Interfaces: 10 x GE RJ45 (port roles vary by source; FortiLink ports available for FortiSwitch/FortiAP)
Form Factor: Fanless desktop
Curation Review
✔ Pros:Strong 10 Gbps firewall throughput for a desktop appliance; Fanless desktop design suits small offices and branch sites; 10 x GE RJ45 ports cover LAN, WAN, and DMZ needs; 7.1 Gbps IPsec VPN throughput with 200 gateway-to-gateway and 500 client-to-gateway tunnels; FortiLink support for managing FortiSwitch and FortiAP under one console; Hardware-only price is modest compared with higher-end FortiGate models
✘ Cons:Threat prevention throughput (1.3 Gbps) drops sharply once UTM inspection is enabled; No SFP/SFP+ uplink ports listed in available sources, limiting fiber uplink options; Full UTM feature set requires separate FortiGuard subscription bundles, which raise total cost well above the hardware price; PoE is not on the base model and requires the 70G-PoE variant; 1.4M concurrent sessions and 100K new sessions/sec may be limiting for larger or high-connection-count networks