Application Delivery Controller and GSLB
FortiADC and FortiGSLB Cloud optimize application delivery
Overview
FortiADC enhances the scalability, performance, and security of your applications whether they are hosted on-premises or in the cloud. Our advanced application delivery controller optimizes application performance and availability while securing the application with both its native security tools and by integrating application delivery into the Fortinet Security Fabric.
Unmatched Application Acceleration
FortiADC provides unmatched application acceleration, load balancing, and web security, regardless of whether it is used for applications within a single data center or serves multiple applications for millions of users around the globe. FortiADC includes application acceleration, WAF, IPS, SSLi, link load balancing, and user authentication in one solution. The solution delivers availability, performance, and security in a single, all-inclusive license.
Global Server Load Balancing
FortiGSLB Cloud is a DNS-based service that helps ensure business continuity by keeping applications online and available when a local area experiences unexpected traffic spikes or network downtime. FortiGSLB enables organizations to deploy redundant resources around the globe to maintain the availability of mission-critical applications.
Flexible Deployment Options
FortiADC is available as a high-performance hardware appliance, as a virtual appliance, or on-demand via AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud marketplaces.
Features and Benefits
FortiADC offers advanced security features (WAF, DDoS, and AV) and application connectors for easy deployment and full visibility of your networks and applications.
Layer 4-7 ADC
High-performance physical and virtual ADC and reverse proxy are included
GSLB Disaster Recovery
DNS-based GSLB is available as-a-Service or as a FortiADC feature
WAF and Vulnerability Scanning
Web application firewall and vulnerability scanning defend against zero days and the OWASP Top 10
Enhance Security
DDoS, web filtering, IPS, GEO-IP, IP rep using SSL forward proxy deliver secure traffic inspection
Security Fabric Integration
Fabric integration helps identify and analyze multi-pronged security threats
FortiADC Use Cases
Security Acceleration
Improve performance and availability of FortiGates via SSL offload, security prefiltering, and load balancing.
Optimize SD-WAN
Ensure SD-WAN traffic follows optimal paths based on network and device performance checks.
Speed Fortinet VPN Gateways
Direct VPN clients to the optimal VPN gateway by tracking health and performance of FortiGates.
Scale and Enhance Apps
Balance application traffic locally or globally to improve performance and ensure availability.
FortiGuard AI-Powered Security Services
FortiGuard Labs - Fortinet’s elite cybersecurity threat intelligence and research organization comprised of experienced threat hunters, researchers, analysts, engineers, and data scientists - develops and enhances FortiGuard AI-powered Security Services as well as provides valuable expert help through FortiGuard Expert-driven Security Services.
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Content Security
Web Security
Device Security
Application Security
SOC NOC Security
FortiGuard Antivirus Service
Protects against the latest polymorphic attacks, viruses, malware (including ransomware), and other threats.
FortiGuard IPS Service
Utilizes the latest threat intelligence to perform deep packet inspection/SSL inspection of network traffic to detect and block malicious traffic and activities.
FortiGuard AI-based Inline Malware Prevention Service
Performs AI-powered real-time inspection of files for protection against unknown threats, zero-days, and sophisticated file-based attacks.
FortiGuard URL Filtering Service
Uses AI-powered behavior analysis and correlation to block unknown malicious URLs almost immediately, with near-zero false negatives.
FortiGuard Anti-botnet and C2 Service
Blocks unauthorized attempts to communicate with compromised remote servers for both receiving malicious commands and extracting information.
Case Studies
African Bank
African Bank Adopts Zero-Trust Access Strategy with New Integrated SD-WAN Security Architecture
Felgueiras City Council
Portuguese City Council Enhances Service Levels and Increases Operational Efficiency Through Digital Transformation
Pague Menos
Pharmacy Chain Builds a Secure Network and Expands Its Retail Services With Fortinet LAN Edge and Secure SD-WAN
Models and Specifications
FortiADC application delivery controllers are available as hardware appliances, virtual machines and public cloud VMs.
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FortiADC application delivery controllers are available as hardware appliances, virtual machines and public cloud VMs.
