Cisco IE 2000 DNA Essentials License
This 3-year Cisco DNA Essentials license unlocks advanced management and security features for your Cisco IE 2000 industrial switches, ensuring optimal network performance and compliance.
- License Term: Provides 3 years of access to Cisco DNA Essentials features for your IE 2000 switches.
- Feature Access: Unlocks enhanced security, network visibility, and management capabilities for industrial environments.
- Compliance Assurance: Helps maintain regulatory compliance and network integrity through updated software and security protocols.
- Operational Continuity: Ensures your industrial network infrastructure remains supported and up-to-date with the latest software releases.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Cisco IE 2000 DNA Essentials license is a subscription-based software entitlement designed to enhance the capabilities of your Cisco IE 2000 series industrial switches. It provides access to essential network management, security, and operational features, ensuring your industrial network infrastructure is secure, visible, and manageable.
This license is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in manufacturing, logistics, and other industrial sectors who need to maintain secure, reliable, and compliant network operations. It integrates with your existing Cisco IE 2000 hardware, providing a cost-effective way to upgrade network intelligence without a full hardware refresh.
- Enhanced Network Visibility: Gain deeper insights into network traffic and device status.
- Improved Security Posture: Implement essential security features to protect your industrial network.
- Simplified Management: Streamline network configuration and monitoring processes.
- Software Updates: Ensure access to the latest software releases and security patches.
- Subscription-Based: Predictable billing and continuous access to features for the license term.
This Cisco DNA Essentials license provides essential network intelligence and security for your industrial operations, offering enterprise-grade capabilities without the associated overhead.
What This Enables
Enable Advanced Network Security
Enable teams to implement essential security features and gain better visibility into network traffic. This helps protect critical industrial control systems from unauthorized access and cyber threats.
industrial control systems, operational technology networks, manufacturing environments, critical infrastructure
Streamline Network Management
Streamline the configuration and monitoring of your industrial network infrastructure. This allows IT professionals to efficiently manage device settings and troubleshoot issues remotely.
distributed industrial sites, remote asset management, multi-site operations, network operations centers
Automate Software Updates and Compliance
Automate access to necessary software updates and security patches for your Cisco IE 2000 switches. This ensures your network remains compliant with industry regulations and vendor support requirements.
regulated industries, compliance-driven environments, IT asset lifecycle management, operational efficiency
Key Features
Cisco DNA Essentials Software
Unlocks essential network management, security, and visibility features for Cisco IE 2000 switches.
3-Year Subscription Term
Provides continuous access to features and support for a defined period, ensuring predictable costs and operations.
Industrial Network Focus
Tailored for the demanding environments of industrial Ethernet switches, ensuring reliability and performance.
Enhanced Security Capabilities
Helps protect critical industrial assets and data from evolving cyber threats.
Simplified Network Operations
Aids in streamlining management tasks, reducing operational complexity for IT teams.
Industry Applications
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial Ethernet switches are critical for operational technology (OT) networks in manufacturing, requiring robust security and management features to ensure production uptime and data integrity.
Transportation & Logistics
These sectors often deploy industrial switches in harsh environments for tracking, monitoring, and control systems, necessitating reliable network performance and security.
Energy & Utilities
Critical infrastructure relies on secure and continuously available networks for SCADA and control systems, making advanced management and security features essential for compliance and operational resilience.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
While not always industrial, healthcare facilities may use ruggedized switches in labs or specialized areas, requiring secure and compliant network operations to protect sensitive patient data.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco DNA Essentials?
Cisco DNA Essentials is a software subscription that provides essential network management, security, and visibility features for Cisco industrial switches. It is designed to enhance the operational capabilities of your network infrastructure.
What hardware does this license apply to?
This license is specifically for the Cisco IE 2000 series industrial Ethernet switches. The MPN IE2000-DNA-E-M-3Y indicates it is for the IE 2000 platform.
What are the benefits of a subscription license?
Subscription licenses offer predictable costs, continuous access to the latest features and security updates, and simplified license management over the term of the subscription.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Low — self-service
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.