CISCO ASR5K-00-SN10SESS ASR 5000 Series

ASR5K-00-SN10SESS Software Entitlement Identity

ASR5K-00-SN10SESS 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 capacity-exhaustion response tied to the verified licensing unit. Define warning level, evidence source, approval owner and procurement lead time. Until Cisco confirms the unit for this exact PID, mark thresholds as pending rather than inventing values.

Acceptance record for this line

For this exact order line, the accountable reviewer is the service assurance lead. The required evidence package combines the redundancy design, node-role mapping and recovery-right confirmation; review it before activation. If any identifier, account destination, platform scope or capacity statement conflicts, escalate the mismatch to the platform owner and authorized source. 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.

Support coverage

Verify which support contract covers software assistance, defect handling and entitlement administration. Record the contract owner and escalation route because a software PID does not automatically include every support service. Support ownership should include contract number, covered node and entitlement administrator. Escalation details belong in the operational record, not only in procurement email.

Order substitution

Require written approval for any proposed substitute. Compare function, capacity, active or failover scope, term, platform and licensing method rather than accepting a similar-looking ASR5K code. A substitute review must be completed before invoicing. If the replacement has a different token, capacity or licensing mode, create a new technical approval rather than editing the original record.

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.

Environment mapping

Map the entitlement to the target chassis or software instance, service context and responsible network function. An unassigned license line creates no operational value and is difficult to validate during renewal or migration. The mapping should survive staff changes: include node, service, account, environment and owner. Update it whenever the licensed workload moves.

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-GN10HMAG software entitlement
• ASR5K-00-CS01LASR software entitlement
• ASR5K-00-CS10MPLS 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