Cisco DNA Center Operated and Managed Service
This Cisco DNA Center Operated and Managed Service provides centralized network visibility and control, ensuring your business network operates efficiently and securely.
- Centralized Management: Gain a single pane of glass for network-wide visibility, policy enforcement, and troubleshooting.
- Automated Operations: Streamline network provisioning, configuration, and updates to reduce manual effort and errors.
- Enhanced Security: Implement consistent security policies across your network to protect against threats.
- Performance Optimization: Proactively identify and resolve network issues to ensure optimal application performance.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Cisco DNA Center Operated and Managed Service is a subscription-based software license that unlocks advanced network automation and management capabilities for your Cisco infrastructure. It provides a centralized platform for network design, provisioning, policy creation, and assurance, enabling IT teams to manage complex networks with greater efficiency and insight.
This service is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations who are responsible for maintaining and optimizing their Cisco network environments. It integrates with your existing Cisco hardware, offering a unified approach to network operations, security, and performance monitoring.
- Unified Network View: Consolidate network monitoring and management into a single interface.
- Automated Workflows: Accelerate network deployments and changes through intelligent automation.
- Policy-Based Assurance: Define and enforce network policies consistently across all devices.
- Proactive Issue Resolution: Utilize AI-driven insights to detect and resolve network problems before they impact users.
- Simplified Compliance: Maintain network compliance through standardized configurations and audit trails.
Empower your IT team with enterprise-grade network management without the enterprise overhead, ensuring your business network is always optimized and secure.
What This Enables
Enable Centralized Network Automation
Enable teams to automate network provisioning, configuration, and policy deployment across the entire infrastructure. Streamline complex network changes and reduce the risk of manual errors.
organizations with distributed network sites, businesses standardizing on Cisco hardware, teams managing multi-vendor network environments
Enhance Network Security Posture
Automate the enforcement of security policies and segmentation across the network. Protect sensitive data and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements through consistent security controls.
businesses handling sensitive customer data, organizations with remote or hybrid workforces, companies subject to compliance audits
Improve Network Visibility and Assurance
Gain deep insights into network performance and user experience with AI-driven analytics. Proactively identify and resolve network issues before they impact business operations.
companies reliant on critical applications, organizations experiencing performance degradation, teams facing alert fatigue
Key Features
Centralized Network Management
Provides a single pane of glass for monitoring, configuring, and troubleshooting the entire network, reducing complexity and improving efficiency.
Network Automation
Automates repetitive tasks like device provisioning and software updates, saving IT time and minimizing human error.
Policy-Based Control
Enables consistent application of security and access policies across the network, enhancing security and compliance.
Network Assurance Engine
Offers AI-driven insights for proactive issue detection and resolution, ensuring optimal network performance and user experience.
Software Subscription Licensing
Provides access to the latest features and ongoing support through a flexible, predictable subscription model.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust security, high availability, and strict compliance with regulations like PCI DSS and SOX, all of which are enhanced by centralized network management and policy enforcement.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must maintain HIPAA compliance and ensure the continuous operation of critical systems, making network visibility, security, and reliable performance paramount.
Retail & Hospitality
These sectors rely on stable and secure networks for point-of-sale systems, guest Wi-Fi, and inventory management, benefiting from automated provisioning and consistent policy application across distributed locations.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial environments often involve complex, distributed networks supporting operational technology (OT) and IT systems, requiring centralized management for security, reliability, and efficient operations.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco DNA Center?
Cisco DNA Center is a network controller and analytics platform that allows you to manage your Cisco network infrastructure from a single dashboard. It enables automation, policy enforcement, and assurance.
What does 'Operated and Managed' mean in this context?
It signifies that this license provides the software capabilities for operating and managing your network via Cisco DNA Center. Zent Networks can provide professional services to assist with the deployment and ongoing management of this platform.
What type of network devices does Cisco DNA Center support?
Cisco DNA Center primarily supports Cisco enterprise networking hardware, including switches, routers, wireless controllers, and access points, depending on the specific software version and feature set.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
High — engineer-led
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.