CISCO ASR5K-00-CS01FWNT ASR 5000 Software License

ASR5K-00-CS01FWNT Software Entitlement Identity

ASR5K-00-CS01FWNT is a Cisco ASR 5000 / StarOS software-license order code. It is not an ASR chassis or a physical WAN router. This page must be used to verify a software entitlement, not to select ports, power supplies, airflow, rack hardware or cabling.

Cisco's current public ASR5K software end-of-life table does not provide an exact-description row for this PID. The code is therefore retained without expanding its acronym or claiming a feature or capacity that Cisco has not confirmed in the public source.

What this order does not include

No ASR 5000 chassis, packet-processing card, interface module, cable, power component, rack accessory or physical appliance is included by this software PID. Hardware availability and compatibility must be handled as separate order lines.

Exact feature and capacity evidence

The exact feature expansion and capacity are deliberately not inferred from the PID tokens. Require a Cisco sales record, entitlement document or official product notice that repeats the complete code before approval.

PID-specific procurement case

Use a controlled recovery test when the entitlement is intended for resilient service. Preserve topology, node roles, starting license state, trigger, observed outcome and restoration steps. Recovery behavior must be demonstrated, not assumed from a similar PID.

Acceptance record for this line

For this exact order line, the accountable reviewer is the packet-core release manager. The required evidence package combines the software-release evidence, prerequisite checklist and controlled activation result; review it at receiving. If any identifier, account destination, platform scope or capacity statement conflicts, remove temporary registration state and preserve the failed activation output. Close the record only when another engineer can reproduce the entitlement decision from the stored evidence without relying on the product-page wording.

Entitlement identity

Require the Cisco quotation and entitlement record to repeat the complete PID, quantity and commercial term. Reject a line that shortens the code or replaces it with a family label because adjacent ASR5K licenses can authorize different functions and capacities. The approver should sign the exact order string and retain the Cisco source used to interpret it. If the source and quotation disagree, stop release and ask Cisco to resolve the discrepancy.

Capacity boundary

Do not infer a session count from price or from a neighboring PID. Where Cisco publishes a capacity in the exact description, preserve that unit in the order and acceptance record; otherwise obtain a Cisco-backed capacity statement before purchase. Capacity acceptance should use the same unit Cisco uses for that PID. A session, subscriber, SAAU, system or chassis entitlement must not be converted into another measure without written vendor guidance.

Redundancy scope

State whether the entitlement is required on active, standby or both systems and whether failover rights are separate. Do not transfer a capacity or feature statement from a primary license to a recovery PID without Cisco evidence. Link redundancy rights to the exact topology and recovery procedure. Validate failover behavior only when Cisco documentation and the purchased PIDs explicitly cover it.

Operational ownership

Assign an owner for license alarms, capacity consumption, renewal or migration dates and Smart Licensing communication. Add the exact PID to the configuration inventory so later audits do not rely on a generic router asset record. Define alert thresholds and review frequency. Close stale or duplicate entitlements so the inventory reflects what the platform can actually use.

Lifecycle evidence

Review Cisco's current product notice and support documentation on the decision date. Record the exact PID match; do not apply an end-of-sale date from a related code when the exact order line is absent from the notice. Capture the notice revision date and whether the exact PID is present. If it is absent, document that lifecycle remains quote-verified rather than importing a date from another product.

Decommission control

When the related service is retired, remove or reassign the entitlement only through Cisco-supported procedures. Preserve the final license state and migration approval so unused rights are not mistaken for active capacity. Close monitoring and capacity records when a license is retired. Keep the final evidence with the migration project to prevent the same PID from being counted twice.

Lifecycle and migration check

Do not transfer the bulletin's dates from a neighboring ASR5K PID to this exact code. Ask Cisco or the authorized source to confirm lifecycle, migration and support status in the quotation, then retain that evidence with the entitlement record.

Related ASR 5000 license records

• ASR5K-00-CS01NAT software entitlement
• ASR5K-00-AN01REC software entitlement
• ASR5K-00-ME10LIC software entitlement

Official Cisco references

• Cisco ASR5K software end-of-life announcement and PID table
• Cisco ASR 5500 Smart Licensing administration guide
• Cisco ASR 5000 Series support portal