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July 10, 2004
Total solution box
Sometime you need total solution for your network which connects to the Internet particularly for small or medium office , it means not enterprise but
Maybe you want.
You think about IDS,Firewall,Antivirus,NAT,VPN and so on but how much do you
Have budget for your solution, if you want to buy everything then you should pay for them a lot of money.it's not cost effective.
The fortigate is a product of the Fortinet that's total solution for your network.
Recently i've configed it for a network contain 70 clients in the building with 6
Floors,it connects to the internet by wireless connection with around 2M bits/s Bandwidth.
See the following feature that it's doing in that building with the FortiGate-60:
- Intrusion Detection and Prevention (Live update)
- Firewall (with 3 zone : Inside,Outside and DMZ)
- Anti Spam
- Anti Virus (Live update)
- NAT
- IP Virtual
- Content Filtering
- MAC binding (you can bind a ip address with a MAc address)
- Traffic shaping
- Auditing and reporting
- SNMP
In-fact it has many features like VPN that i didn't use it but it can.
they said about powerful ASIC that they are using with their OS which named
FortiOS. for more information you can see their web site at www.fortinet.com or
If you have question about this box , feel free to contact me.
Posted by Mehrdad at July 10, 2004 08:11 AM