Cisco DNA Premier C9500 Series Software Subscription
Cisco DNA Premier software subscription provides advanced network automation and security features for your C9500 series switches, ensuring optimal performance and compliance.
- Advanced Network Automation: Streamline network configuration, provisioning, and policy management across your infrastructure.
- Enhanced Security: Implement granular access controls and threat detection to protect your network from evolving cyber threats.
- Optimized Performance: Gain insights into network traffic and application performance to ensure a smooth user experience.
- Compliance Assurance: Maintain regulatory compliance with robust security policies and detailed network visibility.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Cisco DNA Premier subscription unlocks advanced software features for Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series switches, offering enhanced network automation, security, and analytics capabilities. It provides a unified platform for managing network policies, ensuring compliance, and improving operational efficiency.
Designed for IT Managers and IT Professionals in mid-market and enterprise environments, this subscription integrates with existing Cisco hardware to deliver intelligent network services. It supports businesses that rely on their network for critical operations and require sophisticated management tools without the overhead of traditional enterprise solutions.
- Network Automation: Automate repetitive tasks like device configuration, software updates, and policy deployment.
- Intelligent Network Insights: Gain deep visibility into network health, application performance, and user behavior.
- Advanced Security Features: Enforce security policies, segment networks, and detect threats in real-time.
- Centralized Management: Manage network-wide policies and configurations from a single pane of glass.
- Software Subscription Model: Benefit from continuous updates, new features, and predictable operational expenses.
Empower your IT team with intelligent network management and advanced security features through this Cisco DNA Premier subscription.
What This Enables
Enable Network Automation and Orchestration
Enable teams to automate complex network tasks, including device provisioning, configuration management, and policy deployment across the network. Streamline operations and reduce manual errors for greater efficiency.
organizations with distributed network infrastructure, teams managing multi-vendor network environments, businesses requiring rapid network changes, companies focused on operational efficiency
Enhance Network Security and Segmentation
Automate the enforcement of granular security policies and network segmentation to protect sensitive data and critical applications. Protect against unauthorized access and evolving cyber threats with advanced threat detection capabilities.
businesses handling sensitive customer data, organizations with strict compliance requirements, companies deploying IoT devices, environments requiring zero-trust network access
Gain Deep Network Visibility and Analytics
Streamline the collection and analysis of network telemetry data to gain deep insights into application performance and user experience. Identify and resolve network issues proactively before they impact business operations.
teams responsible for application performance, organizations needing to troubleshoot network bottlenecks, businesses focused on optimizing user experience, IT departments managing large-scale networks
Key Features
Cisco DNA Center Integration
Provides a centralized platform for network automation, policy enforcement, and analytics, simplifying management across your infrastructure.
Advanced Security Policies
Enables granular access control, network segmentation, and threat detection to protect your network and data.
Network Analytics and Telemetry
Offers deep insights into network health, application performance, and user behavior for proactive troubleshooting.
Software Subscription Model
Ensures access to the latest features, updates, and ongoing support, providing predictable operational expenses.
Automation of Provisioning and Configuration
Reduces manual effort and potential errors in deploying and managing network devices.
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 enhanced by Cisco DNA Premier's advanced security and automation features.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations need secure, reliable networks to protect sensitive patient data (HIPAA compliance) and ensure uninterrupted operations, benefiting from DNA Premier's security and network visibility.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial environments demand resilient and secure networks for operational technology (OT) and IT convergence, where DNA Premier's automation and segmentation capabilities can improve efficiency and security.
Education & Research
Educational institutions manage large, diverse user bases and require scalable, secure networks to support research, learning, and administrative functions, benefiting from DNA Premier's centralized management and policy control.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco DNA Premier?
Cisco DNA Premier is a software subscription that unlocks advanced features for Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series switches. It focuses on network automation, security, and analytics to improve network management and performance.
What hardware does this license apply to?
This specific license, C1A1TC95005-SMS1, is designed for the Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series 48Y4C switches.
What is the billing model for this subscription?
This is a subscription-based license, billed on a recurring basis, providing continuous access to software features and updates.
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.