Cisco ASR 9000 VRF License - 2T Service Edge 5th Gen
The Cisco ASR 9000 VRF License enables advanced network segmentation and traffic isolation for your service edge infrastructure, ensuring enhanced security and performance.
- Feature Unlock: Gain access to full-scale Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) capabilities on your Cisco ASR 9000 Series routers.
- Enhanced Security: Isolate traffic between different tenants or services, preventing unauthorized access and improving network resilience.
- Performance Optimization: Optimize routing tables and forwarding paths for specific applications or customer segments, boosting overall network efficiency.
- Scalability Support: Facilitate the growth of your network services by enabling granular control over routing and traffic management for a 2 Terabit service edge.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This is a platform software subscription license for Cisco's ASR 9000 Series routers, specifically the 5th Generation Service Edge models supporting 2 Terabits of throughput. It unlocks the full-scale Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) feature set, allowing for advanced network segmentation and traffic isolation.
IT Managers and Network Professionals in mid-market to enterprise organizations utilize this license to create distinct routing domains within a single physical router. This is crucial for service providers, large enterprises, and organizations with complex network requirements needing to segregate traffic for security, compliance, or performance reasons.
- Full-Scale VRF Enablement: Activates comprehensive VRF capabilities on supported Cisco ASR 9000 platforms.
- Traffic Isolation: Creates independent routing instances to segregate traffic for different customers, services, or security zones.
- Enhanced Network Security: Reduces the attack surface by limiting traffic flow between isolated network segments.
- Improved Performance: Optimizes routing efficiency and resource utilization by tailoring routing tables to specific VRF contexts.
- Subscription-Based Access: Provides access to features and ongoing updates through a defined subscription term.
This license is ideal for mid-market and enterprise teams seeking to maximize the segmentation and routing capabilities of their Cisco ASR 9000 infrastructure.
What This Enables
Enable Advanced Network Segmentation
Enable teams to create distinct routing domains within a single physical router, isolating traffic for different business units or customer services. Streamline network management by consolidating multiple logical networks onto a shared physical infrastructure.
data center core, service provider edge, enterprise WAN, campus network backbone
Enhance Security Posture
Automate the isolation of sensitive data and critical applications, preventing unauthorized access between network segments. Protect against lateral movement of threats by enforcing strict traffic boundaries.
multi-tenant environments, regulated industries, secure network design, compliance-driven deployments
Optimize Traffic Engineering
Streamline the process of directing specific traffic flows over optimized paths, improving application performance and user experience. Facilitate granular control over routing policies to meet diverse application requirements.
high-performance computing, real-time data processing, quality of service implementation, network performance tuning
Key Features
Full-Scale VRF License
Unlocks the complete set of VRF capabilities on supported Cisco ASR 9000 routers, providing maximum flexibility for network segmentation.
2 Terabit Service Edge Support
Designed for high-capacity platforms, ensuring the license can support demanding traffic volumes and future growth.
5th Generation Platform Compatibility
Optimized for the latest generation of Cisco ASR 9000 Service Edge hardware, ensuring peak performance and feature integration.
Subscription Billing
Provides access to features and potential updates on a recurring basis, aligning costs with ongoing usage and support.
Traffic Isolation
Enables the creation of separate routing tables, preventing traffic from one VRF from interfering with or being accessed by another.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require stringent network segmentation to comply with regulations like PCI DSS and protect sensitive customer data, making VRF a critical security and compliance tool.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must secure patient data (PHI) under HIPAA, necessitating network segmentation to isolate medical devices and sensitive information systems from general network traffic.
Telecommunications Infrastructure
Service providers use VRF extensively to offer multi-tenant services, isolate customer traffic, and manage diverse routing policies efficiently on their core and edge networks.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial networks often require the segregation of operational technology (OT) from IT networks to enhance security and prevent disruptions, which VRF facilitates by creating distinct routing domains.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is VRF and why is it important?
VRF, or Virtual Routing and Forwarding, is a technology that allows a single physical router to host multiple routing instances. This is crucial for segmenting networks, enhancing security by isolating traffic, and improving routing efficiency for different applications or tenants.
What hardware does this license apply to?
This license is specifically for Cisco ASR 9000 Series routers, particularly the 5th Generation Service Edge models that support 2 Terabits of throughput. It is essential to verify compatibility with your specific hardware model.
What is the term of this license?
This is a subscription-based license. The specific term duration will be defined at the time of purchase and is typically renewable.
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.