Fortinet announced End-of-Life for the FortiGate 100F on January 16, 2026. End of Sale passed in April — no new units can be ordered. Your existing 100F is running normally, FortiGuard-updated, and FortiCare-renewable until 2030. Full support continues until April 2031. The device is not in danger today. The question is where migration sits in your budget cycle — and whether your next FortiCare renewal makes more sense on the 100F or on the 120G. That is the decision this page helps you make.
End of Sale means Fortinet stopped taking orders for new units in April 2026. That is all it means right now. Your existing 100F continues to receive FortiGuard threat intelligence updates, firmware patches, and FortiCare support for the next five years. The device is not failing. Your network is not exposed. What changed is the supply picture — and what starts is the planning conversation.
Fortinet's lifecycle is a fixed calendar. Four milestones. Each one changes something material about your firewall. Understanding which one matters when is the difference between a controlled migration plan and a fire drill.
Fortinet published the End-of-Life notification. The clock started running. Nothing changes for your firewall yet — but every contract, every renewal, every purchase decision from this date onward needs to account for the milestones below.
The last day a new FortiGate 100F can be ordered from any authorised channel. After this date the model is no longer available, including for warranty replacement on a damaged unit. The supply window closed in April 2026 — new units are no longer available from any authorised channel.
The last day FortiCare and FortiGuard service contracts can be renewed. After this date your subscription continues until expiry but cannot be extended. A renewal taken in March 2030 might run to March 2032 — but no further. Plan around this date.
The end. Fortinet stops all engineering response, firmware updates, threat intelligence, RMA, and security patches. The 100F continues to operate but operates outside the manufacturer support window. From this date forward, the network it protects is operating without manufacturer-backed security maintenance.
If your FortiCare renewal date is in 2026 or 2027 — your next decision is whether to renew on the 100F (which locks you into hardware that loses support before the renewal expires) or migrate now and transfer the remaining contract value to the new 120G. WhatsApp +971 56 504 9685 with your renewal date and we'll come back with the financial comparison. Indicative analysis only — final figures confirmed against your actual contract. Guide pricing — always contact for current structure.
Both models share the same processor, same throughput numbers, same FortiOS support, same port density. The hardware difference is one thing: the 121G has an onboard SSD for local log storage. Everything else is identical. So the choice comes down to one question — where do your firewall logs need to live?
| Specification | 120G | 121G |
|---|---|---|
| NGFW Throughput | 3.1 Gbps | 3.1 Gbps |
| Threat Protection | 2.8 Gbps | 2.8 Gbps |
| SSL Inspection | 3.0 Gbps | 3.0 Gbps |
| IPS Throughput | 5.3 Gbps | 5.3 Gbps |
| Firewall Throughput | 39 Gbps | 39 Gbps |
| Onboard SSD | No | Yes |
| FortiAnalyzer | Recommended | Optional |
| AED Pricing | On Enquiry | On Enquiry |
Fortinet hardware pricing in the UAE moves with stock availability, bundle selection, and currency conditions. The ranges below are a useful starting point for budget planning and internal approvals. Final pricing is confirmed at quote time — always WhatsApp for the current structure before placing an order.
| Configuration | Indicative AED Guide Range |
|---|---|
| FortiGate 100F — Hardware only (EOS stock — subject to availability) | AED 9,000 – 13,000 Guide price — contact for current pricing. |
| FortiGate 100F + 1Y FortiCare UTP Bundle | AED 14,500 – 18,000 Guide price — contact for current pricing. |
| FortiGate 100F + 3Y FortiCare UTP Bundle | AED 24,500 – 30,000 Guide price — contact for current pricing. |
| FortiGate 120G — All configurations | Guide price on enquiry — WhatsApp for sized quote |
| FortiGate 121G — All configurations | Guide price on enquiry — WhatsApp for sized quote |
| FortiCare Enterprise / ATP Bundles | Quoted per project — contact for current structure |
Send your existing FortiGate model number, your network size, and whether FortiAnalyzer is in scope. We come back with current AED pricing, the right bundle, and the recommended cutover timing — typically same working day.
