Cisco STAROS PGW DHCP Features License
This Cisco STAROS PGW DHCP Features license subscription unlocks critical network functions for your core infrastructure, ensuring reliable IP address management for your business operations.
- Access to Core DHCP: Gain essential IP address assignment and management capabilities for your Cisco PGW.
- Network Functionality: Ensure your network can assign IP addresses to devices, a fundamental requirement for connectivity.
- Subscription Term: This license is provided on a subscription basis, offering predictable operational expenses.
- Platform Specific: Designed for Cisco's STAROS PGW platform, ensuring compatibility and optimal performance.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This is a platform software subscription license for Cisco's STAROS PGW, specifically enabling DHCP features. It provides the necessary licensing to operate and manage Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol services on the Cisco Packet Gateway (PGW) platform, which is crucial for assigning IP addresses to network users and devices.
IT Managers and IT Professionals in mid-market and enterprise organizations utilize this license to ensure their Cisco PGW infrastructure can effectively manage IP address allocation. It integrates directly into their existing network architecture, supporting the dynamic needs of user connectivity and device management within their own operational environment.
- Essential DHCP Services: Enables the core functionality of assigning and managing IP addresses for network clients.
- Platform Integration: Seamlessly integrates with Cisco STAROS PGW hardware for unified network control.
- Subscription Model: Offers a flexible, recurring subscription for predictable budgeting and continuous access to features.
- Network Stability: Supports reliable IP address assignment, critical for maintaining network uptime and user connectivity.
- Compliance Assurance: Ensures that IP address management adheres to necessary network operational standards.
Mid-market organizations can ensure their Cisco PGW network reliably manages IP addresses with this essential DHCP features license.
What This Enables
Enable Core IP Address Assignment
Enable teams to dynamically assign IP addresses to network users and devices connecting through the Cisco PGW. Streamline the process of onboarding new devices and users onto the network, ensuring immediate connectivity.
businesses with Cisco PGW deployments, organizations managing mobile user access, networks requiring dynamic IP allocation, IT teams focused on network infrastructure.
Support Network User Connectivity
Support the fundamental requirement for network users to obtain IP addresses for internet and internal resource access. Automate the distribution of IP configurations, reducing manual intervention and potential errors.
companies with active user bases, organizations with fluctuating user counts, IT departments managing large-scale network access, businesses prioritizing user experience.
Maintain Network Operational Compliance
Maintain compliance with network operational standards by ensuring proper IP address management. Protect against issues caused by IP conflicts or exhaustion through licensed and supported DHCP features.
regulated industries requiring network auditability, businesses with strict IT policy enforcement, organizations seeking vendor-supported network functions, IT environments prioritizing stability.
Key Features
DHCP Server Functionality
Enables the Cisco PGW to act as a DHCP server, automatically assigning IP addresses to clients.
IP Address Management
Provides tools and capabilities to manage the pool of IP addresses available for distribution.
Subscription Licensing
Offers a predictable, recurring cost model for access to essential features, simplifying budgeting.
Platform Specific License
Ensures compatibility and optimal performance by being tailored for the Cisco STAROS PGW platform.
Core Network Service
Supports a fundamental network service required for device connectivity and communication.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require highly reliable and secure network operations, making licensed and supported core network functions like DHCP essential for maintaining service availability and compliance.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations depend on consistent network connectivity for critical patient care systems, necessitating robust and properly licensed infrastructure components like the Cisco PGW for reliable IP address management.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial environments often deploy complex networks for operational technology (OT) and IT convergence, requiring stable IP address assignment from core gateways to ensure continuous production and data flow.
Government & Public Sector
Government agencies operate large-scale networks that must adhere to strict security and operational standards, making licensed and vendor-supported network services like DHCP crucial for maintaining integrity and compliance.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a PGW?
A PGW (Packet Data Network Gateway) is a key component in mobile network architecture, acting as the interface between the mobile network and external IP networks like the internet. It handles data traffic routing and IP address assignment.
What are DHCP features?
DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) features allow a network server to automatically assign IP addresses and other network configuration parameters to devices. This simplifies network management and ensures devices can communicate.
Is this a perpetual license?
No, this is a subscription-based license. This means you pay a recurring fee for the right to use the features for a defined term, ensuring you always have access to supported functionality.
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.