Cisco WPA 3-Year Software Subscription for DC Switching
Maintain optimal performance and compliance for your Cisco data center switching with a 3-year WPA software subscription, ensuring continuous access to essential features and support.
- License Term: Enjoy 3 years of uninterrupted software access and support for your Cisco switching platform.
- Feature Entitlement: Unlock and maintain access to advanced features and functionalities required for modern data center operations.
- Compliance Assurance: Stay current with software updates and security patches, meeting regulatory and operational standards.
- Operational Continuity: Prevent service disruptions and ensure your network infrastructure remains operational and supported.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Cisco WPA (Software Subscription) provides a 3-year license for data center switching platforms, specifically designed for the NX2456K series. It ensures your network devices remain compliant, secure, and benefit from ongoing software enhancements and support.
Ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations, this subscription integrates into your existing data center infrastructure, providing a predictable cost for essential software capabilities and support.
- Subscription-Based Access: Gain continuous access to software features and updates for the licensed term.
- Platform Specific: Tailored for Cisco's NX2456K data center switching hardware.
- Compliance and Security: Ensures your network adheres to current security standards and regulatory requirements.
- Predictable Costing: Manage your IT budget with a fixed subscription cost over three years.
- Enhanced Network Functionality: Access to features that optimize data center network performance and manageability.
This Cisco WPA subscription offers SMB and mid-market teams a straightforward way to ensure their data center switching remains current, secure, and fully functional.
What This Enables
Enable Advanced Switching Features
Enable teams to unlock and utilize advanced functionalities within their Cisco NX2456K data center switches. This ensures the network can support evolving application demands and traffic patterns.
data center operations, network infrastructure management, application performance optimization, IT resource allocation
Maintain Software Compliance
Streamline the process of maintaining up-to-date software versions and security patches for critical network hardware. This reduces the risk of vulnerabilities and ensures adherence to industry standards.
IT compliance management, security posture maintenance, risk mitigation, operational auditing
Ensure Network Operational Continuity
Automate the renewal of essential software support and feature access for Cisco data center switches. This prevents unexpected service interruptions and maintains the reliability of core network services.
business continuity planning, network uptime assurance, IT service delivery, infrastructure lifecycle management
Key Features
3-Year Subscription Term
Provides long-term access to software features and support, ensuring stability and predictability for your network infrastructure.
Cisco NX2456K Platform Support
Specifically licensed for your Cisco data center switching hardware, guaranteeing compatibility and optimal performance.
Software Updates and Patches
Ensures your network devices are protected against emerging threats and benefit from performance enhancements.
Access to Advanced Features
Unlocks the full potential of your switching hardware to support demanding business applications and traffic.
Compliance Assurance
Helps meet regulatory requirements and internal security policies by maintaining current and supported software.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Ensures high availability and security for critical financial transactions, meeting strict regulatory compliance requirements for data integrity and network uptime.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Supports the reliable and secure transmission of sensitive patient data, adhering to HIPAA and other data privacy regulations through consistent software updates and support.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Maintains operational continuity and network performance for industrial control systems and production lines, where downtime can be extremely costly.
Retail & Hospitality
Enables secure and efficient operations for point-of-sale systems, inventory management, and customer-facing networks, ensuring a positive customer experience.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco WPA?
Cisco WPA stands for Cisco Software Subscription. It is a licensing model that provides access to software features, updates, and support for Cisco network devices over a defined subscription period.
What hardware does this license apply to?
This specific license, WPA-N5K-3Y-COMP, is for Cisco's NX2456K data center switching platform.
Why is a software subscription important for network devices?
Software subscriptions ensure your network devices remain secure with timely patches, benefit from new features that improve performance and manageability, and stay compliant with industry standards and vendor support policies.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Low — self-service
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.