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

FortiGate-5001FA2-LENC security system

Connectors

Accelerated packet forwarding and policy enforcement

FortiGate-5000 Series Introduction
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Table 12: FortiGate-5001FA2-LENC board LEDs (Continued)
LED State Description
5, 6, Link Green The correct cable is inserted into this interface and the
connected equipment has power.
7, 8 LED
Flashing Network activity at this interface.
Speed Green The interface is connected at 1000 Mbps.
LED
Amber The interface is connected at 100 Mbps.
Unlit The interface is connected at 10 Mbps.
Table 13 lists and describes the FortiGate-5001FA2-LENC connectors.
Table 13: FortiGate-5001FA2-LENC 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
8/N/1
USB USB
FortiGate-5001FA2-LENC 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-LENC accelerated interfaces provide wire speed
performance for small packet applications.
• Latency sensitive applications, such as multimedia.
The FortiGate-5001FA2-LENC 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-LENC CPUs is off-loaded to the acceleration module.
• Firewall and intrusion protection (IPS), when there is a reasonable percentage
of P2P packets.
Accelerated packet forwarding and policy enforcement
Protocol Description
Ethernet Two accelerated gigabit SFP interfaces
that can accept optical 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 optical 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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