Cisco IWAN with Akamai Connect Platform License
Unlock advanced Wide Area Network capabilities with the Cisco IWAN and Akamai Connect platform license, ensuring optimized and secure connectivity for your business operations.
- License Activation: Enables the full suite of Cisco Intelligent WAN features integrated with Akamai's content delivery network for enhanced application performance.
- Subscription Term: Provides access to software features and updates for the duration of the subscription period, billed annually.
- Platform Applicability: Designed for Cisco enterprise routing platforms, offering a scalable solution for distributed organizations.
- Value Proposition: Ensures compliance with licensing requirements, grants access to critical WAN optimization features, and supports continuous network operation.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This is a platform software subscription license for Cisco Intelligent WAN (IWAN) with Akamai Connect integration. It unlocks advanced features for optimizing and securing your Wide Area Network, including application visibility, traffic steering, and enhanced security policies, all managed through a unified platform.
Ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies, this license is applied to compatible Cisco enterprise routing hardware. It integrates with your existing network infrastructure to improve application performance, reduce latency, and ensure reliable connectivity for your business-critical applications and user traffic.
- Enhanced Application Performance: Prioritize and optimize traffic for critical business applications.
- Secure WAN Connectivity: Implement consistent security policies across your distributed network.
- Simplified Management: Gain centralized visibility and control over your WAN environment.
- Akamai Integration: Leverage Akamai's global network for improved content delivery and application acceleration.
- Subscription-Based Access: Benefit from continuous updates and feature enhancements throughout the license term.
This Cisco IWAN license with Akamai Connect provides essential WAN optimization and security, delivering enterprise-grade network performance without the enterprise overhead for growing businesses.
What This Enables
Enable Application Performance Optimization
Enable teams to prioritize critical business application traffic, ensuring optimal performance and user experience. Streamline the delivery of cloud-based applications and services to distributed workforces.
organizations with multiple branch offices, businesses relying on cloud applications, companies with performance-sensitive workloads, networks requiring traffic prioritization
Secure Distributed Network Connectivity
Automate the deployment of consistent security policies across all network edges, protecting sensitive data in transit. Protect against unauthorized access and ensure compliance with data security regulations.
companies with remote or branch offices, organizations handling sensitive customer data, businesses operating under strict compliance mandates, networks with a mobile workforce
Improve WAN Visibility and Control
Gain granular visibility into application usage and network traffic patterns to identify and resolve performance issues proactively. Streamline network management through a centralized control plane.
IT departments managing complex WAN topologies, businesses seeking to reduce network troubleshooting time, organizations aiming for better network resource utilization, environments with diverse application traffic
Key Features
Application Visibility and Control
Identify and prioritize critical business applications, ensuring optimal performance and user experience.
WAN Optimization
Reduce latency and improve throughput for data transfer and application access across your network.
Akamai Connect Integration
Leverage Akamai's global network for enhanced content delivery and application acceleration.
Secure Network Access
Implement consistent security policies and encryption to protect data in transit.
Centralized Management
Gain unified visibility and control over your WAN environment from a single platform.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Ensures secure and high-performance connectivity for critical financial transactions and sensitive customer data, meeting stringent regulatory compliance requirements.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Provides reliable and secure access to patient data and critical applications across multiple facilities, supporting HIPAA compliance and real-time medical services.
Retail & Hospitality
Optimizes performance for point-of-sale systems, inventory management, and customer-facing applications across numerous locations, enhancing operational efficiency.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Enables secure and efficient data transfer for operational technology (OT) and IT systems, supporting real-time monitoring and control in distributed industrial environments.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco IWAN with Akamai Connect?
Cisco IWAN with Akamai Connect is a solution that combines Cisco's Intelligent WAN capabilities with Akamai's content delivery network to optimize application performance and secure network connectivity for businesses.
What type of hardware does this license apply to?
This license is designed for compatible Cisco enterprise routing platforms. Specific hardware compatibility should be verified based on your existing infrastructure.
What is the billing model for this license?
This is a subscription-based license, meaning you pay a recurring fee for access to the software features and updates over a defined term.
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.