Cisco PI 3.X LF, AS & APIC-EM Platform License
This Cisco platform license subscription provides essential capabilities for managing and optimizing your network infrastructure, ensuring continued operation and feature access.
- License Term: Subscription-based access to Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.X features.
- Billing Model: Recurring subscription ensures continuous access to software updates and support.
- Platform Applicability: Designed for Cisco network management platforms, enhancing operational visibility.
- Key Value: Maintains compliance, unlocks advanced features, and guarantees ongoing network functionality.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.X license, including Assurance and APIC-EM capabilities, is a subscription-based software entitlement. It unlocks advanced features for network monitoring, management, and troubleshooting, ensuring your IT environment operates efficiently and securely.
Business owners and IT managers in SMB and mid-market companies utilize this license to gain deeper insights into their network's performance and health. It integrates with existing Cisco network hardware, providing a centralized platform for operational oversight and proactive issue resolution.
- Subscription Licensing: Provides access to Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.X features on a recurring basis.
- Assurance Capabilities: Enhances network monitoring with advanced diagnostics and performance analytics.
- APIC-EM Integration: Enables Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Enterprise Module for application-aware networking.
- Feature Unlock: Grants access to specific management and automation tools within the Prime Infrastructure suite.
- Compliance and Support: Ensures your network management software remains current and supported by Cisco.
This Cisco subscription license is the ideal choice for SMB and mid-market teams seeking to enhance their network management without the overhead of traditional enterprise solutions.
What This Enables
Enable Advanced Network Monitoring
Enable teams to gain deeper visibility into network performance and health. Streamline troubleshooting by identifying and resolving issues proactively before they impact users.
On-premises networks, hybrid cloud environments, multi-site deployments, Cisco-centric infrastructure
Automate Network Management Tasks
Automate routine network configuration, monitoring, and reporting tasks. Streamline device provisioning and policy enforcement across your entire network infrastructure.
Growing businesses, organizations with distributed sites, IT teams managing diverse network devices
Enhance Application Performance Visibility
Streamline the management of application performance by leveraging APIC-EM capabilities. Enable teams to understand application traffic patterns and ensure critical business applications perform optimally.
Businesses reliant on specific applications, organizations with Quality of Service requirements, networks with high traffic volumes
Key Features
Subscription-based licensing
Provides continuous access to the latest software features and updates, ensuring your network management tools remain current and effective.
Cisco Assurance capabilities
Enhances network monitoring with advanced diagnostics and performance analytics, allowing for proactive issue detection and resolution.
APIC-EM integration
Enables application-aware networking, providing insights into application traffic and performance to optimize user experience.
Centralized network management
Offers a single pane of glass for managing and monitoring your Cisco network devices, simplifying operations and reducing complexity.
Software updates and support
Guarantees access to Cisco's technical support and software updates, ensuring your network management platform is secure and functional.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require high availability and robust security for their networks to ensure uninterrupted service and protect sensitive data, making advanced network management critical.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations rely on secure and stable network connectivity for patient care systems and data management, necessitating reliable network monitoring and compliance.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial environments often have complex, distributed networks supporting critical operational technology, requiring detailed visibility and control to prevent production downtime.
Education & Research
Educational institutions manage large, dynamic networks serving students and staff, demanding efficient management tools to ensure performance and security across campus-wide infrastructure.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco Prime Infrastructure?
Cisco Prime Infrastructure is a network management solution that provides a unified platform for monitoring, managing, and troubleshooting Cisco networks. It helps IT teams optimize network performance and ensure service availability.
What does APIC-EM do?
APIC-EM, or Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Enterprise Module, enables application-aware networking. It allows for the identification, monitoring, and policy-based control of application traffic across the network.
Is this a perpetual license or a subscription?
This is a subscription-based license. It provides access to the software features for a defined term, with recurring billing to ensure continuous access and support.
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.