Cisco C9300 DNA Advantage Software License
Enhance your network's capabilities with Cisco DNA Advantage software licensing, providing advanced features and management for your C9300 platform over a 1-year term.
- Access to Advanced Features: Unlock sophisticated network automation, security, and analytics capabilities.
- Compliance and Security: Ensure your network adheres to industry standards and maintains a strong security posture.
- Operational Efficiency: Streamline network management tasks and reduce manual intervention.
- Continued Operation: Maintain access to critical software updates and support for uninterrupted network performance.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Cisco DNA Advantage software license provides advanced features and capabilities for your Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series switches. It unlocks enhanced network automation, security policies, and intelligent insights, ensuring your network operates efficiently and securely. The license is offered on a subscription basis for a 1-year term.
Designed for businesses that rely on their network infrastructure for daily operations, this license is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies. It integrates with your existing Cisco hardware to provide a more intelligent and programmable network, supporting critical business applications and services.
- Advanced Network Automation: Automate repetitive tasks and simplify network configuration.
- Enhanced Security: Implement granular security policies and threat detection.
- Network Analytics: Gain deep insights into network performance and user behavior.
- Software-Defined Networking: Enable programmability and agility for your network infrastructure.
- Centralized Management: Manage network policies and devices from a single platform.
Empower your IT team with advanced network control and visibility, delivering enterprise-grade capabilities without the enterprise overhead.
What This Enables
Enable Advanced Network Automation
Enable teams to automate complex network configurations and policy deployments across their infrastructure. Streamline operations and reduce the risk of manual errors, ensuring consistent network behavior.
organizations with distributed network infrastructure, businesses managing multi-site operations, teams requiring rapid network changes, companies with limited IT staffing
Enhance Network Security Posture
Streamline the implementation and enforcement of granular security policies to protect sensitive business data. Automate threat detection and response to minimize the impact of security incidents.
businesses handling sensitive customer data, organizations with strict compliance requirements, companies operating in regulated industries, networks with a high volume of user traffic
Gain Deeper Network Visibility
Automate the collection and analysis of network performance data to identify bottlenecks and optimize resource utilization. Enable IT professionals to proactively address potential issues before they impact users.
companies with performance-sensitive applications, businesses focused on user experience, IT departments managing growing network demands, organizations seeking data-driven network improvements
Key Features
Cisco DNA Advantage Software
Unlocks advanced network automation, security, and analytics capabilities for your Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series switches.
48 Fiber Port Support
Optimized for networks utilizing fiber optic connectivity, ensuring high-speed data transmission.
1 Year Term License
Provides a flexible, subscription-based access to premium software features for a defined period.
Network Automation
Reduces manual configuration effort, minimizes errors, and speeds up deployment of network changes.
Advanced Security Features
Enhances threat detection, policy enforcement, and overall network security posture.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
This sector requires robust security and high availability to protect sensitive financial data and ensure uninterrupted trading or client services, which DNA Advantage features support.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Strict compliance regulations and the need for secure, reliable network access for patient data management make advanced security and automation critical for healthcare organizations.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial environments benefit from network automation and visibility to manage complex operational technology (OT) networks, ensuring uptime and efficiency in production.
Education & Research
Universities and research institutions manage large, dynamic user bases and require scalable, secure network solutions to support diverse academic and research activities.
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 on Cisco Catalyst 9000 series switches. It enables a more intelligent and programmable network.
What hardware does this license apply to?
This license is specifically for Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series switches, particularly those with 48 fiber ports as indicated by the product code.
What is the benefit of a subscription license?
Subscription licenses offer flexibility, predictable costs, and continuous access to the latest software features and security updates, ensuring your network remains current and protected.
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.