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FortiGate-5001FA2 security system
FortiGate-5001FA2 Security System Guide
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FortiGate-5001FA2 security system
The FortiGate-5001FA2 security system is a high-performance FortiGate security
system with a total of 8 front panel gigabit ethernet interfaces and two base
backplane interfaces. Use the front panel interfaces for connections to your
networks and the backplane interfaces for communication between
FortiGate-5000 series boards over the FortiGate-5000 chassis backplane.
You can also configure two or more FortiGate-5001FA2 boards to create a high
availability (HA) cluster using the base backplane interfaces for HA heartbeat
communication through chassis backplane, leaving all eight front panel gigabit
interfaces available for network connections.
FortiGate-5001FA2 front panel interfaces 1 and 2 also include accelerated packet
forwarding and policy enforcement for faster small packet performance.
The FortiGate-5001FA2 board also supports high-end FortiGate features
including 802.1Q VLANs, multiple virtual domains, 802.3ad aggregate interfaces,
and FortiGate-5000 chassis monitoring.
Figure 1: FortiGate-5001FA2 front panel
The FortiGate-5001FA2 board includes the following features:
• A total of eight front panel gigabit interfaces
• Two accelerated packet forwarding and policy enforcement gigabit
interfaces that can accept optical Small Formfactor Pluggable (SFP) or
copper SFP gigabit transceivers (interfaces 1 and 2)
• Two gigabit interfaces that can accept optical or copper SFP gigabit
transceivers (interfaces 3 and 4)
• Four 10/100/1000Base-T gigabit copper network interfaces (interfaces 5, 6,
7, 8)
• Two base backplane gigabit interfaces (port9 and port10) for HA heartbeat and
data communications across the FortiGate-5000 chassis backplane.
• DB-9 RS-232 serial console connection
• One USB connector
• Mounting hardware
• LED status indicators
PWR
ACC
STA IPM
CONSOLE
USB
3 4
1 2
5 6 7 8
3 4 Optical or Copper
SFP Gigabit
1 2 Optical or Copper
SFP Gigabit
Accelerated
5 6 7 8
Gigabit Copper
Handle
Status
Module
Position
Power
USB
Flash Disk
Access
RS-232
Serial
HandleRetention
Screw
Retention
Screw
Link/Traffic