Cisco Network and DNA Advantage Upgrade License (5 Year)
This 5-year Cisco Network and DNA Advantage upgrade license unlocks advanced features and capabilities for your Cisco Catalyst 9300L series switches, ensuring enhanced network performance and security.
- License Term: Enjoy 5 years of continuous access to advanced network and DNA features, ensuring your infrastructure remains up-to-date.
- Feature Entitlement: Gain access to enhanced security, automation, and analytics capabilities provided by Cisco DNA Advantage.
- Platform Compatibility: Specifically designed to upgrade Cisco Catalyst 9300L series switches, ensuring seamless integration.
- Compliance and Operation: Maintain network compliance and ensure uninterrupted, optimized operations with up-to-date software features.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Cisco 24-port Network and DNA Essentials to Network and DNA Advantage upgrade license provides a 5-year subscription, enabling advanced functionalities for your Cisco Catalyst 9300L series switches. It transforms your network infrastructure by unlocking sophisticated security, automation, and analytics features essential for modern business operations.
This license is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations who are looking to enhance their existing Cisco network deployments. It fits into environments where network visibility, policy enforcement, and threat mitigation are critical, allowing for more intelligent and automated network management without the overhead of enterprise-level infrastructure.
- Unlock Advanced Features: Access Cisco DNA Advantage capabilities, including enhanced security policies, network segmentation, and advanced threat detection.
- Automate Network Operations: Streamline provisioning, configuration, and management tasks through software-defined networking principles.
- Improve Network Visibility: Gain deeper insights into network traffic, user behavior, and application performance for better troubleshooting and planning.
- Ensure Compliance: Maintain adherence to security standards and regulatory requirements with continuously updated software features.
- Subscription-Based Access: Benefit from a predictable 5-year subscription model, ensuring ongoing access to the latest software updates and support.
Empower your business with enterprise-grade network intelligence and automation through this Cisco DNA Advantage upgrade, tailored for SMB and mid-market agility.
What This Enables
Enable Advanced Network Automation
Enable teams to automate network provisioning, configuration, and policy enforcement across their infrastructure. Streamline day-to-day operations and reduce manual intervention, freeing up IT resources for strategic initiatives.
wired networks, wireless networks, campus environments, branch offices
Enhance Network Security Posture
Automate the deployment of advanced security policies and threat detection mechanisms across the network. Protect sensitive business data and ensure compliance with industry regulations through proactive security measures.
segmentation policies, access control lists, threat mitigation, compliance reporting
Improve Network Visibility and Analytics
Streamline the collection and analysis of network performance data, user activity, and application usage. Gain deeper insights to optimize network performance and identify potential issues before they impact business operations.
network monitoring, performance analytics, troubleshooting, capacity planning
Key Features
Cisco DNA Advantage Software Features
Unlock advanced capabilities for security, automation, and analytics, transforming network management and operational efficiency.
5-Year Subscription Term
Provides long-term access to software features and updates, ensuring your network remains current and secure for an extended period.
Upgrade Path for Catalyst 9300L Series
Seamlessly enhances the functionality of existing Cisco Catalyst 9300L switches, maximizing your current hardware investment.
Centralized Network Management
Enables simplified and consistent policy deployment and management across your network infrastructure.
Enhanced Security and Threat Detection
Improves your organization's security posture through advanced threat intelligence and automated security controls.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust security, compliance, and network segmentation to protect sensitive data and meet strict regulatory requirements like PCI DSS and SOX.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers need secure and reliable networks to manage patient data (HIPAA compliance) and ensure continuous availability of critical medical systems.
Retail & Hospitality
Retail and hospitality businesses benefit from network automation and segmentation to secure customer payment data (PCI DSS) and manage distributed locations efficiently.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial environments require secure and predictable network performance for operational technology (OT) systems, with advanced visibility to monitor and manage complex production networks.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between Network Essentials and Network Advantage licenses?
Network Essentials provides foundational network capabilities, while Network Advantage unlocks advanced features like enhanced security, automation, and analytics, offering greater control and visibility.
What hardware is compatible with this license?
This license is specifically designed as an upgrade for Cisco Catalyst 9300L series switches.
What does the 5-year term entail?
The 5-year term provides continuous access to the licensed software features, including software updates and security patches from Cisco, for the duration 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.