Connectors; Accelerated Packet Forwarding And Policy Enforcement - Fortinet FortiGate-5000 Introduction Manual

FortiGate-5005FA2 security system

Connectors

Accelerated packet forwarding and policy enforcement

FortiGate-5000 Series Introduction
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Table 10: FortiGate-5005FA2 board LEDs (Continued)
LED State
IPM Blue
Flashing
Blue
Off
1, 2, 3, 4, Green
5, 6, 7, 8
Flashing Network activity at the gigabit SFP interface.
Table 11 lists and describes the FortiGate-5005FA2 connectors.
Table 11: FortiGate-5005FA2 connectors
Connector Type Speed
1, 2, 3, LC SFP 1000Base-SX
4, 5, 6
7, 8 LC SFP 1000Base-SX
CONSOLE RJ-45 9600 bps
8/N/1
USB USB
FortiGate-5005FA2 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-5005FA2 accelerated interfaces provide wire speed
performance for small packet applications.
• Latency sensitive applications, such as multimedia.
The FortiGate-5005FA2 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-5005FA2 CPUs is off-loaded to the acceleration module.
Accelerated packet forwarding and policy enforcement
Description
The FortiGate-5005FA2 is ready to be hot-swapped
(removed from the chassis). If the IPM light is blue and no
other LEDs are lit the FortiGate-5005FA2 board has lost
power
The FortiGate-5005FA2 is changing from hot swap to running
mode or from running mode to hot swap.
Normal operation. The FortiGate-5005FA2 board is in contact
with the chassis backplane.
The correct cable is connected to the gigabit SFP interface.
Protocol Description
Ethernet Six gigabit SFP interfaces that can
accept fiber or copper gigabit
transceivers. These interfaces only
operate at 1000Mbps.
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 1 to 6.
RS-232 Serial connection to the command line
serial interface.
FortiUSB key firmware updates and
configuration backup.
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