The whole point of from a firewall migration is that users notice nothing. The CEO doesn't email about slow internet. The sales team doesn't lose VPN. The accounts department doesn't have a printer disappear. Achieving that requires the migration to be planned in steps, validated in stages, and reversible at every point until it isn't. Here is how we run it.
We connect to your existing FortiGate (with your IT team in the loop) and pull the complete picture. Current firmware. FortiCare status. Policy count. VPN configurations. SSL inspection profiles. FortiAnalyzer integration. Custom rules. The output is a written assessment document covering what's in place, what needs to move, what needs to change for FortiOS 7.6, and the recommended cutover window. You see this before you commit to anything.
Full backup of the running 100F configuration. Both encrypted (for restore) and decrypted (for review). Documentation of every certificate, every quarantine rule, every VPN tunnel endpoint. If your previous IT person left detailed notes — great. If they didn't — we build the documentation from the live device. Either way, when we move to the new hardware, nothing is rebuilt from memory.
If FortiAnalyzer is in your deployment, logs older than 30 days get archived to long-term storage before any hardware change. If logs are sitting locally on the 100F, they get extracted to your file storage with retention dates intact. Your compliance audit history doesn't disappear when the hardware does.
The new 120G arrives, gets racked next to the live 100F, and gets configured from the exported policy file. Some adjustments for FortiOS 7.6 — SSL inspection profiles need updating, some SD-WAN syntax changed — these get handled here, not at 2AM during cutover. The new device runs on a test VDOM or test SSID before any production traffic hits it.
Typically late evening or weekend morning, scheduled with your operations team. Traffic moves from the 100F to the 120G in a defined sequence — WAN first, then LAN, then DMZ, then VPN, then SD-WAN. Each stage validated before the next is touched. A full rollback to the 100F is one CLI command away the entire time. We don't disconnect the old device. We just stop sending traffic to it.
The 100F stays racked, powered, interfaces disabled. For 14 days after cutover, if anything surfaces — an obscure policy that wasn't migrated, a partner VPN that needs a config push, an unexpected application behaviour — we reactivate the 100F in under 5 minutes. After 14 days of clean operation on the 120G, we decommission the 100F properly. FortiCare on the old device gets transferred to the new one.
Fortinet built the G-series for FortiOS 7.6. The 100F came from the FortiOS 6.x era and has been carrying newer software on hardware that wasn't designed for it. Most of the meaningful capability uplift is in the software layer the G-series can actually run at speed.
GenAI-driven policy validation, configuration assistance, and natural-language SecOps queries. The 120G/121G runs FortiAI-Assist as designed. The 100F can run it, but throughput drops when it's active. For organisations adopting AI-assisted security operations as a productivity layer, the difference shows up in actual day-to-day use.
Zero Trust Network Access for remote workforce replaces SSL VPN. The G-series handles ZTNA at full throughput. On the 100F, ZTNA is supported but practical throughput limits how many concurrent users it can sustain. If your remote workforce has grown since 2020, this matters.
Three times the SSL inspection throughput of the 100F. Roughly 90% of UAE corporate internet traffic is now encrypted. The question used to be "should we inspect SSL traffic?" The current question is "can our firewall keep up with inspecting all of it?" The G-series can. The 100F could selectively.
Fortinet's AI-driven IPS detection runs on the G-series with the NP7 + CP10 hardware acceleration. The detection capability exists at FortiOS level for both. The difference is whether the firewall keeps up when it's enabled. For ransomware behavioural detection in particular, this matters.
Application-aware SD-WAN routing across multiple links is significantly more granular on the G-series. UAE deployments running dual Etisalat + du circuits get meaningfully better failover behaviour and latency-based routing decisions — particularly for VoIP, video conferencing, and SaaS traffic.
The 121G's local SSD stores firewall logs without a separate FortiAnalyzer. For compliance audits requiring local log retention but where a full FortiAnalyzer deployment isn't justified, the 121G changes the deployment architecture. This is the reason most 121G decisions get made.
Most UAE businesses with a FortiGate 100F also have an older model somewhere — a 60E at a branch office, a 100E in a server room, a 101E that was deployed before the 100F. These were the standard installs across UAE businesses between 2018 and 2021. Their end-of-support dates are sooner than the 100F. If you're already running the migration conversation, run it once for everything.
