Cisco Secure DDoS Edge Protection for ASR9000 5-Year Term | Enterprise — A9K-EP-XL-5Y

Defend ASR9000 edge capacity against volumetric attack traffic with Cisco Secure DDoS Edge Protection. This 5-year term entitlement is designed for service providers and enterprise network teams that depend on routing platforms to keep traffic moving under pressure. When DDoS events hit the edge, the cost is not just packet loss. It is customer impact, operational noise, and time spent separating real congestion from malicious traffic. This entitlement helps anchor a more controlled response posture around the ASR9000 platform, giving teams a defined protection layer for long-term planning rather than short-term mitigation. The 5-year term is well suited to organizations that standardize on multi-year infrastructure cycles and want protection coverage to match capital planning. For teams responsible for uptime, customer experience, and network resilience, Cisco Secure DDoS Edge Protection adds a focused control point where attack traffic is most likely to create business disruption. Ideal For Protecting ASR9000 edge routers in service provider networks Reducing DDoS impact on customer-facing internet ingress points Aligning security coverage with a five-year capital plan Hardening high-availability routing infrastructure against attack traffic Why This Product 1 Purpose-built for ASR9000 rather than generic network security 2 Five-year term matches long infrastructure cycles 3 Focused on edge DDoS conditions, not broad security bundles 4 Better fit for uptime-critical routing platforms