Cisco DNA Upgrade to Premier License
This Cisco DNA Premier license upgrade provides essential network management and security capabilities for your business network over a 5-year term.
- License Term: Enjoy 5 years of continuous access to advanced Cisco DNA features and support.
- Premier Features: Unlock enhanced network visibility, automation, and security policy enforcement.
- Compliance Assurance: Maintain up-to-date licensing to meet regulatory and operational standards.
- Operational Continuity: Ensure uninterrupted access to critical network management tools and vendor support.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Cisco DNA Premier license upgrade is a 5-year subscription that elevates your existing Cisco wireless controller (WLC) and network access point (AP) infrastructure to the Premier tier of Cisco's Digital Network Architecture. It unlocks advanced features for network management, automation, security, and analytics, ensuring your network operates at peak performance and compliance.
Designed for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations, this license is crucial for businesses that rely on a robust and secure wireless and wired network. It integrates with your existing Cisco hardware, providing a unified platform for managing network policies, troubleshooting issues, and gaining deeper insights into network behavior.
- Enhanced Network Visibility: Gain deep insights into network traffic, user behavior, and application performance.
- Automated Policy Enforcement: Streamline the deployment and management of network-wide security and access policies.
- Advanced Security Features: Benefit from integrated threat detection, mitigation, and compliance reporting.
- Simplified Network Management: Centralize control and monitoring of your Cisco wireless and wired network infrastructure.
- Future-Ready Capabilities: Access ongoing software updates and new features as Cisco evolves its DNA platform.
Secure and optimize your business network with Cisco DNA Premier licensing, offering enterprise-grade capabilities without the enterprise overhead for SMB and mid-market teams.
What This Enables
Unlock Advanced Network Automation
Enable teams to automate routine network configuration tasks and policy deployments across their Cisco infrastructure. Streamline operations and reduce the potential for human error in network management.
businesses with growing networks, organizations standardizing IT operations, companies managing distributed sites
Enhance Network Security Posture
Automate the enforcement of security policies and gain deeper visibility into network threats and user activity. Protect sensitive business data and ensure compliance with industry regulations.
companies handling sensitive data, organizations with remote workforces, businesses requiring regulatory compliance
Improve Network Performance and Reliability
Streamline network troubleshooting and gain proactive insights into potential performance bottlenecks. Ensure a stable and reliable network experience for employees and customers.
businesses dependent on network uptime, organizations with high-traffic wireless environments, companies optimizing user experience
Key Features
Cisco DNA Premier Software Tier
Access to the highest level of Cisco's network management, automation, and security features for your wireless and wired infrastructure.
5-Year Subscription Term
Provides long-term cost predictability and continuous access to software updates and support without frequent renewal cycles.
Network Analytics and Insights
Gain deeper understanding of network usage, application performance, and potential issues to optimize operations.
Automated Policy Deployment
Simplify and accelerate the rollout of network-wide policies, ensuring consistency and reducing manual effort.
Integrated Security Capabilities
Enhance threat detection, segmentation, and compliance reporting to protect your business network.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust security, strict compliance, and high network availability to protect sensitive data and ensure uninterrupted trading and customer service operations.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers need secure, reliable networks to manage patient data, support critical medical devices, and comply with HIPAA regulations, demanding advanced network visibility and control.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial environments rely on stable and secure networks for operational technology (OT) and IT convergence, requiring advanced automation and threat detection to maintain production uptime.
Education & Research
Educational institutions manage large, diverse user populations and require scalable, secure networks with advanced features to support research, learning, and administrative functions.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco DNA Premier?
Cisco DNA Premier is the highest software licensing tier for Cisco's Digital Network Architecture. It unlocks advanced features for network automation, security, analytics, and assurance, designed to simplify and enhance network management for businesses.
What does this upgrade cover?
This specific item is an upgrade license that moves your existing Cisco WLC and AP licenses to the DNA Premier tier for a 5-year subscription period. It enables advanced features on your current compatible Cisco hardware.
Who is this license for?
This license is intended for SMB and mid-market organizations that use Cisco networking equipment and require advanced capabilities for managing, securing, and automating their network infrastructure.
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.