications against automated web attacks by identifying access from botnets and other malicious sources.
• Web Application Firewall
  Protect applications with Web Application Attack signatures and HTTP RFC compliance.

Highlights:

Hardware-Based SSL Offloading, SSL Inspection, and Visibility

FortiADC offloads server-intensive SSL processing with support for 4096-bit keys, TCP connection management, data compression and HTTP request processing from servers. This speeds up response times, reduces load on the backend servers, allowing them to serve more users.

SSL Forward Proxy utilizes FortiADC’s high-capacity decryption and encryption to allow other devices, such as a FortiGate firewall, to easily inspect traffic for threats. An inline pair of FortiADCs at the front end and back end of a firewall remove all encryption so that the firewall isn’t taxed with the additional load of SSL processing. FortiADC ensures seamless re-encryption with certificates intact with no user disruptions.

FortiADC’s Transparent HTTP/S and TCP/S Mirroring Capabilities decrypt secure traffic for inspection and reporting. Copies of clear traffic can be sent for analysis by FortiGate or other third-party solutions for an indepth view of threats that may be hidden in encrypted traffic while FortiADC continues to perform its application delivery functions.

FortiADC integrates with Gemalto’s SafeNet Enterprise Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) to use the advanced security certificates managed by the HSM for the encryption and decryption of secure application traffic. This lets organizations that use Gemalto’s SafeNet HSMs deploy a high-performance ADC solution using a strong, centrally-managed set of certificates and encryption keys.

Disaster Recovery with Global Server Load Balancing

FortiADC’s included Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) makes your network reliable and available by scaling applications across multiple data centers for disaster recovery or to improve application response times. Administrators can set up rules that direct traffic based on site availability, data center performance and network latency.

Link Load Balancing

Built-in Link Load Balancing (LLB) gives you the option to connect your FortiADC to two or more WAN links to reduce the risk of outages or to add additional bandwidth to relieve traffic congestion. FortiADC supports inbound and outbound Link Load Balancing to manage traffic leaving or entering the device. Using policy routing, FortiADC can support complex NAT and routing requirements to address almost any network LLB architecture. With Tunnel Routing you get high-speed, reliable site-to-site connectivity without the need to lease expensive WAN links. It aggregates multiple links to create a virtual tunnel to a remote data center that ensures availability especially for applications that are time sensitive and require large single-session bandwidth such as video conferencing.

HTTP Caching

Reduce server overload, bandwidth saturation, high latency, and network performance issues with intelligent caching. FortiADC dynamically stores popular application content such as images, videos, HTML files and other file types to alleviate server resources and accelerate overall application performance.

HTTP Compression

Accelerate application performance and reduce overall bandwidth requirements with HTTP compression. FortiADC intelligently compresses HTTP and HTTPS traffic. By reducing server reply content size it accelerates performance and improves response times. FortiADC supports both industry standard GZIP and DEFLATE algorithms for many content types used by today’s latest web-based applications.

Virtual Domains (VDOMs)

Managed service provider and enterprise data center administrators can divide a FortiADC into two or more virtual FortiADC devices, each operating as an independent application delivery controller. Each VDOM can provide completely separate ADC services, such as server load balancing, SSL offloading, and traffic routing policies. A multi-VDOM FortiADC can be centrally managed or can be assigned to a VDOM administrator to manage their own virtual ADC.

Enhanced Protection with FortiGuard WAF, Web Filtering and IP Reputation Services

Web applications can be an easy target for hackers. FortiADC offers you multiple levels of protection to defend against attacks that target your applications. In addition to its stateful firewall feature, built in to every FortiADC is a Web Application Firewall that can detect known threats using FortiGuard WAF Security Services for layer 7 attack signatures (subscription required) and checks that requests haven’t been tampered with using its HTTP RFC compliance constraints. FortiGuard Web Filtering works with FortiADC’s SSL Forward Proxy feature to simplify the process of managing exceptions for secure traffic inspection. Instead of manually configuring single URLs, Web Filtering gives administrators the ability to choose websites by category type to enable or disable SSL traffic inspection as a group instead of on a site by site basis. FortiADC also supports our FortiGuard IP Reputation service (subscription required) that protects you from sources associated with DoS/ DDoS attacks, phishing schemes, spammers, malicious software and botnets.

Scripting to Extend Built-in Features

FortiADC’s Lua-based scripting language gives you the flexibility to create custom, event-driven rules using predefined commands, variables and operators. Using easy-to-create scripts, you get the flexibility you need to extend your FortiADC with specialized business rules that give you almost unlimited possibilities for server load balancing and content rewriting to meet the needs of your organization.

