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December 17, 2020
Cisco DNA Center is being used across our whole company network.We manage most of our company network and configure Cisco devices and Cisco DNA Center-compatible parts via DNA center. Company-owned computers, company IoT devices, and personal devices are all kept in different domains. Each main network device from these domains is managed from dashboard easily. However, each of these Cisco devices requires a separate license for using. Cisco DNA Center allow us to define security policies for each domain. Thanks to its included threat detection mechanism, we are able to monitor all end-points from Cisco DNA Center and integrate its log outputs to Splunk. The security team can see the threat on Cisco DNA Center as well, but our centralized security operation prefers to receive alert via Splunk and then respond to the threat.
- Network segmentation flexibility. On dashboard to rule all domains on our network.
- Command line still available with dozens of new capabilities.
- Network analytics are detailed. Integrated artificial intelligience skills are useful for classifying logs for seperate routes on Splunk.
- Integrated threat detection and response for security operations. Detailed alerts for quick and efficient response.
- GUI usage becomes a must rather than being an option due to hugely extended command line capabilities.
- Requires a good budget for licensing. Each network device included requires payment for DNA software integration.
December 16, 2020
We all need to be certified in the CIsco Data Center before starting the implementation. Cisco Data Center is a command center and used for network management. This system is well-known as the intent-based network for the enterprise. It also allows the user to proactively monitor, optimize their network, and troubleshoot. The best part of Cisco Data Center is that it enables us to integrate with third-party software, and is easy to restore.
- Ease of usage.
- Good cost/benefit ratio.
- Solving the automation of the network is quiet, fast, and easy.
- Implementation is a bit troublesome, but once everything is in place, it works well.
- Get new people to get used to the new system.
- Still need to add support for some legacy devices like voice gateways.
December 07, 2020
We are currently using multiple network modules of cisco in the organization. D-NAC and DNA are deployed over here and currently, it's helping us for authorized network access and automated to monitor & manage entire network infrastructure. IT department doesn't require a full-time dedicated resource to manage the network infrastructure at various stages as the current model is very robust and reliable, and this makes our life so easy and leverage to focus on other important IT activities.
- DNA dashboard enabled us to monitor/manage the entire network from one single interface.
- No full-time dedicated network resources required, as it's very easy to manage the network from L2 engineer after DNA training.
- Cisco DNA offers many more features that may also help other organizations as per their working model.
- Cisco may be focused on promoting Cisco DNA solution in India as a larger number of organizations currently using the conventional network model are not familiar with Cisco DNAC and DNA (what it offers basically).
- If Cisco DNA is used in more organizations will get more feedback from the end-users directly for an area of improvement and this will help to make this solution agile.
I am working in a Cisco's Partner and we are installing Cisco DNA Center for big clients (banks, oil and gas) with several branches around the country. First we installed on our labs we build overlay and work really well, the integration with programmability helps us to automate every job that we use to use it.
- Overlay and underlay.
- Programmability.
- Assurance.
- Integration with Meraki.
- Easy management.
- Devices configs.
- Can't virtualize it.
- Slow.
December 07, 2020
Currently it is being used by us through the whole organization but for specific departments. We are planning to expand it more in near future as we are still new to it so moving slowly.
- Automates network tasks.
- Cost is reasonable.
- Extended third party support.
- Onboarding needs some work as I felt it needs more resources.
- Integration with legacy applications but it is getting better.
We have upgraded our Cisco 3850 switches with the new Cisco catalyst 9K series switches. We bought DNA Center for assurance, to begin with. Maybe later down the road, we will incorporate more automation and all the other features that DNA Center can offer. Assurance is a good tool to use to check the status of your 9K's as well as help with troubleshooting issues if they come up.
- The ability to view the network as a whole is really nice.
- The ability troubleshoot faster with DNA center is time-saving.
- Being able to configure devices from a central UI is very nice.
- Biggest con is that DNA Center is appliance only. There is no virtual appliance yet.
- There is a cost associated with these newer features.
- Upgrading with DNA Center can be a pain sometimes. A lot of things have to align to perform an upgrade.
We are adapting to the new solution. We currently have half of our parent building with DNA (areas such as HR, Development, Marketing are already using it). We had an extra effort to have to fine-tune the permissions by areas, which takes time and dedication to adjust them in the institution's firewalls.
- Security issues, which have allowed us integrations with our AD to provide homogeneous permissions by user groups, and thus limit the permission by source IP addressing
- Better manage DHCP addressing for delivery to users, which was complex and cumbersome, because due to legal requirements it was necessary to have the registry of IP permissions, which made the task of carrying out these controls very difficult
- We are about to start the inter-area permitting stage, which will give us better control over network security, which is very important for our institution.
- DHCP address management has given us a better distribution of this resource
- Better management of access permissions in Firewall, by managing permissions from AD group, which saves time for network administrators
- It will surely give us a better vision of the network and the permits between areas that become vitally important at the Security level.
December 05, 2020

