Cisco XCAT Platform Licensing
This Cisco XCAT platform license provides essential access and capabilities for your business network infrastructure, ensuring continued operation and compliance.
- Access to Features: Unlock advanced functionalities and capacity for your Cisco network edge, core, and access layers.
- Subscription Billing: Benefit from a predictable, ratable subscription model for ongoing software access and updates.
- Compliance Assurance: Maintain up-to-date licensing to meet regulatory requirements and vendor support standards.
- Operational Continuity: Ensure your network devices remain fully functional and supported with the latest software entitlements.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This is a Cisco XCAT platform software license, offered on a subscription basis. It grants access to specific features and capabilities required for the operation and management of Cisco network hardware at the edge, core, and access levels.
Designed for businesses utilizing Cisco networking equipment, this license is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals who need to ensure their network infrastructure is compliant, fully functional, and equipped with the necessary software entitlements for optimal performance.
- Platform Software Access: Enables the use of critical software features on supported Cisco hardware.
- Subscription Model: Provides ongoing access to software and potential updates through a ratable billing structure.
- Network Layer Coverage: Applicable to edge, core, and access network deployments.
- Vendor Compliance: Ensures your network devices are properly licensed according to Cisco's program.
- Feature Entitlement: Unlocks specific functionalities necessary for network operation and management.
This Cisco XCAT platform license is the right choice for SMB and mid-market teams needing to maintain compliant and fully functional network infrastructure.
What This Enables
Enable Network Device Functionality
Enable teams to unlock the full suite of features and operational capabilities required for Cisco network devices. Ensure your edge, core, and access hardware performs as intended for your business operations.
businesses with on-premises Cisco hardware, IT departments managing network infrastructure, organizations requiring specific device features, companies focused on network stability
Maintain Software Compliance
Streamline the process of maintaining up-to-date software licenses for your Cisco network equipment. Avoid potential compliance issues and ensure your devices meet vendor requirements for support and functionality.
businesses with Cisco network deployments, IT managers overseeing licensing, companies undergoing IT audits, organizations prioritizing vendor relationships
Support Network Edge, Core, and Access
Automate the entitlement process for software supporting your network's edge, core, and access layers. This ensures consistent performance and feature availability across your entire Cisco network infrastructure.
organizations with multi-layered Cisco networks, IT professionals managing diverse network segments, businesses with distributed network points, companies standardizing on Cisco
Key Features
Ratable Subscription Licensing
Provides a predictable and flexible cost model for ongoing software access and entitlements.
Edge, Core, and Access Support
Enables essential software features across all critical layers of your Cisco network infrastructure.
Vendor Compliance
Ensures your network devices are properly licensed, meeting Cisco's requirements and maintaining support eligibility.
Feature Entitlement
Unlocks specific functionalities necessary for the optimal performance and management of your Cisco network hardware.
Platform Software Access
Grants the necessary software rights to operate and manage supported Cisco network devices.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require highly reliable and secure network infrastructure with strict compliance mandates, making proper licensing for Cisco equipment essential for uninterrupted operations and regulatory adherence.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations depend on continuous network availability for patient care systems and data management, necessitating licensed and supported Cisco network hardware to ensure uptime and data integrity.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial environments often rely on robust Cisco networking for operational technology (OT) and IT convergence, where consistent performance and vendor support are critical for production continuity.
Education & Research
Educational institutions manage large, complex networks supporting diverse user needs and research activities, requiring properly licensed and functional Cisco equipment for reliable access and data transfer.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco XCAT?
Cisco XCAT (eXtensible Cisco Architecture for Transport) is a licensing framework that provides software entitlements for various Cisco network devices. This specific license is for platform software.
What does 'OA RATABLE' mean?
OA RATABLE typically refers to an 'On-Account' or 'Operational Agreement' that is billed on a usage or time-based, ratable schedule, common for subscription services.
What hardware does this license apply to?
Based on the MPN, this license is for platform software applicable to Cisco network devices deployed at the edge, core, and access layers. Specific hardware compatibility should be verified with Cisco documentation.
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.