Cisco Spaces vs. Open Options DNA Fusion

Cisco Spaces is well suited from Small businesses to large businesses. The ability for Cisco Spaces to scale as your business scale is an important feature to leverage, especially for small businesses. The insights for the Cisco Spaces are helpful to the organization with utilizing what access points we have where and what load the access points are taking on. Our business also likes the fact that the switches, access points, and other Cisco equipment can be seen all in one, anywhere anytime. This makes it easier to manage our equipment.

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It is suited for any area where you need to control doors. The licensing is cost effective for small or large deployments. Very good for handling COVID related access protocols. It is really a great solution for access control.

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• So the first thing it does really well is a lot of our sites are rural, so we don't have very good cellular connectivity. So we invested in this product because we want our clients, our customers that are coming in to be able to walk in and be able to use a our wireless infrastructure just like it was a cellular device. So they don't even know, they walk in, they think, man, my cellular's better right now. I can do all the things that I wanna do. I can do video. And they don't even know. So that's the biggest bonus for us.

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• Easy to configure
• Cost Effective
• Integration Options
• API Access

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• I would say out-of-the-box plugins. It's very easy to make it for DNA spaces, but I'd love to see more part more companies partner with them so that the plugins are just available to add on right out of the box. You don't have to work with a vendor and say, "Hey, I need you to come in and develop this API", it's already there. That would be the one thing that I would say that could get a little bit more help with.

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• Could simplify the integration a bit
• Releases can be a little unstable
• Not all features are fully web accessible

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the product has everything that offered and more.

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i have never contacted support

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Cisco DNA Spaces is the next iteration for CMX. CMX is be retired and the move to Spaces was just a next step for us. All the features in CMX are present in Spaces. As well as additional features and capabilities.

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• We collect emails from our customers to populate our email marketing database
• The customers are constantly giving good feedback for the service as an aggregated value to the service
• It has been a good way to get more visits to our eCommerce site which is defined as landing page inside the captive portal

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• Saved us from Lenel's high end licensing at 250 doors
• Allowed us to control our doors better for COVID
• Increased the integration options for users and automation

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