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FortiGate 40F Series

Fortinet FortiGate 40F

Fast and secure SD-WAN in a compact fanless desktop form factor.

The FortiGate 40F series provides a fast and secure SD-WAN solution in a compact fanless desktop form factor for enterprise branch offices and mid-sized businesses. Protects against cyber threats with system-on-a-chip acceleration and industry-leading secure SD-WAN.
600 Mbps
Threat Protection Throughput
310 Mbps
SSL Inspection Throughput
700,000
Concurrent Sessions


Overview

Next Generation Firewall and Secure SD-WAN
The FortiGate/FortiWiFi 40F series provides a fast and secure SD-WAN solution in a compact fanless desktop form factor for enterprise branch offices and mid-sized businesses. Protects against cyber threats with system-on-a-chip acceleration and industry-leading secure SDWAN in a simple, affordable, and easy to deploy solution. Fortinet’s Security-Driven Networking approach provides tight integration of the network to the new generation of security.

Compact and Efficient Design: The FortiGate 40F is designed for small to mid-sized businesses and enterprise branch offices, featuring a compact, fanless desktop form factor that ensures quiet operation and minimizes space usage.

Robust Connectivity Options: Equipped with 5 GE RJ45 ports, including 1 WAN port and 4 internal ports, this model provides essential connectivity and flexibility for various network configurations in a small-scale environment.

High-Performance Security: Offers up to 1 Gbps IPS throughput and 600 Mbps threat protection throughput, using Fortinet’s purpose-built security processor technology to deliver industry-leading performance and protection for SSL encrypted traffic.

Advanced Threat Protection: Integrated with Fortinet’s AI-powered FortiGuard Labs, the FortiGate 40F offers comprehensive cybersecurity, identifying and mitigating both known and unknown threats to maintain robust security across your network.

Simplified Management and Deployment: Features a user-friendly management console that provides comprehensive network automation and visibility, coupled with Zero Touch Integration with Fortinet’s Security Fabric for easy deployment.

Secure SD-WAN Ready: Supports secure direct Internet access and dynamic WAN path steering, ensuring consistent business application performance and accelerated multi-cloud access, ideal for businesses transitioning to SaaS models.

Streamlined Network Management: Features such as the FortiLink protocol allow seamless integration of security and network management, enabling centralized control and simplified operations across all networked FortiGate devices.

Highly Scalable and Secure SD-WAN: Delivers exceptional quality of experience and enhanced security posture for diverse deployment scenarios from branch offices to large-scale enterprise environments, supported by Fortinet’s patented security processing unit (SPU) technology.

FirewallIPSNGFWThreat ProtectionInterfaces
5 Gbps1 Gbps800 Mbps600 MbpsMultiple GE RJ45 | WiFi variants
Security
  • Identifies thousands of applications inside network traffic for deep inspection and granular policy enforcement
  • Protects against malware, exploits, and malicious websites in both encrypted and non-encrypted traffic
  • Prevents and detects known and unknown attacks using continuous threat intelligence from AI-powered FortiGuard Labs security services
Networking
  • Delivers advanced networking capabilities that seamlessly integrate with advanced Layer 7 security and virtual domains (VDOMs) to offer extensive deployment flexibility, multi-tenancy, and effective utilization of resources
  • Delivers high-density, flexible combinations of various high-speed interfaces to enable the best total cost of ownership (TCO) for customers in data center and WAN deployments
Performance
  • Delivers industry’s best threat protection performance and ultra-low latency using purpose-built security processor (SPU) technology
  • Provides industry-leading performance and protection for SSL encrypted traffic
Management
  • Includes a management console that is effective, simple to use, and provides comprehensive network automation and visibility
  • Provides zero-touch integration with Security Fabric’s single pane of glass management
  • Predefined compliance checklists analyze the deployment and highlight best practices to improve overall security posture
Certification
  • Independently tested and validated for best security effectiveness and performance
  • Received unparalleled third-party certifications from NSS Labs
Security Fabric
  • Enables Fortinet and Fabric-ready partners’ products to provide broader visibility, integrated end-to-end detection, threat intelligence sharing, and automated remediation

