Fortinet FortiGate 1100E Hardware Only – License Not Included (FG-1100E)

Large-enterprise edges and hybrid data center cores need a firewall that can hold high-density, high-speed interfaces without turning into the choke point. The FortiGate 1100E (FG-1100E) answers that with a 2 RU chassis built around Fortinet’s NP6 network processor and CP9 content processor, pairing 12.5 Gbps of IPS throughput with 9.8 Gbps of NGFW throughput and 80 Gbps of raw IPv4/IPv6 firewall throughput. This listing is the hardware-only unit from DataCenter360.ca: no bundled FortiGuard or FortiCare license, just the appliance, ready for whichever term and tier you license separately.

What’s in the box

The FG-1100E ships as a standalone 2 RU rack-mount appliance: 2x 40 GE QSFP+ slots, 4x 25 GE SFP28 slots (shared with 10 GE SFP+ / GE SFP), 4x 10 GE SFP+ slots (shared with GE SFP), 8x GE SFP slots, and 18x GE RJ45 ports, of which 16 are traffic ports and 2 are dedicated management/HA ports. Two AC power supplies come installed for 1+1 redundancy (a DC-powered variant, FG-1100E-DC, is sold separately). No SSD ships onboard with this SKU; the FG-1101E adds 2x 480 GB SSD if local log storage is a requirement.

Where it’s strong

The interface mix is the headline: four different speed tiers (40 GE, 25 GE, 10 GE, 1 GE) on one chassis means you can segment a data center core, terminate multiple high-speed uplinks, and still drop RJ45 ports for management or lower-speed segments, all without an add-on card. NP6 and CP9 keep SSL inspection at 10 Gbps and IPsec VPN at 48 Gbps, so encrypted traffic inspection doesn’t become the bottleneck it is on CPU-only firewalls. Fortinet rates it for up to 8 million concurrent sessions and 500,000 new sessions per second, which covers dense branch aggregation, campus cores, and mid-size data center edges.

Hardware alone vs. a license bundle

Buying the FG-1100E hardware-only, as listed here, makes sense if you already hold FortiGuard or FortiCare entitlements to transfer, you’re building out a lab or DR unit, or you want to choose UTP vs. Enterprise protection and the exact term separately rather than accept a pre-set package. DataCenter360.ca also carries the FG-1100E as a pre-configured 1, 3, or 5-year UTP or Enterprise bundle for buyers who’d rather license and hardware arrive under one SKU and one invoice.

Who runs it

This chassis fits large enterprises consolidating branch or data center firewalls, MSSPs standing up customer-edge appliances that need headroom for growth, and service providers running CGNAT, IPv6 migration (NAT44/NAT444/NAT64/NAT46), or RAN access security at the network edge. The port density also suits organizations segmenting a flat network into VLANs or VXLAN domains without adding a second box.

Moving up

If 9.8 Gbps NGFW throughput and 8 million sessions aren’t enough headroom, the FortiGate 1101E is the direct sibling with the same interface set plus 2x 480 GB SSD for local logging, and the FortiGate 1800F is the next full generation step up in raw performance. DataCenter360.ca stocks both for side-by-side comparison against the 1100E.

Buying from DataCenter360.ca

We stock the FG-1100E as genuine, brand-new Fortinet hardware and ship it across Canada in 0 to 1 business day once an order clears. As an official Fortinet Select Partner, we can also quote the matching UTP, Enterprise, or a-la-carte FortiGuard license for this unit, plus the FortiCare support tier that fits your SLA requirements, so the hardware you order today activates cleanly on day one.