Cisco IAP Platform License for Core/Large VNFs 5-Year Subscription
This 5-year Cisco IAP platform license subscription unlocks advanced capabilities for your core and large virtual network functions, ensuring continuous operation and feature access.
- License Term: Enjoy 5 years of uninterrupted access to Cisco IAP features and support.
- Billing Model: Convenient annual subscription billing simplifies budget management.
- Platform Support: Designed for core and large Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) within your environment.
- Value: Maintain compliance, access critical software updates, and ensure operational continuity.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Cisco IAP platform license provides a 5-year subscription for core and large Virtual Network Functions (VNFs). It enables essential features, ensures ongoing software updates, and maintains compliance for your critical network infrastructure.
IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations utilize this license to manage and operate their virtualized network services. It integrates directly into their existing IT stack, providing necessary software entitlements for Cisco's IAP platform.
- Feature Enablement: Unlocks advanced functionalities for virtual network functions.
- Subscription Term: Provides 5 years of continuous software access and support.
- Compliance Assurance: Helps maintain regulatory and operational compliance.
- Scalability: Supports core and large-scale virtual network function deployments.
- Predictable Costs: Annual subscription billing offers budget predictability.
This Cisco IAP license subscription is the ideal solution for businesses seeking to ensure their virtual network functions are compliant, up-to-date, and fully operational for the long term.
What This Enables
Enable Advanced Virtual Network Function Capabilities
Enable teams to deploy and manage sophisticated virtual network functions with full feature access. Streamline the operation of core and large VNFs, ensuring optimal performance and reliability for business-critical applications.
Virtualized environments, network infrastructure management, service provider platforms, data center operations
Ensure Software Compliance and Licensing
Automate compliance checks and maintain up-to-date licensing for your Cisco IAP platform. Prevent service interruptions and potential penalties by ensuring all virtual network functions are properly licensed for their 5-year term.
IT asset management, regulatory compliance, software lifecycle management, IT governance
Maintain Continuous Operation of Network Services
Guarantee uninterrupted operation of critical network services by securing a long-term software subscription. Protect against service degradation or outages due to expired licenses or lack of software updates for your VNFs.
Business continuity planning, network uptime assurance, IT operations management, mission-critical systems
Key Features
5-Year Subscription Term
Provides long-term access to software features and support, ensuring continuity and predictable operational costs for your virtual network functions.
Support for Core/Large VNFs
Enables the deployment and management of significant virtual network functions, supporting the scalability and complexity required by growing businesses.
Platform Licensing
Grants the necessary entitlements to operate Cisco's IAP platform, ensuring compliance and access to all enabled features for your specific VNF deployments.
Annual Billing
Simplifies financial management with predictable annual subscription payments, aligning software costs with operational budgets.
Access to Updates and Patches
Ensures your virtual network functions benefit from the latest security patches and feature enhancements, maintaining optimal performance and security posture.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust, compliant, and highly available network infrastructure to handle sensitive data and meet strict regulatory requirements like PCI DSS and SOX.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must maintain HIPAA compliance and ensure continuous network uptime for critical patient care systems, demanding reliable and secure IT solutions.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial operations rely on stable and secure network connectivity for automation, IoT, and supply chain management, often requiring specialized network functions.
Telecommunications & Media
Service providers and media companies depend on advanced network functions for delivering services, managing traffic, and ensuring high performance and scalability for their customer base.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco IAP?
Cisco IAP refers to Cisco's Intelligent Automation for the Cloud platform, which is used for managing and orchestrating virtual network functions (VNFs) and cloud-native network functions (CNFs).
What does 'Core/Large VNFs' mean in this license?
This typically refers to the scale or resource requirements of the virtual network functions being deployed. 'Core' might indicate essential network services, while 'Large' suggests higher capacity or performance demands.
Is this a perpetual license or a subscription?
This is a subscription license with a 5-year term, billed annually. It provides access to the software and its features for the duration of the subscription.
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.