Cisco ICSR Enhanced Recovery for Data and Control Plane, 1K Sessions
Cisco ICSR Enhanced Recovery for Data and Control Plane provides critical resilience for your network infrastructure, ensuring uninterrupted operations for up to 1,000 sessions.
- Enhanced Recovery: Access advanced capabilities for rapid restoration of data and control plane functions.
- Session Capacity: Supports up to 1,000 concurrent sessions, ensuring scalability for your business needs.
- Business Continuity: Minimize downtime and maintain operational integrity during critical network events.
- Compliance Assurance: Meet regulatory and internal policy requirements for network resilience and data integrity.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Cisco ICSR Enhanced Recovery subscription license is designed to bolster the resilience of your network infrastructure. It specifically enhances the recovery processes for both the data plane and control plane, ensuring that your network can quickly return to full operational status after disruptions, supporting up to 1,000 sessions.
IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations utilize this license to safeguard critical network functions. It integrates with Cisco's platform hardware, providing a vital layer of protection for environments where network availability is paramount, such as in data centers, core network deployments, or critical service delivery points.
- Advanced Recovery Protocols: Unlocks sophisticated mechanisms for faster and more reliable data and control plane restoration.
- Increased Session Support: Enables the handling of up to 1,000 sessions, providing capacity for growing or demanding network environments.
- Downtime Mitigation: Significantly reduces the impact of network incidents by accelerating recovery times.
- Operational Stability: Ensures consistent network performance and availability, crucial for business operations.
- Licensing Compliance: Provides legitimate access to advanced recovery features, avoiding potential compliance issues.
This Cisco subscription license offers essential network resilience for SMB and mid-market businesses seeking to protect their critical operations from disruptions.
What This Enables
Enable Rapid Network Service Restoration
Enable teams to quickly restore critical data and control plane functions after an incident. This ensures minimal disruption to business operations and maintains user productivity.
core network infrastructure, service provider edge, data center fabric
Streamline Incident Response Procedures
Streamline incident response by providing advanced tools for faster network recovery. This reduces the mean time to repair (MTTR) and improves overall IT operational efficiency.
high-availability environments, critical service delivery, business continuity planning
Automate Network Resilience Measures
Automate key aspects of network resilience and recovery, reducing manual intervention and potential human error. This ensures consistent and reliable performance during stressful events.
network operations centers, redundant infrastructure, disaster recovery sites
Key Features
Enhanced Data Plane Recovery
Minimizes service interruption by accelerating the restoration of network traffic forwarding.
Enhanced Control Plane Recovery
Ensures rapid re-establishment of network management and routing functions, critical for stability.
1,000 Session Capacity
Provides sufficient capacity for many SMB and mid-market network deployments, supporting growth.
Subscription-Based Licensing
Offers predictable costs and access to the latest recovery features through ongoing updates.
Cisco Platform Integration
Leverages existing Cisco hardware investments for seamless integration and enhanced functionality.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require extremely high availability and rapid recovery to meet strict regulatory compliance and transaction processing demands, making enhanced network resilience critical.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers depend on uninterrupted network access for patient care systems and data, necessitating robust recovery mechanisms to ensure continuous operations and compliance with HIPAA.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial operations rely on consistent network connectivity for automation, control systems, and supply chain management, where downtime can lead to significant production losses and safety risks.
Retail & Hospitality
Retail and hospitality businesses need reliable networks for point-of-sale systems, inventory management, and customer-facing services, where service disruptions directly impact revenue and customer experience.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco ICSR Enhanced Recovery?
Cisco ICSR Enhanced Recovery is a software subscription license that improves the resilience of Cisco network devices by accelerating the recovery of both data and control plane functions. It is designed to minimize downtime and ensure business continuity.
What hardware does this license apply to?
While the MPN suggests it applies to the ASR 5000 series platform, specific compatibility should always be verified with Cisco's compatibility matrices or Zent Networks support to ensure it aligns with your deployed hardware.
What is the benefit of enhanced recovery for the control plane?
Enhanced control plane recovery ensures that critical network functions like routing protocols and device management are restored quickly after an event. This is vital for maintaining network stability and preventing cascading failures.
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.