The Forti Switch-5203B board is an Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ATCA) compliant hub/switch board. When operating in content cluster mode, the Forti Switch-5203B board is session aware & can be configured with firewall policies & other Forti Gate configuration options. The Forti Switch-5203B board itself performs firewalling, stateful inspection, VPN routing & other Forti Gate functions. The Forti Switch-5203B board load balances sessions to the worker boards using weighted load balancing. You also connect the Forti Switch-5203B board to your 10-gigabit network using the F1 to F8 front panel SFP+ connectors. The front panel also
Includes:: an Ethernet management interface, an RJ-45 console port for connecting to the Forti OS CLI & a USB (Universal Serial Bus) port. The USB (Universal Serial Bus) port can be used with any USB (Universal Serial Bus) key for backing up & restoring configuration files.