Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series 24-Port DNA Platform License
This Cisco DNA platform license subscription unlocks advanced network automation and management capabilities for your Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series switches, ensuring optimal performance and compliance for up to 24 ports.
- License Term: Subscription-based access to Cisco DNA Center features for enhanced network visibility and control.
- Feature Access: Enables advanced automation, policy enforcement, and security features across your network infrastructure.
- Platform Compatibility: Specifically designed for Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series switches, ensuring seamless integration.
- Operational Efficiency: Streamline network operations, reduce manual configuration, and improve overall IT agility.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Cisco Catalyst 9300 DNA Platform License provides essential software capabilities for managing and automating your Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series switches. This subscription unlocks features for network assurance, security, and simplified operations, ensuring your network infrastructure remains compliant and performs optimally.
This license is designed for IT Managers and IT Professionals within SMB and mid-market organizations who are responsible for maintaining and evolving their network infrastructure. It integrates directly with Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series switches, providing a centralized platform for network monitoring, troubleshooting, and policy deployment.
- Network Automation: Automate repetitive tasks and configurations to save time and reduce errors.
- Enhanced Visibility: Gain deep insights into network performance, user activity, and application behavior.
- Policy-Based Management: Define and enforce network policies consistently across your entire infrastructure.
- Security Features: Integrate advanced security capabilities to protect your network from threats.
- Simplified Operations: Centralize network management, reducing complexity and operational overhead.
Empower your IT team with advanced network management tools, delivering enterprise-grade capabilities without the enterprise overhead.
What This Enables
Enable Network Automation and Orchestration
Enable teams to automate routine network configurations and policy deployments across multiple Cisco Catalyst 9300 switches. Streamline the provisioning of network services and reduce the time spent on manual tasks.
organizations with distributed network infrastructure, businesses standardizing on Cisco hardware, teams managing multiple network device types
Enhance Network Visibility and Assurance
Streamline network monitoring by providing deep insights into device health, traffic patterns, and application performance. Automate the detection and remediation of network issues to maintain high availability.
businesses requiring high network uptime, IT departments focused on proactive issue resolution, environments with critical business applications
Implement Centralized Policy Management
Enable teams to define and enforce consistent security and access policies across the entire network from a single console. Automate policy updates to maintain compliance and reduce the risk of unauthorized access.
organizations with strict security requirements, companies undergoing compliance audits, environments with diverse user access needs
Key Features
Cisco DNA Center Integration
Provides a centralized platform for network management, automation, and assurance, simplifying complex operations.
Network Automation Capabilities
Reduces manual configuration efforts and speeds up service deployment, freeing up IT resources.
Advanced Network Analytics
Offers deep visibility into network performance and user experience, enabling proactive issue resolution.
Policy-Based Network Control
Ensures consistent security and access policies across the network, enhancing compliance and security posture.
Subscription Licensing Model
Provides access to the latest software features and updates on a predictable billing cycle.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require highly available and secure networks to protect sensitive data and comply with strict regulatory standards like PCI DSS and SOX.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations need robust, reliable, and secure network infrastructure to support critical patient care systems and comply with HIPAA regulations.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial environments benefit from network automation and visibility to ensure operational continuity, manage IoT devices, and maintain production uptime.
Education & Research
Educational institutions require scalable and manageable networks to support a large number of users and devices, while ensuring secure access to resources.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Cisco Catalyst 9300 DNA Platform License?
It is a subscription license that unlocks advanced software features for network automation, management, and assurance on Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series switches. It enables capabilities through Cisco DNA Center.
What does the 24-port license cover?
This specific license covers up to 24 ports on your Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series switches, providing access to the DNA platform features for those ports.
Is this a perpetual license or a subscription?
This is a subscription-based license. It provides ongoing access to software features and updates for the duration of the subscription term.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Medium — IT-assisted
Fulfillment
Digital Delivery
License keys / portal provisioning
Support Model
Zent Networks Managed
Renewal, add-license, and lifecycle management included
Subscription Terms
Cancellation
Cancel anytime — no charge on next cycle
You may cancel this subscription at any time. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. You will not be charged for the following billing cycle. Access remains active through the end of the paid term.
Returns
Subscription licenses are non-refundable
Digital software licenses and SaaS subscriptions cannot be returned once activated or provisioned. Contact a Zent Networks account manager if you have questions before purchasing.