Cisco Secure WAN Manager Cloud Hosted
Cisco Secure WAN Manager cloud hosted licensing provides essential visibility and control for your Wide Area Network, ensuring optimal performance and security for your business operations.
- Access to: Centralized management and monitoring of your Cisco WAN infrastructure from a cloud-hosted platform.
- Coverage for: Advanced security policies, traffic shaping, and Quality of Service (QoS) configurations across your distributed network.
- Protection against: Network misconfigurations and performance degradation through proactive monitoring and analytics.
- Entitlement to: Continuous software updates and feature enhancements for your Cisco Secure WAN Manager deployment.
Product Overview
Product Overview
Cisco Secure WAN Manager is a cloud-hosted platform license that enables centralized management, monitoring, and security for your Cisco Wide Area Network (WAN) infrastructure. This subscription provides access to advanced features for optimizing traffic, enforcing security policies, and gaining deep visibility into network performance.
This solution is designed for IT Managers and IT Professionals within SMB and mid-market organizations who need to efficiently manage complex WAN environments. It integrates with existing Cisco networking hardware, providing a unified control plane for distributed branch offices and data centers.
- Centralized Management: Control and monitor all your Cisco WAN devices from a single cloud-based console.
- Enhanced Security: Implement and enforce consistent security policies across your entire network.
- Performance Optimization: Utilize advanced traffic shaping and Quality of Service (QoS) to prioritize critical applications.
- Visibility and Analytics: Gain deep insights into network traffic patterns, application performance, and potential issues.
- Subscription Licensing: Benefit from a predictable, recurring cost model with continuous access to the latest features and updates.
Secure your network's future with Cisco Secure WAN Manager cloud hosted licensing, offering enterprise-grade WAN control without the enterprise overhead for growing businesses.
What This Enables
Enable Centralized WAN Visibility and Control
Enable teams to gain a unified view of their entire WAN infrastructure, from branch offices to data centers. Streamline policy deployment and monitoring to ensure consistent network behavior and security posture.
distributed networks, multi-site operations, cloud-connected branches, hybrid IT environments
Optimize Application Performance and Traffic
Streamline the prioritization of critical business applications by intelligently shaping and managing network traffic. Automate Quality of Service (QoS) configurations to guarantee bandwidth for essential services and improve user experience.
performance-sensitive workloads, VoIP and video conferencing, SaaS application delivery, business-critical operations
Enhance Network Security and Compliance
Automate the enforcement of security policies across all connected WAN endpoints, reducing the risk of misconfigurations and unauthorized access. Ensure compliance with industry regulations through consistent security controls and audit trails.
regulatory compliance needs, security-conscious organizations, remote workforce access, threat mitigation strategies
Key Features
Cloud-Hosted Management Platform
Access and manage your WAN from anywhere, reducing the need for on-premises management hardware and simplifying deployment.
Centralized Policy Enforcement
Ensure consistent security and QoS policies across all network locations, minimizing configuration errors and improving security posture.
Advanced Traffic Shaping and QoS
Prioritize critical applications and guarantee bandwidth, leading to improved user experience and business productivity.
Real-time Network Visibility and Analytics
Gain deep insights into network performance and traffic patterns, enabling faster troubleshooting and proactive issue resolution.
Subscription-Based Licensing
Benefit from predictable costs, continuous access to the latest features, and simplified license management.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require highly secure and reliable network connectivity to protect sensitive data and ensure compliance with strict regulations like PCI DSS and SOX.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must maintain secure, high-availability networks to support critical patient care systems and comply with HIPAA regulations for protected health information.
Retail & Hospitality
Retail and hospitality businesses rely on stable network performance for point-of-sale systems, inventory management, and customer-facing services, often across many distributed locations.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial operations depend on robust and secure networks for managing production lines, supply chains, and operational technology (OT) systems, often requiring consistent performance and uptime.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco Secure WAN Manager Cloud Hosted?
Cisco Secure WAN Manager Cloud Hosted is a subscription-based software license that provides a cloud-based platform for managing and securing your Cisco Wide Area Network (WAN) infrastructure. It offers centralized control, visibility, and policy enforcement.
What type of Cisco hardware does this license apply to?
This license is designed to manage Cisco networking devices that support WAN connectivity and are compatible with the Secure WAN Manager platform. Specific hardware compatibility details are available from Cisco documentation.
What is the billing model for this license?
This is a subscription-based license, meaning it is billed on a recurring basis, typically monthly or annually, providing continuous access to the service and its updates.
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.