Cisco DNA Essentials Plus Cloud License for SD-WAN Branch Sites
This 3-year Cisco DNA Essentials Plus Cloud license provides advanced SD-WAN capabilities to enhance your branch site network performance and security.
- License Term: Enjoy 3 years of access to essential Cisco DNA features for your SD-WAN branch sites.
- Enhanced Connectivity: Unlock advanced routing, policy enforcement, and traffic optimization for improved network performance.
- Security Features: Benefit from integrated security capabilities to protect your branch network from threats.
- Cloud Management: Simplify network management and visibility through a centralized cloud-based platform.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Cisco DNA Essentials Plus Cloud License is a 3-year subscription that unlocks critical software features for Cisco SD-WAN solutions deployed at branch sites. It provides enhanced network visibility, policy automation, and security services, ensuring your branch operations run efficiently and securely.
This license is designed for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations who manage distributed networks. It integrates with Cisco SD-WAN hardware, enabling centralized control and management of branch connectivity, application performance, and security posture through a cloud portal.
- SD-WAN Capabilities: Enables advanced routing, traffic steering, and Quality of Service (QoS) for optimized application performance.
- Network Automation: Automates policy deployment and configuration changes across multiple branch sites, reducing manual effort.
- Security Integration: Provides essential security features like access control and threat visibility to protect branch endpoints.
- Cloud-Based Management: Offers a centralized console for monitoring network health, performance, and security status.
- Compliance and Support: Ensures your network remains compliant with software updates and provides access to Cisco's support resources.
Empower your IT team with essential SD-WAN features and cloud management for your branch network, ensuring reliability and security.
What This Enables
Enable Advanced SD-WAN Routing and Traffic Steering
Enable teams to dynamically steer application traffic across the most optimal network paths based on real-time conditions. Streamline the deployment of consistent network policies across all branch locations for improved application performance and user experience.
distributed offices, multi-site organizations, businesses with critical application performance needs
Automate Network Configuration and Policy Management
Automate the provisioning and management of network configurations and security policies across numerous branch sites. Streamline compliance efforts by ensuring consistent policy enforcement and reducing the risk of manual configuration errors.
organizations with growing branch footprints, businesses requiring standardized IT operations, teams managing remote infrastructure
Enhance Branch Network Security Posture
Enable teams to deploy and manage essential security features, such as access control and threat visibility, directly at the branch edge. Protect sensitive business data and ensure regulatory compliance by maintaining a secure network perimeter.
businesses with remote workers, companies handling sensitive data, organizations with strict security mandates
Key Features
Cisco SD-WAN Software Features
Unlock advanced routing, traffic optimization, and Quality of Service capabilities to ensure critical business applications perform optimally across your branch network.
Cloud-Based Management Platform
Gain centralized visibility and control over your entire branch network from a single, intuitive cloud portal, simplifying operations and reducing IT overhead.
Automated Policy Deployment
Reduce manual configuration effort and ensure consistency by automating the deployment of network and security policies across all your branch sites.
Integrated Security Services
Enhance your branch security posture with essential security features, protecting your network and data from evolving threats.
3-Year Subscription Term
Secure your network infrastructure with a predictable 3-year license term, ensuring continuous access to features and support.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Ensures secure and reliable connectivity for financial transactions and sensitive customer data, meeting stringent regulatory compliance requirements like PCI DSS and SOX.
Retail & Hospitality
Optimizes network performance for point-of-sale systems, inventory management, and customer-facing applications across multiple locations, enhancing operational efficiency.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Provides secure and compliant data transmission for patient records and medical devices, adhering to HIPAA regulations and ensuring high availability for critical healthcare services.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Supports the reliable operation of industrial control systems and IoT devices by providing stable, optimized network connectivity and enhanced security for operational technology environments.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco DNA Essentials Plus Cloud Licensing?
It is a 3-year subscription license that provides essential software features for Cisco's SD-WAN solutions, enabling enhanced management, security, and performance for branch sites through a cloud-based platform.
What type of hardware does this license apply to?
This license is designed for Cisco SD-WAN branch site deployments, typically applied to Cisco routers and network devices configured for SD-WAN functionality.
What is the primary benefit of using this cloud license?
The primary benefit is simplified, automated, and secure management of your branch network from a centralized cloud platform, reducing operational complexity and costs for SMB and mid-market organizations.
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.