Fortinet FortiGate 1001F Firewall with 3-Year Enterprise License Bundle (FG-1001F-BDL-809-36)

A FortiGate 1001F earns its 2RU rack slot in a data center core or campus aggregation layer, and the FG-1001F-BDL-809-36 is how most of those deployments leave the warehouse: the appliance itself plus three years of FortiCare Premium support and the FortiGuard Enterprise Protection bundle, activated and ready to register the day it arrives.

What the bundle includes

FG-1001F-BDL-809-36 pairs the FortiGate 1001F hardware, NP7 network processor and CP9 content processor onboard, 960 GB of onboard SSD storage, and dual AC power supplies, with a 3-year term (the “36” in the SKU) of the Enterprise (809) FortiGuard security bundle and FortiCare Premium support. Everything ships as one line item: one box, one license key, one invoice.

What the 3-Year Enterprise bundle covers

Enterprise (809) is the top FortiGuard tier for the 1001F. On top of FortiCare Premium support (24x7x365 availability, 1-hour response on critical issues), it layers IPS, Anti-Malware Protection, URL/DNS/Video filtering, Anti-Spam, AI-based inline malware prevention, Data Loss Prevention, and Attack Surface Security (IoT device detection, vulnerability correlation, virtual patching). That is the full stack below Unified Threat Protection (950) and Advanced Threat Protection (811); Enterprise is what most regulated or high-value data center deployments standardize on because DLP and attack-surface monitoring are not optional line items for them.

Who runs this configuration

The 1001F sits at the high end of the F-series, so this bundle mostly lands in data center cores, internet edge for large campuses, and service-provider or MSSP environments where 15+ Gbps of NGFW throughput and 7.5 million concurrent sessions are baseline requirements, not headroom. A 3-year term is the common choice for organizations that budget security refresh cycles alongside hardware refresh cycles and would rather not touch the license again until the next capacity review.

Other terms and models

The same hardware and Enterprise tier are also sold on 1-year (FG-1001F-BDL-809-12) and 5-year (FG-1001F-BDL-809-60) terms if a shorter or longer commitment fits your renewal cycle better, and the UTP tier (FG-1001F-BDL-950-36) is available if Enterprise-only features like DLP and attack-surface monitoring are not required. Organizations outgrowing the 1001F’s 19 Gbps IPS ceiling typically move to the FortiGate 1801F Enterprise bundle at the same 3-year term.

Buying FG-1001F-BDL-809-36 from DataCenter360.ca

DataCenter360.ca stocks the FG-1001F-BDL-809-36 as a brand-new, factory-sealed unit for shipment within Canada, with the Enterprise license registered against the unit’s serial number so FortiCare activation is immediate on arrival. As an authorized Fortinet Select Partner, we validate SKU, term, and tier before the order ships so there is no license mismatch to sort out after the firewall is racked.