Cisco 8000 Xlarge Security Add-On (LIC-SEC-XL-C) — URL-F | Add-on License, Security — LIC-SEC-XL-C

Add URL-level security controls to Cisco 8000 Xlarge routers to sustain business-critical traffic while blocking malicious or noncompliant web destinations. Engineered for service-provider and large-enterprise cores, this add-on license (MPN LIC-SEC-XL-C) installs via URL-F and extends the 8000 platform’s forwarding plane with URL categorization, policy enforcement and reporting hooks. Deploy at aggregation or core to offload centralized proxies, reduce latency for inspected flows and maintain throughput SLAs. Because this SKU is an add-on license, it preserves existing hardware investments and targets environments where inline URL control must scale to multi-terabit routing infrastructure. Choose this license when you need predictable deployment, vendor-backed updates for URL categorization and streamlined entitlement management on Cisco 8000-series platforms. Ideal For Enable URL categorization on multi-terabit aggregation routers Offload web filtering from proxy clusters to reduce latency Apply per-customer URL policies in service-provider cores Add vendor-managed URL updates to enterprise WAN edge Why This Product 1 Add URL filtering to existing 8000 hardware rather than replacing routers, lowering capital expense 2 Delivered via URL-F for fast entitlement compared with physical media JTFpments 3 Designed for multi-terabit platforms where proxy-based solutions add unacceptable latency 4 Vendor-managed URL updates reduce internal maintenance compared with open-source category files