Cisco DNA Center Switching Core License 5-Year Subscription
This 5-year Cisco DNA Center Switching Core license subscription provides essential capabilities for managing and automating your enterprise network infrastructure.
- License Term: Enjoy 5 years of continuous access to advanced Cisco DNA Center features for your switching environment.
- Billing Model: Benefit from a predictable subscription-based billing structure for easier budget management.
- Platform Focus: Specifically designed to enhance the management and automation of Cisco Catalyst switching platforms.
- Value Proposition: Ensures compliance, unlocks critical features, and supports the ongoing operation of your core network.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This is a 5-year subscription license for Cisco DNA Center, specifically for the Switching Core functionality. It unlocks advanced capabilities for network automation, policy enforcement, and assurance within your Cisco switching environment, ensuring your network operates efficiently and securely.
Ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations, this license integrates directly with Cisco Catalyst switches. It provides the necessary software entitlements to manage your network's core switching infrastructure, supporting day-to-day operations and strategic network evolution.
- Automated Network Management: Streamline the configuration and deployment of your Cisco switching infrastructure.
- Enhanced Network Assurance: Gain deep visibility into network health and performance to proactively identify and resolve issues.
- Policy-Based Automation: Implement and enforce network policies consistently across your switching environment.
- Software Compliance: Maintain up-to-date licensing for critical network management software.
- Scalable Operations: Support network growth and changes with flexible, subscription-based licensing.
This Cisco DNA Center license is the right choice for SMB and mid-market teams seeking to modernize their network management with enterprise-grade automation and visibility.
What This Enables
Enable Network Automation and Orchestration
Enable teams to automate repetitive tasks such as device provisioning, configuration updates, and policy deployment across their Cisco switching infrastructure. Streamline network operations and reduce the potential for human error.
organizations with growing networks, teams managing multiple sites, businesses standardizing on Cisco hardware, environments requiring rapid deployment
Enhance Network Visibility and Assurance
Streamline the monitoring of network health, performance, and client experience through centralized dashboards and analytics. Automate the detection of issues and gain insights for proactive troubleshooting and capacity planning.
businesses prioritizing uptime, IT departments facing alert fatigue, companies with distributed workforces, networks requiring performance optimization
Implement and Enforce Network Policies
Automate the consistent application and enforcement of security and access policies across the switching fabric. Ensure compliance with internal standards and regulatory requirements through centralized policy management.
organizations with security mandates, businesses undergoing compliance audits, companies with segmented networks, environments needing granular access control
Key Features
Cisco DNA Center Platform License
Provides the foundational software entitlement for advanced network management and automation capabilities.
Switching Core Functionality
Unlocks specific features and integrations designed for managing Cisco Catalyst switching platforms.
5-Year Subscription Term
Guarantees access to features and updates for an extended period, simplifying long-term planning and budgeting.
Subscription Billing
Offers a predictable operational expense model, making it easier to manage IT budgets.
Network Assurance and Analytics
Delivers deep insights into network health and performance, enabling proactive issue resolution and optimization.
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 advanced network management and policy enforcement.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations need secure, reliable, and compliant networks to manage sensitive patient data (HIPAA) and critical medical devices, benefiting from centralized control and assurance.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial environments often involve complex, distributed networks supporting operational technology (OT) and IT convergence, requiring automation and visibility for efficiency and uptime.
Education & Research
Educational institutions manage large, diverse networks with many users and devices, benefiting from automated provisioning, policy enforcement for security, and efficient resource management.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco DNA Center?
Cisco DNA Center is a network controller and management platform that provides a centralized point of control for Cisco's intent-based networking solutions. It enables automation, assurance, and policy enforcement across your network.
What does 'Switching Core' refer to?
Switching Core refers to the essential software features and capabilities within Cisco DNA Center that are specifically designed for managing and automating your Cisco Catalyst switching infrastructure.
What is the benefit of a subscription license?
Subscription licenses offer flexibility and predictable costs. They provide continuous access to the latest software features and updates for the duration of the subscription, ensuring your network management tools remain current and effective.
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.