Original price was: CAD$17,038.26.CAD$13,594.36Current price is: CAD$13,594.36.
A 3-year FortiCare Elite contract aligns support coverage with a standard infrastructure refresh cycle, eliminating two annual renewal events and locking in the Elite tier for the operational life of the deployment. For data-center teams that expect the FortiSwitch 1048G to remain in service for three or more years, the multi-year term reduces procurement overhead and ensures uninterrupted Severity 1 response coverage across that window without revisiting the renewal calendar each year.
FortiCare Elite is Fortinet’s top-tier support offering. For the FortiSwitch 1048G, it provides a 15-minute response SLA for Severity 1 cases, which are defined as network-down conditions. Support is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, delivered by telephone to Fortinet engineers. The service also includes advanced hardware replacement with priority RMA processing, access to the FortiCare Elite monitoring portal for proactive switch health visibility, and extended Long-Term Support (LTS) eligibility so the 1048G can remain on a stable firmware branch beyond the standard support window. Firmware updates and security patches are included for the full three-year term.
The FortiSwitch 1048G carries 48x 25GE SFP28 ports and 100GE uplinks, positioning it as a data-center spine or aggregation switch. Any environment where a hardware failure would immediately impact production traffic across multiple racks or a storage fabric connection warrants the FortiCare Elite tier. Enterprises with formal uptime SLAs, colocation operators, and network teams where a Severity 1 incident requires an immediate engineer response are the primary audience. Teams running the 1048G inside a FortiGate Security Fabric also benefit from coordinated escalation across Fortinet product lines for the duration of the contract.
This is an electronic license. After the order is confirmed, Fortinet delivers the license key by email, typically within one business day. The key is registered on support.fortinet.com and bound to the FortiSwitch 1048G serial number. No hardware ships and no physical media is involved. Delivery is available worldwide with no geographic restriction on electronic license fulfillment. Once registered, the Elite support entitlement is active immediately, and the full three-year term is reflected in the Fortinet support portal alongside any other contracts registered for the device.
FortiCare Elite is available as a standalone support contract, which is this SKU, or packaged with FortiGuard security subscription services in a bundle SKU. The standalone contract covers support, RMA, and portal access only. If the 1048G deployment also requires FortiGuard threat intelligence services and the team prefers a single renewal line item for a three-year term, a bundle SKU may reduce administrative overhead. If security subscriptions are managed under a separate contract schedule, the standalone Elite service provides cleaner separation between support and security renewal timelines.
DataCenter360.ca is an authorized Fortinet Select Partner serving customers worldwide. The 3-year term is a common choice for organizations that plan infrastructure on multi-year cycles and prefer to consolidate Fortinet renewals into fewer annual events. Purchasing a 3-year contract through DataCenter360.ca sets a single expiration date for the switch’s Elite coverage, making it straightforward to coordinate alongside FortiGate or other Fortinet renewals that share the same renewal window. Contact DataCenter360.ca for multi-device pricing or to align this term with existing contract end dates.
| Manufacturer | Fortinet |
|---|---|
| Model | FortiSwitch-1048G |
| Product Type | |
| Product Group | |
| End of Order Date (EOO) | Not published yet |
| Last Service Extension Date (LSED) | Not published yet |
| End of Support Date (EOS) | Not published yet |
| Product Family | FortiSwitch |
| MPN | FC-10-FSG48-284-02-36 |
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