Wireless lan throughput of fortigate 100D

[hisham_magdy]

I need to know the throughput of fortigate boxes and how it can manage ac wave throughput even though that some APs exceeds 1 g throughput

[Mark_Holtkamp]

Your question isn't really clear, so I'm taking a guess here. AC wave 1 throughput is theoretically 1300mbps. Reality is that you rarely get above 60% of theoretical throughput even under good conditions, so you might saturate a 1gpbs link. A 100D should have no trouble with that.

Wave 2 is a different story, but there is little hardware today that uses it as far as I know.

[hisham_magdy]

My question is : the fortigate 100D as a wireless controller receive wireless traffic from various APs, So if I have (For example 16 APs) AC connected through the box , I need to know the wireless LAN throughput that the box will give me to avoid wireless bottleneck .  

[romanr]

Hey,

this will depend on how you use your Access Points. The 100D has a theoretical CAPWAP throughput of 1,2GBit/s so in CAPWAP mode this will be the hard limit - If you use the box for other features as well you should avoid thinking beyond 1GBit/s.

If you terminate your traffic locally from the access point - then every AP will be able to max out its link...

Br,

Roman

[Alex_l]

Fortinet is not classical dedicated "wire speed" devices. You need take in mind not maximum global speed. you must understand how much traffic will comes at which type of UTM features per policy. FG100D dedicatet for 100Mbit WAN channel. So if you wireless clients will go ti\o the Internet via FG using UTM fetures, maximum real speed will about 100-200Mbit/s.