Cisco Application Visibility and Control License
Cisco Application Visibility and Control provides essential network traffic analysis and application identification to optimize performance and security for your business network.
- Enhanced Visibility: Gain granular insight into application traffic patterns across your network.
- Performance Optimization: Identify and prioritize critical business applications to ensure optimal user experience.
- Security Enhancement: Detect and mitigate risks associated with unauthorized or malicious application usage.
- Compliance Assurance: Maintain visibility for regulatory requirements and internal policy enforcement.
Product Overview
Product Overview
Cisco Application Visibility and Control (AVC) is a software licensing solution that unlocks advanced network traffic analysis capabilities. This license enables your IT team to identify, monitor, and manage application performance and behavior within your network infrastructure.
This platform license is designed for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations who need to understand application usage, troubleshoot performance issues, and ensure the efficient operation of their business-critical applications. It integrates with Cisco networking hardware to provide deep packet inspection and application awareness.
- Application Identification: Accurately classify over 1000 applications, including custom business applications.
- Traffic Monitoring: Visualize application traffic flows, bandwidth consumption, and user activity.
- Performance Analytics: Analyze application response times and identify network bottlenecks impacting user experience.
- Policy Enforcement: Set granular policies to prioritize critical applications or limit non-essential traffic.
- Security Insights: Detect anomalies and potential threats related to application behavior.
Empower your IT team with the insights needed to manage application performance and security effectively, ensuring business continuity and user productivity.
What This Enables
Gain granular application traffic insights
Enable teams to identify and classify over 1000 applications running on their network. Streamline troubleshooting by pinpointing bandwidth-consuming applications and understanding their impact on business operations.
on-premises network infrastructure, multi-site deployments, hybrid cloud environments, business continuity planning
Optimize application performance and user experience
Automate the prioritization of critical business applications to ensure they receive adequate bandwidth. Improve user productivity by reducing latency and eliminating performance degradation caused by non-essential traffic.
business-critical application delivery, VoIP and video conferencing optimization, remote workforce support, network performance monitoring
Enhance network security posture
Support security teams in detecting and mitigating risks associated with unauthorized or potentially malicious application usage. Provide visibility into application behavior that could indicate security threats or policy violations.
network security monitoring, threat detection and response, compliance auditing, policy enforcement
Key Features
Application Identification
Accurately classify thousands of applications to understand network usage and identify potential risks.
Traffic Monitoring and Analytics
Visualize application traffic flows and bandwidth consumption to pinpoint performance issues and optimize resource allocation.
Quality of Service (QoS) Policy Enforcement
Prioritize critical business applications to ensure optimal performance and user experience, even during peak network load.
Network Performance Visibility
Gain deep insights into application response times and network latency to proactively address bottlenecks.
Security Threat Detection
Identify unusual application behavior that may indicate security threats or policy violations.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require high network performance and security for critical trading and customer transaction applications, making deep application visibility essential for compliance and operational efficiency.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers rely on secure and uninterrupted access to patient data and medical applications, necessitating robust network monitoring and performance optimization to meet strict uptime and privacy regulations.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial operations depend on real-time data and communication for production lines and logistics, requiring consistent network performance and the ability to prioritize operational technology (OT) traffic.
Education & Research
Educational institutions manage diverse network traffic from students, faculty, and research activities, needing to ensure bandwidth for critical learning platforms and research applications while maintaining security.
Frequently Asked Questions
What Cisco hardware is compatible with this license?
This license is designed for use with a range of Cisco enterprise networking hardware, including ISR routers and Catalyst switches. Specific compatibility details can be found in Cisco's product documentation.
What is the term of this subscription license?
This is a subscription-based license. The term is typically one year, with options for renewal to ensure continued access to features and support.
How does this license help with network security?
By providing visibility into application traffic, AVC helps security teams identify and block unauthorized or risky applications, detect anomalies, and enforce security policies, thereby strengthening the overall security posture.
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.