Cisco WAE Standard Planning Package
The Cisco WAE Standard Planning Package provides essential network planning capabilities for organizations managing 500 to 999 devices over a 3-year term.
- License Term: 3-year subscription ensures continuous access to planning tools and updates.
- Device Scope: Valid for networks with 500 to 999 devices, offering tailored capacity.
- Planning Capabilities: Unlocks features for optimizing network design and performance.
- Compliance Assurance: Helps maintain network visibility and adherence to operational standards.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Cisco WAE Standard Planning Package is a software license subscription designed to provide businesses with the tools necessary for effective network planning and optimization. It covers a 3-year term and is scaled for environments managing between 500 and 999 devices, ensuring appropriate capacity and feature access for mid-sized networks.
IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies utilize this package to design, analyze, and improve their network infrastructure. It fits into their existing IT operations by providing advanced planning software that supports informed decision-making for network upgrades, expansions, and performance tuning.
- Network Design Tools: Access software features for detailed network topology mapping and analysis.
- Performance Optimization: Utilize planning capabilities to identify bottlenecks and improve traffic flow.
- Capacity Planning: Forecast future network needs based on current usage and growth projections.
- Configuration Management: Support for planning and validating network device configurations.
- 3-Year Subscription: Provides predictable costs and continuous access to software updates and support.
This Cisco WAE Standard Planning Package is the ideal solution for mid-market organizations seeking to proactively manage and enhance their network infrastructure without enterprise-level complexity.
What This Enables
Enable Network Performance Analysis
Enable teams to analyze current network traffic patterns and identify potential bottlenecks. Streamline the process of understanding application performance across the WAN.
organizations with distributed offices, businesses managing critical applications, teams requiring WAN visibility, companies with performance SLAs
Facilitate Network Design and Upgrades
Streamline the design and planning phases for network upgrades or expansions. Automate the assessment of network changes before implementation to minimize disruption.
businesses planning infrastructure changes, teams managing network growth, organizations implementing new technologies, companies with IT modernization initiatives
Ensure Network Compliance and Reporting
Automate the generation of network reports for compliance and auditing purposes. Enable teams to maintain accurate documentation of network topology and configurations.
companies in regulated industries, organizations with IT audit requirements, businesses needing network documentation, teams managing security policies
Key Features
Network Planning Software
Provides tools to design, analyze, and optimize network infrastructure for improved performance and reliability.
Capacity Planning Tools
Helps forecast future network needs, ensuring adequate resources are available to support business growth.
3-Year Subscription Term
Offers predictable budgeting and continuous access to software features and updates for an extended period.
Device Scalability (500-999)
Tailored for mid-sized networks, providing appropriate licensing capacity without over or under-provisioning.
WAN Application Visibility
Enables deeper understanding of application traffic flow across the Wide Area Network, aiding in performance tuning.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require highly reliable and performant networks to handle sensitive data and time-critical transactions, making network planning and optimization crucial for operational integrity.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations depend on robust network infrastructure for patient care systems, data management, and compliance with regulations like HIPAA, necessitating careful network planning.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers rely on interconnected systems for production, logistics, and supply chain management, where network performance directly impacts operational efficiency and uptime.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services companies handle confidential client data and require secure, efficient networks for collaboration and timely delivery of services, making network performance a key factor.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco WAE?
Cisco Wide Area Application Engine (WAE) is a platform that provides visibility and control over application performance across the Wide Area Network (WAN). It helps optimize application delivery and troubleshoot network issues.
What does the Standard Planning Package include?
The Standard Planning Package includes software licenses that enable network planning and analysis capabilities. This allows IT teams to design, assess, and optimize their network infrastructure effectively.
Is this a perpetual license or a subscription?
This is a subscription-based license with a 3-year term, providing continuous access to the software and its updates during that period.
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.