Fortinet FortiGate 50G-SFP-PoE Next Calendar Day Priority RMA, 3-Year (FC-10-F50GP-210-02-36)

Three years of Next Calendar Day coverage lets most organizations carry the FortiGate 50G-SFP-PoE through its primary deployment cycle without committing to the higher per-hour SLA cost. The Fortinet FortiGate 50G-SFP-PoE 3-Year Next Calendar Day Priority RMA Service (FC-10-F50GP-210-02-36) upgrades standard advance replacement to a firm next-calendar-day delivery window, covering weekends and public holidays, for the full three-year term. It sits at the practical midpoint between annual renewals and the five-year commitment, and aligns well with typical FortiCare and FortiGuard subscription cycles.

What Next Calendar Day Priority RMA Covers

After Fortinet’s Technical Assistance Center confirms a hardware failure and opens the RMA case, a courier dispatches with a replacement FortiGate 50G-SFP-PoE unit targeting delivery the next calendar day, in line with the applicable country cutoff time. Weekends and public holidays count; this is not limited to business days. The defective unit is collected by courier separately once the replacement is operational. This add-on requires an active FortiCare Premium or Elite base contract on the same appliance. FortiCare Essential is not eligible.

Who This Term Suits

Organizations that negotiate IT service contracts on three-year cycles often prefer co-terminating Priority RMA, FortiCare, and FortiGuard subscriptions so everything renews together. The three-year NCD tier is also a fit for branch offices in hub-and-spoke architectures where the central hub carries traffic while a branch replacement unit is in transit. For HA pairs, the surviving node maintains service and a next-day replacement satisfies a typical 24-hour redundancy restoration commitment.

Activation and Delivery

This is an electronic subscription. After purchase, Fortinet sends a license key by email. Register it against the appliance serial number in the Fortinet Support Portal, where coverage activates immediately at registration. The coverage start date is the registration date. Register the key as soon as it arrives to avoid any gap between purchase and active service.

FortiCare Support Tiers and RMA Levels

Priority RMA is a paid add-on that sits on top of an existing FortiCare Premium or Elite contract. The table below shows how base RMA coverage differs by tier and which tiers are eligible for this upgrade:

NCD vs. 4-Hour Courier and vs. Subscription Bundles

Next Calendar Day (this service) is the lower-cost Priority RMA tier, appropriate when a one-day replacement window satisfies the SLA. If the architecture requires hardware on-site within four hours, the 4-Hour Hardware Delivery add-on for the same 3-year term (FC-10-F50GP-211-02-36) is available at DataCenter360.ca. This add-on covers hardware replacement speed only; it does not include FortiGuard security subscriptions. For organizations that need both the NCD hardware SLA and FortiGuard coverage, combining this add-on with a UTP or Enterprise subscription bundle for the FortiGate 50G-SFP-PoE is the right approach.

Buying from DataCenter360.ca

The 3-Year Next Calendar Day Priority RMA is among the most frequently ordered service add-ons for this model at DataCenter360.ca, partly because it aligns with the standard 3-year FortiCare and FortiGuard purchase cycle that most customers use. As a Fortinet Select Partner, we can quote this license alongside hardware and FortiCare on a single order and confirm courier availability in your country before purchase. Delivery is electronic, same business day for orders placed before 2pm ET.