Deployment

Next Generation Firewall (NGFW)
  • Reduce the complexity and maximize your ROI by integrating threat protection security capabilities into a single high-performance network security appliance, powered by Fortinet’s Security Processing Unit (SPU)
  • Full visibility into users, devices, applications across the entire attack surface and consistent security policy enforcement irrespective of asset location
  • Protect against network exploitable vulnerabilities with industry-validated IPS that offers low latency and optimized network performance
  • Automatically block threats on decrypted traffic using the Industry’s highest SSL inspection performance, including the latest TLS 1.3 standard with mandated ciphers
  • Proactively block newly discovered sophisticated attacks in real-time with AI-powered FortiGuard Labs and advanced threat protection services included in the Fortinet Security Fabric
Secure SD-WAN
  • Consistent business application performance with accurate detection and dynamic WAN path steering on any bestperforming WAN transport
  • Accelerated Multi-cloud access for faster SaaS adoption with cloud-on-ramp
  • Self-healing networks with WAN edge high availability, subsecond traffic switchover-based and real-time bandwidth compute-based traffic steering
  • Automated Overlay tunnels provides encryption and abstracts physical hybrid WAN making it simple to manage
  • Simplified and intuitive workflow with FortiManger for management and zero touch deployment
  • Enhanced analytics both real-time and historical provides visibility into network performance and identify anomalies
  • Strong security posture with next generation firewall and real- time threat protection

Fabric Security

Security Fabric

The industry’s highest-performing cybersecurity platform, powered by FortiOS, with a rich ecosystem designed to span the extended digital attack surface, delivering fully automated, self-healing network security.

Broad: Coordinated detection and enforcement across the entire digital attack surface and lifecycle with converged networking and security across edges, clouds, endpoints and users

Integrated: Integrated and unified security, operation, and performance across different technologies, location, deployment options, and the richest Ecosystem

Automated: Context aware, self-healing network & security posture leveraging cloud-scale and advanced AI to automatically deliver near-real-time, user-to-application coordinated protection across the Fabric

FortiOS™ Operating System

FortiOS, Fortinet’s leading operating system enable the convergence of high performing networking and security across the Fortinet Security Fabric delivering consistent and context-aware security posture across network endpoint, and clouds. The organically built best of breed capabilities and unified approach allows organizations to run their businesses without compromising performance or protection, supports seamless scalability, and simplifies innovation consumption. The release of FortiOS 7 dramatically expands the Fortinet Security Fabric’s ability to deliver consistent security across hybrid deployment models consisting on appliances, software and As-a-Service with SASE, ZTNA and other emerging cybersecurity solutions.

Services
FortiGuard™ Security Services

FortiGuard Labs offers real-time intelligence on the threat landscape, delivering comprehensive security updates across the full range of Fortinet’s solutions. Comprised of security threat researchers, engineers, and forensic specialists, the team collaborates with the world’s leading threat monitoring organizations and other network and security vendors, as well as law enforcement agencies.

FortiCare™ Services

Fortinet is dedicated to helping our customers succeed, and every year FortiCare services help thousands of organizations get the most from their Fortinet Security Fabric solution. We have more than 1,000 experts to help accelerate technology implementation, provide reliable assistance through advanced support, and offer proactive care to maximize security and performance of Fortinet deployments.

Rackmount

The RM-FR-T14 gives you the ability to mount your Fortinet desktop firewall in a 19″ rack. The rack is tailored specifically for the listed models to guarantee a perfect fit. In addition, the connections are brought to the front for easy access. The power supply is fixed to prevent an accidental loss of power.

Assembly will take about 5 minutes. Simply slide your Fortinet device in the kit, place the retainers, connect the supplied cables to the keystones and fix the power supply to the rack.

