Cisco DNA Spaces Data Sheet
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Cisco DNA Spaces digitizes physical spaces to help customers learn more about people and things within their properties using existing Wi-Fi infrastructure.
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, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) management, 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 marketing platform, all while being compatible across existing Cisco Aironet®, Cisco Catalyst®, and Cisco Meraki® infrastructure, as well as select Cisco Collaboration endpoints, with flexible deployment options.
Table 1. Cisco DNA Spaces features and benefits
| Feature |
Benefit |
| Business metrics |
Understand how people and assets behave inside your property and compare performance with your industry and organization. |
| Location analytics |
Understand behavior of people and assets and create customized views and reports based on specific locations, date ranges, SSIDs, and other criteria. |
| Location hierarchy |
Map business taxonomy to network infrastructure. |
| Profile rules |
Profile and segment visitors based on behavior. |
| Captive portal |
Acquire and identify visitors and map them to your enterprise identity. |
| Engage |
Profile visitors and trigger notifications to visitors and employees through multiple channels (SMS, email, app push, API trigger, Cisco Webex Teams™, etc.). |
| Operational insights |
Identify and monitor assets, monitor and detect anomalies, optimize operations and response times through alerts, and integrate with enterprise systems. |
| Partner App Center |
Access a world of partner and enterprise software applications to extend the power of the platform and realize business outcomes. |
| APIs |
Get a toolbox for developing on the platform and extending product functionality. |
| Detect and Locate |
Search and display location of devices based on MAC or IP address. |
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 |
| Business metrics 1. How are people and assets behaving in my property? |
Partner App Center 1. Discover vertically focused, location- \based services applications through the Cisco DNA Spaces App Center |
Captive portal 1. Acquire and identify visitors and map to enterprise identity |
| Location analytics 1. What are behavior patterns in specific locations and time periods? |
Firehose API 1. Deliver reliable, high quality location, environmental, and visitor data to partners, with strong enforcement of user privacy and data security |
Profile rules 1. Profile and segment visitors based on behavior |
| Benchmarks 1. Compare performance with industries and organizations |
Partner App Monitoring 1. End-to-end monitoring of location data from the premise the partner app 2. Monitoring and support for Partner Apps via the Monitoring and Support dashboard |
Engage 1. Trigger notifications to visitors and employees via multiple channels (SMS, email, app push, API trigger, Webex® Teams, etc.) |
| OpenRoaming 1. Secure, seamless guest onboarding onto WiFi networks |
Specialized RTLS App Support 1. Support for specialized partner RTLS applications using Cloud and On-premise Firehose APIs |
Location analytics 1. What are behavior patterns in specific locations and time periods? Understand movement patterns within locations |
| Real-time metrics 1. What is happening at my property right now? |
Streaming Data Export 1. Customizeable streaming export optimized to support ingestion into Big Data, Analaytics, and Enterprise Applications |
Operational insights 1. Identify and monitor assets, detect anomalies, and trigger alerts |
| Location hierarchy 1. Map business taxonomy to network infrastructure |
Includes everything in Cisco DNA Spaces See |
Detect and Locate 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 1. Cloud based Detect and Locate and RSSI location compute 2. On-premises Detect and Locate and RSSI location compute using CMX 10 3. Integration with Cisco applications like Cisco DNA Center and Cisco Prime* |
|
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 Cisco Aironet WLC 8.0 and above
2. Directly Connect Cisco Aironet WLC 8.8 MR2 or later and Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series WLC
3. Tether CMX on-prem 10.6 or later
4. Directly connect via Cisco Meraki cloud to Cisco DNA Spaces cloud
5. When is CMX on premises required?
Hyperlocation: To use the Cisco Aironet 4800 Series or 3700 Series Access Points with a hyperlocation antenna, or to use fast path on all access points on an on-premises CMX server, it is required to receive fast path UDP data on port 2003 from the access point and use it in CMX for location calculations
6. 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 |
| X/Y compute |
Yes, cloud location |
Yes, cloud location |
Yes |
No |
| Hyper location |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
| OpenRoaming |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
| API Monitoring |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| Partner App Center |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Cisco DNA Center integration |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
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 |
| Business Insights |
See |
Presence |
No |
| OpenRoaming |
See |
Presence |
No |
| Location Analytics |
See |
Presence |
No |
| Detect and Locate |
See |
X/Y |
No |
| Partner stream |
Extend |
X/Y |
No |
| 3rd Party via API/Webhook |
Extend |
X/Y |
No |
| Partner Firehose |
Extend |
X/Y |
No |
| Location Personas |
Act |
Presence or X/Y |
No |
| Operational Insights |
Act |
X/Y |
No |
| Location Analytics |
Act |
X/Y |
No |
| Captive Portal |
Act |
Presence |
No |
| Engagement |
Act |
Presence or X/Y |
No |
| Hyperlocation |
X/Y |
Yes |
Table 5. Features included in Cisco DNA Spaces See, Extend, and Act
| Feature |
Cisco DNA Spaces See license |
Cisco DNA Spaces Extend license |
Cisco DNA Spaces Act license |
| Behavior metrics |
√ |
√ |
√ |
| Location Analytics |
√ |
√ |
√ |
| Real-time metrics |
√ |
√ |
√ |
| OpenRoaming |
√ |
√ |
√ |
| Impact Analysis |
√ |
√ |
√ |
| Detect and Locate (RSSI) |
√ |
√ |
√ |
| Location hierarchy |
√ |
√ |
√ |
| Location API/WebHook for 3rd party applications |
|
√ |
√ |
| Partner stream |
|
√ |
√ |
| Partner Firehose API |
|
√ |
√ |
| Partner App Center |
|
√ |
√ |
| Streaming Data Export |
|
√ |
√ |
| Captive portal |
|
|
√ |
| Profile rules |
|
|
√ |
| Engage |
|
|
√ |
| Operational insights |
|
|
√ |
| Hyperlocation using on premises CMX server |
|
|
√ |
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 |
||
|
|
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 |
N/A |
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 can be changed to support higher load.
Table 8. Cisco DNA Spaces connector minimum system requirements
| Item |
Supported Requirements |
| vCPU |
2 |
| RAM |
4 GB |
| Hard Disk |
60 GB |
Cisco DNA Spaces supports all Cisco wireless topologies and is compatible across Cisco hardware (Aironet, Catalyst, Meraki). Enroll in a 90-day free trial or email dnaspaces-sales@cisco.com for a demo.
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