Cisco Application Visibility and Control Subscription
Cisco Application Visibility and Control Subscription provides essential network traffic visibility and policy enforcement for your firewall infrastructure, ensuring optimal performance and security.
- Enhanced Visibility: Access detailed insights into application traffic patterns and user activity across your network.
- Policy Enforcement: Gain granular control over application usage to enforce security policies and optimize bandwidth.
- Subscription Term: Benefit from continuous access to software updates and support for the duration of your subscription.
- Compliance Assurance: Maintain regulatory compliance by accurately identifying and managing application data flows.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Cisco subscription license unlocks advanced Application Visibility and Control (AVC) features for your Cisco ASA or Firepower firewalls. It provides deep packet inspection capabilities to identify, monitor, and control application traffic, enabling better security posture and network performance management.
Ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations, this license integrates directly into existing Cisco firewall deployments. It helps ensure that critical business applications receive priority bandwidth while mitigating risks from unauthorized or bandwidth-intensive applications.
- Application Identification: Automatically detect and classify over 1000 applications, including encrypted traffic.
- Traffic Shaping: Prioritize critical business applications and de-prioritize non-essential traffic to optimize bandwidth.
- Security Policy Integration: Apply security policies based on application identity, not just IP addresses or ports.
- Performance Monitoring: Gain real-time visibility into application performance metrics and user behavior.
- Subscription-Based Access: Ensures continuous access to the latest software features, security updates, and vendor support.
This Cisco subscription is the right choice for SMB and mid-market teams seeking to enhance network control and security without the overhead of traditional hardware upgrades.
What This Enables
Gain Network Traffic Insights
Enable teams to identify and classify over a thousand applications, including encrypted traffic, to understand exactly what is traversing their network. Streamline the process of monitoring user activity and application performance to proactively address potential issues.
on-premises network infrastructure, multi-site deployments, hybrid cloud environments, managed security services
Optimize Bandwidth Allocation
Streamline bandwidth management by prioritizing critical business applications and de-prioritizing non-essential or recreational traffic. Automate traffic shaping policies to ensure consistent performance for revenue-generating applications.
network infrastructure with limited bandwidth, performance-sensitive applications, VoIP and video conferencing, remote workforce connectivity
Enforce Granular Security Policies
Enable teams to apply security policies based on application identity, rather than just IP addresses or ports, for more precise threat mitigation. Automate the blocking or throttling of unauthorized applications to reduce the attack surface.
compliance-driven environments, perimeter security deployments, internal network segmentation, threat detection systems
Key Features
Application Identification Engine
Accurately identify and classify thousands of applications, including encrypted ones, to understand network usage.
Traffic Shaping and Prioritization
Optimize bandwidth by prioritizing critical business applications and controlling non-essential traffic.
Application-Aware Security Policies
Enhance security by applying policies based on application identity for more effective threat control.
Subscription-Based Updates
Ensure continuous access to the latest features, security patches, and vendor support for ongoing protection.
Firewall Integration
Seamlessly integrates with Cisco ASA and Firepower platforms for unified network management and security.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require strict control over network traffic for security, compliance with regulations like PCI DSS, and to ensure high performance for trading and transaction applications.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must comply with HIPAA and other data privacy regulations, necessitating granular control and visibility over sensitive patient data traffic and critical medical applications.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial environments rely on predictable network performance for operational technology (OT) systems and need to secure these critical systems from unauthorized application access.
Education & Research
Educational institutions manage diverse user groups and applications, requiring tools to prioritize bandwidth for learning resources and control non-academic usage to maintain network stability.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco Application Visibility and Control (AVC)?
Cisco AVC is a technology that provides deep visibility into network traffic, allowing administrators to identify, monitor, and control specific applications. This subscription enables those advanced AVC features on your Cisco firewall.
What hardware platforms does this license apply to?
This license is designed for supported Cisco ASA and Firepower firewall platforms. Please verify compatibility with your specific hardware model.
What is the term of this subscription?
The term of the subscription is determined at the time of purchase. It provides continuous access to features and updates for the duration of the subscription 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.