Fortinet FortiGate-5000 manual Lists and describes the FortiGate-5001FA2-LENC connectors

FortiGate-5001FA2-LENC security system Accelerated packet forwarding and policy enforcement

Table 12: FortiGate-5001FA2-LENC board LEDs (Continued)

LED		State	Description
5, 6,	Link	Green	The correct cable is inserted into this interface and the
7, 8	LED		connected equipment has power.
		Flashing	Network activity at this interface.
	Speed	Green	The interface is connected at 1000 Mbps.
	LED
		Amber	The interface is connected at 100 Mbps.
		Unlit	The interface is connected at 10 Mbps.

Connectors

Table 13 lists and describes the FortiGate-5001FA2-LENC connectors.

Table 13: FortiGate-5001FA2-LENC connectors

Connector	Type	Speed	Protocol	Description
1 and 2	LC SFP	1000Base-SX	Ethernet	Two accelerated gigabit SFP interfaces
				that can accept optical or copper gigabit
				transceivers. These interfaces only
				operate at 1000Mbps. The accelerated
				interface connectors are inverted
				compared to connectors 3 and 4.
3 and 4	LC SFP	1000Base-SX	Ethernet	Two gigabit SFP interfaces that can
				accept optical or copper gigabit
				transceivers. These interfaces only
				operate at 1000Mbps.
5, 6, 7, 8	RJ-45	10/100/1000	Ethernet	Copper gigabit connection to
		Base-T		10/100/1000Base-T copper networks.
CONSOLE	DB-9	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-5001FA2-LENC 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-5001FA2-LENC accelerated interfaces provide wire speed performance for small packet applications.

•Latency sensitive applications, such as multimedia.

The FortiGate-5001FA2-LENC 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-5001FA2-LENC CPUs is off-loaded to the acceleration module.

•Firewall and intrusion protection (IPS), when there is a reasonable percentage of P2P packets.

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