Fortinet FortiGate Rugged 35D SD-WAN Underlay Bandwidth & Quality Monitoring, 1-Year (FC-10-R035D-288-02-12)

The FortiGate Rugged 35D earns its IP67-sealed body at the harshest edges of a network, and those are exactly the spots where WAN links are least predictable: a cellular signal that fades with weather, a backhaul shared with other field gear. SD-WAN can route around a weak link only if it has trustworthy numbers on every path. The FortiGate Rugged 35D 1-Year SD-WAN Underlay Bandwidth and Quality Monitoring service (FC-10-R035D-288-02-12) supplies those numbers, giving FortiOS continuous readings of each underlay. The SD-WAN engine ships in FortiOS for free; this subscription is the FortiGuard-hosted measurement that makes its decisions accurate. It is a license only, with no hardware and electronic delivery worldwide.

What this service covers

The service profiles the live condition of every connection feeding the rugged 35D:

• Active link measurement: latency, jitter, and packet loss are sampled on each WAN underlay, keeping the firewall’s view of link health current rather than fixed at setup time.
• Bandwidth and quality data: throughput and quality metrics feed the FortiOS SLA targets that steer each application onto the link best suited to it.
• Carrier accountability: recorded metrics show plainly when a provider or cellular backhaul falls short of its promised service level, useful at a site with no one present to notice degradation.
• Fault history: link-quality history is retained for review, which speeds up diagnosis when an intermittent WAN problem disrupts a field process.

Who needs it

This fits a 35D location that runs more than one path and uses SD-WAN to balance or fail over: a remote site pairing a fixed line with cellular, or an outdoor installation where telemetry and control traffic are sensitive to jitter and loss. Where the rugged 35D sits on a single static link with no failover, the monitoring earns little and can be left off.

Activation and delivery

The entitlement is issued electronically and bound to one FortiGate Rugged 35D by serial number. Once registered, FortiOS uses the measurement data through the full twelve-month term. Nothing ships, and a working 35D needs to be online first.

One service or the broader bundle

This line measures the WAN; it does not inspect what crosses it. The traffic SD-WAN steers still needs FortiGuard protection from the UTP or Enterprise subscription, with intrusion prevention, antivirus, and web filtering. Monitoring complements that, it does not replace it. The 35D is a legacy D-series rugged firewall, so if the deployment has a long runway it is worth pricing a current FGR-70G or FGR-60F alongside it; the SD-WAN monitoring entitlement transfers to a newer rugged FortiGate when you upgrade.

Buying from DataCenter360.ca

As an authorized Fortinet Select Partner, DataCenter360.ca delivers this license electronically to any country, usually within a business day. Send us the link layout at your 35D site and we will give you a candid read on whether underlay monitoring is worth it before you place the order.