The FortiGate 5001E security system is a high-performance Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ATCA) compliant FortiGate security system that can be installed in any ATCA chassis that can provide sufficient power and cooling. The FortiGate-5001E1 security system adds an internal 480 GByte SSD log disk. In all other ways the FortiGate-5001E and the FortiGate-5001E1 are identical.

The FortiGate 5001E security system contains two front panel 40GigE QSFP+ fabric channel interfaces, two front panel 10GigE SFP+ fabric channel interfaces, two base backplane 1Gbps base channel interfaces, and two fabric backplane 40Gbps interfaces. The front panel SFP+ interfaces can also operate as Gigabit Ethernet interfaces using SFP transceivers. Use the front panel interfaces for connections to your networks and the backplane interfaces for communication across the ATCA chassis backplane. The FortiGate-5001E also includes two front panel 10/100/1000BASE-T out of band management Ethernet interfaces, one RJ45 front panel serial console port, and one front panel USB port.

From the FortiGate-5001E front panel you can view the status of the front panel LEDs to verify that the board is functioning normally. You also connect the FortiGate-5001E to your 40-gigabit network using the front panel QSFP+ connectors and to your 10-gigabit network using the front panel SFP+ or SFP  connectors. The front panel also includes two Ethernet management interfaces, an RJ-45 console port for connecting to the FortiOS CLI and a USB port. The USB port can be used with any USB key for backing up and restoring configuration files.