Fortinet FortiGate 2600F FortiCare Elite Support, 5-Year (FC-10-F26HF-284-02-60)

The FortiGate 2600F is rated for 31 Gbps of IPS throughput and 27 Gbps NGFW throughput, the kind of high-end data center appliance where an outage is measured in real dollars per minute. FC-10-F26HF-284-02-60 locks in five years of FortiCare Elite on a single FortiGate 2600F: the top Fortinet support tier, with 15-minute response on critical issues, advanced (ship-first) hardware replacement, and the Elite monitoring portal for the full term. License only, no hardware, delivered electronically worldwide.

What FortiCare Elite covers

Elite is built for devices that cannot wait. Critical issues get a 15-minute response commitment from Fortinet’s technical experts, with 24x7x365 telephone and web support for everything else. Hardware failures ship advanced replacement, meaning the unit goes out before the faulty one comes back. Elite also adds 18 months of Extended End-of-Engineering-Support (E-EoES) past the standard window, and access to the FortiCare Elite Portal with Proactive Device Insights: a unified view of device health and Fortinet-generated recommendations for the registered 2600F.

FortiCare tiers at a glance

FortiCare comes in three service levels. This contract is the Elite tier; the table shows how the three compare on a FortiGate.

Who runs a 2600F on Elite

The 2600F typically sits as a data center core or campus aggregation firewall carrying traffic for the whole organization, not a single branch. Buyers pick Elite for that role because a next-business-day response window on a core firewall is not an acceptable risk. Elite also suits teams running Fortinet’s Hybrid Mesh Firewall architecture across a large environment, where the Proactive Device Insights portal helps catch drifting device health before it becomes an outage. If the 2600F is a secondary or DR unit with lower stakes, Premium is a reasonable step down.

Activation and delivery

Delivery is electronic, normally within 0 to 1 business days, to any country. Register the contract against the FortiGate 2600F serial number in the FortiCare portal and the five-year term starts immediately; nothing ships physically.

Elite vs Premium vs shorter terms

DataCenter360.ca also stocks this same Elite service at 1-year (FC-10-F26HF-284-02-12) and 3-year (FC-10-F26HF-284-02-36) terms, and FortiCare Premium on the 2600F (FC-10-F26HF-247-02-12, FC-10-F26HF-247-02-60) for teams that do not need 15-minute response. Five years avoids two separate renewal cycles and locks the rate against future FortiCare price increases, which matters on a device this size.

Buying from DataCenter360.ca

As an authorized Fortinet Select Partner, DataCenter360.ca issues genuine FortiCare contracts electronically worldwide, usually the same business day the order clears. Include the FortiGate 2600F serial with your order and our team verifies the contract registers against the correct unit before you rely on it for a five-year window.