A FortiGate 100F with active FortiCare running in 2026 is a supported device. An auditor pulling the Fortinet EOL register today sees a device with a documented end-of-support date in 2031 — a planning flag, not a finding. The compliance landscape shifts as that date approaches. Organisations subject to UAE regulatory standards benefit from building migration into their infrastructure roadmap before auditors start treating 2031 as a near-term risk.
Federal cybersecurity standards mandating controls across government and critical-infrastructure entities. The 2026 IA Standards milestone includes requirements for supported security infrastructure. A 100F with active FortiCare qualifies today. The relevant planning question is whether your next infrastructure review cycle builds in the 2031 EOSL date — before auditors start treating it as a near-term risk.
The Abu Dhabi Healthcare Information and Cyber Security Standard requires documented network segmentation, patient data protection controls, and audit logging on supported infrastructure. A 100F with active FortiCare is currently compliant. Proactive organisations in Abu Dhabi healthcare are beginning to document migration plans now to avoid remediation timelines as 2031 approaches.
UAE telecom regulatory requirements affecting hospitality, retail, and any deployment offering internet access to third parties. Captive portal compliance and guest network isolation must run on supported firewall hardware. Your TDRA audit checks the model.
National Electronic Security Authority standards applicable to critical infrastructure operators. Oil and gas, energy, water, transport, financial services — sectoral applicability varies, but where it applies, EOL hardware is a finding.
Network segmentation and access controls for personal data processing must run on supported infrastructure. EOL hardware processing personal data is a documented risk in the data protection impact assessment.
Vector Dubai is an authorised Fortinet partner. Migration projects include the compliance attestation documentation your auditor will ask for — firmware support dates, FortiCare contract continuity, configuration retention, and audit log preservation — provided in writing at handover.
Generalised from recent migration projects across UAE business types. Client names withheld for confidentiality. The patterns below recur — what differs is the sector, the network size, and the cutover window.
"Two FortiGate 100Fs running active-passive HA across the trading floor and back-office network. We moved to dual 120Gs over a Saturday morning. By Sunday evening we were on full operations with no impact to the Sunday trade open. The team's parallel-deployment approach meant the original units stayed live as a fallback for two weeks. We didn't need to use the rollback option — but knowing it was there changed the whole risk conversation with our finance team."
"Six FortiGate 100E units across our network — all approaching August 2026 end-of-support. Site-by-site migration over six weeks with parallel deployment at each location. FortiAnalyzer logs going back to 2023 were preserved through the cutover — critical for our ADHICS audit which was scheduled three weeks after the last site went live. Two custom VPN rules needed restating for FortiOS 7.6 — the team flagged those before cutover, not after."
"FortiCare on our 100F was coming up for renewal in October 2026. We did the math and another renewal cycle would lock us into hardware reaching EOL inside that renewal window. We moved to the 121G specifically for the onboard SSD — our compliance team wanted local log retention without adding a separate FortiAnalyzer. The AED guide pricing in the proposal matched what we paid at PO time. Friday evening, two-hour cutover. SD-WAN failover between Etisalat and du reconfigured cleanly."
Your FortiCare renewal arrived. The 100F is operational. Renewing is the path of least resistance — pay the invoice, the device keeps getting updates for another year or three. But if your renewal term extends into the EOSL window, you're paying for a service that runs out before the renewal does. We do the math both ways and send you the comparison. Renewal cost on the 100F vs migration cost to the 120G with remaining FortiCare value transferred. Whichever number is lower wins. Indicative analysis — final figures confirmed against your actual contract. Guide pricing — always contact for current structure.
The FortiGate 100F is in active deployment across the MEA region, not just the UAE. African and Central Asian enterprises running 100Fs face the same April 2031 EOSL date. The migration to 120G/121G ships from Dubai with FortiCare registered to the buyer organisation at dispatch — clean handoff, no parallel-import problems, no FortiCloud registration headaches at the destination.
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Tell us what you're running and when your current FortiCare expires. Vector Dubai returns the migration assessment, the sized 120G or 121G recommendation, the indicative AED range, the bundle options, and the suggested cutover window — typically inside one working day. Pricing returned is a guide range; current price structure confirmed at quote acceptance.