Cisco ESS-CA-100G-SIA-4 4-Year 100G Support | Cisco 8000 Series — ESS-CA-100G-SIA-4

Keep critical 100G core and aggregation services covered with a 4-year Cisco Essential SIA term for the Cisco 8000 Series. Built for infrastructure teams that cannot afford uncertainty, this support offering helps maintain operational continuity across high-capacity routing environments where uptime, recovery speed, and predictable planning matter. For enterprise networks carrying demanding east-west and north-south traffic, support coverage is more than a contract line item. It is part of the control plane for the business. This term helps align support coverage with the lifecycle of the platform, giving teams a clearer path for maintenance planning, incident response, and budget forecasting over a multi-year horizon. Choose this option when the cost of delay is higher than the cost of preparedness. It is designed for organizations standardizing on Cisco 8000 Series infrastructure and looking to preserve service levels across core and aggregation layers without overcommitting to unnecessary complexity. Ideal For Extending support coverage for Cisco 8000 Series core routing deployments Maintaining service continuity in aggregation networks carrying 100G traffic Standardizing multi-year support across enterprise backbone infrastructure Planning predictable support spend for high-capacity network refresh cycles Why This Product 1 4-year term versus shorter support windows 2 100G-focused coverage for high-capacity deployments 3 Cisco 8000 Series alignment for platform-specific support 4 Essential SIA coverage for enterprise continuity