🛡️ FortiGate 40F vs 60F vs 80F

FortiGate 40F vs 60F vs 80F — all three are fanless desktop FortiGates running the same FortiOS, so the choice comes down to throughput, inspection headroom and ports. Fortinet's data sheets put the 40F at 5 Gbps firewall throughput, 1 Gbps IPS, 800 Mbps NGFW and 600 Mbps Threat Protection, with 700,000 concurrent sessions across five GE RJ45 ports. The 60F doubles firewall throughput to 10 Gbps and lifts IPS to 1.4 Gbps and Threat Protection to 700 Mbps, with ten GE RJ45 ports but the same 700,000-session table. The 80F keeps the 60F's 10 Gbps firewall and 1.4 Gbps IPS figures but raises Threat Protection to 900 Mbps, SSL inspection to 715 Mbps (630 Mbps on the 60F, 310 Mbps on the 40F) and concurrent sessions to 1.5 million.

Ports are the other deciding factor. The 80F has eight GE RJ45 ports plus two RJ45/SFP shared-media WAN pairs, so a fibre WAN hand-off can land directly on the firewall, but each pair works as a single WAN interface rather than adding extra ports. The 60F is all copper (two WAN, one DMZ, five internal and two FortiLink ports by default), and the 40F has one WAN, three internal and one FortiLink port.

In practice, the 40F suits the smallest sites where Threat Protection demand stays under 600 Mbps. The 60F is the copper-only step up when a site needs 10 Gbps firewall throughput and more ports. The 80F is the pick when a fibre WAN hand-off, higher Threat Protection throughput or a larger session table matters.

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