Features:

Specifications:

	FortiADC 60F	FortiADC 100F	FortiADC 200F	FortiADC 300D	FortiADC 400D	FortiADC 1000F	FortiADC 2000F	FortiADC 4000F
Hardware Specifications
L4 Throughput	500 Mbps	1.5 Gbps	3 Gbps	6.0 Gbps	12.0 Gbps	20.0 Gbps	40.0 Gbps	60.0 Gbps
L7 TPS	100,000	400,000	580,000	275,000	1 M	1.7 M	2.6 M	4.3 M
L7 Throughput	450 Mbps	1.3 Gbps	2.5 Gbps	4.0 Gbps	8.0 Gbps	17.5 Gbps	24 Gbps	35 Gbps
SSL TPS (2048 keys)	55	500	900	1,500	7,000	20,000	37,000	54,000
Compression Throughput	400 Mbps	1.0 Gbps	2.1 Gbps	2.6 Gbps	6.1 Gbps	13.5 Gbps	18.0 Gbps	25.0 Gbps
SSL Acceleration Technology	Software	Software	Software	Software	ASIC	ASIC	ASIC	ASIC
Memory	4 GB	4 GB	4 GB	8 GB	8 GB	16 GB	32 GB	64 GB
Virtual Domains	2	10	10	10	20	45	60	90
Network Interfaces	5x GE R45	6x GE RJ45	4x GE RJ45	4x GE RJ45, 4x GE SFP	2x 10 GE SFP+ slots, 4x GE SFP ports, 4x GE ports	4x 10 GE SFP+, 8x GE SFP, 8x GE RJ45	8x 10 GE SFP+, 8x GE SFP, 8x GE RJ45	8x GE SFP, 4x 10 GE SFP+, 2x 40 GE QSFP+
10/100/1000 Management Interface	—	—	—	—	—	1	1	1
Storage	64 GB SSD	64 GB SSD	1 TB Hard Disk	128 GB SSD	128 GB SSD	128 GB SSD	240 GB SSD	480 GB SSD
Management	HTTPS, SSH CLI, Direct Console DB9 CLI, SNMP	HTTPS, SSH, CLI, Direct Console DB9 CLI, SNMP	HTTPS, SSH, CLI, Direct Console DB9 CLI, SNMP	HTTPS, SSH, CLI, Direct Console DB9 CLI, SNMP	HTTPS, SSH CLI, Direct Console DB9 CLI, SNMP	HTTPS, SSH CLI, Direct Console DB9 CLI, SNMP	HTTPS, SSH CLI, Direct Console DB9 CLI, SNMP	HTTPS, SSH CLI, Direct Console DB9 CLI, SNMP
Power Supply	Single	Single	Single	Single	Single (optional Dual)	Dual	Dual	Dual
Environment
Form Factor	1U Appliance	1U Appliance	1U Appliance	1U Appliance	1U Appliance	1U Appliance	1U Appliance	2U Appliance
Input Voltage	100–240V, 50–60Hz	100–240V AC, 50–60 Hz	90–264V AC, 47–63 Hz	100–240V AC, 50–60 Hz	100–240V AC, 50–60 Hz	100–240V AC, 63–47 Hz	100–240V AC, 63–47 Hz	100–240V AC, 63–47 Hz
Power Consumption (Average / Maximum)	14.3 W / 11.9 W	40 W / 60 W	60 W / 72 W	96 W / 115 W	109 W / 130.8 W	320 W / 267 W	340 W / 282 W	360 W / 300 W
Maximum Current	115Vac/0.9A, 230Vac/0.6A	100V/1.5A, 240V/0.6A	115V/6A, 230V/3A	100V/5A, 240V/3A	100V/5A, 240V/3A	120V/7.1A, 240V/3.4A	120V/7.1A, 240V/3.4A	120V/8A, 240V/4A
Heat Dissipation	49 BTU/h	132–163 BTU/h	205 BTU/h	392.4 BTU/h	446.3 BTU/h	1092 BTU/h	1160 BTU/h	1228 BTU/h
Operating Temperature	32–104°F (0–40°C)	32–104°F (0–40°C)	32–104°F (0–40°C)	32–104°F (0–40°C)	32–104°F (0–40°C)	32–104°F (0–40°C)	32–104°F (0–40°C)	32–104°F (0–40°C)
Storage Temperature	-31–158°F (-35–70°C)	-4–167°F (-20–75°C)	-13–158°F (-25–70°C)	-13–158°F (-25–70°C)	-13–158°F (-25–70°C)	-13–158°F (-25–70°C)	-13–158°F (-25–70°C)	-13–158°F (-25–70°C)
Humidity	20–90% non-condensing	10–85% relative humidity, non-operating, non-condensing	5–95% non-condensing	5–95% non-condensing	5–95% non-condensing	5–95% non-condensing	5–95% non-condensing	5–95% non-condensing
Compliance
Regulatory Compliance	FCC Part 15 Class A, C-Tick, VCCI Class A, CE, UL/c
Safety	CSA, C/US, CE, UL
Dimensions
Height x Width x Length (inches)	1.5 x 8.5 x 6.3	1.75 x 17.3 x 10.55	1.75 x 17.05 x 13.86	1.73 x 17.24 x 16.38	1.73 x 17.24 x 16.38	1.7 x 17.24 x 20.87	1.7 x 17.24 x 20.87	3.46 x 17.24 x 20.87
Height x Width x Length (mm)	38 x 216 x 160	44 x 440 x 268	45 x 433 x 352	44 x 438 x 416	44 x 438 x 416	44 x 438 x 530	44 x 438 x 530	88 x 438 x 530
Weight	2.2 lbs (1 kg)	9.9 lbs (4.5 kg)	17.2 lbs (7.87 kg)	20 lbs (9.07 kg)	22 lbs (9.97 kg)	22.6 lbs (10.3 kg)	22.6 lbs (10.3 kg)	27 lbs (12.25kg)

Documentation:

Download the FortiADC Series Datasheet (.PDF)