Fortinet today unveiled a new SD-WAN appliance designed for large enterprise and campus deployments. The FortiGate 200F is the company's latest F-Series CPE appliance, slotting in above the company's 80F and 100F appliances.

"If you're wondering if the FortiGate 200F meets the high-performance needs for your large, global WAN deployment, the answer is most likely yes," Satish Madiraju, director of products and solutions at Fortinet, wrote in a blog post Tuesday.

The one-rack unit appliance supports 10 Gb/s interfaces and, like the rest of the F-Series, uses Fortinet's proprietary SD-WAN ASIC, which enables the appliance to serve both next-generation firewall and routing functions.

This allows the 200F to support 3 million concurrent sessions, 27 Gb/s of firewall throughput, and 13 Gb/s of IPsec tunnels, according to Fortinet.

The launch of the 200F closely follows the company's branch-focused 80F appliance announced in August. Fortinet's F-Series now spans from the diminutive 40F and 60F — designed for use in home offices and small branch locations — to mid-sized and large branches with the 80F, 100F and now 200F.

Despite a recent pivot to secure access service edge (SASE) with the acquisition of Opaq in July, hardware security remains a key component of the company's overall philosophy.

While the Gartner-coined product category accounts for SD-WAN hardware in the branch, most security in a SASE architecture is typically handled in the cloud. Fortinet seemed to break slightly from its hardware-centric approach to security when the company acquired Opaq for its cloud-based zero-trust network access platform.

While Fortinet already offered zero trust technology, it was appliance based. Fortinet's CMO John Maddison argues there is room for both on-premises and cloud-based security.

“Where we disagree a bit is you should be able to apply that converged solution anywhere in the network in any form factor,” he said, in an earlier interview.