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Authorized Partner for United States (US)Annual support cycles suit industrial deployments where project timelines shift or hardware refresh windows are still unconfirmed. FC-10-F70FB-314-02-12 provides a 1-Year FortiCare Essential subscription for the FortiGateRugged 70F (FGR-70F), covering firmware updates, portal-based technical support, and next-business-day advance-ship hardware replacement for twelve months.
FortiCare Essential is Fortinet’s baseline support tier. For the FGR-70F, this 1-year subscription provides:
This subscription provides Essential tier coverage. The table below shows how Essential compares to Premium and Elite for FortiGate and FortiGateRugged appliances.
| Essential | Premium | Elite | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Critical issue response | Next business day | 4 hours | 15 minutes |
| Telephone support | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hardware RMA replacement | NBD advance ship | 4-hr advance ship | 4-hr advance ship |
| Priority RMA add-on eligibility | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Firmware updates & support portal | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extended LTS support & Elite monitoring portal | — | — | ✓ |
The FortiGateRugged 70F operates in industrial and OT environments where uptime and hardware availability matter. FortiCare Essential suits plant IT teams, systems integrators deploying to remote substations, and managed security providers supporting infrastructure clients who need guaranteed firmware access and a hardware replacement guarantee without the cost of Premium-level TAC. It is also common for organizations that procure support year-by-year, or that are still evaluating whether a FortiGuard security bundle is warranted for a given deployment site.
This is a license-only subscription. No hardware ships. After your order is confirmed, DataCenter360.ca delivers the Fortinet registration key by email, typically within one business day. To activate, log into the Fortinet Support Portal at support.fortinet.com, go to Asset Management, and register the key against your FGR-70F’s serial number. The coverage period starts at the time of registration.
FortiCare Essential and a FortiGuard service bundle serve different functions. The UTP bundle for the FGR-70F adds seven FortiGuard security services (IPS, Web Filtering, Application Control, Anti-Malware, Antispam, FortiSandbox Cloud, and Mobile Security) plus FortiCare Premium support. For active OT/IT convergence deployments where the FGR-70F is inspecting traffic and enforcing security policy, the full bundle usually delivers better value. FortiCare Essential alone is the right fit when the appliance needs to stay under support contract for firmware access and RMA coverage, but no active FortiGuard inspection is required for the current deployment.
DataCenter360.ca is an authorized Fortinet Select Partner carrying FortiCare subscriptions for the full FortiGateRugged line. The 1-Year Essential for the FGR-70F is available alongside 3-Year and 5-Year variants of FC-10-F70FB-314 if a longer term better fits the project lifecycle. FortiGate Cloud Management subscriptions for centralized visibility across rugged deployments are also in the catalog. All licenses deliver electronically, typically within one business day.
One year of FortiCare Essential for the FortiGateRugged 70F: firmware and software updates, web portal and ticket-based support, and next-business-day advance-ship hardware replacement.
No. Essential covers web portal and ticket-based technical support only. FortiCare Premium (FC-10-F70FB-247-02-12) adds 24×7 telephone access to Fortinet TAC and a 4-hour critical response SLA.
Yes, as long as the appliance’s serial number is registered to your Fortinet account. If the unit already carries an active FortiGuard bundle, which includes FortiCare Premium, this Essential subscription would be redundant. It applies to units with no current FortiCare coverage.
For sites with strict uptime requirements, FortiCare Premium offers a 4-hour advance-ship RMA and 24×7 phone access to Fortinet TAC, which may better match an OT site’s recovery time objectives. Essential is appropriate when annual-term procurement is required or when the RTO is less stringent.
The registration key arrives by email, typically within one business day of order processing. No physical hardware ships with this product.
| Manufacturer | Fortinet |
|---|---|
| Model | FortiGateRugged-70F |
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| Product Group | |
| End of Order Date (EOO) | Not published yet |
| Last Service Extension Date (LSED) | Not published yet |
| End of Support Date (EOS) | Not published yet |
| Product Family | FG-10 to FG-100 |
| MPN | FC-10-F70FB-314-02-12 |
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