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    FortiASIC Hardware Acceleration

    Performance Tuning

    Configuring the NP7 Hyperscale firewall

    Learn different ways to utilize the features of the NP7 Hyperscale firewall

    • Getting Started with Hyperscale Firewall features
    • Creating hyperscale firewall VDOMs
    • Configuring hardware accelerated Carrier Grade NAT
    • Applying Hardware logging
    • Configuring HA hardware session synchronization
    • General hyperscale NP7 Optimization
    • Diagnosing the Hyperscale firewall

    Performance Optimization - NP7

    Learn different ways to tune your NP7 Network Processor to optimize performance

    • General NP7 Optimization
    • Increasing NP7 offloading capacity using link aggregation groups (LAGs)
    • Configuring inter-VDOM link acceleration with NP7 processors
    • NP7 traffic shaping
    • DoS policy hardware acceleration
    • Protect the FortiGate CPU with the NP7 Host Protection Engine (HPE)

    Troubleshooting Hardware Acceleration

    Monitoring

    Learn various ways to monitor your traffic flow and whether they are offloaded.

    • NP7, NP7Lite, NP6, NP6XLite and NP6Lite traffic logging and monitoring

    Troubleshooting

    Learn ways to troubleshoot when traffic doesn't appear to flow as expected

    • NP7 diagnostic commands

    Hardware Architecture

    NP/CP/SOC based Hardware Acceleration

    Learn about the benefits of NP chips, CP chips and SOC based chipset in accelerating traffic

    • Intro to NP7, NP7Lite, NP6, NP6XLite, NP6Lite and NP4
    • NP7 acceleration
    • Protocols that can be offloaded by NP7 processors
    • FortiGate models with NP7 processors
    • Fastpath and Packet Flow through the Network Processor
    • Intro to Content Processors
    • CP9 Capabilities
    • About NP7Lite processors
    • FortiGate models with NP7Lite processors

    N-Turbo and IPSA Acceleration

    Learn how N-Turbo and IPSA combines the power of NP and CP to accelerate IPS processing

    • NTurbo offloads flow-based processing
    • IPSA offloads flow-based advanced pattern matching