Fortinet FortiGate 51G Priority RMA, Next Calendar Day, 3-Year (FC-10-GT51G-210-02-36)

Three years of network security operations brings its share of hardware risk. The Priority RMA service (FC-10-GT51G-210-02-36) for the FortiGate 51G adds next-calendar-day replacement coverage over that 3-year window, with weekends and public holidays included. For a branch that has no local IT staff on weekends, next-day courier service is a meaningful upgrade over waiting until Monday for a standard next-business-day dispatch.

What Priority RMA (Next Calendar Day) Covers

When a FortiGate 51G fails and an RMA is confirmed, Fortinet ships a replacement unit by courier. With Priority RMA, delivery is the next calendar day from confirmation — not the next business day. That distinction matters whenever a failure falls on a Thursday afternoon, Friday, or over a long weekend.

Key conditions:

• Requires FortiCare Premium or Elite active on the same FG-51G serial number.
• Essential tier customers are not eligible for any Priority RMA option.
• The defective unit must be returned after replacement — this is not Secure RMA.
• Coverage runs for 36 months from the activation date.

FortiCare Tiers and RMA Eligibility

Priority RMA adds next-calendar-day courier delivery on top of whichever FortiCare tier you hold. The following table shows the baseline differences between the tiers:

Who Orders the 3-Year Term

Three years aligns well with mid-cycle refresh schedules and is a common match for environments that renew annual contracts in multi-year blocks. Retail chains, hospitality properties, and light-industrial facilities typically see the 3-year term as the balance between cost certainty and flexibility — long enough to simplify renewals, short enough to reassess hardware before a 5-year commitment.

Activation and Delivery

This is an electronic license. Purchase completes, you receive the license key, register it against the FortiGate 51G serial number in the Fortinet Support Portal, and the Priority RMA entitlement becomes active immediately. No physical shipment is involved in the license itself — only the replacement hardware ships when an actual RMA request is submitted.

One Service or a Bundle?

Priority RMA is the right choice when the primary gap is hardware coverage, not security services. If the site also needs URL/DNS filtering, IPS, or application control, review the FortiGate 51G UTP or Enterprise bundles. Both include FortiCare Premium, which already qualifies the device for Priority RMA, and they add a full FortiGuard security stack. Bundling is often more cost-effective than stacking individual services.

Buying from DataCenter360.ca

DataCenter360.ca is a Canadian Fortinet Select Partner. The 3-year Priority RMA license delivers electronically within hours of payment — most orders placed before 2 PM Eastern clear the same business day. We can confirm whether your existing FortiCare Premium contract will work alongside this SKU, and help with portal registration if needed. Reach out before purchasing if you have a co-termination date in mind.