With so many enterprise initiatives around big data, public cloud and Internet of things, security infrastructure providers must deliver even more performance, reliability and scalability to their customers. Fortinet’s 5000-series chassis-based scalable platforms offer groundbreaking throughput and proven resilience to satisfy the most demanding carrier and enterprise datacenter requirements.
The FortiGate 5000-series bundles integrate modular carrier class hardware components with advanced FortiASIC™ acceleration and consolidated security from the FortiOS™ operating system to deliver up to 1 Tbps throughput. And with our in-house FortiGuard research team delivers dynamic, automated updates and ensures up-to-date protection against sophisticated threats. In addition, the 5000 series supports a web-based GUI, ‘single pane of glass’ management console and on-board reporting for deep visibility.
FortiGate 5144C
Next Generation 14U 19-inch rack mount ATCA chassis with 40 Gbps Backplane and capable of Dual-Dual-Star topology. It can install up to 14 FortiGate 5000-series blades.

FortiGate 5001D
Latest purpose-built FortiGate security blade with carrier-class capacity and protection. Runs on FortiOS 5 — the most powerful security operating system in the world.

FortiController 5913C
High performance, FortiASIC DP2 accelerated networking blade with 100 GE interfaces and 10/40-gigabit fabric and 1-gigabit base backplane channel.
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| FortiGate 5144C | |
|---|---|
| Hardware Specifications | |
| Available Slots | 14 |
| High Availability Backplane Fabric | Built-in |
| 40 Gbps Backplane Support | Yes |
| Shelf Manager (Default / Maximum) | 1 / 2 |
| Dual Networking Blade Support | Yes |
| Dimensions | |
| Height x Width x Length (inches) | 24.44 x 19.06 x 21.63 |
| Height x Width x Length (cm) | 62.1 x 48.4 x 55.0 |
| Weight | 108 lb (50 kg) |
| Maximum Capacity** | |
| Firewall Throughput | 1.12 Tbps |
| Power and Environment | |
| Power Required | DC/AC1 |
| Chassis Only Power Consumption (Maximum) *** | 960 W |
| Heat Dissipation (Maximum) *** | 3,276 BTU/h |
| Operating Temperature | 32–104°F (0–40°C) |
| Storage Temperature | -13–158°F (-35–70°C) |
| Humidity | 5–90% non-condensing |
| Compliance | |
| Certifications | FCC Part 15 Class A, C-Tick, VCCI, CE, BSMI, UL/cUL |
1 Optional FortiGate 5053B Power Supply Shelf used to provide AC power to the FortiGate
** Based on fully populated FortiGate 5001D
*** Please refer to respective Chassis Guide for computation of total power requirement.
| FortiGate 5001D | |
|---|---|
| Interfaces and Storage | |
| 40 GE QSFP+ Ports | 2 |
| 10 GE SFP+ Ports | 2 |
| GE RJ45 Ports | 2 |
| RJ45 Console Port | 1 |
| Included Transceivers | 2x 10 GE SFP+ SR |
| Local Storage | 200 GB |
| Syetem Performance | |
| Firewall Throughput (1518 / 512 / 64 byte UDP packets) | 80 / 80 / 45 Gbps |
| Firewall Latency (64 byte UDP packets) | 3 μs |
| Firewall Throughput (Packets Per Second) | 67.5 Mbpps |
| Concurrent Sessions (TCP) | 23 Mil |
| New Sessions/Sec (TCP) | 565,000 |
| Maximum Firewall Policies | 100,000 |
| IPsec VPN Throughput (512 byte packets) | 25 Gbps |
| Gateway-to-Gateway IPsec VPN Tunnels | 40,000 |
| Client-to-Gateway IPsec VPN Tunnels | 64,000 |
| SSL-VPN Throughput | 6.5 Gbps |
| Concurrent SSL-VPN Users (Recommended Maximum) | 25,000 |
| IPS Throughput | 18 Gbps |
| Antivirus Throughput (Proxy Based / Flow Based) | 5.6 / 13 Gbps |
| Virtual Domains (Default / Maximum) | 10 / 500 |
| Maximum Number of FortiTokens | 5,000 |
| Maximum Number of Registered FortiClients | 20,000 |
| Maximum Number of FortiAPs | 1,024 |
| Power and Environment | |
| Power Consumption (Average / Maximum) | 189 / 226 W |
| Heat Dissipation (Average) | 774 BTU/h |
| Operating Temperature | 32–104°F (0–40°C) |
| Storage Temperature | -13–158°F (-25–70°C) |
| Humidity | 20–90% non-condensing |
| Compliance | |
| Certifications | FCC Part 15 Class A, C-Tick, VCCI, CE, UL/cUL, CB, ICSA Labs: Firewall, IPsec, IPS, Antivirus, SSL-VPN |
| NEBS Certified | – |
* Operating in Standalone Mode
Note: All performance values are “up to” and vary depending on system configuration. Antivirus performance is measured using 44 Kbyte HTTP files. IPS performance is measured using 1 Mbyte HTTP files.
| FortiController 5913C | ||
|---|---|---|
| Interfaces | ||
| Fabric Channel Interfaces | 2x 100 GE CFP2 | |
| Base Channel Interfaces | 2x 10 GE SFP+ | |
| Management Interfaces | 1x GE RJ45 | |
| Included Transceivers | 2x 10 GE SFP+ SR | |
| 40 GE Backplane Fabric Support | Yes | |
| 10 GE Backplane Fabric Support | Yes | |
| GE Backplane Fabric Support | – | |
| System Performance | ||
| Maximum Traffic Throughput | 200 Gbps | |
| Maximum Concurrent Sessions | 135 Million | |
| New Sessions/Second (TCP) | 3.6 Million | |
| Power and Environment | ||
| Power Consumption (Average / Maximum) | 280 / 400 W | |
| Heat Dissipation | 955 BTU/h | |
| Operating Temperature | 32–104°F (0–40°C) | |
| Storage Temperature | -13–158°F (-35–70°C) | |
| Humidity | 5–90% non-condensing | |
| Compliance | ||
| Certifications | FCC Part 15 Class A, C-Tick, VCCI, CE, UL/cUL, CB | |