Cisco DNA Center Perpetual Software License for Large Devices
This Cisco DNA Center perpetual software license provides essential network management capabilities for your large device infrastructure, ensuring ongoing operational efficiency and feature access.
- License Term: Perpetual access to Cisco DNA Center software features and updates.
- Billing Model: One-time perpetual license purchase with ongoing support subscription options.
- Platform Applicability: Designed for managing a significant number of large network devices within your environment.
- Key Value: Guarantees compliance, unlocks advanced automation, and ensures continuous network visibility and control.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This offering is a perpetual software license for Cisco DNA Center, designed to provide advanced network automation, assurance, and policy management capabilities. It unlocks the full feature set for managing large-scale network infrastructures, ensuring devices are configured, monitored, and troubleshot efficiently.
IT professionals and managers in mid-market to enterprise organizations utilize this license to gain granular control over their network operations. It integrates into existing network stacks, providing a centralized platform for device management, security policy enforcement, and performance analytics, crucial for maintaining business continuity.
- Advanced Network Automation: Automate repetitive tasks like provisioning, configuration, and software updates across your network.
- Network Assurance: Gain deep insights into network health and performance with AI-driven analytics and troubleshooting.
- Policy Management: Define and enforce network-wide policies consistently for security and compliance.
- Scalable Management: Effectively manage a large inventory of Cisco network devices from a single pane of glass.
- Perpetual Entitlement: Secure long-term access to the software's core functionalities without recurring subscription fees for the license itself.
This perpetual license empowers mid-market and enterprise IT teams to achieve greater network agility and operational efficiency without ongoing software subscription costs for the core license.
What This Enables
Enable Advanced Network Automation
Enable teams to automate device provisioning, configuration changes, and software updates across a large network. Streamline network operations and reduce manual errors, leading to increased efficiency and faster service delivery.
on-premises data centers, multi-site enterprise networks, campus networks, hybrid cloud environments
Enhance Network Assurance and Visibility
Streamline network monitoring and troubleshooting with AI-driven insights into performance and health. Automate the detection and resolution of network issues, minimizing downtime and improving user experience.
business-critical operations, high-availability environments, performance-sensitive applications, distributed IT infrastructure
Centralize Policy Management
Automate the enforcement of consistent security and compliance policies across all network devices. Ensure regulatory adherence and reduce the risk of misconfigurations by managing policies from a single platform.
regulated industries, security-conscious organizations, compliance-driven IT departments, large-scale device deployments
Key Features
Perpetual Software License
Provides long-term access to Cisco DNA Center's core features without recurring license subscription costs, offering significant cost predictability.
Network Automation Engine
Automates complex network tasks, reducing manual effort, minimizing errors, and accelerating deployment of network services.
AI-Powered Network Assurance
Delivers proactive insights into network health and performance, enabling faster issue resolution and improved user experience.
Centralized Policy Control
Ensures consistent application of security and compliance policies across the entire network infrastructure.
Large Device Management
Scales to effectively manage a substantial inventory of network devices, providing a unified view and control.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
This sector requires stringent security, compliance, and high availability for its network infrastructure, which Cisco DNA Center's automation and assurance capabilities directly support.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial environments often involve complex, distributed networks that benefit from centralized management, policy enforcement, and automation to ensure operational uptime and security.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must maintain strict data privacy and regulatory compliance (like HIPAA), making robust network security, policy control, and reliable operations essential.
Education & Research
Educational institutions manage large, diverse networks with many users and devices, requiring efficient automation and policy management to control access and ensure performance.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a perpetual software license?
A perpetual software license grants you the right to use the software indefinitely. While the license is perpetual, ongoing support and access to new software versions typically require a separate, renewable support contract.
What is Cisco DNA Center?
Cisco DNA Center is a network management and control platform that provides automation, assurance, and policy capabilities for Cisco networks. It simplifies network operations and enhances visibility.
Does this license include ongoing support?
The perpetual license itself provides the right to use the software indefinitely. Cisco's Smart Net Total Care or similar support contracts are typically purchased separately to ensure access to software updates, technical support, and hardware replacement.
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.