Fortinet FortiTester 2500E
Enterprise-Scale Network Security Testing

Overview:

FortiTester appliances offer enterprises and service providers a cost-effective solution for performance testing and validating their network security infrastructure and services, providing a comprehensive range of application test cases to evaluate equipment and right-size infrastructure. All test functionality is included in one simple device-based license.

Comprehensive testing and flexible operation

FortiTester provides powerful yet easy-to-use test cases that simulate many stateful applications and malicous traffic. Built-in reporting provides comprehensive information about the test including SNMP stats from the DUT. It enables you to establish performance standards and run audits to validate they continue to be met. A single 40 GE appliance allows over 20 million concurrent connections and new HTTP connection rates greater than 1 million/second, hardwarebased acceleration supports new HTTPS connection rates above 20,000/second. Up to 8 appliances can be grouped in Test Center mode to massively scale performance. 40 GE device interfaces can be split to 4x 10 GE SFP+ for additional testing flexibility. 100 GE, 10 GE devices and VM versions complete the Tester range, with competitive price points for their target customers.

Key Features and Benefits

Simple device-based license
All test cases and tester functionality, including attack traffic samples, are provided in a simple device-based license.

Comprehensive test cases
Includes a wide range of test cases for IPv4 and IPv6 covering application and video delivery, IPsec, mobility, network services, and attack replay.

Advanced test case options
Easily change test case options — for example, such as how sessions are closed, piggybacking, randomize source ports, specify SSL versions and ciphers, include payload for inline scanning and sandboxing. Adjust load parameters while tests are running.

Specifications:

Fortitester 2500E Specifications
Hardware Specifications
Total Interface	4x 10 GE SFP+ slots, 1x Management GE RJ45 port
Storage	120 GB SSD
Form Factor	1U
Performance Examples and Application Support	Standalone Mode	Test Center Mode with 2 Devices
HTTP Throughput	20 Gbps	39.9 Gbps
HTTP Connections Per Second	882,000	1,727,000
HTTP Concurrent Connections	10,000,000	20,000,000
SSL Throughput	1.4 Gbps	2.8 Gbps
SSL Connections Per Second	18,000	32,000
SSL Concurrent Connections	15,000	30,000
IPsec	Yes	Yes*
Protocol (SMTP, POP3, IMAP, FTP, LDAP, NTP, DNS, RTSP/RTP, DHCP, TFTP, RADIUS, IGMP)	Yes	Yes
RFC2544	Yes	Yes
DDoS	Yes	Yes
Replay — Traffic, Attack, GTP	Yes	No
Dimensions and Power
Height x Width x Length (inches)	1.73 x 17.24 x 22.83
Height x Width x Length (mm)	44 x 438 x 580
Weight	22.6 lbs (10.3 kg)
Power Required	100–240V AC, 63–47 Hz, Redundant
Power Consumption (Average / Maximum)	300 W / 360 W
Maximum Current	120V/5A, 240V/3A
Heat Dissipation	1228 BTU/h
Redundant Power Supplies	Dual Power Supplies
Environment
Operating Temperature	32–104°F (0–40°C)
Storage Temperature	-4 – 158°F (-20–70°C)
Humidity	5–95% non-condensing
Operating Altitude	Up to 7,400 ft (2,250 m)
Compliance
Regulatory Compliance	FCC Part 15 Class A, C-tick, VCCI, CE, UL/c
Safety	CSA, C/US, CE, UL

* maximum of 2 devices in test center mode for IPsec testing.

Software:

Test case configuration

Easily configure test cases for applications, traffic generation, application simulation, and malicious traffic, using FortiTester’s web interface.

Standalone and test center modes

The two software components in FortiTester are the traffic generator and the test center. The traffic generator is the engines, assigned CPU cores, and physical interfaces. The test center is the user interface, test cases, and system management. In Standalone mode, test center works with the local traffic generator. In Test Center mode, test center connects to the local traffic generator and remote traffic generators on other FortiTesters, allowing you to scale your performance testing requirements.

Virtual machine

The virtual machine version allows performance and validation testing for both physical and virtual network services and infrastructure. Ideal for customers implementing network functions virtualization (NFV) and software defined networking (SDN.) Both vSwtich and PCI-E passthrough are supported, providing flexibility and performance for vm-based testing. Furthermore, test center mode enables the virtual solution to easily scale up to 8 testers (or scale down to multiple standalone units), providing flexibility and performance.

Example deployment for both virtual and physical device tests

Documentation:

Download the Fortinet FortiTester Datasheet (PDF).