Cisco ASR-9901 16x1G Port Upgrade License
Enhance your Cisco ASR-9901 router's connectivity by enabling 16 additional 1 Gigabit ports through this essential platform upgrade license.
- Expanded Capacity: Gain immediate access to 16 new 1 Gigabit Ethernet ports, significantly increasing your network's port density and throughput.
- Scalability: Future-proof your network infrastructure by adding crucial port capacity to accommodate growing traffic demands and new service deployments.
- Compliance and Performance: Ensure your network hardware meets evolving business needs and maintains optimal performance levels with licensed feature enablement.
- Operational Continuity: Maintain uninterrupted service and avoid performance bottlenecks by ensuring your core routing platform is properly licensed for its intended use.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Cisco ASR-9901 platform upgrade license unlocks the capability to activate 16 additional 1 Gigabit Ethernet ports on your ASR-9901 router. It is a subscription-based license designed to provide enhanced port density and support for increased network traffic, ensuring your core routing infrastructure remains capable of meeting business demands.
This license is intended for IT Managers and IT Professionals within SMB and mid-market organizations who manage and operate Cisco ASR routing platforms. It integrates directly with the ASR-9901 hardware, allowing for expanded port configurations within existing network deployments and data center environments.
- Increased Port Density: Enables 16 new 1 Gigabit ports for greater connectivity options.
- Subscription Billing: Provides flexible, recurring access to enhanced port capacity.
- Platform Specific: Designed exclusively for the Cisco ASR-9901 router model.
- Performance Enhancement: Supports higher traffic volumes and more connected devices.
- Network Scalability: Allows for easy expansion of network edge and core services.
This Cisco license is the ideal solution for mid-market organizations needing to expand their network capacity without a full hardware refresh.
What This Enables
Enable Additional Network Connectivity
Enable teams to connect more devices, servers, or network segments by activating 16 new 1 Gigabit ports. This increases the router's overall port density to support growing infrastructure needs.
On-premises data centers, campus network cores, edge routing deployments, network aggregation points
Support Network Traffic Growth
Streamline network operations by providing the necessary port capacity to handle increased data throughput. This license ensures the ASR-9901 can accommodate rising traffic volumes from users and applications.
High-traffic enterprise networks, service provider edge, data center interconnects, network expansion projects
Facilitate New Service Deployments
Automate the process of adding new network services that require additional physical connections. This license allows for the rapid enablement of new services without requiring immediate hardware replacement.
Network segmentation projects, introduction of new application services, IoT device integration, branch office connectivity expansion
Key Features
16x 1 Gigabit Port Enablement
Significantly increases the port density of the Cisco ASR-9901 router, allowing for more connections.
Subscription Licensing Model
Provides flexible, recurring access to enhanced port capacity, aligning costs with usage and evolving needs.
Cisco ASR-9901 Specific
Guarantees compatibility and seamless integration with your existing Cisco ASR-9901 routing platform.
Enhanced Network Scalability
Allows your network to grow and adapt to increasing demands without immediate, costly hardware upgrades.
Performance Optimization
Ensures your core routing infrastructure can handle higher traffic loads and support more connected endpoints.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require high-density, reliable network connectivity for trading platforms, data processing, and secure client access, making port expansion on core routers critical.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations need robust network infrastructure to support critical patient data systems, medical devices, and telehealth services, often requiring expanded port capacity for new equipment.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial environments are increasingly reliant on network connectivity for IoT devices, automation systems, and real-time data monitoring, necessitating scalable port solutions for expanded operational technology.
Education & Research
Educational institutions manage large numbers of connected devices for students and staff, requiring scalable network infrastructure to support increasing bandwidth demands and new technology deployments.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a platform upgrade license?
A platform upgrade license is a software entitlement that unlocks additional features or capacity on a specific hardware platform. For this Cisco license, it enables more physical ports on the ASR-9901 router.
What is the billing model for this license?
This license is billed on a subscription basis, meaning you pay recurring fees for its use over a defined term.
Does this license require a new hardware purchase?
No, this is a software license that is applied to your existing Cisco ASR-9901 router to enable additional port functionality. It is designed to extend the life and capability of your current hardware.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Low — self-service
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.