Description
FortiGate 7000E Series — Chassis-Based Hyperscale NGFW for Data Centre and Carrier Deployments
The FortiGate 7000E series is a modular chassis-based NGFW platform delivering up to 200 Gbps IPS and 96 Gbps threat protection throughput — built on NP6 and CP9 ASICs with hot-swappable processor and interface modules for maximum flexibility, hyperscale session capacity, and carrier-grade 4G/5G security.
Chassis Models & Key Performance
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FortiGate 7030E— 6RU, 3-slot chassis, 2x FPM, 1x FIM
- 60 Gbps IPS, 50 Gbps NGFW, 35 Gbps Threat Protection
- 155 Gbps firewall, 40 Gbps IPsec VPN, 160M concurrent sessions
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FortiGate 7040E-8/9— 6RU, 4-slot chassis, 2x FPM, 2x FIM
- 60/100 Gbps IPS, 50/60 Gbps NGFW, 40/48 Gbps Threat Protection
- 315 Gbps firewall, 100 Gbps IPsec VPN, 160M concurrent sessions
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FortiGate 7060E-8/9— 8RU, 6-slot chassis, up to 4x FPM, 2x FIM
- 120/200 Gbps IPS, 100/120 Gbps NGFW, 80/96 Gbps Threat Protection
- 630 Gbps firewall, 100 Gbps IPsec VPN, 320M concurrent sessions
Common Capacity (All Models)
- Up to 1.8M new sessions/second (7060E)
- 200,000 firewall policies
- Up to 500 virtual domains (VDOMs)
- 64,000 client-to-gateway IPsec VPN tunnels
- 48,000 concurrent SSL-VPN users
- Up to 256 FortiSwitches
- Active-Active (FGSP), Active-Passive, and Clustering HA
- AC and DC power supply variants available
Processor Modules (FPM)
- FPM-7620E — NP6 + CP9 accelerated, 320W average / 410W max
- FPM-7630E — NP6 + CP9 accelerated (higher performance), 320W average / 410W max
Interface Modules (FIM) — Choose Per Slot
- FIM-7901E — 32x GE/10GE SFP/SFP+ ports
- FIM-7904E — 8x 40GE QSFP+ ports
- FIM-7910E — 4x 100GE CFP2 ports
- FIM-7920E — 4x 100GE QSFP28 ports
- All FIMs include 2x 10GE SFP+ base channel ports and 4x GE RJ45 management ports
Security Features
- FortiGuard AI-powered IPS with 18,000+ signatures and virtual patching
- Anti-malware: AV, sandboxing, AI-based heuristics, Content Disarm and Reconstruct
- Web/DNS/video filtering across 300M+ URL database
- AI-based inline malware prevention — sub-second zero-day blocking
- Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and inline CASB
- OT security with detection, vulnerability correlation, virtual patching, and protocol decoders
- Real-time SSL/TLS 1.3 deep inspection
Mobile & Carrier Security
- SPU-accelerated CGNAT and IPv6 migration: NAT44, NAT444, NAT64/DNS64, NAT46
- 4G Gi/sGi and 5G N6 connectivity and security
- Scalable IPsec aggregation for RAN access security gateway
- GTP-U inspection for full user plane threat visibility
Networking & Management
- Full SD-WAN built into FortiOS
- Universal ZTNA — agent-based via FortiClient or agentless via proxy portal
- VXLAN segmentation bridging physical and virtual domains
- Managed via FortiManager or FortiManager Cloud
- FortiAnalyzer Cloud, FortiGuard SOCaaS available
- FortiConverter Service for legacy firewall migration
Environment
- Operating temperature: 0°C to 40°C
- Max power consumption: 1,940W (7030E), 2,500W (7040E), 3,277W (7060E)
- DC power option available on 7040E and 7060E variants
View data sheet: FortiGate 7000E Series Data Sheet
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