Fortinet FortiGate 2500E + 1-Year UTP Bundle (FG-2500E-BDL-950-12)

FG-2500E-BDL-950-12 puts the FortiGate 2500E on the shelf with a full year of FortiGuard Unified Threat Protection and FortiCare Premium support already tied to the part number. It suits teams sizing up from the 2200E who need more IPS and SSL inspection headroom without jumping to a full 3000-series chassis, and the one-year term keeps the initial outlay lower while the appliance runs fully licensed from the day it’s racked.

What the bundle includes

One SKU covers the FortiGate 2500E appliance, twelve months of FortiCare Premium (24x7x365 support with one-hour response on critical issues and advanced hardware replacement), and twelve months of FortiGuard Unified Threat Protection. UTP layers IPS, anti-malware with sandboxing, application control, URL/DNS/video filtering, and antispam directly on the appliance, so FortiGuard Labs intelligence is enforcing policy from the first day it’s on the network instead of waiting on a separate license activation step.

FortiGate 2500E specifications

What UTP covers for the year

Unified Threat Protection sits between Advanced Threat Protection and Enterprise Protection in Fortinet’s service lineup. For the twelve-month term it keeps IPS signatures, anti-malware definitions, application control rules, URL/DNS/video filtering categories, and antispam intelligence current straight from FortiGuard Labs. FortiCare Premium runs alongside it with one-hour response on critical issues, next-business-day handling on everything else, and advanced RMA on the hardware itself.

Who runs this bundle

The 2500E targets large-enterprise edges and data-center cores where 10GE SFP+ port density matters more than 40/100GE aggregation. A one-year term fits a pilot deployment, a budget cycle that renews annually, or a purchase that has to close within the current fiscal year without prepaying for licensing past it. It also works well for an MSSP standing up a customer environment before committing to a longer license term on that customer’s behalf.

Other terms and models

The same UTP bundle is also sold in three-year and five-year terms for buyers who’d rather skip the annual renewal, and in Enterprise Protection if the deployment needs DLP and attack surface security layered on top of UTP. For more IPS and SSL inspection headroom at the same one-year term, the FortiGate 2600F carries a comparable bundle structure at the next capacity tier.

Buying from DataCenter360.ca

DataCenter360.ca ships FG-2500E-BDL-950-12 as brand-new, factory-sealed hardware, with the one-year FortiCare and FortiGuard entitlement registered to your account as part of the order. As an authorized Fortinet Select Partner, we ship from Canada in 0 to 1 business days and run the full transaction through a secured checkout.