Cisco DNA Spaces
Take wireless beyond connectivity
Use location analytics to gain more insights into the behavior of people and things and how they interact in your physical spaces.
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Maintaining business continuity and safety
Location-based services are playing a crucial role in helping to manage the safe return of employees and customers to physical locations.
Features and benefits
Cisco DNA Spaces gives you rich location-based services, including location analytics, customer engagement toolkits, asset management, enterprise application integrations, and location-data APIs. To date, we are live at more than 50,000 locations across 143 billion square feet.
Trusted workplace
Leverage built-in apps to facilitate a safe return to the workplace and business resiliency.
Partner applications
Drive industry-specific outcomes with partner applications for use cases such as asset tracking, space utilization, and attendance tracking.
Next-generation onboarding
Seamlessly onboard customers with captive portals, SDKs, and OpenRoaming technology.
Indoor IoT services
Digitize people and things in your spaces: Deploy indoor IoT applications at scale with the indoor IoT services in Cisco DNA Spaces.
With Cisco DNA Spaces, you can...
See what's happening at your properties
Business insights
Get industry-specific metrics about the behavior of people on your premises.
Right-now metrics
Gain real-time views of visitor behavior at your properties.
Detect and locate
Search and display locations of devices based on MAC or IP addresses. Access historical data and APIs.
OpenRoaming
Get seamless, secure onboarding to public Wi-Fi.
Act on insights using digitization toolkits
Captive portal
Seamlessly onboard visitors at your properties, and deliver zero-click targeted engagements.
Engagements
Trigger contextual engagements across SMS, email, and other channels, based on visitor behaviors.
Operational insights
Identify and monitor assets, detect anomalies, optimize operations and response times, and integrate with enterprise systems.
Location personas
Profile and segment visitors based on their behavior.
Extend platform capabilities and drive business outcomes
App Center
- Instantaneous activation of partner apps
- Apps for various industry-specific use cases
- Monitoring and support
- More user control over the apps
Cisco DNA Spaces Firehose API
- Cloud-native, high-performance streaming API
- Uniform access across multiple technology types
- API monitoring and support
- Machine-learning algorithms to autocategorize people in a space
Enterprise integrations
- Native integrations into enterprise software
- Monitoring and support by Cisco DNA Spaces
- Highly scalable and resilient connector
Cisco Internal integrations
- Integration with collaboration endpoints and other Cisco technologies
Compatible across Cisco's wireless portfolio
All existing and new Cisco wireless deployments support Cisco DNA Spaces. Whether with Cisco Aironet, Catalyst, or Meraki, we can help you get to the cloud as seamlessly as possible.
Cisco Aironet access points
Go beyond 802.11ac. Get high-performing access points with Cisco innovations.
Cisco Catalyst access points
Our Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) access points support expansion of IoT devices and high-density environments.
Cisco Meraki
Our fully cloud-managed Meraki access points mean faster deployment, simplified administration, and richer visibility.
Get assured wireless performance and location services
Cisco DNA software subscriptions provide analytics and assurance powered by AI/ML, for easy troubleshooting and management of your wireless network. Cisco DNA Spaces provides insights about people and assets on your premises and can help inform business decisions.
Key use cases across industries
Retail (PDF)
Understand shopper behavior to make informed decisions and gauge peak activity across stores. Deliver relevant experiences to increase length and frequency of visits.
Hospitality
Boost guest acquisition and loyalty. Gain insights into guest behavior, and customize experiences for first-time guests and elite members.
Workplaces
Measure workplace occupancy to optimize space utilization. Make informed decisions on space allocation and whether to expand or use less space.
Healthcare
Monitor the locations of critical equipment, and trigger alerts if anything goes missing. Optimize patient experience by analyzing wait times and providing location-based engagements.
Manufacturing
Help ensure employee safety and operational efficiency. Trigger alerts when people and equipment enter prohibited zones.
Education
Track attendance and in-person participation in the classroom and throughout campus. Deliver relevant engagements during large events on campus.
See what organizations say
University uses campus network as a way to engage
Cisco DNA Spaces has helped San Jose State University "be able to provide an engagement portal and engage users based on time and location on campus, and also gave us the ability to start collecting a lot of analytics on what guests and users on our wireless network are doing.
- Shai Silberman, Director of Network Services, San Jose State University
Delivering a winning digital experience for fans
Ubiquitous wireless and powerful analytics from Cisco help provide a seamless digital experience for fans across the Norwegian Professional Football League.
Cisco DNA Spaces helps Intu digitize shopping centers
Learn how Cisco DNA Spaces is helping to optimize Wi-Fi connectivity, influence shopper behavior, and increase mall dwell times.
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