From simple server load balancing to enterprise-grade global traffic management, the FortiADC E-Series appliances can meet the needs of almost any web-based application. The FortiADC line-up of hardware-based solutions meets or outperforms competitive products costing up to 3 times as much. You pay for what you need and don’t have to buy option after option to get a solution that fits your business requirements.

Reliable and Robust Load Balancing and Application Delivery

At its heart, the FortiADC is a tried-and-true load balancer. From simple L4 TCP and UDP to advanced L7 HTTP and HTTPS, FortiADC can provide basic load balancing to precise content switching with L7 Match Rules. FortiADC gathers real-time information about a server’s status using ICMP Probes, TCP Probes, Active Content Verification (ACV) and Server Agents to route traffic based on easily configurable business rules. All FortiADCs support persistence using either cookies or IP addresses to reliably maintain server connections for your more advanced applications.

In the event that servers in a server pool are unable to satisfy a client’s request, Responders can be assigned to L7 Match Rules to redirect users to another URL or display a custom message.

High Availability for 100% Application Uptime

Mission-critical applications need mission-ready solutions. FortiADC’s 3-tier approach to application uptime means your applications are up and running with 5-nines reliability. The first tier is a server or application failure. If a server or application fails or becomes overloaded, FortiADC routes traffic automatically to healthy servers. For the second tier, FortiADC supports failover options to cover you should a FortiADC go down. Finally, the third level provides routing to an alternate data center(s) should your primary data center suffer a catastrophic or planned event.

FortiADC supports Active/Passive, Active/Active, N+1 or N+M failover configurations. FortiADC’s Multi-Active N+M Failover allows a cluster of active FortiADCs to share the workload for a large application data center. Instead of requiring idle spares in standby mode as in other failover methods, Multi-Active N+M Failover puts all the FortiADCs to work load balancing and delivering applications. If a FortiADC in the N+M cluster should fail, the others seamlessly pick up the workload until you or your team can get the failed FortiADC back online.

Features and Benefits

• Intelligent traffic management for optimized application delivery and availability.
• Server offloading for improved application acceleration, scale and TCO.
• SSL offload for accelerating application performance.
• Comprehensive server load balancing for 99.999% application uptime.
• Global Server Load Balancing for geographic resilience.
• Smart Control Automation for virtual and physical resource control.
• Optimize WAN connectivity and ensure business continuity with Link Load Balancing.
• Accelerate content delivery with on the fly compression.
• Browser-based Web user interface for ease of management.