Cisco 16G Always-on Cloud DDoS Service - 5Y | 16G, 5 Years, Subscription — L-RD-CAO-16G-5Y

Sustain critical application availability through sustained DDoS events with a five-year always-on cloud service. Cisco 16G Always-on Cloud DDoS Service (L-RD-CAO-16G-5Y) provides a continuous, cloud-delivered mitigation layer sized at 16G and sold as a term subscription. Deploy this service to remove volumetric and protocol attack handling from on-premise infrastructure, preserving firewall and ADC capacity for legitimate traffic. Operational teams regain predictable incident windows and simpler runbooks: traffic is routed to Cisco’s mitigation fabric when attacks exceed thresholds, scrubbing occurs in-cloud, and clean traffic returns without manual intervention. Procurement gains an explicitly scoped 5-year contract that avoids piecemeal, reactive purchases during major incidents. Choose this model when you must protect externally facing ingress points, preserve SLAs, and reduce the operational overhead of in-situ scrubbing appliances. Ideal For Protect public web portals and APIs for financial services during volumetric attacks Maintain SaaS platform uptime during sustained DDoS campaigns Offload DDoS scrubbing from on-premise firewalls and load balancers Standardize multi-year DDoS protection in enterprise procurement contracts Why This Product 1 Provide continuous protection rather than reactive capacity blocks 2 Offer a fixed 5-year commercial term versus spot, per-attack purchases 3 Absorb volumetric load in Cisco’s cloud to preserve on-premise resources 4 Include vendor-managed routing and scrubbing versus self-managed appliances