Cisco Alteon Perform Package Subscription for 7K/8K
The Cisco Alteon Perform Package Subscription provides advanced application delivery capabilities for your 7K/8K platforms, ensuring high performance and availability for critical business applications.
- Access to Advanced Features: Unlock enhanced application optimization, security, and traffic management capabilities.
- Continued Operation: Maintain optimal performance and availability of your network infrastructure with ongoing software updates and support.
- Compliance Assurance: Stay current with vendor support and licensing, crucial for regulatory adherence and audit readiness.
- Predictable Costs: Benefit from a yearly subscription model for clear budgeting and financial planning.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This is a yearly subscription license for Cisco's Alteon platform, specifically designed to enable the Perform Package on 7K and 8K series appliances. It unlocks advanced features for application delivery, load balancing, and network performance optimization, ensuring your business-critical applications run efficiently and reliably.
IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies utilize this subscription to enhance their existing Alteon infrastructure. It fits into environments where high availability, robust traffic management, and optimized application performance are paramount, such as data centers or enterprise network cores.
- Enhanced Application Performance: Accelerate application response times and improve user experience.
- Advanced Load Balancing: Distribute traffic intelligently across servers to prevent overload and ensure high availability.
- Security Features: Benefit from integrated security capabilities to protect applications from threats.
- Traffic Management: Gain granular control over network traffic for optimal resource utilization.
- Ongoing Support and Updates: Receive continuous software updates and technical support from Cisco.
This Cisco subscription is the ideal choice for SMB and mid-market teams seeking to maximize their Alteon investment and ensure peak application performance.
What This Enables
Enable Advanced Application Delivery
Enable teams to optimize application performance and user experience through advanced load balancing and traffic management features. Streamline the delivery of critical business applications with enhanced control and visibility.
data center operations, enterprise network core, high-traffic web services, cloud-connected infrastructure
Enhance Network Security Posture
Streamline the integration of security features directly into the application delivery process, protecting against common web threats. Automate the enforcement of security policies to safeguard sensitive business data.
compliance-driven environments, multi-tenant networks, secure application hosting, perimeter security
Optimize Resource Utilization
Automate intelligent traffic distribution to ensure optimal use of server resources, preventing bottlenecks and improving overall system efficiency. Enable IT professionals to manage complex traffic flows with greater precision.
virtualized environments, server consolidation projects, performance-sensitive workloads, scalable architectures
Key Features
Advanced Load Balancing Algorithms
Distributes traffic effectively across server pools to maximize throughput and minimize latency for end-users.
Application Health Monitoring
Continuously checks the health of application servers, automatically rerouting traffic away from unhealthy instances to maintain service availability.
SSL Offloading
Frees up server CPU resources by handling SSL encryption and decryption at the load balancer, improving application server performance.
Content Switching
Directs user requests to the appropriate server based on content type or URL, optimizing resource allocation and application delivery.
Yearly Subscription Model
Provides predictable costs and ensures continuous access to the latest features, updates, and vendor support.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require high availability and performance for trading platforms, banking applications, and customer portals to meet strict regulatory and customer expectations.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers depend on reliable access to patient data and critical applications, necessitating robust load balancing and uptime to ensure uninterrupted patient care and compliance with HIPAA.
Retail & Hospitality
Retailers and hospitality businesses need to ensure their e-commerce sites, booking systems, and point-of-sale operations are always available and performant, especially during peak seasons.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial operations rely on stable network performance for real-time data processing, SCADA systems, and supply chain management, where downtime can lead to significant production losses.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Cisco Alteon Perform Package?
The Perform Package is a software enhancement for Cisco Alteon application delivery platforms that unlocks advanced features for traffic management, security, and performance optimization.
What hardware does this subscription apply to?
This specific subscription (L-RDSUSP7K8K-1Y) is designed for Cisco Alteon 7K and 8K series appliances.
What is the term of this subscription?
This is a yearly subscription, providing access to the Perform Package features and ongoing support for a 12-month period.
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.