Cisco DNA Center
A better way to control your network
Cisco DNA Center is the network management and command center for Cisco DNA, your intent-based network for the enterprise.
Provision and configure all your network devices in minutes. Use advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to proactively monitor, troubleshoot, and optimise your network. Integrate with third-party systems for improved operational processes.
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Features and benefits
Management
- Granular views networkwide, from a single dashboard
- Device lifecycle management
- Multidomain integration
- Open and extensible
Automation
- Automated device discovery
- Drag-and-drop policy creation
- Zero-touch device deployment and lifecycle management
- Automated quality of service (QoS)
AI/ML analytics
- Everything as a sensor
- Context-guided analytics
- More than 150 actionable insights
- Local and cloud-based AI analytics
Security
- Threat detection and response
- Stealthwatch and ISE integration
- Encrypted Traffic Analytics (ETA)
- Highly secure segmentation
How Cisco DNA Center works
Your programmable network infrastructure sends data to the Cisco DNA Center Appliance. The appliance activates features and capabilities on your network devices using Cisco DNA software. Everything is managed from the Cisco DNA Center dashboard.
Unlock innovation with Cisco DNA software
A Cisco DNA software license is required for each router, switch, and wireless access point.
Licenses are available in three tiers, each with its own set of features.
Essentials
- Basic automation
- Network visibility
Advantage
- Everything in Essentials
- Advanced automation
- Lifecycle image management
- AI/ML analytics and assurance
- API/SDK integration
Premier
- Everything in Advantage
- Encrypted Traffic Analytics
- Multidomain policy segmentation
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See how Cisco DNA Center simplifies network management
See how you can eliminate manual errors, reduce complexity and simplify standard network changes across sites with Cisco DNA Center.
See how you can easily manage IP addresses across globally distributed sites and integrate with third-party infrastructure services.
Cisco DNA Center makes it easy to deploy and test your network sensors.
See how to download, deploy, and update device software images automatically with Cisco DNA Center.
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Cisco DNA Assurance allows you identify issues across your network and find the types of devices that are having problems.
See what our customers have to say
"Our primary goal was to build a single platform that incorporates the policies of 20 group companies with about 6,500 employees, which posed challenges, but we managed to create the platform using Cisco DNA Center as the core technology."
Takaharu Kato, Vice President, Executive Officer (Managing Director of IT Solution Divison), Sega Sammy Holdings Inc.
"The analytics tells us what is happening in our network. We found a couple of problems this year that we wouldn’t have found without analytics. And alerts that the team are managing have declined by 80 percent: For us, that’s very helpful. We don’t have to work as hard."
Jordi Marin Manzanera, Senior Network Engineer, King
"Now you can establish a set of policies that we can enforce and distribute to the entire environment," including to the core, edge, and cloud. "You can leverage segmentation and isolate the traffic."
Bob Laliberte, Senior Analyst and Practice Director, Enterprise Strategy Group
"With the [Cisco] DNA Center centralised console, applying security politics [policies] to end users is very easy. It also lets us be more proactive. As [Cisco] DNA Center has a huge and global vision of what is happening in the network, it helps us to detect complex failures, which are otherwise difficult to detect and fix. Foresight like this allows us to provide a much more reliable IT experience for our end users."
Marival Guerrero, Network Operation Manager, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
"The visibility you gain into your network across both wired and wireless is just unparalleled. The time saved on provisioning and maintaining devices is also unmatched in the industry. Say bye-bye to custom Python solutions for ‘automating’ your network, and say hi to real intent-based networking."
Kent Heide, Technical Lead, Tromso koumme
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Additional resources
At-a-Glances
Case studies
Data sheet
Guides
- Step-by-step resources to get you started (new)
- Fast Start Use Case Training Guide
- Cisco DNA Center Fast Start Migration Guide
- Cisco DNA Center Fast Start Use Case: Cisco ISE Integration Guide
- Cisco DNA Center Fast Start Use Case: Software Image Management Guide
- Cisco DNA Center appliance installation and upgrade guides
- Cisco DNA Center administrator guides
- Cisco DNA Center end-user guides
Infographic
Licensing
Solution overviews
Videos and podcasts
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