Fortinet FortiSwitch 2048F

Forty-eight 25 Gigabit ports and eight 100 Gigabit uplinks - 4 Tbps in 1 RU.

Four Terabits in One Rack Unit

The 2048F is a spine switch: forty-eight 25 Gigabit server-facing ports and eight 100 Gigabit uplinks, 4 Tbps of switching capacity, and 32 MB of packet buffering to absorb the microbursts that a leaf-spine fabric produces. At 175.7 W it draws less than many 48-port PoE access switches, because none of that power is going out of the ports.

100 Gigabit Uplinks and Hot-Swap Everything

These are spine and core switches rather than access ones: 100 Gigabit QSFP28 uplinks, hot-swappable supplies, front-to-back airflow for a hot-aisle rack, and sub-microsecond latency. They still speak FortiLink, so a FortiGate can manage the core alongside the edge, but their job is aggregation and east-west capacity rather than connecting devices.

Managed as an Extension of the Firewall

A FortiSwitch can run standalone, but the reason to buy one alongside a FortiGate is FortiLink: the switch becomes a logical extension of the firewall, so ports, VLANs and network access control are configured in the same console as the security policy. That removes the usual split between the team that owns the switch and the team that owns the firewall, and it is why NAC on these switches costs nothing extra.