Cisco C9600 DNA Advantage Software Subscription
This Cisco DNA Advantage subscription unlocks advanced network management and security features for your C9600 platform, ensuring optimal performance and compliance for your business operations.
- Access to Advanced Features: Gain entitlement to sophisticated network automation, analytics, and security capabilities.
- Compliance Assurance: Maintain adherence to evolving industry regulations and security best practices through continuous software updates.
- Operational Efficiency: Streamline network management tasks, reduce manual intervention, and improve overall IT team productivity.
- Extended Platform Value: Maximize the return on your Cisco hardware investment by enabling its full feature set.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Cisco C9600 DNA Advantage software subscription provides a comprehensive suite of advanced features designed to automate, secure, and optimize your network infrastructure. This license unlocks capabilities such as advanced network analytics, security policy enforcement, and programmability, ensuring your network operates at peak efficiency and remains compliant with industry standards.
This subscription is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in mid-market and enterprise organizations who are responsible for managing complex network environments. It integrates directly with Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series modular switches, providing a centralized platform for network visibility, control, and threat mitigation within their own operational network.
- Network Automation: Automate repetitive tasks like provisioning, configuration, and policy deployment.
- Advanced Security: Implement granular security policies and gain visibility into network threats.
- Network Analytics: Obtain deep insights into network performance, user behavior, and application usage.
- Centralized Management: Simplify network operations through a unified management interface.
- Software-Defined Networking: Enable programmability and agility for dynamic network adjustments.
Empower your IT team with advanced network capabilities and ensure your infrastructure is secure, compliant, and efficient with this Cisco DNA Advantage subscription.
What This Enables
Enable Advanced Network Automation
Enable teams to automate complex network configurations, policy deployments, and routine maintenance tasks across their infrastructure. Streamline operations and reduce the risk of manual errors, leading to greater network stability.
organizations with multi-site deployments, businesses managing growing network complexity, teams requiring rapid configuration changes, environments with limited IT staff resources
Enhance Network Security Posture
Automate the enforcement of granular security policies and gain deep visibility into network traffic and potential threats. Protect sensitive business data and ensure compliance with security regulations.
businesses handling sensitive customer data, organizations with strict regulatory compliance needs, companies deploying IoT devices, environments requiring advanced threat detection
Gain Deep Network Visibility and Analytics
Streamline the collection and analysis of network performance data to identify bottlenecks and optimize user experience. Provide IT professionals with actionable insights to proactively manage network health.
companies with performance-sensitive applications, organizations focused on improving end-user productivity, businesses needing to track network resource utilization, teams managing hybrid cloud environments
Key Features
Cisco DNA Center Integration
Provides a centralized platform for network automation, policy enforcement, and assurance, simplifying management for IT teams.
Advanced Network Analytics
Offers deep insights into network health, performance, and user behavior, enabling proactive troubleshooting and optimization.
Security Policy Automation
Automates the deployment and enforcement of security policies across the network, reducing risk and improving compliance.
Network Programmability
Enables customization and integration with other IT systems, allowing for greater network agility and responsiveness.
Software Subscription Model
Ensures continuous access to the latest features, security updates, and support, protecting your investment.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust security, high availability, and compliance with strict regulations like PCI DSS and SOX, which DNA Advantage features help address through advanced security and automation.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must comply with HIPAA and ensure the security and availability of patient data, making advanced network segmentation, threat detection, and reliable performance critical.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial environments demand high network reliability and security for operational technology (OT) systems, benefiting from automation and visibility to prevent disruptions and ensure uptime.
Education & Research
Educational institutions manage large, diverse user bases and require scalable, secure networks that can adapt to changing needs, benefiting from automation and centralized management features.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco DNA Advantage?
Cisco DNA Advantage is a software subscription that unlocks advanced features for Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series switches. It provides capabilities for network automation, security, and analytics, enhancing network management and performance.
What hardware does this license apply to?
This license is specifically for the Cisco Catalyst 9600 Series modular core switches. The MPN E2N-C96001-B-A indicates it is a platform software license for this switch series.
What is the term of this subscription?
This is a subscription-based license. The specific term duration (e.g., 1, 3, or 5 years) is determined at the time of purchase and is billed accordingly.
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.