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When a FortiSwitch 248E-FPOE is installed in a stable production environment with no near-term hardware refresh planned, the five-year FortiCare Elite contract removes renewal work from the calendar for 60 consecutive months. FC-10-W248E-284-02-60 costs $1,907.00, roughly $381.40 per year, and covers Fortinet’s full premium support tier across the entire term without requiring annual purchasing cycles. For sites where the 248E-FPOE is a fixed access layer node serving dense PoE+ loads, eliminating five years of renewal overhead is itself a measurable operational gain.
FortiCare Elite Support (service code 284) is Fortinet’s highest infrastructure support tier. This five-year contract covers the FortiSwitch 248E-FPOE for 60 months from the activation date and includes 24×7 TAC engineer access, priority routing to senior Fortinet support staff, next-business-day advance hardware replacement, and advanced RMA processing. All entitlements are registered to the switch serial number in the Fortinet Support Portal and remain active continuously across the full term with no annual renewal required.
The five-year term is the right choice for sites with a confirmed long-horizon deployment plan: campus buildings, manufacturing floors, healthcare facilities, or data centre access layers where the FS-248E-FPOE will remain in service for the duration of the contract. It is also suited to IT operations teams that want to minimize purchasing overhead and procurement touchpoints, and to organizations that budget infrastructure support as a multi-year line item rather than an annual renewal. Managed service providers with long-term customer contracts can align the switch support term to their service agreement, simplifying billing and entitlement management.
FC-10-W248E-284-02-60 is an electronic service SKU with no physical shipment. After purchase through DataCenter360.ca, you receive a Fortinet entitlement key and activate it against the FS-248E-FPOE serial number at the Fortinet Support Portal (support.fortinet.com). Fortinet electronic service contracts are not geo-restricted, so activation is available to buyers worldwide. The 60-month term begins at activation, not purchase. Purchasing early, ahead of a renewal window or budget cycle, preserves the full term without compressing coverage.
FC-10-W248E-284-02-60 is a standalone support contract for existing FS-248E-FPOE owners. It is not a hardware bundle. Use it to renew Elite support after an expiry, to upgrade from FortiCare Premium to Elite on a switch already in production, or to extend coverage on a unit whose bundled support period has ended. If purchasing the 248E-FPOE hardware for the first time, verify whether the hardware SKU includes bundled support before adding this contract. For a switch committed to a five-year deployment window, this standalone five-year contract is the most operationally efficient coverage option.
DataCenter360.ca is an authorized Fortinet Select Partner and sources FC-10-W248E-284-02-60 through official Fortinet distribution. For organizations planning long-horizon FortiSwitch deployments, purchasing a five-year Elite contract through a single authorized partner creates a clean procurement record for the full support term. Delivery is electronic and worldwide. If you operate multiple FS-248E-FPOE switches and want to align all entitlement expiry dates to a common five-year window, DataCenter360.ca can consolidate the order and assist with staggered activation timing to synchronize coverage across your fleet.
| Manufacturer | Fortinet |
|---|---|
| Model | FortiSwitch-248E-FPOE |
| 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-W248E-284-02-60 |
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