Fortinet FortiGate 2500E + 3-Year Enterprise Bundle (FG-2500E-BDL-809-36)

A firewall this dense doesn’t need much preamble. The FortiGate 2500E 3-Year Enterprise Bundle (FG-2500E-BDL-809-36) pairs the FG-2500E hardware with three years of FortiCare Premium support and FortiGuard Enterprise Protection in one part number. It’s built for data center and large-enterprise segmentation points where 150 Gbps of firewall throughput and dense 10 GE connectivity are the baseline requirement, not a stretch goal.

What the bundle includes

Three pieces ship as one order. The FG-2500E appliance itself, with dual power supplies and NP6/CP9 hardware acceleration, arrives alongside a three-year FortiCare Premium subscription covering 24×7 technical support and advanced hardware replacement, plus three years of FortiGuard Enterprise Protection, Fortinet’s broadest security service stack. Nothing needs to be licensed separately after the appliance lands on the rack.

FortiGate 2500E specifications

What Enterprise Protection covers

Enterprise sits at the top of Fortinet’s three service tiers, so it carries the UTP feature set and adds the pieces larger security teams tend to ask for next. That means intrusion prevention with full deep-packet and SSL inspection, anti-malware with sandbox analysis, application control, URL, DNS, and video filtering, and antispam, plus the Enterprise-only additions: AI-based inline malware prevention, data loss prevention, and attack surface features like IoT device detection and security rating scoring. FortiGuard Labs pushes updates to all of it continuously.

Who runs the FG-2500E

This is core or edge segmentation hardware for large enterprises and data centers, not a branch box. Typical deployments sit at internal segmentation points between data center zones, as a perimeter firewall for high-traffic campuses, or wherever 10 GE port density and sustained multi-gigabit inspection throughput matter more than raw port count. Dual power supplies and NP6/CP9 acceleration are built for environments that can’t tolerate a single point of failure.

Other terms and models

The same Enterprise bundle is also sold in one-year and five-year terms, so budgeting cycles don’t have to bend around a fixed three-year cadence. If the deployment is set to outgrow the 2500E’s port count or throughput ceiling, the FortiGate 3300E in the same Enterprise bundle is the logical next step up within the same platform generation.

Buying from DataCenter360.ca

DataCenter360.ca is an authorized Fortinet Select Partner, and this bundle ships as genuine, brand-new Fortinet hardware with full FortiCare eligibility for the entire three-year term. For a purchase at this scale, having the license already matched to the appliance removes a step procurement teams often get wrong on their own. Delivery across Canada is free and typically 0 to 1 business day, and checkout runs through a fully secured process.