Cisco DNA Spaces Data Sheet
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Cisco DNA Spaces uses your existing Wi-Fi infrastructure to digitize physical spaces including people (visitors, guests, employees) and things (assets, sensors, smart devices)
Digitization has shaken the foundation of every industry, changing the economics and reinventing business models. Companies that digitize use behavioral data about people and things for making business decisions and as a strategic advantage against competitors.
However, when it comes to physical spaces, enterprises experience a data blind spot. There is limited visibility into the behavior of people (visitors, guests, employees) and things (sensors, smart devices, assets) and how people and things interact in a given space.
What if your Cisco® wireless network could deliver more than connectivity and eliminate the data blind spot in your physical spaces?
We’re introducing Cisco DNA Spaces—a powerful, end-to-end, indoor location services cloud platform that provides wireless customers with rich location-based services, including location analytics, business insight, customer experience management, asset tracking, and cloud APIs.
It provides a single point of entry for all location technology and intelligence through a single dashboard interface. Cisco DNA Spaces delivers the industry's most scalable location-based services platform, all while being compatible across existing Cisco Aironet®, Cisco Catalyst®, and Cisco Meraki® infrastructure, as well as select Cisco Collaboration endpoints and support for a wide degree of deployment options.
Table 1. Cisco DNA Spaces features and benefits
| Feature |
Benefit |
| Behavior metrics |
Understand how people and assets behave inside your property and compare performance with your industry and organization. |
| Impact analysis |
Measure impact of events and layout changes on location behavior. |
| Location analytics |
Understand behavior of people and assets and create customized views and reports based on business criteria. |
| Location hierarchy |
Map business taxonomy to network infrastructure for intuitive use by line of business users |
| Right now with density rules |
Understand how many visitors are currently in your space and trigger notifications when density or device count limits are met. |
| Meraki video camera metrics |
Report count of footfall and trends as a measure of real-time visitor count, with Meraki Video |
| Location personas |
Profile and segment visitors based on at-location behavior. |
| Captive portal |
Acquire and identify visitors and map them to your enterprise identity. |
| Engagements |
Triggerrigger notifications to visitors and employees through multiple channels (SMS, email, app push, API trigger, Cisco Webex Teams™, etc.). |
| Asset locator |
Identify and monitor assets, monitor and detect anomalies, optimize operations and response times through alerts, and integrate with enterprise systems. |
| Proximity reporting |
Get insights into device’s potential exposure at a location and in proximity to other devices within vicinity |
| Indoor IoT services |
Enable multiple devices, apps, and use cases through onboarding, management, and monitoring and support |
| Partner App Center |
Access a world of partner =applications specific to your industry. |
| Firehose API |
Benefit from a cloud-based, high performance, low latency API |
| Enterprise integrations |
Integrate with enterprise software (such as CRM) to supplement applications with location data. |
| Cisco integrations |
Integrate with Cisco collaboration and Meraki products to enhance location services |
| Partner dashboard |
Create new applications to ingest streaming data from dashboard to enable specific use cases |
| Detect and locate (Advanced) |
Search and display location of devices based on MAC or IP address, with detailed device location history |
Cisco DNA Spaces unified location cloud takes input from multiple sensors and processes, filters and cleanses the data, provides toolkits to act on this data and also makes this data accessible to partners - Independent Software vendors, enterprise software as well as solution partners for delivering business outcomes.
Table 2. Additional benefits
| See Business insights |
Extend To partner services |
Act On digitization toolkits |
| Behavior metrics How are people and assets behaving in my property? |
Partner App Center Discover vertically focused, location- \based services applications through the Cisco DNA Spaces App Center |
Captive portal Acquire and identify visitors and map to enterprise identity |
| Location analytics What are behavior patterns in specific locations and time periods? |
Partner Firehose API Deliver reliable, high quality location, environmental, and visitor data to partners, with strong enforcement of user privacy and data security |
Location personas Profile and segment visitors based on behavior |
| Benchmarks Compare performance with industries and organizations |
Partner App monitoring End-to-end monitoring of location data from the premise the partner app Monitoring and support for Partner Apps via the Monitoring and Support dashboard |
Engagements Trigger notifications to visitors and employees via multiple channels (SMS, email, app push, API trigger, Webex® Teams, etc.) |
| OpenRoaming Secure, seamless guest onboarding onto WiFi networks |
Specialized RTLS app support Support for specialized partner RTLS applications using cloud and on-premise Firehose APIs |
Hyperlocation Works with Cisco DNA Spaces Connector |
| Right-now metrics What is happening at my property right now? |
Streaming data export Customizable streaming export optimized to support ingestion into Big Data, Analytics, and Enterprise Applications |
Operational insights 1. Identify and monitor assets, detect anomalies, and trigger alerts |
| Location hierarchy Map business taxonomy to network infrastructure |
Includes everything in Cisco DNA Spaces See |
Detect and Locate (Advanced) 1. Cloud based Detect and Locate and RSSI location compute with device location history 2. On -premise Detect and Locate with hyperlocation support using CMX 10 on-premises* |
| Detect and Locate (RSSI) Cloud based Detect and Locate and RSSI location compute On-premises Detect and Locate and RSSI location compute using CMX 10 Integration with Cisco applications like Cisco DNA Center and Cisco Prime* |
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Right now with density triggers Monitor the number of people in your spaces and send notifications when density thresholds are reached or exceeded |
| Right now (w/o density triggers) Monitor the number of people and devices in your spaces |
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Proximity reporting Summarize impact of a health incident across zones, floors, buildings, and potential interactions with other people Indoor IoT Services Deploy IoT devices and applications at scale and at significantly lower TCO. Deploy a broad spectrum of BLE tags, beacons, and other sensors to expand use cases |
| Impact Analysis Measure the impact of events, campaigns, or layout changes on location behavior |
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Includes everything in Cisco DNA Spaces Extend |
Platform Architecture and features
Cisco DNA Spaces supports all Cisco wireless topologies with compatibility and interoperability across Cisco Aironet, Cisco Catalyst, and Cisco Meraki products and solutions (see Figure 2).
