Fortinet FortiWiFi 51G FortiConverter Service, 1-Year (FC-10-FW51G-189-02-12)

Migrating to a new firewall is rarely the hard part. Rebuilding years of accumulated rules on the new box by hand is, and that manual step is exactly where a missed policy or a transposed object slips through. The FortiWiFi 51G FortiConverter Service (FC-10-FW51G-189-02-12) takes that rebuild off your desk: Fortinet’s migration team translates your existing firewall configuration into FortiOS for the 51G and validates it before you cut over. It is a one-time service sold as a subscription license, with no hardware and electronic delivery to any country.

What this service covers

FortiConverter leans on proven, repeatable conversion methods rather than a hand transcription of your rule base, so the outcome is predictable and documented:

• Automated configuration conversion: existing policies, objects, and routing are mapped into FortiOS with Fortinet’s conversion engine, cutting the human error that creeps into manual rebuilds.
• Expert policy validation: Fortinet engineers review the converted ruleset to confirm it behaves as intended before the 51G goes live.
• Broad source support: migrations are supported from Check Point, Cisco, Cisco Meraki, Forcepoint, Juniper, Palo Alto Networks, pfSense, SonicWall, Sophos, WatchGuard, and other common firewalls.
• Summary report and audit trail: each conversion comes with documentation of what was migrated, useful for change control and the post-cutover review.

Who needs it

This service fits a team standing up a FortiWiFi 51G in place of a third-party firewall, or one retiring a well-used older FortiGate or FortiWiFi and wanting its configuration carried forward cleanly. It earns its cost most when nobody on staff has the hours, or the appetite, to recreate a mature policy set by hand and risk a missed rule on go-live day.

Activation and delivery

The entitlement is issued electronically and registered against the project. FortiConverter is a one-time configuration conversion, so the engagement is scoped to migrating your source configuration onto the 51G rather than to ongoing coverage. Nothing ships. You supply the existing firewall configuration, and the converted FortiOS policy comes back for review and deployment.

What it does, and what it does not

FortiConverter moves your configuration; it does not provide the threat protection that keeps the 51G defended once it is live. Intrusion prevention, antivirus, web filtering, and application control come from the UTP or Enterprise subscription, and most teams pair one of those with the migration so the new firewall is both correctly configured and actively protected from the first packet.

Buying from DataCenter360.ca

DataCenter360.ca is an authorized Fortinet Select Partner and we provision FortiConverter electronically for customers anywhere. If you are unsure your source firewall is supported, or what the conversion will and will not carry over, tell us what you are migrating from and we will confirm the scope before you order.