Throughput |
3 Gbps |
Ports |
6x GE RJ45 |
Throughput |
5 Gbps |
Ports |
4x GE RJ45, 2x GE SFP |
Throughput |
8 Gbps |
Ports |
4x GE RJ45, 4x GE SFP |
Throughput |
15 Gbps |
Ports |
2x 10 GE SFP+ slots ,4x GE SFP ports, 4x GE ports |
Throughput |
40 Gbps |
Ports |
8x RJ45 GE port, 8x SFP GE port, 8x SFP+ 10G Ports |
Throughput |
60 Gbps |
Ports |
8x SFP ports, 12x 10GbE SFP+ ports |
Throughput |
100 Gbps |
Ports |
4x 40GbE QSFP, 4x 10G SFP+ |
Throughput |
200 Gbps |
Ports |
4x 100 GE QSFP28, 8x 40 GE QSFP |
VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer, Open Source Xen, KVM, Oracle Cloud. Please see FortiADC VM Installation Guide for versions supported
Throughput |
1 Gbps |
vCPU |
1 |
Throughput |
2 Gbps |
vCPU |
2 |
Throughput |
4 Gbps |
vCPU |
4 |
Throughput |
10 Gbps |
vCPU |
8 |
Throughput |
16 Gbps |
vCPU |
16 |
Throughput |
24 Gbps |
vCPU |
32 |
Actual performance values may vary depending on the network traffic and system configuration. Performance results were observed using an appliance with an Intel CPU E5-1650 v2 @ 3.50 GHz running VMware ESXi 5.5.
FortiADC is available in all major public cloud providers as a BYOL or PAYG, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Please see the cloud Marketplace listings for more information:
FortiCare Support & Professional Services
Fortinet is dedicated to helping our customers succeed, and every year FortiCare services help thousands of organizations get the most from their investments in Fortinet's products and services. To achieve this, FortiCare follows the life-cycle approach and provides unique services to help our customers in their success journeys.
Technical Support Services
Various per-device options are available for efficient operations. FortiCare Elite option provides a 15-minute response time for critical products.
Advanced Support
Various per-account white glove services are available to reduce disruption and increase productivity with operational reviews by designated experts.
Professional Services
Our multi-vendor experts can design and deploy a complete best practice-based solution to help you meet your network or security objectives and adopt new capabilities.
RMA
Priority RMA options are available across the product family for expedited replacement of defective hardware to meet your availability objectives.
Resources
Data Sheets
Solution Briefs
Videos
White Papers
Secure Application Delivery with FortiADC »
FortiADC is an application delivery controller (ADC) with advanced security features that help ensure application security, availability, and optimization.
SSL Visibility and Inspection with FortiADC »
FortiADC’s ASIC-powered SSL processing can offload cryptographic functions from firewalls and intrusion prevention systems for high-performance encrypted threat detection and mitigation
Fortinet Load-balancing Solutions Ensure VPN and Service Availability and Security »
FortiADC application delivery controllers can be deployed as load balancers, enabling optimized routing of inbound VPN connections to multiple FortiGate NGFWs.
FortiADC and FortiWeb Architecture »
In this video, we will cover the different types of reference architectures based on FortiADC and FortiWeb Solutions.
FortiADC and FortiWeb Fabric Integration »
In this video, we will focus on how FortiADC and FortiWeb solutions can integrated with Fortinet Security Fabric. We will be covering different types of Fortinet products that will enhance the application security platform.
FortiADC AWS Auto Scale »
Learn how to use AWS auto-scaling to automatically adjust server capacity on FortiADC
FortiADC-FortiGate Security Fabric »
FortiGate and FortiADC Security Fabric integration
Ecosystem
Amazon Web Services
AWS services are trusted by more than a million active customers around the world – including the fastest growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies – to power their infrastructures, make them more agile, and lower costs.
Learn more on the Fortinet-AWS alliance
Google Cloud Platform
Google Cloud Platform is a secure, dedicated public cloud computing service operated by Google which provides a range of infrastructure and application services that enable deployments in the cloud. Fortinet provides critical firewalling, advanced security and scalable BYOL protection for elastic compute, container, and machine-learning workloads in Google’s innovative public cloud.
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft is the leading platform and productivity company for the mobile-first, cloud-first world, and its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
Oracle
Oracle offers a comprehensive and fully integrated stack of cloud applications and platform services.
Restorepoint
Restorepoint’s solutions help organisations and service providers reduce cost, manage unforeseen risks, and to accelerate change management across their multi-vendor network infrastructures. Using our cost-effective products, customers can quickly automate Network Outage Protection, Compliance Auditing, and Privileged Access Management and to simplify Bulk Change Management.
