Fortinet FortiGate-5000 manual Accelerated packet forwarding and policy enforcement

FortiGate-5005FA2 security system Accelerated packet forwarding and policy enforcement

Table 10: FortiGate-5005FA2 board LEDs (Continued)

LED	State	Description
IPM	Blue	The FortiGate-5005FA2 is ready to be hot-swapped
		(removed from the chassis). If the IPM light is blue and no
		other LEDs are lit the FortiGate-5005FA2 board has lost
		power
	Flashing	The FortiGate-5005FA2 is changing from hot swap to running
	Blue	mode or from running mode to hot swap.
	Off	Normal operation. The FortiGate-5005FA2 board is in contact
		with the chassis backplane.
1, 2, 3, 4,	Green	The correct cable is connected to the gigabit SFP interface.
5, 6, 7, 8
	Flashing	Network activity at the gigabit SFP interface.

Connectors

Table 11 lists and describes the FortiGate-5005FA2 connectors.

Table 11: FortiGate-5005FA2 connectors

Connector	Type	Speed	Protocol	Description
1, 2, 3,	LC SFP	1000Base-SX	Ethernet	Six gigabit SFP interfaces that can
4, 5, 6				accept fiber or copper gigabit
				transceivers. These interfaces only
				operate at 1000Mbps.
7, 8	LC SFP	1000Base-SX	Ethernet	Two accelerated gigabit SFP interfaces
				that can accept fiber or copper gigabit
				transceivers. These interfaces only
				operate at 1000Mbps. The accelerated
				interface connectors are inverted
				compared to connectors 1 to 6.
CONSOLE	RJ-45	9600 bps	RS-232	Serial connection to the command line
		8/N/1	serial	interface.
USB	USB			FortiUSB key firmware updates and
				configuration backup.

Accelerated packet forwarding and policy enforcement

FortiGate-5005FA2 Accelerated packet forwarding and policy enforcement results in accelerated small packet performance required for voice, video, and other multimedia streaming applications. The following traffic scenarios are recommended for the accelerated interfaces:

•Small packet applications, such as voice over IP (VoIP).

The FortiGate-5005FA2 accelerated interfaces provide wire speed performance for small packet applications.

•Latency sensitive applications, such as multimedia.

The FortiGate-5005FA2 accelerated interfaces add much less latency than normal (non-accelerated) interfaces.

•Session Oriented Traffic with long session lifetime, such as FTP sessions.

Packet size does not affect performance for traffic with long session lifetime. For long sessions, processing that would otherwise be handled by the FortiGate-5005FA2 CPUs is off-loaded to the acceleration module.

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