Introduction
 
Introduction
Welcome, and thank you for selecting Fortinet products for your network.
The FortiADC D-series family of application delivery controllers (ADC) optimizes the availability, user experience, performance and scalability of enterprise application delivery.
An ADC is like an advanced server load balancer. An ADC routes traffic to available destination servers based on health checks and load-balancing algorithms; full-featured ADC like FortiADC also improve application performance by assuming some of the server task load. Tasks handled by an ADC include routing, encryption, and compression.
Features
FortiADC uses Layer 4 and Layer 7 session information to enable an ADC policy and management framework for:
• Application load balancing
• Link load balancing
• Global load balancing
• SSL offloading and acceleration
• TCP acceleration
• Security
The FortiADC D-series family includes physical appliances and virtual appliances.