How to connect:
1. Use Cisco DNA Spaces Connector to connect to Cisco Aironet WLC 8.0 and Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series WLC 16.12.1 and above
2. Tether CMX on-prem 10.6 or later For some limited deployments you can directly connect Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series WLC 16.12.1 and above to Cisco DNA Spaces cloud
3. Directly connect via Cisco Meraki cloud to Cisco DNA Spaces cloud
4. When is CMX on premises required?
An on premises CMX server is only required in a deployment with exclusively Cisco Aironet 4800 Series or 3700 Series Access Points with a hyperlocation antenna
5. Integration with Cisco DNA Center or Prime Infrastructure: To provide location data to Cisco DNA Center or Prime Infrastructure, an on-premise Cisco CMX server is currently required
Compatible across All Network Infrastructure
Table 3. Feature compatibility depending on type of connection
| Feature |
Cisco DNA Spaces Connector |
WLC direct |
CMX on-prem |
Meraki |
| Calculation of device location |
Yes, cloud location |
Yes, cloud location |
Yes |
Done in Meraki cloud |
| Calculation of location for AP4800 using Hyperlocation |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
| OpenRoaming |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
| API monitoring |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| Partner App Center |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
Table 4. Feature compatibility depending on analytics type and on-premises requirements
| Feature |
License |
X/Y Location or Presence |
CMX on-prem. required |
| Cisco DNA Center integration |
See |
X/Y |
Yes |
| Prime Infrastructure integration |
See |
X/Y |
Yes |
| Behavior metrics |
See |
Presence |
No |
| OpenRoaming |
See |
Presence |
No |
| Location analytics (Floor level) |
See |
Presence |
No |
| Detect and locate (RSSI) (without history) |
See |
X/Y |
No |
| Partner stream |
Extend |
X/Y |
No |
| Location API/Webhook for 3rd party applications |
Extend |
X/Y |
No |
| Partner Firehose API |
Extend |
X/Y |
No |
| Location personas |
Act |
Presence or X/Y |
No |
| Operational insights |
Act |
X/Y |
No |
| Location Analytics (zone level) |
Act |
X/Y |
No |
| Captive portal |
Act |
Presence |
No |
| Engagement |
Act |
Presence or X/Y |
No |
| Hyperlocation |
Act |
X/Y |
No |
| Detect and locate (RSSI) (with history) |
Act |
X/Y |
No |
Table 5. Features included in Cisco DNA Spaces See, Extend, and Act
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Cisco DNA Spaces See license |
Cisco DNA Spaces Extend license |
Cisco DNA Spaces Act license |
| Behavior metrics |
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| Location analytics |
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| Meraki video camera metrics |
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| Detect and locate (RSSI) (without history) |
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| Location hierarchy |
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| Streaming data export |
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| Indoor IoT Services |
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Cisco DNA Spaces is licensed on a per-access-point basis for a 3-, 5-, or 7-year license terms.
Table 6. Cisco DNA Spaces Product IDs and descriptions
| Product ID (PID) |
Description |
| DNAS |
Cisco DNA Spaces top-level PID |
| DNAS-SEE |
Cisco DNA Spaces See: 3 - 5-, 7-year term |
| DNAS-EXT |
Cisco DNA Spaces Extend: 3-, 5-, 7-year term |
| DNAS-ACT |
Cisco DNA Spaces Act: 3-, 5-, 7-year term |
| SVS-DNAS-SUP |
Cisco DNA Spaces Subscription Support (included with Cisco DNA Spaces See, Extend, or Act subscription |
Cisco DNA Spaces licenses entitles the user to
1. CMX on premise
2. Support for CMX on premise
3. Cisco DNA Spaces Cloud Features
Customers can choose to only use some of the features, but they are entitled to all.
Cisco CMX 10 software can be installed on two platforms: the CMX 3375 hardware appliance and Cisco CMX Virtual Appliance (vMSE) to have location computation on-premises. If choosing virtual machine option, we recommend the specifications of your underlying physical host to match CMX 3375 Appliance in terms of compute, memory and SSD disk drive.
Table 7. Software components required on premises to connect to Cisco DNA Spaces
| Appliance |
RSSI |
Hyperlocation (includes FastLocate) |
Analytics |
Movement |
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Number of access points |
Number of Unique MACs tracked devices per Day |
Number of access points |
Number of unique MACs tracked devices per Day |
Number of zones |
Number of NMSP messages per second |
| CMX 3375 |
10,000 |
100,000 |
1000 |
10,000 |
1000 |
2500 |
| High-end virtual appliance |
10,000 |
90,000 |
1000 |
10,000 |
1000 |
2500 |
| Cisco DNA Spaces Connector Virtual Machine |
10,000 |
350,000 |
1000 |
N/A |
N/A |
10,000 |
For Cisco DNA Spaces Connector VM, all computation is done in the cloud.
For CMX 3375 and high end virtual appliance, location computation is done on premises. Cisco DNA Spaces connector VM configurations are offered in three sizes.
Table 8. Cisco DNA Spaces connector minimum system requirements
| Item |
Supported Requirements |
| vCPU |
2 / 4 / 8 |
| RAM |
4 / 8 / 16 GB |
| Hard Disk |
60 GB |
Cisco DNA Spaces supports all Cisco wireless topologies and is compatible across Cisco hardware (Aironet, Catalyst, Meraki). Email dnaspaces-sales@cisco.com for a demo.
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