Cisco DNA Advantage 7 Year License
This 7-year Cisco DNA Advantage license provides advanced network automation, security, and analytics capabilities for your business network infrastructure.
- License Term: Enjoy 7 years of continuous access to advanced Cisco DNA features and software updates.
- Advanced Features: Unlock enhanced network visibility, policy automation, and threat detection capabilities.
- Compliance Assurance: Maintain up-to-date software and security patches, crucial for regulatory adherence.
- Operational Efficiency: Streamline network management tasks and reduce manual configuration efforts.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Cisco DNA Advantage 7 Year License is a subscription-based software license that unlocks a suite of advanced features for Cisco networking hardware. It provides enhanced capabilities for network automation, security, assurance, and analytics, ensuring your network operates efficiently and securely over an extended period.
This license is designed for IT Managers and IT Professionals within SMB and mid-market organizations who are responsible for managing and optimizing their company's network infrastructure. It integrates with Cisco Catalyst switches and wireless controllers, providing a centralized platform for network management and policy enforcement.
- Automated Network Provisioning: Simplify the deployment and configuration of network devices.
- Advanced Security Policies: Implement granular security controls and segmentation across the network.
- Network Analytics and Assurance: Gain deep insights into network performance and user experience.
- Centralized Management: Manage network policies and configurations from a single interface.
- Software Updates and Support: Receive ongoing software updates and access to Cisco technical support.
This 7-year license offers a cost-effective and predictable way for businesses to access cutting-edge network management features.
What This Enables
Enable Advanced Network Automation
Enable teams to automate the provisioning and configuration of network devices, reducing manual errors and deployment times. Streamline policy enforcement across wired and wireless networks to ensure consistent security and access controls.
organizations with distributed network infrastructure, businesses deploying new sites, teams managing multi-vendor network environments
Enhance Network Security Posture
Automate the implementation of granular security policies and network segmentation to isolate critical assets and limit the blast radius of potential threats. Gain real-time visibility into network traffic and user behavior to detect and respond to security incidents faster.
businesses handling sensitive data, organizations with strict compliance requirements, companies implementing zero-trust security models
Improve Network Performance and Reliability
Streamline network operations by leveraging advanced analytics to proactively identify and resolve performance bottlenecks. Ensure high availability and optimal user experience through intelligent network assurance and troubleshooting tools.
companies reliant on network uptime, businesses experiencing performance issues, organizations seeking to optimize resource utilization
Key Features
Cisco DNA Center Automation
Reduces manual configuration effort and speeds up network deployments.
Stealthwatch Security Analytics
Provides deep visibility into network traffic to detect threats and anomalies.
Network Assurance Engine
Offers proactive monitoring and troubleshooting for improved network reliability.
Policy-based Segmentation
Enforces granular security policies to protect critical assets.
7-Year Subscription Term
Ensures long-term access to features and predictable budgeting.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
This sector requires robust security and compliance, which Cisco DNA Advantage's advanced security policies and assurance capabilities help to meet, ensuring data integrity and regulatory adherence.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations need highly available and secure networks to protect sensitive patient data (PHI) and ensure continuous operations, supported by DNA Advantage's reliability and security features.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial environments benefit from network automation and segmentation to secure operational technology (OT) networks and ensure the uptime critical for production lines.
Education & Research
Educational institutions manage large, diverse user bases and require scalable, secure network solutions that can be efficiently managed and automated to support academic and administrative functions.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco DNA Advantage?
Cisco DNA Advantage is a software subscription that unlocks advanced features for network automation, security, assurance, and analytics on Cisco networking hardware. It is designed to simplify network management and improve operational efficiency.
What hardware does this license apply to?
This license is typically applied to Cisco Catalyst 9000 series switches and Cisco wireless controllers. Specific compatibility should be verified based on your existing hardware model.
What is the difference between DNA Essentials and DNA Advantage?
DNA Essentials provides foundational capabilities for network management and basic automation. DNA Advantage builds upon Essentials by adding advanced features like security analytics, network assurance, and more sophisticated automation tools.
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.