Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure Forkub Premium 3-Year Subscription
This Cisco premium software subscription provides 3-year access to advanced Application Centric Infrastructure capabilities, enabling enhanced network control and automation for your business.
- License Term: Enjoy 3 years of premium access to Cisco's Application Centric Infrastructure features.
- Capacity: Supports environments with 1-2 CPUs and up to 128 cores, scaling with your infrastructure.
- Feature Access: Unlocks premium functionalities for advanced network management and policy enforcement.
- Compliance & Support: Ensures your network software is up-to-date and compliant with vendor standards.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This offering is a 3-year premium subscription license for Cisco's Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) Forkub platform. It grants access to advanced features and capabilities designed to simplify and automate network management, policy enforcement, and application deployment within your data center or cloud environment.
Ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in mid-market organizations, this license is intended for businesses that utilize Cisco ACI to manage their own network infrastructure. It ensures continuous access to software updates, support, and premium features, integrating directly into your existing Cisco ACI deployment.
- Advanced Network Automation: Streamline the deployment and management of network services and policies.
- Policy-Driven Management: Define and enforce network policies consistently across your infrastructure.
- Application Visibility: Gain deeper insights into application behavior and network performance.
- Scalable Capacity: Licensed for environments utilizing 1-2 CPUs with up to 128 cores.
- Subscription Term: Provides 3 years of continuous access to software, support, and feature enhancements.
This Cisco subscription is the right choice for mid-market teams seeking to optimize their network operations with advanced automation and policy control.
What This Enables
Enable Advanced Network Automation
Enable teams to automate the provisioning and management of network resources and policies. Streamline application deployments by defining network requirements as code.
data center virtualization, private cloud deployments, hybrid cloud environments, network function virtualization
Centralize Policy Management
Streamline the enforcement of consistent network and security policies across diverse application environments. Automate policy updates to reduce manual configuration errors and compliance risks.
multi-tenant data centers, segmented network architectures, compliance-driven IT operations, application-aware networking
Enhance Application Performance and Visibility
Automate the optimization of network paths for critical applications based on real-time performance metrics. Gain deeper visibility into application traffic patterns and network behavior to troubleshoot issues faster.
performance-sensitive workloads, business-critical application hosting, network monitoring and analytics, application lifecycle management
Key Features
Application Centric Policy Model
Simplify network management by defining policies based on application needs rather than network constructs.
Automated Network Provisioning
Reduce deployment times and manual errors by automating the setup of network infrastructure for new applications.
Integrated Network Analytics
Gain insights into network performance and application behavior to proactively identify and resolve issues.
Scalable Licensing
Supports environments with 1-2 CPUs and up to 128 cores, allowing for growth within defined parameters.
3-Year Subscription Term
Provides predictable costs and continuous access to software updates and vendor support for an extended period.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust security, high availability, and strict compliance with regulations like PCI DSS and SOX, which ACI's policy-driven automation helps enforce.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must adhere to HIPAA and other privacy regulations, necessitating secure, segmented networks and auditable policy enforcement that ACI provides.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial environments benefit from ACI's ability to automate network configurations for diverse operational technology (OT) and IT systems, ensuring reliability and security.
Education & Research
Educational institutions often manage complex, multi-tenant network environments and require efficient resource allocation and security segmentation for research and student access.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)?
Cisco ACI is a software-defined networking solution that uses a policy-based approach to automate and manage network infrastructure, simplifying operations and improving agility.
What does 'Premium' licensing entail for Cisco ACI?
Premium licensing typically unlocks advanced features, enhanced support options, and broader capabilities compared to standard or essential licenses, offering greater control and automation.
How does this subscription license apply to my hardware?
This license is tied to the Cisco ACI platform and is designed to support environments with 1-2 CPUs and up to 128 cores, ensuring your software capabilities align with your infrastructure capacity.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
High — engineer-led
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.