Fortinet FortiGate 51G FortiConverter Service, 1-Year (FC-10-GT51G-189-02-12)

Replacing a competitor’s firewall with a FortiGate 51G means rebuilding a working policy set, and doing that by hand invites mistakes. The FortiGate 51G 1-Year FortiConverter Service (FC-10-GT51G-189-02-12) covers a one-time, guided migration of an existing third-party configuration into FortiOS, so the rules, objects, and interfaces move across in a structured way rather than being retyped from scratch. It is a service subscription with no hardware, delivered electronically worldwide.

What the service covers

FortiConverter takes a configuration from another vendor and turns it into a FortiOS-ready policy for the 51G:

• Third-party configuration import: rule bases from common firewall platforms are read in as the migration source.
• Automated translation: policies, address and service objects, and interface mappings are converted into their FortiOS equivalents.
• Guided one-time conversion: the service is scoped as a single migration project, not an ongoing subscription you keep paying to use.
• Cleaner cutover: moving the existing logic across reduces the gaps and typos that come with rebuilding a policy by hand.

Who needs it

This service is for anyone standing up a 51G in place of an existing third-party firewall, especially where the current rule base is large or complex enough that a manual rebuild would be slow and error-prone. If you are deploying a 51G fresh with only a handful of policies, you may not need it.

How the one-time service works

The entitlement is issued electronically and registered to your Fortinet account for use with the 51G migration. FortiConverter is then used to carry out the conversion within the term. Nothing ships, and the service is intended for a single migration rather than continuous use.

A migration aid, not ongoing protection

FortiConverter gets the configuration onto the 51G; it does not protect traffic once the device is live. Day-to-day security comes from the FortiGuard services in the UTP (FC-10-GT51G-950-02-12) or Enterprise (FC-10-GT51G-809-02-12) bundle, and a FortiCare contract keeps support and firmware current. Plan for those alongside the migration so the 51G is covered the moment it goes into production.

Buying from DataCenter360.ca

DataCenter360.ca, a Fortinet Select Partner, supplies this FortiConverter service electronically to customers worldwide. If you want a sense of how cleanly your current firewall will convert, tell us the source platform and the rough size of the rule base, and we will set expectations before you buy.