Fortinet FortiBalancer 1000
Application Delivery Controller

Overview:

The Fortinet FortiBalancer 1000 Application Delivery Controller optimizes the availability, user experience, performance and scalability of mobile, cloud and enterprise application delivery from anywhere-to-anywhere. The FortiBalancer 1000 appliance, the mid-range of the FortiBalancer line, is designed for fast, secure and intelligent acceleration of demanding applications and traffic aggregation. The feature rich appliance form factor results in ease of integration with traditional data centers, virtualized datacenters and cloud infrastructures, while delivering outstanding business value. Using the platform APIs, IT administrators can integrate the FortiBalancer 1000 appliance with virtualized IT infrastructures to dynamically provision IT resources based on real-time application traffic demands.

The FortiBalancer 1000 utilizes multi-core processor technology and ASIC acceleration for linear scalability. This enables the FortiBalancer 1000 to handle heavy Layer 4 through 7 traffic loads while delivering unmatched performance and scalability.

Since FortiBalancer appliances are fully aware of Layers 4 through 7 application traffic, connections, transactions, and content; IT departments can create event-driven policies for intelligent distribution of application traffic across web and application servers, while eliminating the need to replicate content across multiple servers

FortiBalancer-1000 Features & Benefits:

• 4 Gbps throughput and 4 million concurrent connections
• Highly competitive pricing makes the FortiBalancer one of the most cost effective application delivery controllers in the market
• Caching of static content at the network edge reduces the load on the server and network infrastructure, increasing application responsiveness and reducing delivery delays
• SSL Offload performed in hardware reduces the performance impact on the server infrastructure
• Link Load Balancing (Optional) distribute traffic over multiple ISPs to increase resilience and reduce the need for costly bandwidth upgrades.
• Global Server Load Balancing (Optional) distributes traffic across multiple geographical locations for resilience without the need for complex BGP networking, lowering costs and complexity of your infrastructure whilst maintaining geographical redundancy.
• Delivers 99.999% application uptime with a 10X increase in application performance and scalability, with 70% less infrastructure to purchase and manage

Fortinet FortiBalancer Series of Application Delivery Controllers optimize the availability, user experience, performance and scalability of mobile, cloud and enterprise application delivery from anywhere-to-anywhere. The range of FortiBalancer appliances are designed for fast, secure and intelligent acceleration of demanding applications and traffic aggregation in enterprises of all sizes. The feature rich appliance form factor results in ease of integration with traditional data centers, virtualized data centers and cloud infrastructures, while delivering outstanding business value.

FortiBalancer offers:

• A full range of Layer 2 – 7 load balancing methods
• A wide variety of application persistence methods
• Flexible application health checks
• Support for proxy and transparent modes
• Deployment in one-arm and two-arm configurations
• From Enterprise to ISP and Cloud scalability and performance with up to 10Gbps interfaces and 30Gbps throughput

The FortiBalancer appliance series of application delivery appliances are unique in their ability to provide unparalleled scalability and performance in compact 1U and 2U form factors. The FortiBalancer series appliances utilize multi-core processor technology and ASIC acceleration for linear scalability. This enables the FortiBalancer series appliances to handle heavy Layer 4 through 7 traffic loads while delivering unmatched performance and scalability for small, medium and large enterprises.