Cisco DNA Advantage Platform License
Cisco DNA Advantage Platform License provides advanced network automation, security, and analytics for your business infrastructure over a 3-year term.
- Advanced Features: Access to enhanced network automation, policy enforcement, and security capabilities.
- Extended Term: Benefit from a 3-year subscription, ensuring continuous access to software updates and support.
- Scalable Capacity: Supports networks up to 25 million endpoints, ideal for growing mid-market to enterprise environments.
- Compliance & Security: Maintain regulatory compliance and strengthen your network's security posture with integrated tools.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Cisco DNA Advantage Platform License subscription unlocks a suite of advanced software features designed to automate, secure, and optimize your network infrastructure. It provides capabilities for network assurance, policy-driven automation, and enhanced security visibility for up to 25 million endpoints over a 3-year term.
This license is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in mid-market and enterprise organizations who need to manage complex networks efficiently. It integrates with Cisco's network hardware, enabling centralized control and proactive management of the entire network environment.
- Network Automation: Streamline network provisioning, configuration, and management tasks.
- Enhanced Security: Implement granular security policies and gain visibility into network threats.
- Network Assurance: Proactively monitor network health and performance with intelligent analytics.
- Centralized Management: Simplify operations through a unified platform for policy and device management.
- Software Updates: Ensure your network benefits from the latest features, security patches, and performance improvements.
This Cisco DNA Advantage license empowers your IT team to manage complex networks with greater efficiency and security, reducing operational overhead.
What This Enables
Enable Network Automation and Orchestration
Enable teams to automate repetitive network configuration and deployment tasks, significantly reducing manual errors and deployment times. Streamline the provisioning of network services across the entire infrastructure with policy-driven automation.
organizations with distributed network infrastructure, teams managing multi-vendor network environments, businesses requiring rapid service deployment, companies with large-scale network changes
Enhance Network Security and Compliance
Automate the enforcement of security policies across the network to protect against evolving threats and ensure compliance with industry regulations. Gain deep visibility into network traffic and user activity to identify and mitigate security risks proactively.
businesses handling sensitive data, organizations subject to regulatory audits, companies with remote or hybrid workforces, environments requiring granular access control
Improve Network Performance and Assurance
Proactively monitor network health and performance using advanced analytics to identify and resolve issues before they impact users. Streamline troubleshooting by gaining actionable insights into network behavior and user experience.
companies reliant on network uptime for operations, organizations experiencing performance degradation, teams managing critical business applications, environments with high user traffic
Key Features
Network automation and programmability
Reduces manual configuration effort and accelerates network service delivery.
Advanced security features
Strengthens network defenses and helps meet compliance requirements.
Network assurance and analytics
Provides proactive insights into network health and performance, minimizing downtime.
Policy-based management
Enables consistent application of network policies across devices and users.
3-year subscription term
Ensures continuous access to software updates, support, and predictable budgeting.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
This sector requires robust security, high availability, and strict compliance with regulations like PCI DSS and SOX, all of which are supported by Cisco DNA Advantage's advanced security and assurance features.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations need secure, reliable networks to protect sensitive patient data (HIPAA compliance) and ensure continuous operation of critical medical systems, benefiting from DNA Advantage's security and assurance capabilities.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial environments demand highly reliable and secure networks for operational technology (OT) and IT convergence, where DNA Advantage can automate deployments and enhance security for critical infrastructure.
Education & Research
Educational institutions manage large, diverse user bases and require scalable, secure network solutions to support research, learning, and administrative functions, benefiting from centralized management and automation.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco DNA Advantage?
Cisco DNA Advantage is a software license that unlocks advanced features for network automation, security, and assurance on Cisco networking platforms. It is designed to simplify network management and improve operational efficiency for businesses.
What does the 'up to 25M' refer to?
The 'up to 25M' indicates the license capacity, typically referring to the number of endpoints or devices the software can manage within your network environment.
What is the benefit of a 3-year term?
A 3-year term provides predictable costs and ensures continuous access to software updates, new features, and ongoing support from Cisco for an extended period, simplifying long-term IT planning.
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.