Cisco ASR 9K Electronic Delivery Smart License Advanced Option 4x100G
This Cisco ASR 9000 Series electronic smart license provides advanced options, enabling enhanced network functionality and capacity for your critical business infrastructure.
- License Term: Subscription-based access to advanced features and capabilities.
- Billing Model: Annual subscription ensures predictable operational expenses.
- Hardware Applicability: Designed for Cisco ASR 9000 Series routers.
- Key Value: Facilitates network scalability, feature enablement, and operational compliance.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This electronic smart license unlocks advanced features and capabilities for Cisco ASR 9000 Series routers, specifically enabling the 4x100G advanced option. It operates on a subscription model, providing continuous access to software enhancements and support.
Ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in mid-market and enterprise environments, this license is crucial for organizations that require high-performance routing, advanced traffic management, and the flexibility to scale their network services without significant capital expenditure on new hardware.
- Advanced Feature Unlock: Grants access to sophisticated routing protocols and traffic engineering capabilities.
- Capacity Expansion: Enables the 4x100G interface option for increased throughput.
- Subscription Licensing: Provides flexibility and predictable costs through an annual billing model.
- Compliance and Support: Ensures your network software is up-to-date and supported.
- Operational Efficiency: Streamlines network management and service deployment.
This Cisco smart license is the right choice for mid-market teams seeking to maximize their ASR 9000 investment with advanced features and scalable performance.
What This Enables
Enable High-Speed Network Services
Enable teams to deploy and manage high-throughput network services by unlocking the 4x100G interface option. This allows for increased bandwidth and faster data transmission critical for modern business applications.
core routing infrastructure, high-performance networking, data center interconnect, service provider edge
Streamline Network Feature Access
Streamline the process of accessing advanced routing features and software enhancements. This license provides entitlement to sophisticated capabilities, simplifying network configuration and management.
network operations, service deployment, feature enablement, software upgrades
Automate Licensing Compliance
Automate licensing compliance and ensure continuous access to Cisco support and software updates. The subscription model simplifies license management and reduces the risk of operational downtime due to expired or non-compliant software.
IT asset management, network compliance, software lifecycle management, operational continuity
Key Features
4x100G Interface Support
Increases network throughput and capacity, enabling faster data transfer and supporting more demanding applications.
Smart Licensing
Provides flexible, electronic license management and entitlement, simplifying deployment and compliance.
Subscription Billing
Offers predictable operational expenses and continuous access to software updates and support.
Advanced Software Options
Unlocks sophisticated routing features and capabilities for enhanced network control and performance.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require high-performance, reliable, and secure network infrastructure to handle high volumes of transactions and sensitive data, making advanced routing capabilities essential for their operations.
Telecommunications & Service Providers
Service providers rely on high-capacity routing platforms like the ASR 9000 to deliver high-speed internet and other network services to their customers, necessitating advanced features for traffic management and scalability.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Modern manufacturing and industrial operations depend on robust, high-bandwidth networks for real-time data processing, IoT integration, and automation, requiring advanced routing to support these critical functions.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations need secure, high-performance networks to manage large datasets, enable telehealth services, and ensure compliance with regulations like HIPAA, benefiting from advanced routing for efficient data flow.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Cisco Smart License?
Cisco Smart Licensing is a flexible, electronic licensing system that simplifies how you manage and deploy Cisco software across your organization. It moves away from traditional PAK files to a more streamlined, account-based model.
What does the 'Advanced Option' signify?
The 'Advanced Option' typically denotes a tier of features or capabilities that go beyond the standard offering, providing enhanced functionality, performance, or specific use-case enablement for the Cisco ASR 9000 platform.
How is this license delivered?
This is an electronic delivery license, meaning you will receive activation instructions and entitlement digitally, rather than through physical media.
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.