Cisco DNA Premier Software Subscription for Catalyst 3850 Series
This Cisco DNA Premier software subscription provides advanced network automation and security capabilities for your Cisco Catalyst 3850 series switches, ensuring optimal performance and compliance.
- Access to Advanced Features: Unlock intelligent network automation, enhanced security policies, and granular visibility across your wired and wireless infrastructure.
- Subscription Term: Benefit from continuous access to the latest software updates, security patches, and feature enhancements for the duration of your subscription.
- Compliance Assurance: Maintain regulatory compliance and reduce risk with up-to-date security protocols and network management tools.
- Operational Efficiency: Streamline network operations, reduce manual configuration, and improve troubleshooting with centralized management and analytics.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Cisco DNA Premier software subscription is designed to enhance the capabilities of your Cisco Catalyst 3850 Series switches. It provides a comprehensive suite of features focused on network automation, security, and analytics, enabling a more intelligent and responsive network infrastructure.
This subscription is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations who need to manage complex network environments efficiently. It integrates with existing Cisco hardware, providing a unified platform for network control and visibility within their data centers or campus networks.
- Intelligent Network Automation: Automate repetitive tasks like provisioning, configuration, and policy enforcement across your network.
- Enhanced Security: Implement granular security policies, detect threats, and enforce compliance with integrated security features.
- Network Analytics: Gain deep insights into network performance, user behavior, and application usage for proactive issue resolution.
- Centralized Management: Simplify network management through a single pane of glass for both wired and wireless devices.
- Continuous Updates: Receive regular software updates, security patches, and new feature releases to keep your network current and protected.
Empower your IT team with enterprise-grade network intelligence and automation, tailored for the operational needs of growing businesses.
What This Enables
Enable Network Automation and Orchestration
Enable teams to automate network provisioning, configuration, and policy deployment across wired and wireless access points. Streamline network operations and reduce manual errors through centralized orchestration.
businesses with distributed network infrastructure, organizations standardizing on Cisco hardware, teams managing multi-site deployments
Enhance Network Security Posture
Automate the enforcement of security policies and segmentation across the network to protect against evolving threats. Gain visibility into user and device behavior to detect and respond to potential security incidents.
organizations with strict compliance requirements, businesses handling sensitive data, companies seeking proactive threat mitigation
Improve Network Performance Monitoring
Streamline the process of monitoring network health and application performance with advanced analytics and reporting tools. Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks proactively to ensure a positive user experience.
businesses reliant on critical applications, teams managing high-traffic networks, organizations focused on service level agreements
Key Features
Cisco DNA Center Integration
Provides a centralized platform for network automation, policy enforcement, and analytics, simplifying management.
Software-Defined Access (SDA)
Enables network segmentation and policy-based automation for enhanced security and agility.
Advanced Threat Detection
Offers integrated security analytics to identify and mitigate threats in real-time.
Network Assurance Engine
Delivers predictive analytics and insights to proactively identify and resolve network issues.
Subscription Licensing
Ensures continuous access to the latest software features, updates, and security patches.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
This sector requires robust security, strict compliance, and high network availability to protect sensitive financial data and ensure uninterrupted trading or client services.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations need secure, reliable networks to manage patient data (HIPAA compliance) and critical medical devices, demanding advanced visibility and control.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial environments benefit from network automation and security to manage complex operational technology (OT) and IT convergence, ensuring production uptime and data integrity.
Legal & Professional Services
These firms handle confidential client information and require secure, compliant networks with reliable performance to support critical business operations and client communication.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco DNA Premier?
Cisco DNA Premier is a software subscription that unlocks advanced features for network automation, security, and analytics on Cisco Catalyst 3850 Series switches. It provides a comprehensive suite of tools to manage and optimize your network.
What hardware does this license apply to?
This specific license, E2N-C38503-C-P, is designed for the Cisco Catalyst 3850 Series switches.
What is the billing model?
This is a subscription-based billing model, meaning you pay periodically (e.g., annually) for the use of the software and its features.
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.