Cisco Meraki XS SD-WAN Enterprise Agreement 3 Year True Forward 2 Year
This Cisco Meraki XS SD-WAN Enterprise Agreement provides 3 years of advanced network management and security capabilities, ensuring your business operations remain connected and protected.
- License Term: Coverage for 3 years, with a 2-year True Forward component, ensuring long-term network stability.
- Feature Access: Unlocks advanced SD-WAN features for optimized traffic routing and enhanced application performance.
- Compliance: Supports regulatory requirements through consistent security policies and network visibility.
- Operational Continuity: Guarantees access to essential software updates and security patches for uninterrupted service.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Cisco Meraki XS SD-WAN Enterprise Agreement is a platform software license that enables advanced Software-Defined Wide Area Networking capabilities for businesses. This subscription provides access to a suite of features designed to optimize network performance, enhance security, and simplify management across distributed locations.
This agreement is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies who need to manage complex network environments. It integrates with Cisco Meraki's cloud-managed networking hardware, providing a unified platform for network operations, security policy enforcement, and application visibility within their own IT infrastructure.
- Advanced SD-WAN Functionality: Enables intelligent path selection, application-aware routing, and dynamic bandwidth allocation.
- Centralized Cloud Management: Provides a single pane of glass for configuring, monitoring, and troubleshooting the entire network.
- Enhanced Security: Integrates next-generation firewall capabilities, intrusion prevention, and content filtering.
- Simplified Operations: Automates network provisioning and policy updates, reducing manual effort and potential errors.
- Performance Optimization: Ensures critical business applications receive priority bandwidth and optimal network paths.
This Cisco Meraki agreement is the right choice for SMB and mid-market teams seeking enterprise-grade SD-WAN capabilities without the associated overhead.
What This Enables
Enable Advanced Network Traffic Management
Enable teams to intelligently route traffic based on application type and network conditions. Streamline the delivery of critical business applications by prioritizing bandwidth and ensuring optimal path selection.
distributed offices, multi-site operations, cloud-connected workforce, remote access needs
Enhance Network Security Posture
Automate the deployment of consistent security policies across all network edges. Protect your business from evolving threats with integrated firewall and intrusion prevention capabilities.
compliance-sensitive environments, data protection focus, centralized security control, threat mitigation strategy
Simplify Network Operations and Monitoring
Streamline network administration through a unified cloud-based management dashboard. Reduce operational overhead by automating routine tasks and gaining real-time network visibility.
limited IT staff, multi-location management, IT modernization initiatives, operational efficiency goals
Key Features
Cloud-Managed SD-WAN
Provides centralized control and visibility over the entire network from a single pane of glass, simplifying management.
Application-Aware Routing
Optimizes network traffic by prioritizing critical business applications, ensuring better performance and user experience.
Integrated Security Features
Offers next-generation firewall, intrusion prevention, and content filtering to protect the network from threats.
Zero-Touch Provisioning
Enables rapid deployment of new network devices with minimal manual configuration, reducing setup time and complexity.
Subscription Licensing
Provides predictable costs and continuous access to the latest software features and security updates.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require highly secure and reliable network connectivity to protect sensitive data and ensure continuous access to trading platforms and customer information, aligning with SD-WAN's security and performance benefits.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must maintain strict data privacy (HIPAA) and ensure constant availability of patient records and critical medical systems, making SD-WAN's secure and resilient connectivity essential.
Retail & Hospitality
Businesses with multiple locations like retail chains and hotel groups benefit from centralized management and optimized traffic for point-of-sale systems, inventory management, and guest Wi-Fi.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers often operate complex, distributed facilities requiring reliable connectivity for operational technology (OT) systems, supply chain management, and inter-site communication, where SD-WAN can improve efficiency and security.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Cisco Meraki SD-WAN Enterprise Agreement?
It is a subscription license that unlocks advanced Software-Defined Wide Area Networking features for Cisco Meraki networks. This agreement ensures you have access to optimized routing, enhanced security, and simplified management for your business network over a specified term.
What does the 'True Forward' component mean?
The 'True Forward' aspect typically refers to a commitment period for licensing, ensuring you have continuous access to the licensed features and support for the duration. In this case, it's a 2-year component within the 3-year agreement.
What hardware does this license apply to?
This license is designed for Cisco Meraki's MX security appliances, which are the hardware platforms that enable SD-WAN functionality within the Meraki ecosystem.
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.