We have been using [Cisco] DNA Center since the beginning of 2020 while our brain cell coordination imitating research requires more and more equipment on same network. As number of required equipment grow, we needed to separate our equipment from central network. Isolating these devices was easy at the beginning, but as the number grows, managing them became time consuming. [Cisco] DNA Center helped us on automation of newly added devices. Configuration of the new devices, implementing all the current security rules to new devices by pushing from a central unit made our job easier.
- Manage and see status of all devices on single dashboard
- Improved network security via machine learning capabilities of DNA center
- Policy rule pushing automation
- First time configuration takes too much time and effort
- Insufficient integration options with various products from market
- Requires more explanatory help pages
December 15, 2020

Automation is the largest thing that Cisco DNA Center has solved in my use of the program. Being able to see and manage both the wired and wireless traffic is an amazing tool that my coworkers and I greatly appreciate. Assurance is the other thing that this is great with. Love it!
- Assurance
- Automation
- Consolidation
- Making it easier to switch from other programs.
- Legacy device support
- Initial setup is complex
December 15, 2020

Cisco DNA Center allows our IT Infrastructure team to centrally monitor and manage our Cisco-based network. The detailed analytics and dashboards available give us easy access to valuable insights and has become an integral part of our maintenance activities. This has been especially helpful in network mapping for a large distributed network such as ours that spans across multiple sites. The friendly user interface and integration options make the product extremely powerful without sacrificing ease of use.
- Data analytics
- Policy management
- Centralized management
- Monitoring/troubleshooting
- Support for third party (non-Cisco) devices is limited.
- Pricing can be expensive.
- Integration options could be improved.
December 15, 2020

Mostly using this as a way to see all our Cisco equipment in one place, check their status, patch levels, firmware updates, and some basic config options. It solves the issue of having to bounce around to a ton of different management screens to do these all individually. We use it in the IT department to cover all our companies Cisco devices.
- Make it easy for users for all levels to get info from the network devices.
- Fairly simple setup
- Snappy interface
- Total cost of ownership with all
- Confusing licensing situation
- Infrequent updates
December 15, 2020

The Cisco DNA Center has been implemented at our organization to be able to make network management and automation much easier. We have not implemented the automation piece as of yet but we're using it fully for network management. All our different Cisco devices are now reporting to DNA and give us one place to see them all.
- Really nicely designed user interface.
- Huge variety of support for almost any Cisco device.
- Great features like automation you can take advantage of.
- The initial setup could be a big confusing and complex.
- Costs are a bit high in this product category.
- Physical appliance options would be great.
Cisco DNA Center is the network management and command center that is probably recognized as the intent-based network for the enterprise. It is able to proactively monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize our network and ever since we have deployed DNA center products in our environment we have been very happy with the results.
- It is very easy to use, simple to manage and it is all done from a single dashboard.
- The monitoring features are very useful for our network engineers.
- Overall, cost is not too high that it bars us from trying it out.
- DNA Center has been on the market for a few years and it could use an update to it.
- There is a limitation with the number of VRFs that you can have in your network, and this has caused us problems with some customers.
- It requires knowledge in order to setup these tools in the Data Center environment. No need to setup without prior knowledge
December 05, 2020

We use Cisco DNA to automate all of our networking. Using Cisco has made managing all of our networking devices extremely easy. We used to use custom Python solutions but no longer have to spend any time working on those. It's saved us quite a bit of time and is totally worth it.
- Easily replaces Python and automates processes.
- The visibility into your network is unparalleled.
- Easy to implement configuration standards and best practices.
- It can be very complicated if you don't know what you're doing.
- Lack of support for some old devices.
- Hard to train people.
We reseller DNA to a Financial Business. They use to campus network. They have micro and macro segmentation in wired and wireless networks.
- Integration in wired and wireless networks.
- Border integration with BGP is automated and has great routing integration.
- Micro-segmentation with STG and ISE is a scalable implementation.
- If a node is missing it is hard to delete it from the DNA center
- A better wizard to implement the underlay network.
- A better GUI to setup ports in edge nodes.
February 04, 2020

