Cisco DPX50/X90 2x40G NIC License
Unlock critical network performance and compliance with the Cisco DPX50/X90 2x40G NIC License, ensuring your infrastructure meets operational demands.
- Access to Advanced Features: Gain the full functionality of your Cisco DPX50/X90 hardware for enhanced network performance.
- License Term: Subscription-based licensing provides ongoing access to features and updates.
- Hardware Compatibility: Specifically designed for the Cisco DPX50/X90 platform, ensuring seamless integration.
- Compliance and Operation: Maintain regulatory compliance and ensure continuous, authorized operation of your network hardware.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This is a Cisco platform software license for the DPX50/X90 series, enabling specific network interface card (NIC) functionalities. It provides access to features and capabilities required for the 2x40G NIC, operating on a subscription billing model.
This license is intended for businesses that own and operate Cisco DPX50/X90 network appliances. IT Managers and IT Professionals use this to ensure their network hardware is fully licensed, compliant, and capable of supporting their organization's data traffic and connectivity needs.
- Subscription Licensing: Provides continuous access to features and updates on a recurring basis.
- Hardware Enablement: Unlocks the full potential of the 2x40G NIC on compatible Cisco DPX50/X90 platforms.
- Feature Access: Grants entitlement to specific software features and operational capabilities tied to the NIC.
- Compliance Assurance: Ensures your network hardware is properly licensed, avoiding operational disruptions or audit risks.
- Performance Optimization: Enables the hardware to perform at its designed capacity for critical network functions.
For SMB and mid-market organizations, this license ensures your Cisco network infrastructure is fully functional, compliant, and optimized for business needs.
What This Enables
Enable High-Speed Network Connectivity
Enable teams to utilize the full 2x40G bandwidth capabilities of their Cisco DPX50/X90 hardware. This ensures efficient data transfer for demanding applications and services within the business network.
businesses with high-throughput data needs, organizations running data-intensive applications, networks requiring rapid file transfers, environments with large data backups, internal data processing hubs
Ensure Network Hardware Compliance
Streamline compliance efforts by ensuring all network hardware, including the 2x40G NIC, is properly licensed and authorized. This prevents potential audit issues and operational interruptions.
regulated industries requiring strict IT asset management, companies undergoing IT audits, businesses prioritizing risk mitigation, organizations with formal IT governance policies, environments with strict vendor compliance mandates
Access Advanced Network Features
Automate the unlocking of specific software features and advanced functionalities tied to the 2x40G NIC on the DPX50/X90 platform. This allows IT professionals to configure and manage network traffic more effectively.
teams requiring granular network control, organizations implementing advanced traffic shaping, environments needing specialized network diagnostics, businesses looking to optimize network performance, IT departments managing complex network topologies
Key Features
Subscription-based licensing
Provides ongoing access to features and updates, ensuring your network capabilities remain current and compliant without large upfront capital expenditures.
2x40G NIC enablement
Unlocks the full high-speed data transfer capabilities of the specified network interface card for enhanced network performance.
Cisco DPX50/X90 platform specific
Ensures seamless integration and compatibility with your existing Cisco network hardware, minimizing deployment complexity.
Feature access entitlement
Grants the right to use specific software features and functionalities associated with the NIC, allowing for optimized network management.
Compliance assurance
Helps maintain regulatory compliance and avoid potential penalties or operational disruptions by ensuring proper licensing.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require high-speed, reliable network connectivity for trading, transaction processing, and data analysis, making 40G NICs essential for performance and compliance.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial environments often rely on robust network infrastructure for real-time monitoring, control systems, and data acquisition, where high-speed NICs support critical operational demands.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations handle large volumes of sensitive data, requiring high-speed networking for medical imaging, electronic health records, and research, with strict compliance needs.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services companies manage large document repositories and require fast data retrieval and transfer for case management and client services.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does this license enable for my Cisco DPX50/X90?
This license enables the full functionality of the 2x40G Network Interface Card (NIC) on your Cisco DPX50/X90 platform. It ensures the hardware is properly licensed for operation and access to its intended features.
Is this a perpetual or subscription license?
This is a subscription-based license. It provides ongoing access to features and updates for the duration of the subscription term, billed on a recurring basis.
What happens if my subscription expires?
If the subscription expires, you may lose access to certain features, updates, or the full operational capability of the 2x40G NIC. Continued operation and feature access depend on maintaining an active subscription.
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.