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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Feature 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).
Accelerate your digital transformation with Cisco Services
Cisco Services can help you begin your journey with strategy and analysis services and readiness assessments, as well as planning, design, and migration services.
SD-Access success stories
The hospital delivers excellent patient care by securely connecting and managing thousands of network devices.
Malaysia’s national oil company adopts Cisco SD-Access for highly secure, agile, and business-ready networking.
AmorePacific completed its intuitive, forward-looking network by deploying Cisco DNA at its new headquarters.
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Additional resources
At-a-Glances
- SD-Access At-a-Glance (PDF - 103 KB)
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 (PDF - 683 KB)
- The Cisco DNA-Ready Infrastructure (PDF - 138 KB)
- What is SD-Access
Podcasts
- (Video - 9:40 min)
Videos and webinars
- (Video - 31:26 mins)
- Tech Field Day SD-Access video
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- The Benefits of Cisco DNA with SD-Access (Interactive showing difference)
- Cisco DNA Center how-to video resources
- (Video - 33:27 min)
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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