Fortinet FortiGate 50G-SFP FortiCare Premium Support, 3-Year (FC-10-F50GS-247-02-36)

Three years is the most common FortiCare Premium term for branch FortiGate appliances. It aligns with typical hardware refresh cycles, gives finance a predictable support cost across three budget years, and eliminates annual renewal risk without locking in for the full five-year lifecycle. FC-10-F50GS-247-02-36 covers one FortiGate 50G-SFP unit for thirty-six months: 24×7 TAC telephone access, four-hour critical-issue response, and next-business-day hardware replacement in a single purchase.

What FortiCare Premium Covers

FortiCare Premium is the mid-tier Fortinet support contract, above Essential and below Elite. It provides 24×7 telephone access to Fortinet’s TAC team, a four-hour response commitment for critical issues (severity 1), next-business-day advance hardware replacement, and ongoing access to FortiOS firmware releases, security patches, and the FortiCare asset portal.

This product provides FortiCare Premium tier coverage. The table below shows what changes between the three available FortiCare service levels:

Who Needs This

The FortiGate 50G-SFP suits branch offices that connect via fiber or a transceiver in the SFP WAN slot. Three-year FortiCare Premium is the standard choice for sites where this appliance runs business-critical traffic and the IT team needs a committed response time. It is also the default recommendation for organizations that refresh hardware every three to four years and want their support contracts aligned to the hardware cycle.

Activation and Delivery

FC-10-F50GS-247-02-36 is an electronic license. DataCenter360.ca delivers the activation key within 0–1 business days of payment, to any country. Register it at support.fortinet.com under Asset Management, link it to the FortiGate 50G-SFP serial number, and the 36-month coverage period starts immediately.

FortiCare Premium vs. a Bundle

FortiCare Premium covers TAC support and hardware replacement only. FortiGuard services — IPS, URL and DNS filtering, antivirus, application control — are separate subscriptions. If all services need renewing at the same time, the UTP bundle (FC-10-F50GS-950-02-12) packages FortiCare Premium and FortiGuard together in one SKU. For units that already have FortiGuard subscriptions active, standalone FortiCare Premium is the right targeted renewal.

Buying from DataCenter360.ca

DataCenter360.ca carries all three FortiCare Premium terms for the FortiGate 50G-SFP as a Fortinet Select Partner. The 3-year term is delivered electronically within a business day, worldwide. The 1-year (FC-10-F50GS-247-02-12) is available for annual cycles, and the 5-year (FC-10-F50GS-247-02-60) offers the lowest per-year cost for longer deployments.