Cisco DEFENSEPRO X90-20G to X90-40G Software Upgrade
Upgrade your Cisco DEFENSEPRO X90-20G platform to X90-40G with this essential software option, unlocking enhanced network security capabilities for your business.
- Enhanced Capacity: Gain access to 40 Gbps throughput, supporting higher traffic volumes and more demanding security policies.
- Advanced Threat Protection: Unlock next-generation security features and threat intelligence for comprehensive defense against evolving cyber threats.
- License Compliance: Ensure your security platform remains up-to-date and compliant with vendor licensing requirements.
- Future-Proofing: Invest in a scalable solution that accommodates future growth and increasing security needs.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Cisco DEFENSEPRO X90-20G to X90-40G software upgrade option provides a pathway to significantly increase your network security platform's throughput and capabilities. It enables the transition from 20 Gbps to 40 Gbps of processing power, unlocking advanced security features and ensuring your infrastructure can handle increased traffic loads while maintaining robust protection.
This upgrade is designed for businesses that utilize Cisco's DEFENSEPRO X90 platform and are experiencing growth in network traffic or require more sophisticated security measures. It is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations looking to enhance their existing security posture without a complete hardware replacement, ensuring their network remains protected and compliant.
- Increased Throughput: Elevate your security appliance's capacity from 20 Gbps to 40 Gbps.
- Expanded Security Features: Access enhanced threat detection and prevention capabilities.
- Subscription-Based Licensing: Benefit from a flexible, ongoing subscription model for continuous updates and support.
- Platform Modernization: Extend the life and performance of your existing DEFENSEPRO X90 hardware.
- Simplified Upgrade Path: A straightforward software option to boost your security appliance's performance.
This Cisco software upgrade is the ideal solution for SMB and mid-market teams seeking to boost their network security performance and capabilities efficiently.
What This Enables
Unlock Higher Network Throughput
Enable teams to process significantly more network traffic through their security appliance. This ensures that network performance does not become a bottleneck as business operations scale.
Growing businesses, high-traffic environments, organizations with expanding user bases
Enhance Advanced Threat Protection
Streamline the deployment of advanced security features and threat intelligence to combat sophisticated cyberattacks. This provides a more proactive defense against malware, ransomware, and zero-day exploits.
Businesses handling sensitive data, organizations with compliance requirements, companies facing increasing cyber threats
Automate Security Policy Enforcement
Automate the application of security policies across a higher volume of traffic. This reduces manual configuration errors and ensures consistent security posture.
IT departments with limited staff, organizations with complex network segmentation, businesses requiring consistent security controls
Key Features
40 Gbps Throughput Upgrade
Significantly increases the capacity of your DEFENSEPRO X90 appliance to handle larger volumes of network traffic without performance degradation.
Subscription-Based Licensing
Provides continuous access to the latest security features, threat intelligence updates, and vendor support through a flexible billing model.
Enhanced Security Capabilities
Unlocks advanced threat detection, prevention, and mitigation features to protect against a wider range of cyber threats.
Platform Software Option
Allows for performance and capability enhancement of existing hardware, offering a cost-effective upgrade path.
Cisco DEFENSEPRO X90 Compatibility
Ensures seamless integration with your current Cisco DEFENSEPRO X90 security platform.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require high-throughput security to protect sensitive transaction data and comply with strict regulatory mandates like PCI DSS and SOX.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must secure patient health information (PHI) under HIPAA regulations, necessitating robust security with high performance to avoid disrupting critical operations.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial environments often have complex networks with increasing IoT device connectivity, requiring high-capacity security to protect operational technology (OT) and IT systems.
Retail & Hospitality
Retailers and hospitality groups handle large volumes of customer data and payment transactions, demanding high-performance security to maintain customer trust and comply with PCI DSS.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the billing model for this upgrade?
This is a subscription-based license, meaning you will pay a recurring fee for the use of the software and ongoing access to updates and support.
What hardware does this upgrade apply to?
This software option is specifically designed for the Cisco DEFENSEPRO X90 platform, upgrading its capacity from 20 Gbps to 40 Gbps.
What are the benefits of upgrading to 40 Gbps?
Upgrading to 40 Gbps allows your security appliance to handle more network traffic, supports more demanding security policies, and ensures your infrastructure can keep pace with business growth and evolving threat landscapes.
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.