Zeus Service Provider's License Agreement (SPLA)

Zeus’ Service Provider License Agreement (SPLA) lets Service Providers rent Zeus’ load balancing and application delivery products to their customers on a monthly basis.

Challenges that Service Providers face

A major obstacle to a service provider’s return on their investment is the large up-front cost of network and application infrastructure, particularly when the infrastructure is leased to individual customers rather than forming part of a shared service.

Additionally, hardware infrastructure takes time to source and deploy, it takes up valuable datacenter space, and it suffers from depreciation. Many hardware devices are difficult for end users to manage and misconfigurations may affect other customers in the service provider’s datacenter.

Zeus’ SPLA agreement

Zeus’ SPLA allows for the cost-effective provision of load balancing and application delivery services, replacing traditional hardware load balancers.

The benefits include:

• A usage-based revenue model with minimal up-front costs.
• The ability to create a value-add service that can be used to upsell customers to a more reliable, higher-capacity hosting platform.
• Simple hardware requirements: Zeus’ load-balancing software runs on standard Intel or AMD servers, or on shared VMware or Microsoft virtualization infrastructure, eliminating the need for custom hardware appliances.
• Immediate roll-out: Zeus software can be deployed immediately at the customer’s request.
• No stock control concerns, and no depreciation.
• Product upgrades on demand: the service provider need only license the products he requires, and can upgrade customers at any point.

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For more information, please refer to the SPLA program guide, or contact info@zeus.com.