Cisco Alteon Performance Package Subscription for 9K
The Cisco Alteon Performance Package Subscription provides essential software capabilities and ongoing support for your Cisco 9K platform over a 5-year term.
- Access to Advanced Features: Unlock enhanced application delivery and security functionalities for critical business applications.
- Continuous Operation: Ensure uninterrupted service availability and performance with proactive software updates and patches.
- Compliance Assurance: Maintain adherence to regulatory requirements through up-to-date security features and logging capabilities.
- Extended Support: Benefit from 5 years of vendor support, guaranteeing timely assistance and issue resolution.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This is a 5-year subscription license for the Cisco Alteon Performance Package, designed to enhance the capabilities of your Cisco 9K platform. It provides access to advanced features, ongoing software updates, and essential vendor support, ensuring your application delivery infrastructure remains performant and secure.
IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations utilize this subscription to maintain optimal performance, security, and compliance for their critical business applications. It integrates directly with their existing Cisco 9K hardware, extending its lifespan and feature set without requiring significant hardware upgrades.
- Enhanced Application Delivery: Optimize traffic flow and improve user experience for web and mobile applications.
- Advanced Security Features: Protect against application-layer attacks and ensure data integrity.
- Performance Monitoring: Gain insights into application performance and identify potential bottlenecks.
- Software Updates & Patches: Stay current with the latest security fixes and feature enhancements.
- Vendor Support: Receive expert technical assistance and issue resolution from Cisco.
This subscription is the ideal choice for businesses seeking to maximize their investment in Cisco networking hardware with continuous feature access and vendor support.
What This Enables
Enable Advanced Application Delivery Features
Enable teams to optimize traffic flow and enhance user experience for critical business applications. Streamline the deployment and management of web and mobile services with advanced load balancing and content switching capabilities.
On-premises data centers, hybrid cloud environments, multi-site operations, business continuity planning
Strengthen Application Security Posture
Automate the protection of applications against common web exploits and denial-of-service attacks. Enable teams to maintain compliance with security standards through integrated threat mitigation features.
Regulatory compliance environments, sensitive data handling, public-facing applications, network perimeter security
Ensure Continuous Service Availability
Streamline operations by ensuring high availability for critical business services. Protect against unplanned downtime with advanced failover and redundancy features.
Mission-critical application hosting, business process continuity, high-traffic websites, service level agreement adherence
Key Features
Cisco Alteon Performance Package
Unlocks advanced application delivery and security features for the Cisco 9K platform, enhancing performance and user experience.
5-Year Subscription Term
Provides long-term access to software features and vendor support, ensuring predictable costs and continuous operation.
Software Updates and Patches
Keeps the platform secure and performant by providing access to the latest fixes and feature enhancements.
Vendor Support Entitlement
Guarantees access to Cisco's technical expertise for issue resolution and operational guidance.
Platform Licensing
Enables the full potential of the Cisco 9K hardware for application delivery and network services.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require high availability, robust security, and compliance with strict regulations like PCI DSS and SOX for their trading platforms and customer-facing applications.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must ensure secure and reliable access to patient data and critical systems, adhering to HIPAA regulations and maintaining continuous service for patient care.
Retail & Hospitality
Retailers and hospitality groups depend on high-performance application delivery for e-commerce, point-of-sale systems, and customer engagement platforms, especially during peak seasons.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial operators rely on stable and secure network performance for operational technology (OT) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to maintain production efficiency and supply chain integrity.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Cisco Alteon Performance Package Subscription?
It is a 5-year subscription license that provides advanced software features, updates, and vendor support for the Cisco 9K application delivery platform. This ensures your network infrastructure remains performant, secure, and compliant.
What hardware does this subscription apply to?
This subscription is specifically designed for the Cisco 9K platform, enhancing its capabilities for application delivery and network services.
What are the benefits of a subscription model for software?
Subscription models offer predictable costs, continuous access to the latest features and security updates, and often include vendor support, ensuring your technology remains current and protected.
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.