Fortinet FortiGate 80E-POE FortiCare Premium-to-Elite Upgrade, 1-Year (FC-10-0080E-204-02-12)

If your FortiGate 80E-POE already runs FortiCare Premium and you need tighter SLAs, the FC-10-0080E-204-02-12 is the direct path to FortiCare Elite for 12 months. The upgrade brings your Severity 1 response commitment from 2 hours down to 1 hour, adds access to the Elite monitoring portal, and places the 80E-POE on Fortinet’s Extended LTS firmware track. The 80E-POE is a legacy platform, and the LTS benefit is particularly relevant for units that Fortinet has moved past standard engineering support — you continue receiving security patch releases under Elite without waiting for a full hardware refresh.

This is an upgrade license, not a standalone contract. An active FortiCare Premium subscription on the same device is required. The upgrade does not extend the Premium term; it raises the support tier for the remaining contract period.

What the upgrade adds over Premium

The FC-10-0080E-204-02-12 moves your 80E-POE into the Elite column in the table below.

Who uses this upgrade

Branch-office deployments running the 80E-POE often stay in service well past the original purchase horizon. Organizations that cannot schedule a hardware refresh in the near term use this upgrade to extend meaningful support coverage on existing equipment. Regulated environments (healthcare clinics, financial branch offices, government sites) also use it to satisfy documented SLA requirements without replacing the device. The 1-hour response commitment and LTS firmware track are the two most cited reasons.

Activation and delivery

After purchase, DataCenter360.ca delivers the registration key electronically, typically on the same business day. You apply it through the Fortinet support portal (support.fortinet.com) against the 80E-POE serial number registered under the existing Premium contract. No firewall reboot is needed, and the upgrade takes effect immediately once the key is applied.

Upgrade vs. a full bundle

If the 80E-POE is also missing FortiGuard threat intelligence coverage, the UTP bundle (FC-10-0080E-950-02-12) or Enterprise bundle (FC-10-0080E-809-02-12) combine FortiCare service and FortiGuard protection in one subscription. The upgrade SKU makes sense specifically when FortiGuard is current and only the support tier needs to move from Premium to Elite.

Ordering from DataCenter360.ca

DataCenter360.ca is a Fortinet Select Partner and MSSP. License orders are processed the same business day; the key arrives by email. For branch locations still running 80E-POE hardware, we also carry current FortiGate 80F and 90G-series appliances when a hardware upgrade conversation begins. You can purchase the FC-10-0080E-204-02-12 directly from our online store — no account required, no minimums.