The Fortinet FortiBalancer400 Application Delivery Controller optimizes the availability, user experience, performance and scalability of mobile, cloud and enterprise application delivery from anywhere-to-anywhere. The FortiBalancer400 appliance is designed for fast, secure and intelligent acceleration of demanding applications and traffic aggregation. The feature rich appliance form factor results in ease of integration with traditional data centers, virtualized datacenters and cloud infrastructures, while delivering outstanding business value. Using the platform APIs, IT administrators can integrate the FortiBalancer400 appliance with virtualized IT infrastructures to dynamically provision IT resources based on real-time application traffic demands.

The FortiBalancer400 utilizes multi-core processor technology and ASIC acceleration for linear scalability. This enables the FortiBalancer400 to handle heavy Layer 4 through 7 traffic loads while delivering unmatched performance and scalability.

Since FortiBalancer appliances are fully aware of Layers 4 through 7 application traffic, connections, transactions, and content; IT departments can create event-driven policies for intelligent distribution of application traffic across web and application servers, while eliminating the need to replicate content across multiple servers

• 2.3 Gbps throughput and 1million concurrent connections
• Full range of Layer 2 through Layer 7 load-balancing methods
• Intelligent traffic management for optimized application delivery and availability
• Server offloading for improved application acceleration, scale and TCO
• Local/global load balancing and clustering for 99.999% application uptime
• Built-in caching, compression, SSL processing and TCP connection multiplexing for 50% or more improvement in user experience
• SSL encryption for securing and protecting applications without impacting performance
• Browser based Web user interface for ease of management
• API's for integration with applications, virtual and datacenter management tools and 3rd party products
• Appliance form factor for simplified deployment
• Support for both proxy and transparent modes
• Deployable in one-arm and two-arm configurations