Rack Mount Specifications
ManufacturerRackmount.IT
ModelFortinet
For UseFortiGate 40F
ColorRAL 9003 Signal White
Height1U
Dimensions (height × width × depth)44 × 482 × 217 mm
Number of connections brought to the front6
Console port to the frontYes
Cables6 × 0.5m cables
Couplers6 × RJ45 couplers
What's in the boxFortiRack + RJ45 couplers Cables Assembly materials Installation guide

Hardware

FortiGate / FortiWifi 40F

Interfaces

  1. 1x USB Port
  2. 1x Console Port
  3. 1x GE RJ45 WAN Port
  4. 1x GE RJ45 FortiLink Port
  5. 3x GE RJ45 Ethernet Ports
Powered by Purpose-builtSecure SD-WAN ASIC SOC4
  • Combines a RISC-based CPU with Fortinet’s proprietary Security Processing Unit (SPU) content and network processors for unmatched performance
  • Delivers industry’s fastest application identification and steering for efficient business operations
  • Accelerates IPsec VPN performance for best user experience on direct internet access
  • Enables the best of breed NGFW Security and Deep SSL Inspection with high performance
  • Extends security to access layer to enable SD-Branch transformation with accelerated and integrated switch and access point connectivity
3G/4G WAN Connectivity

The FortiGate 40F Series includes a USB port that allows you to plug in a compatible third-party 3G/4G USB modem, providing additional WAN connectivity or a redundant link for maximum reliability.

Compact and Reliable Form Factor

Designed for small environments, you can place it on a desktop or wall-mount it. It is small, lightweight yet highly reliable with a superior MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure), minimizing the chance of a network disruption.

Secure Access Layer

FortiLink protocol enables you to converge security and the network access by integrating the FortiSwitch into the FortiGate as a logical extension of the NGFW. These FortiLink enabled ports can be reconfigured as regular ports as needed.

Specifications

Technical Specifications

Interfaces and Modules 9
FortiGate 40F FortiWifi 40F
GE RJ45 WAN / DMZ Ports 1
GE RJ45 Internal Ports 3
GE RJ45 FortiLink Ports 1
GE RJ45 PoE/+ Ports -
Wireless Interface - Single Radio (2.4GHz/5GHz) 802.11 /a/b/g/n/ac-W2
USB Ports 1
Console (RJ45) 1
Onboard Storage -
Included Transceivers -
System Performance u2014 Enterprise Traffic Mix 3
FortiGate 40F FortiWifi 40F
IPS Throughput 1 Gbps
NGFW Throughput 800 Mbps
Threat Protection Throughput 600 Mbps
System Performance 21
FortiGate 40F FortiWifi 40F
Firewall Throughput (1518 / 512 / 64 byte UDP packets) 5/5/5 Gbps
Firewall Latency (64 byte UDP packets) 2.97 u03bcs
Firewall Throughput (Packets Per Second) 7.5 Mpps
Concurrent Sessions (TCP) 700,000
New Sessions/Second (TCP) 35,000
Firewall Policies 5,000
IPsec VPN Throughput (512 byte) 4.4 Gbps
Gateway-to-Gateway IPsec VPN Tunnels 200
Client-to-Gateway IPsec VPN Tunnels 250
SSL-VPN Throughput 490 Mbps
Concurrent SSL-VPN Users (Recommended Maximum, Tunnel Mode) 200
SSL Inspection Throughput (IPS, avg. HTTPS) 310 Mbps
SSL Inspection CPS (IPS, avg. HTTPS) 320
SSL Inspection Concurrent Session (IPS, avg. HTTPS) 55,000
Application Control Throughput (HTTP 64K) 990 Mbps
CAPWAP Throughput (HTTP 64K) 3.5 Gbps
Virtual Domains (Default / Maximum) 10 / 10
Maximum Number of FortiSwitches Supported 8
Maximum Number of FortiAPs (Total / Tunnel Mode) 16 / 8
Maximum Number of FortiTokens 500
High Availability Configurations Active / Active, Active / Passive, Clustering
Dimensions 9
FortiGate 40F FortiWifi 40F
Height x Width x Length (inches) 1.5 x 8.5 x 6.3
Height x Width x Length (mm) 38.5 x 216 x 160
Weight 2.2 lbs (1 kg)
Form Factor Desktop
Input rating 12Vdc, 3A
Power Required Powered by External DC Power Adapter, 100u2013240V AC, 50/60 Hz
Power Consumption (Average / Maximum) 7.74 W / 9.46 W 14.6 W / 16.6 W
Maximum Current 100V AC / 0.2A, 240V AC / 0.1A
Heat Dissipation 52.55 BTU/hr 56.64 BTU/hr
Operating Environment and Certifications 7
FortiGate 40F FortiWifi 40F
Operating Temperature 32u2013104u00b0F (0u201340u00b0C)
Storage Temperature -31u2013158u00b0F (-35u201370u00b0C)
Humidity 10u201390% non-condensing
Noise Level Fanless 0 dBA
Operating Altitude Up to 7,400 ft (2,250 m)
Compliance FCC, ICES, CE, RCM, VCCI, BSMI, UL/cUL, CB
Certifications ICSA Labs: Firewall, IPsec, IPS, Antivirus, SSL-VPN
Radio Specifications 4
FortiGate 40F FortiWifi 40F
Multiple (MU) MIMO - 3 x 3
Maximum Wi-Fi Speeds - 1300 Mbps @ 5 GHz, 450 Mbps @ 2.4 GHz
Maximum Tx Power - 20 dBm
Antenna Gain - 3.5 dBi @ 5GHz, 5 dBi @ 2.4 GHz

