Introduction; Revision History; About The Fortigate-5000 Series Chassis - Fortinet FortiGate FortiGate-5001FA2 Introductions Manual

Introduction

Introduction

Revision history

About the FortiGate-5000 series chassis

FortiGate-5000 Series Introduction
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This FortiGate-5000 Series Introduction is a high-level guide to all three
FortiGate-5000 series chassis and the modules that you can install in them.
This chapter includes the following topics:
• Revision history
• About the FortiGate-5000 series chassis
• About the FortiGate-5000 series modules
• Warnings and cautions
• Fortinet documentation
• Customer service and technical support
Table 1: Revision History
Version
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The FortiGate-5000 series Security Systems are chassis-based systems that
MSSPs and large enterprises can use to provide subscriber security services
such as firewall, VPN, antivirus protection, spam filtering, web filtering and
intrusion prevention (IPS). The wide variety of system configurations available
with FortiGate-5000 series provide flexibility to meet the changing needs of
growing high performance networks. The FortiGate-5000 series chassis support
multiple hot-swappable FortiGate-5000 series modules and power supplies. This
modular approach provides a scalable, high-performance and failure-proof
solution.
Description of changes
First version.
Revision history
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