Fortinet FortiGate 3960E
Next Generation Firewall Segmentation

Overview:

The FortiGate 3900E series delivers high performance next generation firewall (NGFW) capabilities for large enterprises and service providers. With multiple high-speed interfaces, high-port density, and high-throughput, ideal deployments are at the enterprise edge, hybrid data center core, and across internal segments. Leverage industry-leading IPS, SSL inspection, and advanced threat protection to optimize your network’s performance. Fortinet’s SecurityDriven Networking approach provides tight network integration to the new security generation

Security

• Identifies thousands of applications inside network traffic for deep inspection and granular policy enforcement
• Protects against malware, exploits, and malicious websites in both encrypted and non-encrypted traffic
• Prevent and detect against known and unknown attacks using continuous threat intelligence from AI-powered FortiGuard Labs security services

Performance

• Delivers industry’s best threat protection performance and ultra-low latency using purpose-built security processor (SPU) technology
• Provides industry-leading performance and protection for SSL encrypted traffic

Certification

• Independently tested and validated best security effectiveness and performance
• Received unparalleled third-party certifications from NSS Labs

Networking

• Delivers advanced networking capabilities that seamlessly integrate with advanced layer 7 security and virtual domains (VDOMs) to offer extensive deployment flexibility, multi-tenancy and effective utilization of resources
• Delivers high-density, flexible combination of various high-speed interfaces to enable best TCO for customers for data center and WAN deployments

Management

• Includes a management console that is effective, simple to use, and provides comprehensive network automation and visibility
• Provides Zero Touch Integration with Security Fabric’s Single Pane of Glass Management
• Predefined compliance checklist analyzes the deployment and highlights best practices to improve overall security posture

Security Fabric

• Enables Fortinet and Fabric-ready partners’ products to provide broader visibility, integrated end-to-end detection, threat intelligence sharing, and automated remediation

Hardware:

FortiGate 3960E/-DC

Interfaces

1. 1x Console Port
2. 1x USB Port
3. 2x GE RJ45 Management Ports
4. 16x 1/10 GE SFP/SFP+ Slots
5. 6x 40/100 GE QSFP+/QSFP28 Slots

Powered by SPU

• Fortinet’s custom SPU processors deliver the power you need to detect malicious content at multi-Gigabit speeds
• Other security technologies cannot protect against today’s wide range of content- and connectionbased threats because they rely on general-purpose CPUs, causing a dangerous performance gap
• SPU processors provide the performance needed to block emerging threats, meet rigorous third-party certifications, and ensure that your network security solution does not become a network bottleneck

Network Processor

Fortinet’s new, breakthrough SPU NP6 network processor works inline with FortiOS functions delivering:

• Superior firewall performance for IPv4/IPv6, SCTP and multicast traffic with ultra-low latency down to 2 microseconds
• VPN, CAPWAP and IP tunnel acceleration
• Anomaly-based intrusion prevention, checksum offload and packet defragmentation
• Traffic shaping and priority queuing

Content Processor

Fortinet’s ninth generation custom SPU CP9 content processor works outside of the direct flow of traffic and accelerates the inspection.

Fabric Security:

Deployment

Next Generation Firewall (NGFW)

• Reduce the complexity and maximize your ROI by integrating threat protection security capabilities into a single high-performance network security appliance, powered by Fortinet’s Security Processing Unit (SPU)
• Full visibility into users, devices, applications across the entire attack surface and consistent security policy enforcement irrespective of asset location
• Protect against network exploitable vulnerabilities with Industry-validated IPS security effectiveness, low latency and optimized network performance
• Automatically block threats on decrypted traffic using the Industry’s highest SSL inspection performance, including the latest TLS 1.3 standard with mandated ciphers
• Proactively block newly discovered sophisticated attacks in real-time with AI-powered FortiGuard Labs and advanced threat protection services included in the Fortinet Security Fabric

Segmentation

• Segmentation that adapts to any network topology, delivering end-to-end security from the branch level to data centers and extending to multiple clouds
• Reduce security risks by improving network visibility from the components of the Fortinet Security Fabric, which adapt access permissions to current levels of trust and enforce access control effectively and efficiently
• Delivers defense in depth security powered by highperformance L7 inspection and remediation by Fortinet’s SPU, while delivering third party validated TCO of per protected Mbps
• Protects critical business applications and helps implement any compliance requirements without network redesigns

Mobile Security for 4G, 5G and IOT

• SPU accelerated, high performance CGNAT and IPv4 and IPv6 traffic, for 4G SGi LAN and 5G N6 security
• RAN Access Security with highly scalable and best performing IPsec aggregation and control security gateway (SecGW)
• User plane security enabled by full Threat Protection and visibility into GTP-U inspection
• 4G and 5G security for user and data plane traffic SCTP, GTP-U/C and SIP that provides protection against attacks
• 4G and 5G cores IoT signaling storm protection
• High-speed interfaces to enable deployment flexibility

IPS

• Purpose-built security processors delivering industry validated IPS performance with high throughput and low latency
• Deploy virtual patches at the network level to protect against network exploitable vulnerabilities and optimize network protection time
• Deep packet inspection at wire speeds offers unparalleled threat visibility into network traffic including traffic encrypted with the latest TLS 1.3
• Proactively block newly discovered sophisticated attacks in real-time with advanced threat protection provided by the intelligence services of the Fortinet Security Fabric

Secure Web Gateway (SWG)

• Secure web access from both internal and external risks, even for encrypted traffic at high performance
• Enhanced user experience with dynamic web and video caching
• Block and control web access based on user or user groups across URL’s and domains
• Prevent data loss and discover user activity to known and unknown cloud applications
• Block DNS requests against malicious domains
• § Multi-layered advanced protection against zero-day malware threats delivered over the web

Specifications:

Documentation:

Download the Fortinet FortiGate 3900 Series Data Sheet (PDF).