Cisco DNA Spaces Data Sheet

 

Cisco DNA Spaces digitizes physical spaces to help customers learn more about people and things within their properties using existing Wi-Fi infrastructure.

Product Overview

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 with flexible deployment.

Features and Benefits

Table 1.             Cisco DNA Spaces Features and Benefits

Product Capabilities

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

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:

●     Use Cisco DNA Spaces Connector to connect Cisco Aironet WLC 8.0 and above

●     Directly Connect Cisco Aironet WLC 8.8 MR2 or later and Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series WLC

●     Tether CMX on-prem 10.6 or later

●     Directly connect via Cisco Meraki cloud to Cisco DNA Spaces cloud

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

●     BLE Manager: Adjusting the parameters of the BLE radio in an access point (i.e. UUID, major / minor) requires that there be an on-premises CMX server with WebSocket access to ble.cisco.com, and FastPath access to on-premise access points

Compatible across All Network Infrastructure

Table 3.             Feature compatibility depending on type of connection

Table 4.             Feature compatibility depending on analytics type and on-premises requirements

Licensing Information

Table 5.             Features Included in Cisco DNA Spaces SEE and ACT

Cisco DNA Spaces SEE and ACT are licensed on a per-access-point basis for a 3-, 5-, or 7-year license terms.

Table 6.            Cisco DNA Spaces SEE and ACT PIDs and Descriptions

Cisco DNA Spaces licenses entitles the user to

●     CMX on premise

●     Support for CMX on premise

●     Cisco DNA Spaces Cloud Features

Customers can choose to only use some of the features, but they are entitled to all

Product Specifications

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

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

Get Started Today

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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