Fortinet FortiGateRugged 60F Managed FortiGate Service, 5-Year (FC-10-0069F-660-02-60)

An industrial site rarely keeps a network engineer on the floor, which is the awkward part of putting a firewall in a substation, a pump house, or a factory cell. The FortiGateRugged 60F 5-Year Managed FortiGate Service (FC-10-0069F-660-02-60) closes that gap for five years: Fortinet’s network operations center takes on device setup and the ongoing network and policy changes for one ruggedized 60F, with the desk staffed around the clock. It is a subscription with no hardware and electronic delivery worldwide.

What this service covers

For the full term, the NOC owns the hands-on firewall work on the rugged 60F so your team does not have to travel to site for it:

• Setup and onboarding: engineers bring the FortiGateRugged 60F under management, set a clean baseline, and confirm it is reporting in.
• Network change management: routing, VPN, and interface changes are handled through a tracked request process.
• Policy change management: firewall and security policy edits are made and logged on your behalf.
• 24×7 availability: the desk runs at all hours, which matters for OT sites that cannot wait until a weekday morning for an urgent change.

Who needs it

The FortiGateRugged 60F is built for harsh, fanless duty in operational technology settings, factory floors, utilities, transport, and remote industrial sites where conditions and distance make on-site IT impractical. A five-year managed term suits an operator who expects that device to stay in place for the long haul and would rather hand the routine config and policy work to Fortinet than staff for it. It also fits a multi-site rollout that wants one predictable management arrangement across the fleet.

Activation and delivery

The entitlement is issued electronically and registered to a specific FortiGateRugged 60F by serial number. Onboarding with the NOC begins once the service is provisioned, and the five-year window runs from activation. Nothing ships, and the firewall must be in service so the NOC can reach and manage it.

Operations, not a security subscription

This service decides how the rugged 60F is run and changed; it is not the FortiGuard intelligence that blocks attacks. Intrusion prevention, antivirus, and web filtering belong to the UTP or Enterprise subscription, and most managed OT sites run one of those next to this service so the NOC operates a fully protected device.

Why the five-year term

Five years brings the lowest yearly cost and removes the renewal cycle for the better part of a deployment’s life, useful where an OT firewall is expected to sit untouched in the field. It is the natural choice when the managed model is already settled policy rather than something being tried out. One- and three-year terms cover shorter horizons.

Buying from DataCenter360.ca

DataCenter360.ca is an authorized Fortinet Select Partner, and we provision this managed service electronically for customers in any country. Rolling rugged 60F units out across several sites? Tell us how many and how long they will run, and we will line up the managed terms to match.