Cisco NCS 5700 Series Fixed Scale Chassis
This Cisco NCS 5700 Series platform subscription license unlocks advanced routing and switching capabilities for your core network infrastructure, ensuring continued operation and feature access.
- Access to Advanced Features: Unlock sophisticated routing protocols, traffic engineering, and network visibility tools essential for modern networks.
- Subscription Term: Benefit from a defined license term, providing predictable costs and access to ongoing software updates and support.
- Platform Compliance: Ensure your Cisco hardware operates in a fully licensed and compliant state, avoiding potential disruptions or security risks.
- Continued Operation: Maintain full functionality of your Cisco NCS 5700 Series chassis with entitlement to software updates and critical security patches.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This is a platform software subscription license for the Cisco NCS 5700 Series fixed-scale hardware chassis. It provides entitlement to advanced features, ongoing software updates, and essential support, ensuring your network infrastructure operates at peak performance and remains compliant.
IT Managers and Network Engineers in mid-market and enterprise organizations utilize this license to enable sophisticated routing, traffic management, and network analytics on their Cisco NCS 5700 Series platforms. It is critical for maintaining the core of their business operations and data flow.
- Feature Enablement: Unlocks advanced routing, switching, and traffic management capabilities.
- Software Updates: Provides access to the latest software releases, security patches, and feature enhancements.
- Subscription Billing: Offers predictable operational expenses with a recurring subscription model.
- Hardware Compatibility: Specifically designed for the Cisco NCS 5700 Series fixed-scale chassis (NCS-57B1-5D24H-SE).
- Network Performance: Ensures optimal performance and reliability of your core network infrastructure.
This Cisco platform subscription is the ideal solution for mid-market organizations seeking to maximize their investment in high-performance network hardware.
What This Enables
Enable Advanced Routing and Traffic Management
Enable teams to deploy sophisticated routing protocols and traffic engineering policies for optimal network performance. Streamline the management of high-bandwidth traffic flows across your core network infrastructure.
core network deployment, high-traffic data centers, service provider edge, enterprise campus backbone
Ensure Network Compliance and Security Posture
Automate the process of maintaining software compliance for critical network hardware, avoiding licensing lapses. Protect your network by ensuring access to the latest security patches and vulnerability fixes from Cisco.
regulated industry networks, security-conscious IT environments, compliance-driven operations, business continuity planning
Streamline Software Lifecycle Management
Streamline the update process for your Cisco NCS 5700 Series chassis, ensuring access to new features and performance enhancements. Simplify software lifecycle management with predictable subscription billing.
IT departments with limited resources, organizations standardizing on Cisco, proactive network maintenance
Key Features
Cisco NCS 5700 Series Platform License
Grants entitlement to advanced software features and ongoing updates for your Cisco networking hardware.
Subscription Billing Model
Provides predictable operational expenses and continuous access to software and support.
Fixed Scale Hardware Support
Ensures optimal performance and functionality for the specified Cisco NCS 5700 Series chassis.
Access to Software Updates
Keeps your network infrastructure secure and up-to-date with the latest features and patches.
Compliance Assurance
Guarantees your network hardware is operating under a valid and current software license.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require highly reliable and secure network infrastructure to handle sensitive data and high transaction volumes, making Cisco's advanced routing capabilities essential for compliance and performance.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial operations rely on robust and stable network connectivity for automation and real-time data processing, where the performance and feature set of the Cisco NCS 5700 Series are critical for operational efficiency.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations need secure, high-performance networks to manage patient data and critical medical systems, demanding reliable infrastructure that meets strict compliance and availability standards.
Education & Research
Universities and research institutions often manage large, complex networks supporting significant data transfer and diverse user needs, benefiting from the scalability and advanced features of Cisco's core routing platforms.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does this Cisco NCS 5700 Series license enable?
This platform subscription license enables advanced routing, switching, and traffic management features for your Cisco NCS 5700 Series fixed-scale chassis. It also provides access to software updates and security patches.
What is the billing model for this license?
This license operates on a subscription billing model, meaning you pay recurring fees for the duration of the license term. This provides predictable operational expenses.
What hardware does this license apply to?
This license is specifically for the Cisco NCS 5700 Series fixed-scale hardware chassis, identified by SKUs such as NCS-57B1-5D24H-SE.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
High — engineer-led
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.