Cisco ALTEON D-4208 PERFORM - 12G Platform License
The Cisco ALTEON D-4208 PERFORM - 12G platform license unlocks advanced application delivery features, ensuring your critical business applications perform optimally and remain compliant.
- License Term: Subscription-based access to software features and ongoing updates.
- Platform Applicability: Designed for the Cisco ALTEON D-4208 PERFORM - 12G hardware platform.
- Feature Enablement: Grants access to enhanced performance, security, and management capabilities.
- Value Proposition: Ensures continuous operation, regulatory adherence, and access to the latest software innovations.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This is a platform software license subscription for the Cisco ALTEON D-4208 PERFORM - 12G. It provides access to advanced application delivery controller (ADC) features, enhancing the performance, availability, and security of your business-critical applications. The subscription model ensures you always have access to the latest software updates and support.
IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations utilize this license to optimize their network infrastructure. It is essential for environments requiring high availability, robust security, and efficient traffic management for web applications, APIs, and other network services.
- Advanced Traffic Management: Optimize application performance and user experience.
- Enhanced Security Features: Protect applications from common web threats and ensure data integrity.
- High Availability: Minimize downtime with robust failover and load balancing capabilities.
- Scalability: Adapt to changing business demands by scaling application delivery resources.
- Compliance Assurance: Meet regulatory requirements through advanced logging and security controls.
This Cisco platform license is ideal for businesses seeking enterprise-grade application delivery without the associated overhead, ensuring reliability and performance for their critical operations.
What This Enables
Enable Advanced Application Performance Optimization
Enable teams to significantly improve application response times and user experience through intelligent traffic distribution and content caching. Streamline the delivery of web applications and APIs to a global user base with enhanced efficiency.
on-premises data centers, hybrid cloud environments, multi-cloud deployments, virtualized infrastructure
Enhance Application Security Posture
Automate the protection of web applications against common threats like DDoS attacks, SQL injection, and cross-site scripting. Ensure compliance with data privacy regulations through advanced security controls and logging.
production environments, development and testing environments, secure network segments, compliance-driven IT operations
Ensure High Availability and Business Continuity
Support business continuity by providing robust load balancing and automatic failover mechanisms for critical applications. Minimize unplanned downtime and maintain service levels even during hardware or network failures.
mission-critical application hosting, disaster recovery planning, business-critical service delivery, IT infrastructure resilience
Key Features
Advanced Load Balancing Algorithms
Distributes traffic intelligently across servers to prevent overload and ensure optimal application performance and availability.
Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Protects applications from common web exploits and vulnerabilities, safeguarding sensitive data and maintaining compliance.
SSL Offloading
Frees up server resources by handling SSL encryption and decryption, improving overall application responsiveness.
Content Compression and Caching
Reduces bandwidth usage and speeds up content delivery to end-users, enhancing the user experience.
High Availability and Failover
Ensures continuous application access by automatically redirecting traffic away from failed servers or components.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require high availability and robust security to protect sensitive customer data and ensure uninterrupted trading and transaction processing, aligning with the capabilities of this license.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must maintain secure and always-on access to patient records and critical systems, making advanced application delivery and security features essential for compliance and patient care.
Retail & Hospitality
Retailers and hospitality businesses rely on high-performance applications for online sales, bookings, and customer interactions, especially during peak seasons, necessitating optimized and reliable application delivery.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial operations depend on the continuous availability of control systems and data platforms to maintain production efficiency and safety, where application uptime is paramount.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a platform software license?
A platform software license grants the right to use specific software features on a designated hardware platform. This Cisco license enables advanced application delivery capabilities on the ALTEON D-4208 PERFORM - 12G.
What does a subscription billing model mean?
Subscription billing means you pay a recurring fee, typically monthly or annually, for the use of the software and access to updates and support. This model provides predictable costs and ensures you always have access to the latest features.
What kind of applications does this license support?
This license is designed to optimize and secure a wide range of business applications, including web applications, APIs, microservices, and other network-dependent services that require high availability and performance.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Medium — IT-assisted
Fulfillment
Digital Delivery
License keys / portal provisioning
Support Model
Zent Networks Managed
Renewal, add-license, and lifecycle management included
Subscription Terms
Cancellation
Cancel anytime — no charge on next cycle
You may cancel this subscription at any time. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. You will not be charged for the following billing cycle. Access remains active through the end of the paid term.
Returns
Subscription licenses are non-refundable
Digital software licenses and SaaS subscriptions cannot be returned once activated or provisioned. Contact a Zent Networks account manager if you have questions before purchasing.