Cisco ESS-8KE-400G-SIA-3 Essential SIA 3 Yr 400G | Cisco 8000E — ESS-8KE-400G-SIA-3

Maintain service continuity across Cisco 8000E deployments with Essential SIA 3-year term coverage for 400G. This licensing item is built for organizations that need support alignment around high-capacity routing environments, where uptime, refresh planning, and contract clarity matter as much as raw throughput. A 3-year term gives infrastructure teams a defined planning window for operational support and procurement cycles. That makes it easier to standardize coverage across the fleet, reduce gaps in entitlement, and keep critical routing assets under a consistent support model as the network evolves. For enterprise buyers, the appeal is straightforward: it ties a specific service level and capacity point to the Cisco 8000E series, helping avoid mismatched coverage and last-minute renewals. If your architecture depends on stable core transport and you want support terms that map cleanly to deployment scale, this is the kind of licensing that earns its place. Ideal For Supporting Cisco 8000E core routing deployments with defined term coverage Planning multi-year procurement for high-capacity network infrastructure Standardizing support entitlements across 400G environments Reducing renewal risk in enterprise backbone and transport networks Why This Product 1 Three-year term supports longer planning cycles 2 400G alignment fits high-capacity Cisco 8000E deployments 3 More precise than generic support coverage 4 Helps reduce renewal and entitlement gaps