Cisco CRS Series Route Scale License 400G
The Cisco CRS Series Route Scale License 400G subscription unlocks advanced routing capacity, ensuring your network can handle future traffic demands and maintain optimal performance.
- License Term: Subscription-based access to 400G routing capabilities, billed annually.
- Platform Support: Enables enhanced capacity on Cisco CRS Series routers.
- Feature Access: Unlocks critical routing features and performance scaling for high-demand environments.
- Compliance & Performance: Ensures your network meets evolving traffic requirements and operational standards.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This is a platform software license subscription for Cisco CRS Series routers, specifically enabling 400G route scale capacity. It provides the necessary entitlements to operate and manage advanced routing features at high throughput.
IT Managers and IT Professionals in mid-market and enterprise organizations utilize this license to expand their network's core routing capabilities. It is essential for businesses experiencing significant data growth or requiring higher bandwidth for critical applications.
- Enhanced Capacity: Directly enables 400G route scale, significantly increasing data throughput.
- Feature Unlock: Grants access to advanced routing functionalities required for modern networks.
- Subscription Billing: Predictable annual billing for ongoing access to licensed features.
- Network Scalability: Supports business growth by allowing the network to scale to higher traffic demands.
- Operational Continuity: Ensures continued access to essential routing features and performance levels.
This Cisco license is ideal for mid-market and enterprise businesses needing to scale their core routing infrastructure without the overhead of a complete hardware refresh.
What This Enables
Enable 400G Routing Capacity
Enable teams to scale their core network routing to 400G, supporting increased data throughput and application demands. Streamline network upgrades by unlocking advanced capacity on existing hardware.
core network infrastructure, high-traffic data centers, service provider edge, enterprise backbone
Support Growing Traffic Demands
Streamline network operations by ensuring sufficient bandwidth to handle escalating data volumes from users and applications. Automate capacity planning by having licensed 400G capabilities ready for activation.
rapidly growing businesses, organizations with high data consumption, networks supporting real-time applications
Maintain Network Performance and Uptime
Enable teams to maintain consistent high performance and prevent service disruptions caused by network bottlenecks. Protect critical business operations by ensuring the routing infrastructure can handle peak loads.
mission-critical operations, businesses with strict uptime SLAs, networks supporting financial transactions
Key Features
400G Route Scale Capacity
Significantly increases the data throughput your core routers can handle, supporting higher bandwidth demands and future growth.
Subscription Licensing Model
Provides predictable annual costs for access to advanced features, simplifying budgeting and financial planning.
Cisco CRS Series Platform Support
Extends the life and capabilities of your existing Cisco CRS Series investment by enabling higher performance tiers.
Access to Advanced Routing Features
Unlocks critical functionalities required for modern, high-performance network architectures.
Scalability for Future Demands
Ensures your network infrastructure can adapt and grow to meet evolving business and traffic requirements.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require extremely high network performance and uptime to support trading, transactions, and customer services, making 400G capacity essential for their core routing infrastructure.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Modern industrial operations rely on robust, high-bandwidth networks for IoT, automation, and real-time data processing, necessitating scalable routing solutions like the Cisco CRS Series with 400G enablement.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers handle vast amounts of sensitive data and require reliable, high-capacity networks for diagnostics, telemedicine, and research, where network performance is critical.
Education & Research
Universities and research institutions often manage large data sets and high volumes of network traffic for academic and research purposes, requiring scalable and performant core network capabilities.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Route Scale License?
A Route Scale License, like this 400G option for the Cisco CRS Series, is a software entitlement that increases the capacity and capabilities of your routing platform. It allows the router to handle a larger number of routes and higher traffic volumes.
What does '400G' refer to?
400G refers to a data transfer rate of 400 Gigabits per second. This license enables your Cisco CRS Series router to support routing operations at this high speed, crucial for demanding network environments.
Is this a one-time purchase or a subscription?
This is a subscription-based license. You pay an annual fee for continued access to the 400G route scale capabilities and associated features.
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.