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FG-1800F

FortiGate 1800F

Hyperscale-capable — 40 million sessions and 2 million new sessions/sec

Threat protection
15 Gbps
Firewall throughput
198 Gbps
IPsec VPN
55 Gbps
Concurrent sessions
12 Million

Front panel

Front panel layout for the FortiGate 1800F: 4 × 100G QSFP28, 12 × 25G SFP28, 2 × 10G SFP+, 6 × 1G SFP, 18 × 1G RJ454× 100G12× 25G2× 10G6× 1G12× 1G6× 1G
42 fixed ports. Schematic drawn from the published interface list — port order and physical arrangement are indicative, not to scale.
  • QSFP cage
  • SFP cage
  • RJ45 copper

The 1800F is the first model in the range offering Hyperscale licensing, which lifts concurrent sessions from 12 million to 40 million and new sessions per second from 750,000 to 2 million. It carries four 100GE QSFP28 ports, and FortiOS 7.4 or later is required to use them.

Is this the right model?

Where it fits — and where it stops fitting

Compare the whole range

Buy the 1800F for the Hyperscale licence, not the chassis. Without it, the 2600F offers more threat protection (25 vs 15 Gbps) and twice the session count in the same 2 RU. With it, the 1800F handles session volumes that have nothing to do with enterprise inspection — CGNAT, IoT fleets, carrier aggregation.

Highlights

  • Hyperscale: 40 million sessions, 2 million new sessions/sec
  • 4x 100GE QSFP28 (requires FortiOS 7.4+)
  • 100,000 firewall policies, 250 VDOMs
  • 2x 960 GB storage, DC power variant

Typical deployments

  • Carrier-grade NAT and subscriber-facing aggregation
  • IoT and telemetry fleets generating enormous session counts
  • Environments where the requirement is stated in sessions, not gigabits
Specifications

The numbers, with their conditions

Every figure below is Fortinet's own, with the test conditions it was measured under.

Performance

Fortinet's published figures. Firewall throughput is measured on UDP with no inspection enabled — size your deployment on threat protection throughput instead, which is measured with firewall, IPS, application control and malware protection all running against an enterprise traffic mix.

Performance
Firewall throughput (1518 / 512 / 64 byte UDP)198 / 197 / 140 Gbps
IPsec VPN throughput (512 byte)IPsec VPN performance test uses AES256-SHA256.55 Gbps
IPS throughput (enterprise mix)IPS, application control, NGFW and threat protection are measured with logging enabled.22 Gbps
NGFW throughput (enterprise mix)NGFW performance is measured with firewall, IPS and application control enabled, enterprise mix traffic.17 Gbps
Threat protection throughput (enterprise mix)Threat protection performance is measured with firewall, IPS, application control and malware protection enabled, enterprise mix traffic.15 Gbps
SSL inspection throughput (IPS, avg. HTTPS)SSL inspection performance values use an average of HTTPS sessions of different cipher suites.12 Gbps
Application control throughput (HTTP 64K)34 Gbps
Firewall latency3.22 µs

Capacity

Capacity
Concurrent sessions12 Million / 40 Million
New sessions / second750,000 / 2 Million
Firewall policies100,000
Max gateway-to-gateway IPsec tunnels20,000
Max client-to-gateway IPsec tunnels100,000
SSL VPN throughput11 Gbps
Concurrent SSL VPN users (recommended max, tunnel mode)10,000
Virtual domains (default / max)10 / 250

Security Fabric capacity

How much of the rest of the Fabric this model manages directly, with no separate controller.

Security Fabric capacity
Max managed FortiAPs (total / tunnel)4,096 / 2,048
Max managed FortiSwitches196
Max FortiTokens20,000

Hardware

Hardware
Interfaces4x 100GE QSFP28, 12x 25GE SFP28, 2x 10GE SFP+, 6x GE SFP, 18x GE RJ45
Local storage2x 960 GB (1801F)
Power suppliesDual PS
Form factor2 RU
VariantsDC

Model-specific caveats

Fortinet conditions that apply to this model in particular. Worth reading before you order.

Model-specific caveats
Note 1The second figure requires a Hyperscale license.
Note 2FortiOS 7.4 or later is required for 100 GE support.

Sources

Reproduced from Fortinet published documentation and subject to change without notice. Where a figure is load-bearing for your design, ask us to confirm it in writing before you order — we will.

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