A new gateway product from Fortinet will contain a firewall with 3G bit/sec throughput in addition to content-filtering, VPN, intrusion-detection and traffic-shaping features. The product, the FortiGate 3000 Network Protection Gateway, is available now and sells for about $20,000, competing with hardware-based security products from NetScreen Technologies, SonicWall and Symantec. The FortiGate 3000 adds another high-end product to Fortinet's line of all-in-one security appliances, which include the FortiGate 2000 NPG, a 2G bit/sec security gateway. Like Fortinet's other products, the FortiGate 3000 NPG is a firmware-based appliance that contains the company's proprietary FortiASIC chip. That specialized chip lets the new product perform virus scanning, intrusion detection, and data encryption and decryption at high speeds. The FortiGate 3000 NPG is capable of 300M bit/sec of VPN throughput, Fortinet says.