Cisco Application Control and Visibility Software License
Secure and optimize your application traffic with the Cisco Application Control and Visibility software license, providing advanced traffic management and security for your business network.
- Advanced Traffic Management: Gain granular control over application traffic to prioritize critical business applications and improve network performance.
- Enhanced Security Posture: Implement application-aware security policies to protect against threats targeting specific applications and protocols.
- Compliance and Visibility: Ensure regulatory compliance by maintaining detailed visibility into application usage and data flows across your network.
- Operational Efficiency: Streamline application management and security policy enforcement, reducing manual effort and potential for error.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Cisco Application Control and Visibility software license unlocks advanced capabilities for managing and securing application traffic within your organization's network infrastructure. This subscription-based license provides essential tools for deep packet inspection, application identification, and policy enforcement, enabling businesses to gain control over their network's application landscape.
This solution is designed for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies who need to ensure application performance, enforce security policies, and meet compliance requirements. It integrates with existing Cisco network hardware to provide a unified approach to application management and security.
- Application Identification: Accurately identify thousands of applications and protocols, regardless of port or encryption.
- Granular Policy Control: Define and enforce policies based on application, user, or group to manage bandwidth and access.
- Threat Mitigation: Integrate with security services to block malicious applications and protect against application-layer attacks.
- Performance Optimization: Prioritize business-critical applications to ensure optimal user experience and productivity.
- Reporting and Analytics: Generate detailed reports on application usage, traffic patterns, and security events for informed decision-making.
This Cisco software license empowers SMB and mid-market teams to achieve enterprise-level application control and visibility without the associated overhead.
What This Enables
Enable granular application traffic control
Enable teams to define and enforce policies based on specific applications, ensuring business-critical services receive prioritized bandwidth. Streamline network resource allocation to prevent performance degradation from non-essential applications.
on-premises networks, hybrid cloud environments, virtualized infrastructure
Enhance application-layer security
Automate the detection and blocking of malicious applications and threats targeting specific protocols, reducing the attack surface. Protect sensitive business data by preventing unauthorized application access and data exfiltration.
corporate networks, data center environments, remote workforce access
Improve network performance and user experience
Streamline the prioritization of business-critical applications, ensuring optimal performance for user productivity and essential operations. Reduce user-reported issues related to network slowness by actively managing application traffic.
high-traffic networks, performance-sensitive operations, user-facing applications
Key Features
Application Identification Engine
Accurately identifies thousands of applications and protocols, regardless of port or encryption, providing clear visibility into network traffic.
Policy-Based Traffic Management
Allows IT teams to create granular policies based on application, user, or group to control bandwidth, access, and priority, optimizing network performance.
Threat Intelligence Integration
Integrates with Cisco's threat intelligence to detect and block malicious applications and application-layer attacks, enhancing security posture.
Real-time Reporting and Analytics
Provides comprehensive insights into application usage, traffic patterns, and security events, enabling informed decision-making and compliance.
Subscription Licensing Model
Offers flexible, ongoing access to the latest features and security updates, ensuring the platform remains current and effective.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require strict control over application traffic to ensure the security of sensitive customer data and comply with regulations like PCI DSS and SOX.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must protect patient health information (PHI) under HIPAA, necessitating granular control and visibility over applications transmitting this data.
Retail & Hospitality
Retailers and hospitality groups handle customer payment information and require robust security and performance for point-of-sale systems and online transactions, often governed by PCI DSS.
Education & Research
Educational institutions manage diverse user groups and applications, requiring traffic control to ensure network performance for academic and administrative functions while protecting student data.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco Application Control and Visibility?
It is a software solution that provides deep visibility into application traffic on your network and allows you to enforce policies to control that traffic. This helps improve security, performance, and compliance.
What does the '200M' in the product name signify?
The '200M' typically refers to the capacity or throughput the license supports, often measured in Megabits per second (Mbps). This indicates the maximum network traffic volume the license is designed to manage.
Is this a perpetual license or a subscription?
This product is a subscription-based license, meaning it is valid for a defined term and includes ongoing access to software updates and support.
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.