Cisco DNA Essentials Cloud License, 30M Aggregation, 1M Term
Cisco DNA Essentials Cloud License provides essential network visibility and control for your business, with a 1-month subscription term for 30 million aggregated endpoints.
- Network Visibility: Gain deep insights into network traffic and device behavior to proactively identify issues.
- Policy Enforcement: Simplify and automate network access policies across your entire infrastructure.
- Security Enhancements: Improve your security posture with integrated threat detection and mitigation capabilities.
- Scalable Management: Efficiently manage a large number of network endpoints with cloud-based aggregation.
Product Overview
Product Overview
Cisco DNA Essentials Cloud License is a subscription-based software license that unlocks core network management and security features for your business infrastructure. It provides essential visibility, policy automation, and threat defense capabilities, aggregated for up to 30 million endpoints over a 1-month term.
This license is designed for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies who need to maintain a secure, compliant, and efficiently managed network. It integrates with Cisco's networking hardware to provide a centralized platform for network operations.
- Cloud-Based Management: Centralized control and monitoring through a cloud platform.
- Essential Network Features: Access to core capabilities for network visibility and policy.
- Security Integration: Basic security features to help protect your network.
- Endpoint Aggregation: Supports management of a large number of devices.
- Subscription Flexibility: Monthly billing provides agility for changing business needs.
This Cisco DNA Essentials Cloud License offers SMB and mid-market teams a cost-effective way to gain essential network control and security without enterprise-level complexity.
What This Enables
Enable Network Visibility and Control
Enable teams to gain deep insights into network traffic and device behavior, allowing for proactive identification and resolution of potential issues. Streamline the enforcement of network access policies across diverse endpoints and user groups.
businesses with distributed workforces, organizations managing BYOD policies, companies with IoT device deployments, networks requiring granular access control
Enhance Network Security Posture
Automate basic security threat detection and mitigation to protect your business network from common cyber threats. Improve compliance by ensuring network access aligns with organizational security standards and regulatory requirements.
companies operating in regulated industries, businesses handling sensitive customer data, organizations seeking to reduce security incident response time, environments with evolving threat landscapes
Simplify Network Policy Management
Streamline the deployment and management of network access policies through a centralized cloud platform. Reduce the operational overhead associated with configuring and maintaining security settings across numerous devices.
organizations undergoing digital transformation, businesses with rapid growth or scaling needs, teams managing hybrid cloud environments, companies standardizing on Cisco networking
Key Features
Cloud-based aggregation
Provides centralized management and visibility for a large number of endpoints from a single cloud console.
Network visibility tools
Enables IT teams to understand network traffic patterns and device status, aiding in troubleshooting and performance optimization.
Policy automation
Simplifies the creation and enforcement of network access policies, reducing manual configuration errors and improving security.
Subscription billing
Offers financial flexibility with monthly billing, allowing businesses to scale their licensing needs as required.
Security features
Includes essential security capabilities to help protect the network against basic threats and unauthorized access.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
This sector requires stringent security and compliance, which Cisco DNA Essentials helps address through enhanced network visibility and policy enforcement to protect sensitive financial data.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must maintain high levels of data security and network uptime, making the visibility and control offered by DNA Essentials crucial for protecting patient information and critical systems.
Retail & Hospitality
These industries often manage large networks with many connected devices, including point-of-sale systems and guest Wi-Fi, benefiting from simplified management and security provided by DNA Essentials.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial environments are increasingly reliant on connected devices and networks, requiring robust security and management capabilities to ensure operational continuity and protect sensitive production data.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco DNA Essentials?
Cisco DNA Essentials is a software subscription that provides core network management, visibility, and security capabilities. It is designed to simplify network operations for businesses.
What does '30M Agg' mean?
'30M Agg' refers to the aggregation capacity of the license, supporting up to 30 million endpoints within the managed network environment.
What is the license term?
This specific license has a 1-month term, indicated by '1M', providing flexibility for short-term needs or testing.
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.