Fortinet FortiGate 700G FG-700G-BDL-809-12 1U Rackmount Firewall, 1-Year Enterprise Protection

No. The FG-700G-BDL-809-12 provides no Power over Ethernet on any port, so cameras, access points and IP phones need their own power source or a PoE switch between them and the firewall. Its interfaces are eight 5 GE multigigabit copper ports, sixteen gigabit SFP slots, four 10 GE SFP+ slots and four 25 GE SFP28 slots, all data-only. Within the FortiGate G series PoE appears on separate part numbers, not on this one.

The appliance has sixteen 1GE SFP slots, four 10GE SFP+/GE SFP slots, and four separate 25/10GE SFP28/SFP+ slots. Fortinet lists the compatible transceiver modules in the ordering information. Two SFP SX transceivers are included. Other transceivers are sold separately.

The FG-700G-BDL-809-12 supports Active-Active, Active-Passive and Clustering high-availability modes. An HA pair should be two identical models running the same FortiOS build, and the units synchronise configuration and session state over the HA link. This model has a dedicated HA port.

Fortinet publishes no user count for the FG-700G-BDL-809-12, so size it on the capacity figures. Firewall throughput is 164 / 163 / 145 Gbps at 1518, 512 and 64-byte UDP. Small packets cost throughput. Threat protection throughput is 26 Gbps once IPS, application control and malware protection are enabled, and SSL inspection throughput is 14 Gbps; size against those. It holds 28 million concurrent TCP sessions and opens 700,000 new sessions per second. All values are stated as up to.

Their interface layout and published performance specifications are the same: the FG-701G is the otherwise closely matched model with two 480 GB SSDs. Power consumption differs between the two models while the published weight is the same, so read each model's own row in the specification table. Both run the same FortiOS build and take the same FortiGuard subscriptions.

The FG-700G-BDL-809-12 is the appliance plus a prepaid FortiGuard Enterprise Protection subscription and FortiCare Premium support, both for a term of 1 year (12 months). Enterprise Protection covers IPS, anti-malware, URL, DNS and video filtering, anti-spam, AI-based inline malware prevention, data loss prevention (full features when running FortiOS 7.4.1, per Fortinet) and Attack Surface Security, along with the FortiConverter configuration-conversion service. OT Security and the SD-WAN and SASE services are not part of this bundle. FortiCare Premium provides 24x7x365 availability with one-hour response for critical issues and next-business-day response for everything else.

No. Core firewall, routing and networking functions can continue to operate without an active FortiGuard subscription, while subscription-based security intelligence, updates and services require an active subscription. The FG-700G-BDL-809-12 ships with a prepaid FortiGuard Enterprise Protection subscription and FortiCare Premium support for 1 year (12 months); when that term ends, the FortiGuard intelligence and the support entitlement lapse and can be renewed.

Network Devices Inc. supplies the FG-700G-BDL-809-12 new and factory sealed, in original Fortinet packaging with the standard accessories. It is covered by a one-year Network Devices Inc. warranty and a 30-day return window. Because the unit is new rather than renewed, it is eligible for Fortinet registration and for FortiCare and FortiGuard entitlements ordered against it, which is not always the case with refurbished stock. Orders ship from our New Jersey and Texas warehouses.