Fortinet Debuts SD-WAN ASIC to Power Latest FortiGate Appliance

Fortinet today released a SoC4 SD-WAN ASIC, which will power the latest iteration of its FortiGate appliance, 100F. The company also updated its operating system and security fabric to power what it calls security-driven networking, including new features for SD-WAN and other edge and multi-cloud environments. FortiGate is the firm’s next-generation firewall appliance, which is what it offers its SD-WAN features through. Fortinet began selling SD-WAN directly to its customers (through this appliance) last July. Nirav Shah, the senior director of network security products and solutions at Fortinet, said the company has been focused for three years on building SD-WAN functionality as a software, but this is the first announcement being made in terms of redesigning the architecture and building an ASIC