FORTINET FBG-2001F - Fortinet Fortibridge-2001F Power Bypass One Network.

You are faced with the challenge of securing your network while also ensuring that it is always available. To preserve availability in the event of a power failure or a device malfunction bypassing the device altogether with a fail-to-wire solution can ensure network continuity at times when security cannot be provided. The FortiBridge 2000-series of appliances provides bypass functionality to FortiGate consolidated security systems and all appliances offer bypass functionality for one or two network segments. In the case of a hardware or software failure or any other device outage the FortiBridge will directly bridge the WAN-to-LAN segments to ensure unimpeded network connectivity and availability around the offline device. When the FortiBridge appliance detects that functionality is restored it can automatically revert traffic back through the FortiGate or other network device. FortiBridge appliances can also be deployed in bypass mode by default to ensure maximum network throughput during normal conditions but reroute traffic during periods of heightened threat activity to a FortiGate or other network security device.

Various FortiBridge models provide flexibility to support a range of network configurations. HARDWARE FortiBridge in Normal Mode In normal operation of the FortiBridge data flows from the Internal ports of the FortiBridge to the Internal port of the FortiGate unit. The traffic flows from the FortiGate unit through the External ports of the FortiBridge unit to the external network. FortiBridge in Bypass Mode FortiBridge enters Bypass Mode when traffic failure is detected or power loss occurs (zero power fail open). The INT2 and EXT2 ports are directly connected mechanically. Traffic between Internal and External interfaces continues to flow.