Cisco DNA Center Platform License
This 3-year Cisco DNA Center platform license subscription unlocks advanced network automation and assurance capabilities for your business network.
- License Term: Provides access to Cisco DNA Center platform features for a continuous 3-year period.
- Feature Access: Unlocks critical network automation, policy enforcement, and assurance functionalities.
- Compliance Assurance: Ensures your network adheres to Cisco's licensing requirements and software updates.
- Operational Continuity: Guarantees continued access to essential network management tools and support.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This is a 3-year subscription license for the Cisco DNA Center platform, a foundational software solution for intent-based networking. It enables advanced capabilities for network automation, policy management, and assurance, ensuring your network operates efficiently and securely.
IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations utilize this license to gain centralized control over their network infrastructure. It integrates with Cisco hardware to provide a unified platform for managing complex network environments, from campus to branch.
- Network Automation: Streamline device provisioning, configuration, and software image management.
- Policy Enforcement: Define and enforce network-wide security and access policies consistently.
- Network Assurance: Gain deep visibility into network health, performance, and user experience.
- Security Integration: Enhance security posture through integrated threat detection and response.
- Centralized Management: Simplify network operations with a single pane of glass for all managed devices.
This Cisco DNA Center platform license is the ideal solution for businesses seeking to modernize their network management and gain enterprise-level control without the associated overhead.
What This Enables
Automate Network Deployments and Changes
Enable teams to rapidly deploy new network devices and implement configuration changes across the entire network infrastructure. Streamline operations by automating repetitive tasks, reducing manual errors and accelerating service delivery.
organizations with growing network footprints, businesses standardizing on Cisco hardware, teams managing distributed network sites
Enhance Network Visibility and Performance
Streamline network monitoring by providing deep insights into device health, application performance, and user experience. Automate the detection and diagnosis of network issues, enabling proactive resolution and minimizing downtime.
businesses reliant on network uptime, teams managing critical applications, organizations seeking to optimize network performance
Centralize Policy Management and Enforcement
Enable teams to define and enforce consistent security and access policies across wired and wireless networks from a single console. Automate policy updates to ensure compliance and adapt quickly to changing security requirements.
organizations with strict security mandates, businesses with diverse user access needs, teams managing hybrid network environments
Key Features
Centralized Network Management
Simplify the administration of your entire network infrastructure through a single, intuitive interface.
Intent-Based Networking Automation
Translate business intent into network configurations automatically, reducing manual effort and errors.
Network Assurance Engine
Proactively identify and resolve network issues with advanced analytics and AI-driven insights.
Policy Creation and Enforcement
Define and deploy consistent security and access policies across your network to enhance security posture.
Software Subscription Model
Access the latest features and updates with a predictable, recurring cost for 3 years.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
This sector requires robust security, high availability, and strict compliance with regulations like PCI DSS and SOX, all of which are supported by Cisco DNA Center's automation and assurance capabilities.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations need secure, reliable networks to manage sensitive patient data and critical medical devices, benefiting from DNA Center's segmentation, policy enforcement, and assurance features for HIPAA compliance.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial environments demand highly reliable and secure networks for operational technology (OT) and IT convergence, making DNA Center's automation and visibility crucial for managing complex, distributed sites.
Education & Research
Educational institutions manage large, diverse user populations and devices, requiring scalable network management, robust security policies, and efficient automation to support academic and administrative functions.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco DNA Center?
Cisco DNA Center is a network automation and assurance platform that simplifies the management of Cisco networks. It enables intent-based networking by allowing you to define what you want your network to do, and DNA Center translates that into network configurations.
What does this license enable?
This license subscription provides access to the core features of the Cisco DNA Center platform for three years. This includes capabilities for network automation, policy management, and network assurance, allowing for more efficient and secure network operations.
What hardware does this license apply to?
This license is for the Cisco DNA Center platform software itself. The platform is designed to manage and automate Cisco network devices such as switches, routers, and wireless controllers within your environment.
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.