Cisco IWAN with Akamai Connect Platform License
This Cisco IWAN with Akamai Connect platform license subscription unlocks enhanced Wide Area Network capabilities for your business, ensuring secure and optimized connectivity.
- Enhanced Connectivity: Gain access to Akamai's global network for improved application performance and user experience.
- Optimized Traffic: Benefit from intelligent path control and application-aware routing to prioritize critical business traffic.
- Simplified Management: Streamline WAN operations with centralized policy management and visibility.
- Secure Access: Ensure secure, encrypted connections across your distributed network infrastructure.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This is a platform software license subscription for Cisco's Intelligent WAN (IWAN) solution, specifically enabling integration with Akamai Connect. It provides the necessary entitlements to activate advanced WAN optimization, application visibility, and secure connectivity features, leveraging Akamai's content delivery network for enhanced performance.
This license is designed for businesses that utilize Cisco routing platforms to manage their Wide Area Network. It is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies seeking to improve application performance, ensure network resilience, and gain better control over their distributed network environments.
- Accelerated Application Delivery: Utilize Akamai's intelligent edge platform to cache content closer to users, reducing latency and improving application responsiveness.
- Intelligent Path Control: Dynamically steer application traffic over the most optimal network paths based on real-time performance metrics.
- Enhanced Security: Implement secure, encrypted tunnels for all WAN traffic, protecting sensitive business data in transit.
- Application Visibility and Control: Gain deep insights into application usage and performance, allowing for better policy enforcement and troubleshooting.
- Subscription-Based Licensing: Benefit from a flexible, subscription model that aligns costs with usage and allows for easy scaling.
This Cisco IWAN with Akamai Connect license empowers SMB and mid-market teams to achieve enterprise-grade WAN performance and security without the associated overhead.
What This Enables
Enable Optimized Application Performance
Enable teams to improve the responsiveness and user experience of critical business applications across geographically dispersed locations. Streamline the delivery of data and services by leveraging Akamai's global network for faster access.
distributed workforce, multi-site operations, cloud application reliance, remote office connectivity
Secure Wide Area Network Connectivity
Automate the deployment of secure, encrypted tunnels between branch offices and the central network, protecting sensitive business data. Ensure compliance with data transit regulations through robust security protocols.
data security requirements, regulatory compliance needs, hybrid cloud environments, branch office networking
Intelligent Traffic Steering and Prioritization
Streamline network management by intelligently directing application traffic over the most efficient paths based on real-time conditions. Support business continuity by ensuring critical applications always have priority access to network resources.
performance-sensitive applications, fluctuating network conditions, business continuity planning, quality of service needs
Key Features
Akamai Connect Integration
Leverages Akamai's global edge network to accelerate application delivery and improve user experience for distributed users.
Intelligent WAN (IWAN) Capabilities
Provides advanced features like application visibility, path control, and QoS for optimized network traffic management.
Subscription Licensing
Offers a flexible and scalable licensing model that aligns costs with business needs and simplifies budget management.
Secure Connectivity
Ensures encrypted data transmission across the WAN, enhancing security and helping meet compliance requirements.
Centralized Management
Simplifies network administration and policy enforcement across multiple locations.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Ensures secure and high-performance connectivity for critical financial transactions and sensitive customer data, meeting stringent regulatory compliance standards.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Provides reliable and secure access to patient data and applications across multiple facilities, supporting HIPAA compliance and critical healthcare operations.
Retail & Hospitality
Optimizes performance for point-of-sale systems, inventory management, and customer-facing applications across numerous locations, enhancing operational efficiency.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Supports real-time data transfer and application performance for operational technology (OT) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems across factory floors and remote sites.
Frequently Asked Questions
What hardware is required for Cisco IWAN with Akamai Connect?
This license is designed to run on specific Cisco Integrated Services Routers (ISRs) and Catalyst 8000 series routers. Compatibility should be verified based on your existing Cisco hardware.
What is the term of this license?
This is a subscription license, meaning it is valid for a defined period, typically one or more years, after which it must be renewed to maintain access to features and support.
How does this license improve application performance?
By integrating with Akamai's content delivery network, the license allows for content caching closer to end-users and intelligent path selection, significantly reducing latency and improving application load times.
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.