Cisco ASR 9K Tunnel Protocols Smart License RTU
This Cisco Smart License RTU provides essential tunnel protocol capabilities for your ASR 9000 Series routers, ensuring critical network functions remain operational.
- License Term: Subscription-based access to tunnel protocol features for your Cisco ASR 9000 Series.
- Feature Enablement: Unlocks advanced routing and tunneling functionalities required for modern network infrastructure.
- Compliance: Ensures your network adheres to licensing requirements for specific routing and tunneling features.
- Operational Continuity: Guarantees continued access to vital network services and protocols.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Cisco ASR 9000 Series Smart License RTU (Right-to-Use) subscription provides essential licensing for tunnel protocols. It enables critical routing and tunneling features necessary for advanced network operations, ensuring your ASR 9K platform can support complex traffic flows and secure connections.
This license is designed for businesses that utilize Cisco's ASR 9000 Series routers for their core network infrastructure. IT Managers and IT Professionals in mid-market companies rely on these licenses to maintain compliance, unlock advanced functionalities, and ensure the uninterrupted operation of their routing and tunneling services.
- Subscription Licensing: Provides access to tunnel protocol features on a recurring basis, offering flexibility and predictable costs.
- ASR 9000 Series Support: Specifically designed for Cisco's ASR 9000 Series routers, ensuring compatibility and optimal performance.
- Feature Unlock: Grants the necessary entitlements to activate and utilize advanced tunnel protocol functionalities.
- Compliance Assurance: Helps maintain regulatory and vendor compliance by properly licensing all active network features.
- Network Scalability: Supports the expansion and evolution of your network by enabling advanced routing and tunneling capabilities.
This Cisco Smart License RTU is the ideal solution for mid-market organizations needing to ensure their ASR 9000 Series routers are properly licensed for critical tunnel protocol functions.
What This Enables
Enable Advanced Tunneling Capabilities
Enable teams to deploy and manage complex network topologies requiring advanced tunneling protocols. Streamline the configuration and operation of secure, high-performance network connections.
core network infrastructure, multi-site connectivity, secure remote access, virtual private networks
Ensure Licensing Compliance
Automate the process of maintaining software license compliance for critical network hardware. Prevent service disruptions and potential audits by ensuring all features are properly licensed.
network operations, IT asset management, regulatory adherence, infrastructure lifecycle management
Support Network Evolution
Support the ongoing evolution of your network infrastructure by unlocking necessary routing and tunneling features. Adapt to new traffic patterns and service requirements without hardware replacement.
network modernization, service expansion, capacity planning, technology upgrades
Key Features
Cisco Smart Licensing RTU
Provides a flexible, subscription-based licensing model for easier management and predictable costs.
Tunnel Protocol Support
Unlocks essential features for protocols like GRE, IPsec, and L2TP, crucial for secure and efficient data transport.
ASR 9000 Series Platform
Ensures compatibility and optimal performance with Cisco's high-performance edge and core routing platform.
Subscription Billing
Offers a pay-as-you-go model that aligns operational expenses with actual usage and feature requirements.
Entitlement for Specific Features
Grants the right to use specific tunnel protocol software features, ensuring full functionality and compliance.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require secure and reliable network connections for transactions and data protection, making advanced tunneling protocols essential for compliance and operational integrity.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must maintain strict data privacy and security standards, necessitating secure tunneling for patient data transmission and compliance with regulations like HIPAA.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial environments often require secure connectivity between distributed sites and operational technology (OT) networks, where tunnel protocols are vital for data integrity and remote management.
Government & Public Sector
Government agencies rely on secure, encrypted communication channels for sensitive data and inter-agency connectivity, making robust tunneling capabilities a critical requirement.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are Cisco Smart Licenses RTU?
Cisco Smart Licenses RTU (Right-to-Use) are a modern licensing model that allows customers to access and manage software features through a subscription. They simplify license management and provide flexibility compared to traditional PAK licenses.
What are tunnel protocols used for?
Tunnel protocols create secure or logical connections over existing networks. They are used for VPNs, extending networks, encapsulating traffic, and enabling secure communication between different network segments.
How is this license billed?
This license is billed on a subscription basis, meaning you pay a recurring fee for the duration of the license term to maintain access to the enabled features.
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.