Cisco NCS 5500 Core and Aggregation License
The Cisco NCS 5500 Core and Aggregation License subscription provides essential software features for your NCS 5500 Series routers, ensuring advanced network functionality and operational continuity.
- Subscription Term: Access to software features and updates for the duration of your subscription, ensuring ongoing compliance and performance.
- Feature Enablement: Unlocks core and aggregation routing capabilities, enhancing traffic management and network scalability for demanding business environments.
- Platform Specific: Tailored for the Cisco NCS 5500 Series, specifically models like the NCS-55A2-SE/H, ensuring precise hardware compatibility.
- Compliance and Support: Maintains network compliance and provides access to Cisco's support resources for uninterrupted operations.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This is a platform software subscription license for Cisco's Network Convergence System (NCS) 5500 Series routers. It enables critical core and aggregation routing functionalities, essential for high-performance network infrastructure within your organization. The subscription model ensures you have access to the latest features and ongoing support for the licensed term.
Designed for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies, this license is crucial for businesses that rely on robust and scalable routing capabilities. It integrates directly with your Cisco NCS 5500 Series hardware, forming the backbone of your internal network operations, data center interconnects, or service provider edge.
- Advanced Routing Features: Enables sophisticated routing protocols and traffic engineering capabilities.
- Scalability: Supports high-density port configurations and increased bandwidth requirements.
- Network Performance: Optimizes data flow and reduces latency for critical business applications.
- Subscription Model: Provides predictable costs and continuous access to software updates and features.
- Hardware Integration: Specifically designed for the Cisco NCS 5500 Series chassis.
Secure essential routing capabilities for your network infrastructure with this Cisco NCS 5500 Series license, offering enterprise-grade performance without the enterprise overhead.
What This Enables
Enable High-Density Network Aggregation
Enable teams to aggregate traffic from multiple lower-speed links into higher-speed uplinks. Streamline network design by consolidating edge devices into a powerful core routing platform.
data center interconnect, campus network core, service provider edge, enterprise network backbone
Support Advanced Routing Protocols
Streamline the implementation of complex routing protocols required for large-scale internal networks. Automate the configuration and management of routing policies to ensure optimal path selection and network stability.
large internal networks, multi-site organizations, networks requiring granular traffic control, high-availability deployments
Ensure Network Performance and Scalability
Enable teams to scale their network infrastructure to meet growing business demands without compromising performance. Automate traffic management to ensure critical applications receive priority and maintain low latency.
growing businesses, organizations with high bandwidth needs, networks supporting real-time applications, future-proofing IT infrastructure
Key Features
Core and Aggregation Routing Capabilities
Provides the essential routing functions needed to build a high-performance and scalable network backbone for your business operations.
Subscription Licensing Model
Ensures predictable costs and continuous access to the latest software features, updates, and security patches throughout the subscription term.
Cisco NCS 5500 Series Platform Specific
Guarantees compatibility and optimal performance with your existing Cisco NCS 5500 Series hardware, simplifying integration and management.
Enhanced Network Scalability
Allows your network to grow with your business by supporting high port densities and increased bandwidth demands.
Improved Traffic Management
Enables efficient data flow and reduces latency, ensuring critical business applications perform optimally.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require highly reliable and secure networks with low latency for trading and transaction processing, making advanced routing capabilities critical for performance and compliance.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial operations rely on robust network connectivity for automation, IoT devices, and real-time data processing, necessitating scalable and high-performance routing infrastructure.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers need secure, high-bandwidth networks to manage patient data, telemedicine, and critical medical equipment, demanding reliable and efficient core routing.
Education & Research
Educational institutions and research facilities manage large volumes of data traffic and require scalable network infrastructure to support numerous users, devices, and bandwidth-intensive applications.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a platform software license?
A platform software license grants you the right to use specific software features and functionalities on a particular hardware platform, like the Cisco NCS 5500 Series. This license enables advanced routing capabilities essential for your network's core operations.
What does 'Core & Aggregation' mean in this context?
Core and aggregation refer to key roles within a network's hierarchical design. Core routing handles high-speed traffic between different network segments, while aggregation routes traffic from multiple access points towards the core, ensuring efficient data flow.
Why is a subscription model beneficial for this license?
A subscription model provides continuous access to software updates, new features, and security patches, ensuring your network remains current and secure. It also offers predictable operational expenses compared to perpetual licenses with separate maintenance contracts.
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.