Cisco DNA Advantage C6840 High SMS-K Platform License
Cisco DNA Advantage C6840 High SMS-K provides essential software licensing for advanced network management and security capabilities, ensuring your business infrastructure operates efficiently and securely.
- Advanced Features: Access to enhanced network automation, analytics, and security functionalities.
- Subscription Term: Enjoy continuous access to the latest software updates and support for the duration of your subscription.
- Platform Licensing: This license applies to specific Cisco platforms, enabling full utilization of their advanced capabilities.
- Operational Efficiency: Streamline network operations, reduce manual configuration, and gain deeper visibility into network performance.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Cisco DNA Advantage C6840 High SMS-K is a platform software subscription license designed to unlock advanced features for Cisco networking hardware. It provides enhanced capabilities for network automation, policy enforcement, security, and analytics, ensuring your network infrastructure is managed efficiently and securely.
This license is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations who need to optimize their network performance, maintain compliance, and gain deeper insights into network operations. It integrates with existing Cisco environments, providing a scalable solution for evolving business needs.
- Enhanced Network Automation: Automate repetitive tasks like configuration and policy deployment across your network.
- Advanced Security Features: Implement robust security policies and gain visibility into potential threats.
- Network Analytics and Insights: Utilize data to understand network behavior, troubleshoot issues, and optimize performance.
- Centralized Management: Manage network policies and configurations from a single, unified platform.
- Subscription-Based Access: Benefit from continuous access to software updates, new features, and ongoing support.
This Cisco DNA Advantage license empowers SMB and mid-market teams to achieve enterprise-grade network control and visibility without the associated overhead.
What This Enables
Enable Advanced Network Automation
Enable teams to automate complex network configurations and policy deployments across the entire infrastructure. Streamline operations and reduce the risk of human error in network management.
On-premises data centers, distributed branch offices, campus networks, hybrid cloud environments
Enhance Network Security Posture
Streamline the implementation of granular security policies and gain deep visibility into network traffic and potential threats. Automate threat detection and response to protect critical business data.
Networks requiring compliance, environments with sensitive data, organizations with remote access needs, multi-site operations
Gain Actionable Network Insights
Automate the collection and analysis of network performance data to identify bottlenecks and optimize resource utilization. Enable IT professionals to make data-driven decisions for network improvements.
Performance-sensitive operations, IT teams managing growing networks, businesses focused on operational efficiency, environments with high user traffic
Key Features
Cisco DNA Center Integration
Provides a centralized platform for network automation, policy management, and assurance, simplifying complex network operations.
Advanced Security Capabilities
Offers enhanced threat detection, policy enforcement, and segmentation to protect your network and data from evolving cyber threats.
Network Analytics and Telemetry
Delivers deep insights into network performance, user experience, and application behavior, enabling proactive troubleshooting and optimization.
Software Subscription Model
Ensures continuous access to the latest software features, updates, and security patches, along with ongoing vendor support.
Policy-Based Automation
Allows IT teams to define network behavior based on business intent, automating deployment and management across the network.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust security, high availability, and compliance with strict regulations like PCI DSS and SOX, all of which are supported by advanced network management and security features.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations handle sensitive patient data and must comply with HIPAA, necessitating secure, reliable, and auditable network operations that DNA Advantage can help provide.
Retail & Hospitality
These sectors often operate with distributed locations and require consistent network performance, security for customer transactions, and efficient management of guest Wi-Fi, benefiting from centralized control and automation.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial environments increasingly rely on connected systems for operations and require secure, reliable networks to support IoT devices and automation, benefiting from enhanced visibility and control.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco DNA Advantage?
Cisco DNA Advantage is a software subscription that provides advanced features for network automation, security, and analytics, designed to simplify and enhance network management for businesses.
What type of billing model does this license use?
This license operates on a subscription billing model, providing continuous access to features and updates for the duration of the subscription term.
What hardware does the C6840-DA-SMSK license apply to?
The MPN suggests this license is for specific Cisco Catalyst 6800 series platforms, enabling their advanced software capabilities. Specific compatibility should be verified with your network hardware.
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.