Cisco CSR 1000V Application Performance Package License
This Cisco CSR 1000V 2.5Gbps Application Experience package license provides essential capabilities for optimizing network traffic and ensuring application performance for your business operations over a 3-year term.
- License Term: Enjoy 3 years of access to advanced application performance features and Cisco support.
- Capacity Unlock: Enables 2.5Gbps of application performance optimization for your virtualized network.
- Feature Access: Gain entitlement to specific application-aware networking features for better traffic control.
- Compliance Assurance: Maintain licensing compliance and access to necessary software updates and security patches.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Cisco CSR 1000V 2.5Gbps Application Experience package license is a subscription-based software license designed to enhance the performance and visibility of applications running over your virtualized network infrastructure. This license unlocks specific application-aware features and provides a capacity of 2.5Gbps for traffic optimization, ensuring critical business applications perform optimally.
This licensing is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations who manage Cisco Cloud Services Routers (CSR) deployed in virtualized environments. It integrates into existing network stacks, providing granular control over application traffic and ensuring business continuity and performance for end-users within their own corporate network.
- Application Visibility: Gain deep insights into application traffic patterns and performance metrics.
- Traffic Optimization: Prioritize critical business application traffic to ensure optimal user experience.
- Security Enhancement: Integrate application-aware security policies for better threat mitigation.
- Performance Tuning: Adjust network behavior based on application requirements for peak efficiency.
- Simplified Licensing: Manage software entitlements through Cisco's Smart Licensing platform.
This Cisco license is the right choice for SMB and mid-market teams seeking to enhance application performance and gain better control over their virtualized network traffic.
What This Enables
Enable Application Performance Optimization
Enable teams to prioritize critical business application traffic, ensuring a consistent and high-quality user experience for internal operations. Streamline network resource allocation by intelligently managing bandwidth based on application needs.
virtualized network deployments, private cloud environments, multi-service network, WAN optimization
Enhance Network Visibility and Control
Streamline the monitoring of application traffic patterns and identify potential performance issues before they impact users. Automate the application of network policies to ensure compliance with business requirements and security standards.
on-premises data centers, hybrid cloud networks, distributed enterprise sites, network segmentation
Ensure Licensing Compliance and Feature Access
Automate the management of software licenses through Cisco Smart Licensing, reducing the risk of compliance violations and unexpected audits. Provide teams with continuous access to advanced application-aware features and necessary software updates.
subscription-based IT infrastructure, managed virtual environments, network function virtualization
Key Features
Application Visibility and Control
Gain granular insight into application traffic and enforce policies to prioritize business-critical applications, ensuring optimal performance and user experience.
2.5Gbps Capacity
Provides sufficient throughput for optimizing application traffic in mid-sized network environments, supporting essential business functions.
Cisco Smart Licensing
Simplifies license management, tracking, and compliance through a centralized, automated platform, reducing administrative overhead.
Subscription Term (3-Year)
Offers predictable costs and continuous access to software features and support for a defined period, aligning with IT budget cycles.
Application Experience (AppX) Package
Unlocks advanced features for application-aware networking, enabling better traffic shaping, Quality of Service (QoS), and security policies tailored to specific applications.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require high-performance, secure, and reliable network connectivity to support trading platforms, customer transactions, and compliance with strict regulatory standards like PCI DSS and SOX.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations need to ensure the availability and performance of critical applications for patient care, electronic health records (EHR), and medical imaging, while adhering to HIPAA compliance for data privacy.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers rely on robust network performance for operational technology (OT) and IT systems, including supply chain management and production control, requiring consistent application delivery and network uptime.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services companies handle sensitive client data and require secure, high-performance networks to support collaboration tools, document management systems, and client communications, often with specific data residency requirements.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Cisco CSR 1000V?
The Cisco CSR 1000V is a virtual router that runs as a virtual machine on server hardware. It provides advanced routing, security, and WAN services for branch offices and data centers, offering flexibility and scalability.
What does the Application Experience (AppX) package enable?
The AppX package enhances the CSR 1000V with application-aware features. This includes capabilities like application visibility, traffic prioritization, and application-specific Quality of Service (QoS) to ensure critical business applications perform optimally.
How does Cisco Smart Licensing work?
Cisco Smart Licensing is a software-based licensing solution that simplifies the way you manage and deploy Cisco software. It allows you to activate, manage, and track your licenses from a central portal, eliminating the need for traditional license keys.
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.