Fortinet FortiSwitch T1024F-FPOE

10GBASE-T with 802.3bt on every port and 100 Gigabit uplinks - the only PoE switch at this tier.

Ten Gigabit and Ninety Watts on the Same Port

This is the only switch here that delivers 10GBASE-T and 802.3bt together on every port. The devices that need both are rare but growing - Wi-Fi 7 access points, high-density cameras, AV encoders - and anything less forces a compromise on one side or the other. The 1440 W budget and 100 Gigabit uplinks mean neither the power nor the backhaul is the limit.

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.