Products

Fortinet Products

FortiGate 40F Base Appliance
FortiGate-40F Firewall - 5 Gigabit Ethernet RJ45 Ports, Ideal for Small Businesses (Appliance Only, No Subscription) #FG-40F
FortiGate-40F Hardware plus FortiCare Premium and FortiGuard Unified Threat Protection (UTP)
Includes: Hardware Unit, FortiCare Premium Ticket Handling, Advanced Hardware Replacement (NBD), Firmware and General Upgrades, Enterprise Services Bundle (IPS, AI-based Inline Malware Prevention, Advanced Malware Protection, Inline CASB Database, Data Loss Prevention, Application Control, URL, DNS & Video Filtering, Antispam, Attack Surface Security, and FortiConverter Service) plus term of contract
FortiGate-40F Hardware plus 1 Year FortiCare Premium and FortiGuard Unified Threat Protection (UTP) #FG-40F-BDL-950-12
FortiGate-40F Hardware plus 3 Year FortiCare Premium and FortiGuard Unified Threat Protection (UTP) #FG-40F-BDL-950-36
FortiGate-40F Hardware plus 5 Year FortiCare Premium and FortiGuard Unified Threat Protection (UTP) #FG-40F-BDL-950-60
FortiGate-40F Advanced Threat Protection
FortiGate-40F 1 Year Advanced Threat Protection (IPS, Advanced Malware Protection Service, Application Control, and FortiCare Premium) #FC-10-0040F-928-02-12
FortiGate-40F 3 Year Advanced Threat Protection (IPS, Advanced Malware Protection Service, Application Control, and FortiCare Premium) #FC-10-0040F-928-02-36
FortiGate-40F 3 Year Advanced Threat Protection (IPS, Advanced Malware Protection Service, Application Control, and FortiCare Premium) #FC-10-0040F-928-02-60
FortiGate Cloud
Cloud-based single-pane-of-glass management, analytics and one-click VPN deployment.
FortiGate-40F 1 Year FortiGate Cloud Standard Subscription, includes Management, Analysis and 1 Year Log Retention #FC-10-0040F-131-02-12
FortiGate-40F 3 Year FortiGate Cloud Standard Subscription, includes Management, Analysis and 1 Year Log Retention #FC-10-0040F-131-02-36
FortiGate-40F 5 Year FortiGate Cloud Standard Subscription, includes Management, Analysis and 1 Year Log Retention #FC-10-0040F-131-02-60
FortiGate-40F Unified Threat Protection (UTP)
Includes: FortiCare Premium Ticket Handling, Advanced Hardware Replacement (NBD), Firmware and General Upgrades, UTP Services Bundle (IPS, AV, Botnet IP/Domain, Mobile Malware, FortiGate Cloud Sandbox including Virus Outbreak and Content Disarm & Reconstruct, Application Control, Web & Video Filtering and Antispam Service)
FortiGate-40F 1 Year Unified Threat Protection (UTP) (IPS, Advanced Malware Protection, Application Control, URL, DNS & Video Filtering, Antispam Service, and FortiCare Premium) #FC-10-0040F-950-02-12
FortiGate-40F 3 Year Unified Threat Protection (UTP) (IPS, Advanced Malware Protection, Application Control, URL, DNS & Video Filtering, Antispam Service, and FortiCare Premium) #FC-10-0040F-950-02-36
FortiGate-40F 5 Year Unified Threat Protection (UTP) (IPS, Advanced Malware Protection, Application Control, URL, DNS & Video Filtering, Antispam Service, and FortiCare Premium) #FC-10-0040F-950-02-60

