Cisco NSO Platform Licenses
Cisco NSO platform licenses provide essential access to network automation and orchestration capabilities, ensuring your business operations remain compliant and efficient.
- License Term: Subscription-based access to Cisco NSO software features.
- Billing Model: Recurring subscription ensures continuous access to updates and support.
- Platform Access: Unlocks advanced network automation and orchestration functionalities.
- Operational Efficiency: Streamlines network management and reduces manual intervention.
Product Overview
Product Overview
Cisco NSO (Network Services Orchestrator) licenses provide the entitlement to utilize Cisco's powerful network automation and orchestration platform. These subscription-based licenses unlock the full suite of features required for modern network management, enabling automated service provisioning, configuration management, and policy enforcement across diverse network environments.
These licenses are designed for IT professionals, network engineers, and IT managers within small to mid-sized businesses and enterprise organizations who are responsible for managing and operating their own IT infrastructure. They are crucial for integrating network operations into broader IT workflows, ensuring compliance, and improving the agility of network service delivery.
- Automated Provisioning: Enable rapid deployment of network services.
- Configuration Management: Centralize and standardize network device configurations.
- Policy Enforcement: Ensure network adherence to defined security and operational policies.
- Service Assurance: Monitor and validate network service performance.
- Integration Capabilities: Connect network operations with other IT systems.
Secure your network's future with Cisco NSO licenses, offering enterprise-grade automation without the enterprise overhead for your business.
What This Enables
Enable Automated Network Service Deployment
Enable teams to automate the provisioning and configuration of network services across their infrastructure. Streamline the deployment lifecycle from initial request to service activation, reducing manual effort and time to market.
organizations with on-premises data centers, businesses managing hybrid cloud networks, teams deploying multi-vendor network environments, companies requiring rapid service rollout
Automate Network Configuration Management
Automate the management and standardization of network device configurations across the entire infrastructure. Streamline compliance checks and configuration updates, minimizing drift and ensuring adherence to security policies.
businesses with complex network topologies, organizations managing diverse network hardware, teams focused on security posture management, companies undergoing regular network audits
Orchestrate Network Policy Enforcement
Automate the enforcement of network policies and security rules across all network devices. Streamline the application of compliance standards and operational guidelines, ensuring consistent network behavior.
organizations with strict regulatory requirements, businesses operating in high-security environments, teams managing large-scale network deployments, companies needing centralized policy control
Key Features
Network Service Orchestration
Automate the end-to-end lifecycle of network services, from provisioning to modification and decommissioning.
Multi-Vendor Support
Manage and automate diverse network devices from multiple vendors through a single interface.
Configuration Management
Ensure consistent and compliant network configurations across your entire infrastructure.
Policy-Driven Automation
Enforce operational and security policies automatically, reducing manual errors and compliance risks.
Service Assurance
Verify that deployed network services meet defined performance and operational requirements.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require highly available and secure networks with strict compliance mandates, making automated network service deployment and policy enforcement critical for regulatory adherence and operational efficiency.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations depend on reliable and secure network connectivity for patient data and critical systems, necessitating automated management to ensure uptime and compliance with regulations like HIPAA.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial environments often involve complex, multi-vendor network infrastructures that require robust automation for efficient operations, rapid deployment of new services, and consistent policy application to maintain production uptime.
Education & Research
Educational institutions manage large and dynamic network environments that benefit from automated service provisioning and configuration management to support diverse user needs and research initiatives efficiently.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco NSO?
Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) is a software platform that enables network automation and orchestration. It allows organizations to automate the deployment, configuration, and management of network services across multi-vendor environments.
What does a Cisco NSO license enable?
A Cisco NSO license enables access to the NSO software platform and its features for network automation and orchestration. The specific features unlocked depend on the license tier and subscription term.
Is this a perpetual or subscription license?
This license is a subscription-based offering, providing continuous access to the Cisco NSO platform and its updates for the duration of the subscription 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.