Cisco DNA Advantage Subscription for Catalyst 9500 Series
This Cisco DNA Advantage subscription provides advanced network management and security features for your Catalyst 9500 Series switches, ensuring optimal performance and compliance for your business operations.
- Advanced Network Features: Access to enhanced security, automation, and analytics capabilities to improve network visibility and control.
- Subscription Term: A 24-year license term provides long-term access to software updates and support, ensuring your network remains current.
- Compliance Assurance: Maintain regulatory compliance and security posture with continuous software updates and access to the latest features.
- Operational Efficiency: Streamline network management tasks through automation and centralized control, reducing manual effort and potential errors.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Cisco DNA Advantage subscription is a platform software license designed for the Catalyst 9500 Series switches. It unlocks a suite of advanced features including enhanced security, network analytics, and automation capabilities, ensuring your network infrastructure operates at peak performance and remains compliant with industry standards.
This subscription is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations who need to manage complex network environments. It integrates directly with Cisco hardware, providing a unified platform for network operations, visibility, and policy enforcement within your existing IT infrastructure.
- Enhanced Security: Implement advanced threat detection and mitigation policies across your network.
- Network Analytics: Gain deep insights into network traffic patterns, user behavior, and application performance.
- Automation & Orchestration: Automate routine network tasks, provisioning, and configuration management.
- Centralized Management: Manage network policies and configurations from a single, unified platform.
- Software Updates: Receive continuous access to the latest software features, bug fixes, and security patches.
Empower your IT team with advanced network intelligence and control, delivering enterprise-grade capabilities without the enterprise overhead.
What This Enables
Enable Advanced Network Automation
Enable teams to automate routine network configurations, deployments, and policy enforcement across the Catalyst 9500 Series. Streamline operations and reduce the risk of manual configuration errors.
businesses with growing network complexity, IT teams managing multiple sites, organizations standardizing on Cisco infrastructure
Enhance Network Security Posture
Streamline the implementation of advanced security policies and threat detection mechanisms across the network. Automate responses to security events, protecting critical business data.
companies handling sensitive data, organizations with strict security compliance needs, businesses requiring granular network access control
Improve Network Visibility and Analytics
Automate the collection and analysis of network performance data to identify bottlenecks and optimize user experience. Enable proactive troubleshooting and capacity planning based on real-time insights.
businesses experiencing performance issues, organizations needing to understand application traffic, IT departments focused on service level agreements
Key Features
Cisco DNA Center Integration
Centralize network management, policy enforcement, and troubleshooting from a single console.
Advanced Security Features
Implement granular security policies, threat intelligence, and automated threat mitigation.
Network Analytics and Telemetry
Gain deep insights into network performance, user behavior, and application usage for better decision-making.
Software Subscription Model
Ensure continuous access to the latest software updates, features, and support for the duration of the term.
Automation Capabilities
Reduce operational overhead and minimize human error by automating routine network tasks.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Requires robust security, high availability, and compliance with stringent financial regulations like PCI DSS and SOX, which DNA Advantage features help address.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Needs secure, reliable network infrastructure to protect sensitive patient data (HIPAA compliance) and ensure continuous operation of critical medical systems.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Benefits from network automation and visibility to manage complex operational technology (OT) environments, ensuring uptime and efficiency in production.
Retail & Hospitality
Requires secure and scalable networks to manage point-of-sale systems, guest Wi-Fi, and inventory management, with a need for efficient deployment and management.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco DNA Advantage?
Cisco DNA Advantage is a software subscription that unlocks advanced features for Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series switches. It provides enhanced security, automation, and analytics capabilities to optimize network performance and management.
What hardware does this license apply to?
This specific license, E3N-C95006-A, is designed for the Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series switches, providing software enhancements for these platforms.
What is the benefit of a subscription license?
Subscription licenses ensure you always have access to the latest software features, security updates, and support. This model helps maintain compliance and keeps your network infrastructure current without large upfront capital expenditures for software.
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.