Connectors; Accelerated Packet Forwarding And Policy Enforcement - Fortinet FortiGate FortiGate-5001FA2 Introductions Manual

FortiGate-5001FA2 security system

Connectors

Accelerated packet forwarding and policy enforcement

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Table 10 lists and describes the FortiGate-5001FA2 connectors.
Table 10: FortiGate-5001FA2 connectors
Connector Type Speed
1 and 2 LC SFP 1000Base-SX
3 and 4 LC SFP 1000Base-SX
5, 6, 7, 8 RJ-45 10/100/1000
Base-T
CONSOLE DB-9 9600 bps
USB USB
FortiGate-5001FA2 Accelerated packet forwarding and policy enforcement results
in accelerated small packet performance required for voice, video, and other
multimedia streaming applications. The following traffic scenarios are
recommended for the accelerated interfaces:
• Small packet applications, such as voice over IP (VoIP).
The FortiGate-5001FA2 accelerated interfaces provide wire speed
performance for small packet applications.
• Latency sensitive applications, such as multimedia.
The FortiGate-5001FA2 accelerated interfaces add much less latency than
normal (non-accelerated) interfaces.
• Session Oriented Traffic with long session lifetime, such as FTP sessions.
Packet size does not affect performance for traffic with long session lifetime.
For long sessions, processing that would otherwise be handled by the
FortiGate-5001FA2 CPUs is off-loaded to the acceleration module.
• Firewall and intrusion protection (IPS), when there is a reasonable percentage
of P2P packets.
• Firewall, intrusion protection (IPS), and antivirus, when there is a reasonable
percentage of P2P packets.
• Firewall and IPSec VPN applications.
The following traffic scenarios should be handled by the normal (or non-
accelerated) FortiGate-5001FA2 interfaces:
• Session oriented traffic when the session lifetime is very short.
Accelerated packet forwarding and policy enforcement
Protocol Description
Ethernet Two accelerated gigabit SFP interfaces
that can accept fiber or copper gigabit
transceivers. These interfaces only
operate at 1000Mbps. The accelerated
interface connectors are inverted
compared to connectors 3 and 4.
Ethernet Two gigabit SFP interfaces that can
accept fiber or copper gigabit
transceivers. These interfaces only
operate at 1000Mbps.
Ethernet Copper gigabit connection to
10/100/1000Base-T copper networks.
RS-232 Serial connection to the command line
serial interface.
FortiUSB key firmware updates and
configuration backup.
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