Fortinet FortiGate 30G FortiCare Elite, 5-Year (FC-10-FG30G-284-02-60)

Locking in five years of FortiCare Elite on a new FortiGate 30G makes financial and operational sense when the deployment is stable. You avoid the annual renewal cycle, secure Elite pricing for the hardware’s active life, and give your team one less contract to track. The FC-10-FG30G-284-02-60 covers 60 months of Fortinet’s highest support tier from activation: 1-hour critical-issue response, Priority RMA, and access to the Elite Monitoring Portal for the full term.

What FortiCare Elite includes

FortiCare Elite is Fortinet’s top support tier for FortiGate hardware. The FC-10-FG30G-284-02-60 covers those features for five years, registered to your specific FortiGate 30G by serial number. The core advantage over the lower tiers is the response time commitment: Fortinet TAC responds to a P1 critical incident within one hour, any time of day or night, for the entire five-year duration.

Who buys the 5-year plan

The 5-year term is most common for FortiGate 30G units in stable, long-term roles: primary firewalls for small businesses, branch office security appliances, or edge devices in environments with predictable lifecycles. Customers buying the 5-year Elite plan often purchase it at the same time as the hardware to align the support and hardware warranty end dates, and to eliminate the risk of a coverage gap if a renewal falls through.

Activation and delivery

DataCenter360.ca sends the activation key electronically to your order email after purchase, typically within 0 to 1 business days. Register the key through support.fortinet.com against your FortiGate 30G serial number. The 5-year plan activates on the date of registration and runs for the full term without any annual renewal action required.

FortiCare Elite standalone vs a 5-year bundle

The FC-10-FG30G-284-02-60 is support only — no FortiGuard security services are included. If you also need IPS, URL filtering, AntiVirus, and FortiCloud for the FortiGate 30G over a five-year horizon, compare this against a 5-year Enterprise or UTP bundle. Buying standalone Elite alongside separate security subscriptions gives more flexibility for mid-term changes but adds contract management overhead. The standalone plan is the right fit when you are renewing or adding FortiCare without touching existing security subscription timelines.

Buying from DataCenter360.ca

The FC-10-FG30G-284-02-60 is available for immediate electronic delivery through DataCenter360.ca, a Fortinet Select Partner with direct access to the full Fortinet license catalog. For customers purchasing a FortiGate 30G alongside multi-year licensing, we can package hardware and subscriptions into a single order. Contact us for a quote that combines hardware, FortiCare Elite, and security services in one transaction.