Cisco LAN Enterprise License for Nexus 9500 Platform | Enterprise Licensing — CON-L1NBD-ASR1000E

Keep your Nexus 9500 deployment aligned to enterprise LAN requirements with a Cisco license built for controlled feature activation and consistent platform governance. This licensing SKU supports organizations that need to formalize capabilities across a high-density switching environment without changing the underlying hardware investment. For infrastructure teams, the value is operational clarity. Licensing becomes part of the platform strategy, helping standardize what is enabled, how it is tracked, and how it is renewed. That matters when the network supports critical applications, segmented traffic, and long-lived data center architectures where predictability is worth more than a lower-cost shortcut. Cisco licensing is often chosen when teams want vendor-backed entitlement management and a clean path for procurement, compliance, and support alignment. This option is suited to environments that already run Nexus 9500 and need enterprise-grade LAN feature access tied to the platform they trust. Ideal For Enable licensed LAN capabilities on an existing Nexus 9500 data center fabric Standardize feature entitlement across multiple Nexus 9500 switches Support procurement-controlled expansion of Cisco switching functionality Align software entitlement with enterprise network governance requirements Why This Product 1 Platform-specific licensing for Nexus 9500 environments 2 Enterprise entitlement model for LAN capabilities 3 Supports procurement and renewal control 4 Backed by Cisco licensing governance