Wireless
Optimize, personalize, and secure your wireless network.
Software-Defined Access
A more efficient solution for your modern network
Provide access to any user, device, or application from the edge to the cloud, without compromising security.
Your IT operations can be more efficient, your network more secure, and your user experience more consistent with the most advanced solution for automating user policy and device provisioning.
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Features and benefits
Enhance security and compliance
Keep user, device, and application traffic separate with end-to-end segmentation.
Deliver consistent experience
Apply a common user policy everywhere using a single fabric across wired and wireless infrastructure.
Boost operational effectiveness
Increase agility and efficiency with automated user policy and network provisioning.
Gain network insights
Get better visibility and transform network data into actional insights.
Components of SD-Access
Switches
Get a single fabric to help simplify and secure your digital-ready network.
Routers
Provide access to applications, services, and integrated technologies.
Cisco DNA Center
Manage SD-Access across the entire network with a central dashboard.
Identity Services Engine (ISE)
Simplify delivery of identify-based policy for users and devices.
Cisco DNA subscriptions
Help to easily buy, manage, and upgrade your network and infrastructure software.
Services
Explore the services we offer for switches, routers, and wireless.
DevNet
Extend automation across the enterprise with open APIs.
Increase flexibility with Cisco DNA software subscriptions
Choose from three subscription tiers—Cisco DNA Essentials, Cisco DNA Advantage, and Cisco DNA Premier. Our flexible software suites are designed to address your automation and segmentation requirements with rich security.
Subscriptions are available in 3-, 5-, and 7-year terms. All include Cisco Software Support Service (SWSS).
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"We are confident that Cisco DNA is the best choice we made as it closely aligns to our globalization strategy."
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"The Catalyst 9300s deliver five times more Ethernet capacity to our wireless access points, providing wired-like performance."
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Additional resources
At-a-Glance
Guides
- Cisco DNA Center Fast Start Use Case: Software-Defined Access Guide
- Cisco DNA Center Fast Start Use Case: Cisco ISE Integration Guide
- SD-Access Segmentation Design Guide (PDF - 2.4 MB)
- SD-Access Design Guide (PDF - 1.5 MB)
- SD-Access Deployment Guide (PDF - 19.2 MB)
- Encrypted Traffic Analytics in Software-Defined Access Deployment Guide (PDF - 5.2 MB)
- SD-Access Upgrade Guide
- SD-Access Ordering Guide
- Getting Started Guide
Overviews
- Cisco Software-Defined Access: Enabling Intent Based Networking eBook (PDF - 3.1 MB)
- SD-Access Services overview (PDF - 241 KB)
- SD-Access Solution overview
- The Cisco DNA-Ready Infrastructure (PDF - 138 KB)
- What is SD-Access
Podcast
- (Video - 9:40 min)
Videos and webinars
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- Cisco DNA Center how-to video resources
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White papers
- SD-Access Solution white paper (PDF - 4.4 MB)
- Miercom white paper: Enterprise Campus Architecture Comparative Report vs. HPE and Huawei (PDF - 3.5 MB)
- Release Notes for SD-Access 1.2.x (PDF - 161 KB)
- SD-Access: Network as a Sensor and Encrypted Traffic Analytics Integration White Paper
- Network Test: Cisco SD-Access: Enterprise Networking Made Fast and Flexible (PDF - 7.1 MB)
- IDC Report: Cisco SD-Access. A single fabric to support Digital Transformation
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