Cisco Nexus Data Broker License Term
This Cisco Nexus Data Broker license provides essential network visibility and traffic management capabilities for your data center infrastructure over a 5-year term.
- License Term: 5-year subscription providing continuous access to advanced network data brokering features.
- Billing Model: Subscription-based billing ensures predictable operational expenses and access to ongoing updates.
- Platform Applicability: Designed for Cisco Nexus 9000 series switches, integrating seamlessly into your existing data center.
- Key Value: Enables enhanced network monitoring, security analysis, and compliance adherence through intelligent traffic distribution.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Cisco Nexus Data Broker (NDB) license unlocks advanced capabilities for network traffic visibility and management on Cisco Nexus 9000 series switches. This 5-year term subscription provides the necessary software entitlements to deploy NDB, allowing for intelligent aggregation, filtering, and distribution of network traffic to monitoring and security tools.
This solution is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in mid-market organizations who need to gain deeper insights into their network traffic for security analysis, performance monitoring, and troubleshooting. It integrates directly into the data center network fabric, providing a centralized point for traffic intelligence without requiring complex external hardware.
- Network Visibility: Gain granular insight into network traffic patterns and flows.
- Traffic Aggregation & Filtering: Consolidate traffic from multiple network segments and filter for specific data of interest.
- Security Tool Integration: Streamline the delivery of relevant traffic to intrusion detection systems, packet capture tools, and network analyzers.
- Compliance Support: Facilitate adherence to regulatory requirements by providing auditable network traffic data.
- Operational Efficiency: Reduce the complexity of network monitoring and security analysis with a software-based solution.
This Cisco Nexus Data Broker license is the right choice for mid-market teams seeking to enhance their network intelligence and security posture with a scalable, software-driven solution.
What This Enables
Enable Network Traffic Aggregation and Filtering
Enable teams to consolidate traffic from multiple network links into a single stream for analysis. Streamline the delivery of specific traffic subsets to security and monitoring tools, reducing data volume and improving analysis efficiency.
data center networking, security operations, network monitoring, traffic analysis
Improve Security Monitoring Efficiency
Automate the process of feeding relevant network traffic to security appliances like Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) and packet capture solutions. Protect your organization by ensuring security tools receive the precise data needed for threat detection and incident response.
network security, threat intelligence, incident response, security analytics
Facilitate Network Performance Analysis
Streamline the collection of network performance data by intelligently distributing traffic flows to application performance monitoring (APM) tools. Gain deeper insights into application behavior and network bottlenecks to optimize user experience.
application performance management, network troubleshooting, IT operations, performance optimization
Key Features
Software-based traffic brokering
Reduces hardware costs and simplifies deployment by leveraging existing Nexus 9000 switches.
Intelligent traffic aggregation
Consolidates traffic from multiple sources, simplifying data collection for analysis tools.
Granular traffic filtering
Allows precise selection of traffic of interest, reducing data volume and improving the efficiency of security and monitoring tools.
Support for multiple monitoring tools
Enables simultaneous delivery of traffic to various security and performance analysis platforms.
5-year subscription term
Provides long-term access to features and support, ensuring continuous network visibility and operational planning.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust network monitoring and security to protect sensitive data and comply with strict regulations like PCI DSS and SOX.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must ensure patient data privacy (HIPAA) and maintain high availability for critical systems, necessitating detailed network visibility for security and performance.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial environments often have complex networks supporting operational technology (OT) and IT, requiring advanced traffic analysis for security and uptime.
Retail & Hospitality
Retailers and hospitality groups handle large volumes of customer data and transactions, demanding strong security measures and network performance to ensure smooth operations and compliance.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco Nexus Data Broker?
Cisco Nexus Data Broker is a software solution that runs on Cisco Nexus 9000 series switches to provide intelligent network traffic visibility. It aggregates, filters, and distributes network traffic to security and monitoring tools.
What hardware does this license apply to?
This license is specifically for deployment on Cisco Nexus 9000 series switches.
What is the term of this license?
This is a 5-year term license, providing continuous access to the Nexus Data Broker software and its capabilities for that duration.
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.