Fortinet FortiBalancer-400 FBL-400 Data Sheet

Product codes
FBL-400
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FortiBalancer
®
 Series
Application Delivery Controller 
Fortinet FortiBalancer Series of Application Delivery Controllers optimize 
the availability, user experience, performance and scalability of mobile, 
cloud and enterprise application delivery from anywhere-to-anywhere.  
The range of FortiBalancer appliances are designed for fast, secure and 
intelligent acceleration of demanding applications and traffic aggregation 
in enterprises of all sizes. The feature rich appliance form factor results in 
ease of integration with traditional data centers, virtualized data centers and 
cloud infrastructures, while delivering outstanding business value.
FortiBalancer offers:
•  A full range of Layer 2 – 7 load balancing methods
•  A wide variety of application persistence methods
•  Flexible application health checks
•  Support for proxy and transparent modes
•  Deployment in one-arm and two-arm configurations
•  From Enterprise to ISP and Cloud  scalability and performance with up to 
10Gbps interfaces and 30Gbps throughput
The FortiBalancer appliance series of application delivery appliances are unique 
in their ability to provide unparalleled scalability and performance in compact 
1U and 2U form factors. The FortiBalancer series appliances utilize multi-core 
processor technology and ASIC acceleration for linear scalability.  This enables 
the FortiBalancer series appliances to handle heavy Layer 4 through 7 traffic loads 
while delivering unmatched performance and scalability for small, medium and large 
enterprises.
•  2 to 30 Gbps throughput and 1M 
to 16M concurrent connections 
allows for small enterprise through 
to cloud-scale performance levels
•  Intelligent traffic management for 
optimized application delivery and 
availability
•  Server offloading for improved 
application acceleration, scale 
and TCO
•  Local/global load balancing 
and clustering for 99.999% 
application uptime
•  Built-in caching, compression, 
SSL processing and TCP 
connection multiplexing for up to 
50% or more improvement in user 
experience
•  ASIC accelerated SSL offload 
for securing and protecting 
applications without impacting 
performance
•  Browser based Web user interface 
for ease of management
•  Appliance form factor for 
simplified deployment
Features and Benefits
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