Fortinet FortiGate 1800F-DC FortiGate Cloud Management, 5-Year (FC-10-D18HF-131-02-60)

Carrier and central-office facilities run on -48V DC power plants, not standard AC racks, and the FortiGate 1800F-DC exists to drop straight into that infrastructure. The FortiGate 1800F-DC 5-Year FortiGate Cloud subscription (FC-10-D18HF-131-02-60) puts that DC-powered firewall under Fortinet’s hosted management console for the full term, covering configuration, analytics, and rolling log retention from one dashboard. It is a subscription license only, no hardware included, delivered electronically to any country.

What this subscription turns on

Across the five-year term, FortiGate Cloud takes over day-to-day operational visibility for the 1800F-DC:

• Centralized management: push configuration changes and monitor the firewall remotely from a hosted dashboard, with nothing to install or patch on-site.
• Analytics and reporting: traffic, application, and threat activity roll up into scheduled or on-demand reports for change control and compliance reviews.
• Log retention: a rolling one-year window of cloud-stored logs stays current for the entire subscription, well beyond what local flash storage on the appliance can hold.
• Remote visibility: status, health, and alerts stay reachable from anywhere, useful for a unit that often sits in a colocated central office or unmanned facility.

Who buys this

The 1800F-DC targets telecom central offices, carrier points of presence, and data-center racks wired for DC power rather than standard AC. A five-year cloud management term fits that deployment pattern well: these are long-lived sites, often visited infrequently, where a hosted dashboard beats sending a technician on-site just to pull a report or check firewall health.

Activation and delivery

The license is issued electronically and tied to a specific FortiGate 1800F-DC by serial number. Management access and the rolling log-retention window activate as soon as the unit registers to FortiGate Cloud, with the five-year term counted from that activation date. Nothing ships with this SKU.

How it fits with your security bundle

FortiGate Cloud manages and reports on the 1800F-DC; it does not inspect or block traffic itself. That job belongs to the UTP or Enterprise Protection bundle running on the appliance, which handles IPS, antivirus, and web filtering. Most 1800F-DC deployments run this cloud term alongside a multi-year security bundle so the firewall stays protected and visible for the same stretch of its service life.

Why the 5-year term

Five years is the longest standard term FortiGate Cloud is sold in, and it carries the lowest cost per year of the three options. DC-powered central-office gear is typically specified once and left running through a full hardware refresh cycle, so matching the cloud term to that window avoids a mid-cycle renewal on a device that may not get routine site visits.

Buying from DataCenter360.ca

DataCenter360.ca is an authorized Fortinet Select Partner shipping this license electronically to any country, the same day it’s ordered. If you’re specifying a 1800F-DC for a carrier or central-office build and want the cloud management, security bundle, and support terms aligned to one renewal date, get in touch before placing the order and we’ll help line them up.