Cisco DNA Spaces
You've invested in wireless. What's next?
Cisco DNA Spaces takes it one step further. Wireless connectivity plus location services can mean better outcomes for your business.
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Features and benefits
Cisco DNA Spaces provides wireless customers with rich location-based services, including location analytics, business insights, customer engagement toolkits, asset management, enterprise integrations, and location data APIs. To date, we are live at more than 40,000 locations across 2 billion square feet.
Simplify
Location products and apps accessible from a single intuitive dashboard
Scale
Proven robust fifth-generation cloud engine delivering cleansed location data
Standardize
Compatibility and interoperability across all Cisco architectures
Support
24x7 monitoring and service-level agreements (SLAs) for end-to-end reliability
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
Get assured wireless performance with Cisco DNA software
Cisco DNA software subscriptions power analytics and assurance across your network. Benefit from an always-available network that scales with your organization’s growth in applications, users, and devices.
Creating a digital hotel
Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG) is standardizing on Cisco networking infrastructure. The company is leveraging technology to help drive a superior guest Internet experience, build loyalty, and lay the foundation for future technology initiatives.
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.
Compatible products
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.
Aironet access points
Go beyond 802.11ac. Get high-performing access points with Cisco innovations.
Catalyst wireless controllers
Get your network digital-ready with our intelligent controllers. They can help scale a small, midsize, or large enterprise network.
Meraki
Our fully cloud-managed Meraki access points mean faster deployment, simplified administration, and richer visibility.
Additional resources
At-a-glance
Blogs
Case studies
Infographic
Overviews
- Cisco DNA Spaces solution overview
- Cisco DNA Spaces FAQ (PDF - 93 KB)
- Cisco DNA Spaces Privacy and Data Protection (PDF - 86 KB)
Use cases
- Cisco DNA Spaces for Healthcare (PDF - 124 KB)
- Cisco DNA Spaces for Workspaces (PDF - 120 KB)
- Cisco DNA Spaces for Hospitality (PDF - 97 KB)
- Cisco DNA Spaces for Retail (PDF - 125 KB)
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