Cisco IE 3500 DNA Essentials License
The Cisco IE 3500 DNA Essentials license provides essential network management and security features for your industrial switches over a 5-year term.
- License Term: 5-year subscription ensuring continuous access to features and support.
- Feature Access: Unlocks essential network automation, security, and visibility capabilities.
- Platform Support: Specifically designed for the Cisco IE 3500 series industrial Ethernet switches.
- Compliance & Security: Helps maintain network integrity and meet operational technology security requirements.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This is a 5-year term subscription license for Cisco DNA Essentials, specifically for the Cisco IE 3500 series industrial Ethernet switches. It provides access to foundational network automation, security, and visibility features, ensuring your operational technology (OT) network is managed efficiently and securely.
IT Managers and IT Professionals in manufacturing, logistics, and other industrial environments use this license to gain essential control over their Cisco IE 3500 switches. It integrates with their existing IT infrastructure, enabling consistent policy enforcement and simplified management of distributed industrial network devices.
- Network Automation: Automate device provisioning and configuration for faster deployments.
- Security Features: Enhance network security with access control and threat detection capabilities.
- Visibility and Analytics: Gain insights into network performance and device health.
- Centralized Management: Simplify management of multiple switches through a unified platform.
- Subscription Term: Provides a predictable cost model with 5 years of continuous access.
This Cisco DNA Essentials license is ideal for SMB and mid-market organizations seeking to modernize their industrial network management with essential automation and security.
What This Enables
Enable Network Automation and Provisioning
Enable teams to automate the deployment and configuration of Cisco IE 3500 switches across multiple industrial sites. Streamline network setup and reduce the time required for new device integration.
organizations with distributed industrial sites, teams managing operational technology networks, businesses requiring rapid device deployment, environments with limited IT staff.
Enhance Industrial Network Security Posture
Automate security policy enforcement and gain visibility into network traffic on Cisco IE 3500 switches. Protect critical operational technology systems from unauthorized access and potential threats.
companies with strict security mandates, businesses operating in regulated industries, environments with sensitive data, organizations prioritizing OT cybersecurity.
Improve Network Visibility and Troubleshooting
Streamline the monitoring of network health and performance for Cisco IE 3500 industrial switches. Enable faster identification and resolution of network issues, minimizing operational downtime.
teams responsible for network uptime, businesses with complex industrial networks, organizations seeking proactive network management, IT departments focused on operational efficiency.
Key Features
Cisco DNA Essentials Software
Provides essential network automation, security, and visibility features for industrial environments.
5-Year Term License
Ensures continuous access to software capabilities and support for a predictable period, simplifying budget management.
Cisco IE 3500 Series Support
Specifically tailored for the IE 3500 industrial Ethernet switches, ensuring optimal performance and compatibility.
Network Automation Capabilities
Reduces manual configuration effort, speeds up deployments, and minimizes human error in network setup.
Enhanced Security Features
Helps protect operational technology networks by enabling better access control and threat detection.
Industry Applications
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial Ethernet switches are critical for connecting machinery and control systems on the factory floor, requiring robust and secure network management solutions like DNA Essentials.
Transportation & Logistics
Logistics operations rely on reliable network connectivity in warehouses and distribution centers, where industrial switches manage tracking systems and operational data.
Energy & Utilities
This sector often deploys industrial switches in harsh environments to manage critical infrastructure, demanding high availability and secure network operations.
Retail & Hospitality
While less common, some retail and hospitality environments use industrial switches for specific operational needs, such as in kitchens or back-of-house systems, requiring simplified management.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco DNA Essentials?
Cisco DNA Essentials is a software subscription that provides foundational network automation, security, and visibility features for Cisco networking hardware, including industrial switches like the IE 3500 series.
What does the 5-year term license mean?
A 5-year term license means you have the right to use the Cisco DNA Essentials software and its features for your IE 3500 switches for a continuous period of five years from the activation date. This includes access to software updates and support during that term.
Who is the target user for this license?
This license is intended for businesses, such as manufacturers, logistics companies, or any organization with industrial operations, that use Cisco IE 3500 switches and need to manage their network efficiently and securely. It is for the end-user business, not for IT service providers.
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.