Cisco Crosswork Hierarchical Controller High Availability - Platform Subscription
Secure uninterrupted network control with the Cisco Crosswork Hierarchical Controller High Availability platform subscription, ensuring continuous service availability for your critical infrastructure.
- Coverage for: Continuous access to advanced network management and control features, preventing service disruptions.
- Protection against: Downtime risks associated with controller failures, maintaining operational continuity.
- Entitlement to: Software updates and support, ensuring your network management tools remain current and functional.
- Value: Enhanced network resilience and stability, minimizing the impact of potential hardware or software issues.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Cisco Crosswork Hierarchical Controller High Availability platform subscription provides essential licensing for ensuring redundant and continuous operation of your network control plane.
Designed for IT Managers and IT Professionals in mid-market organizations, this subscription integrates into existing Cisco network infrastructures to provide failover capabilities and maintain critical network services without interruption.
- High Availability Licensing: Unlocks redundant controller functionality for failover.
- Continuous Operation: Ensures network management and control remain active during component failures.
- Platform Subscription: Provides access to software features and updates on a recurring basis.
- Cisco Ecosystem: Integrates with existing Cisco network hardware and software deployments.
- Operational Resilience: Minimizes downtime and maintains service levels for critical business operations.
This subscription is the ideal choice for mid-market organizations seeking to bolster network resilience and prevent costly downtime.
What This Enables
Enable Continuous Network Control
Enable teams to maintain uninterrupted network management and control even during hardware or software failures. Streamline failover processes to minimize service degradation and ensure business continuity.
network operations centers, distributed enterprise networks, critical infrastructure management, IT service continuity planning
Automate Failover Processes
Automate the transition to a secondary controller in the event of a primary controller failure. Streamline disaster recovery and business continuity by ensuring rapid and reliable failover.
high-availability network deployments, IT resilience strategies, automated IT operations, business continuity planning
Maintain Regulatory Compliance
Support regulatory requirements for network uptime and data availability by ensuring continuous operation of essential network services. Protect against penalties and reputational damage associated with service outages.
regulated industry networks, compliance-driven IT environments, data integrity assurance, service level agreement adherence
Key Features
High Availability Licensing
Ensures a redundant controller is ready to take over, preventing network downtime.
Platform Subscription Model
Provides access to the latest software features and ongoing support for predictable budgeting.
Cisco Crosswork Integration
Seamlessly integrates with your existing Cisco network infrastructure for unified management.
Automated Failover
Minimizes manual intervention during outages, reducing response time and impact.
Continuous Network Visibility
Maintains constant insight into network status, even during failover events.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require near-constant uptime for trading, transactions, and customer access, making high availability for network control essential to meet strict SLAs and regulatory demands.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers depend on uninterrupted network connectivity for patient care systems, data access, and critical communications, where any downtime can have severe consequences.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial operations rely on real-time network control for production lines, logistics, and automation; high availability ensures these critical processes are not halted by network control failures.
Government & Public Sector
Public sector agencies require reliable network services for essential citizen services and internal operations, necessitating robust solutions that prevent disruptions and ensure continuity.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco Crosswork Hierarchical Controller High Availability?
It is a licensing and software subscription that enables redundant operation for the Cisco Crosswork Hierarchical Controller. This ensures that if one controller fails, a backup immediately takes over, preventing network service interruptions.
Who is this license intended for?
This license is for businesses, particularly in the mid-market sector, that rely on continuous network operation and need to mitigate the risk of downtime associated with their network control plane.
What is the billing model for this license?
This is a subscription-based license, meaning it is billed on a recurring basis, typically annually or multi-year, providing ongoing access to the high availability features and software updates.
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.