Cisco Secure DDoS Edge Protection A9K-EP-M-5Y | ASR 9000, 5-Year Term — A9K-EP-M-5Y

Keep ASR 9000 edge infrastructure available when attack traffic spikes. Cisco Secure DDoS Edge Protection provides a 5-year term designed to help maintain service continuity at the network edge, where availability and throughput matter most. For teams responsible for carrier, service provider, or large enterprise routing environments, this subscription supports long-range planning without forcing frequent renewal cycles. Built for the ASR 9000 platform, this entitlement aligns protection with the router family that carries high-value traffic and customer-facing services. That matters when the cost of interruption is measured in SLA exposure, operational churn, and lost trust. A multi-year term also simplifies procurement and lifecycle management, reducing the administrative overhead of annual re-approval while keeping protection in place across a longer deployment horizon. Choose this option when the business needs predictable coverage for a known ASR 9000 footprint and a cleaner path to budget control. It is a practical fit for organizations that want to protect edge capacity without overbuying broader security services they do not need. Ideal For Protecting service provider edge routers from volumetric DDoS traffic Maintaining availability for customer-facing ASR 9000 deployments Standardizing long-term security coverage across routed edge sites Planning multi-year procurement for network protection entitlements Why This Product 1 Longer 5-year term reduces renewal frequency versus annual subscriptions 2 Platform-specific coverage for ASR 9000 instead of generic security licensing 3 Designed for edge availability, not broad enterprise endpoint protection 4 Better fit for routed infrastructure where uptime carries direct SLA impact