Pricing Notes:

  • Hardware plus FortiCare Premium and FortiGuard Enterprise Protection Hardware Unit, FortiCare Premium Ticket Handling, Advanced Hardware Replacement (NBD), Firmware and General Upgrades, Enterprise Services Bundle (IPS, AI-based Inline Malware Prevention, Advanced Malware Protection, Inline CASB Database, Data Loss Prevention, Application Control, URL, DNS & Video Filtering, Antispam, Attack Surface Security, and FortiConverter Service) plus term of contract
  • Hardware plus FortiCare Premium and FortiGuard Unified Threat Protection (UTP) Hardware Unit, FortiCare Premium Ticket Handling, Advanced Hardware Replacement (NBD), Firmware and General Upgrades, UTP Services Bundle (IPS, AV, Botnet IP/Domain, Mobile Malware, FortiGate Cloud Sandbox including Virus Outbreak and Content Disarm & Reconstruct, Application Control, URL, DNS & Video Filtering and Antispam Service) plus term of contract
  • Enterprise Protection (IPS, AI-based Inline Malware Prevention, Inline CASB Database, DLP, App Control, Adv Malware Protection, URL/DNS/Video Filtering, Anti-spam, Attack Surface Security, Converter Svc, FortiCare Premium) FortiCare Premium Ticket Handling, Advanced Hardware Replacement (NBD), Firmware and General Upgrades, Enterprise Services Bundle (IPS, AI-based Inline Malware Prevention, Advanced Malware Protection, Inline CASB Database, Data Loss Prevention, Application Control, URL, DNS & Video Filtering, Antispam, Attack Surface Security, and FortiConverter Service)
  • Unified Threat Protection (UTP) (IPS, Advanced Malware Protection, Application Control, URL, DNS & Video Filtering, Antispam Service, and FortiCare Premium) FortiCare Premium Ticket Handling, Advanced Hardware Replacement (NBD), Firmware and General Upgrades, UTP Services Bundle (IPS, AV, Botnet IP/Domain, Mobile Malware, FortiGate Cloud Sandbox including Virus Outbreak and Content Disarm & Reconstruct, Application Control, URL, DNS & Video Filtering and Antispam Service)
  • Advanced Threat Protection (IPS, Advanced Malware Protection Service, Application Control, and FortiCare Premium) FortiCare Premium Ticket Handling, Advanced Hardware Replacement (NBD), Firmware and General Upgrades, Advanced Threat Protection Bundle (IPS, AV, Botnet IP/Domain, Mobile Malware, FortiGate Cloud Sandbox including Virus Outbreak and Content Disarm & Reconstruct Service, Application Control)
  • FortiCare Essential Support FortiCare Essential Ticket Handling, Hardware Replacement, Firmware and General Upgrades, Application Control
  • FortiCare Premium Support FortiCare Premium Ticket Handling, Advanced Hardware Replacement (NBD), Firmware and General Upgrades, Application Control
  • FortiCare Elite Support FortiCare Premium Support with FortiCare Elite Ticket Handling.
  • Prices are for one year of Premium RMA support. Usual discounts can be applied.
  • Annual contracts only. No multi-year SKUs are available for these services.
  • Contact Fortinet Renewals team for upgrade quotations for existing FortiCare contracts.
  • Pricing and product availability subject to change without notice.

FAQ

Common Questions

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Both models share identical firewall performance and security feature sets. The FortiWifi 40F adds an integrated 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac Wave 2 wireless access point, making it suitable for small offices that need both wired and wireless connectivity from a single appliance.

Yes. Secure SD-WAN is built directly into FortiOS at no additional licence cost. The 40F supports dual WAN links with application-aware path selection, SLA monitoring, and automatic failover.

For most deployments, the UTP (Unified Threat Protection) bundle is the recommended starting point - it includes IPS, antivirus, web filtering, application control, antispam, and FortiCare support.

Description

The FortiGate 40F series provides a fast and secure SD-WAN solution in a compact fanless desktop form factor for enterprise branch offices and mid-sized businesses.

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