Cisco DNA Center is being used by external business units in our organization to improve their network documentation. One of the main features that makes Cisco DNA Center powerful is the ability to create a network map and an inventory sheet. This allows the team to save an enormous amount of time in understanding the network design. Moreover, Cisco DNA Center is compatible with iOS legacy devices. This means that you can still use Cisco DNA Center if you have old devices in your network. After testing it on smaller sites, now we're starting to rule it out in bigger sites.
- Network mapping
- Inventory
- The licensing model
- Old devices have limited functionality
January 30, 2020

It is used to manage the SDA solution for both our biggest campuses. Our biggest drive to introduce it was to do segmentation in our networks in order to improve the security for our users and developers.
- It has a nice GUI.
- It simplifies management of very complex scenarios we couldn’t set up without it. (Segmentation.)
- The GUI is not very intuitive: if I want to see what IP pools are in use for a specific site, I have to navigate through a lot of sections whose titles don‘t really sound like IP pools can be found behind them.
- In Assurance it is not intuitive for me to filter the Client list for example for "clients whose IP starts with 192.168.111.". I always end up trying different syntax, give up, show the entire list and scroll until I manually find the entry (so far we only have 250 clients enrolled).
We faced a challenge with guest and IoT access while maintaining PCI compliance. With DNA Center in conjunction with LSE, we were able to micro-segment these resources away from user traffic. This allowed us to securely deploy IP cameras and user tablets with much fewer hands-on steps to ensure only the proper equipment is allowed into the network.
- Micro segmentation
- Guest onboarding
- Zero touch provision
- Speed of user interface
November 08, 2019
DNA center es parte de una solución de SD access para una entidad Estatal, no existen problemas en la parte comercial pero en realidad existen inconvenientes con la parte de licencias de los otros componentes de la solución
DNA center is part of an SD access solution for a state entity, there are no problems on the commercial side but in reality there are inconveniences with the licensing part of the other components of the solution
DNA center is part of an SD access solution for a state entity, there are no problems on the commercial side but in reality there are inconveniences with the licensing part of the other components of the solution
- la rapidez con la que se configuran los dispositivos // how quickly the devices are configured
- inteligencia artificial // artificial intelligence
- interfaz grafica // its GUI
- N/A
October 30, 2019
Currently, there are 9K Series Catalyst Switches which have a premier license, but the problem is that it is very expensive in some cases to have the possibility of installing a DNA center for the cost of the physical equipment.
It is important that the center has different size options since this will help, depending on the size of the company that has a network implemented with it, to have the ability to choose the size of the appliance and also lower costs.
- gestion de switches // Switch Management
- gestion wireless // Wireless Management
- integracion con ise // Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)
- empresas con una red extensamente grande // companies with an extensively large network
- empresas con nuevas series de equipos wireless // companies with new series of wireless equipment
October 29, 2019
I consider DNA Center to be one of the best solutions Cisco has for infrastructure, the value it brings is substantial. Every detail was considered to provide the most complete information that network administrators need. The management reports are very detailed, they add value to the investment made. I recommend DNA Center for large infrastructures.
Considero una de las mejores soluciones que tienen para nuestra infraestructura, el valor que le aporta es sustancioso. Cada detalle fue considerado para arrojar la informacion mas completa que pueden recibir los administradores de la red. Los reportes gerenciales son formidables, aportan valor a la inversion realizada. Lo recomiendo en Infraestructuras de gran tamano.
Considero una de las mejores soluciones que tienen para nuestra infraestructura, el valor que le aporta es sustancioso. Cada detalle fue considerado para arrojar la informacion mas completa que pueden recibir los administradores de la red. Los reportes gerenciales son formidables, aportan valor a la inversion realizada. Lo recomiendo en Infraestructuras de gran tamano.
- Number of connected users in my network | Cantidad de usuarios conectados en mi red
- Interaction with the active directory is fabulous | Interaccion con el directorio activo es fabuloso
- The management report adds value | La reporteria gerencial agrega valor
- It is very useful in my Data Center | Me es muy util en mi Data Center
- All of our locations are covered | Los campus son cubiertos
- Currently it works perfectly for my organization | Actualmente funciona perfectamente para mi organización
November 20, 2019
Cisco DNA is presently used in all of our organization. It is perfect to know how it works our network with Cisco DNA Assurance. Currently, we don't have the wireless product with Cisco DNA, to know the full advantages that DNA provides.
- You can know the health of your network.
- You can watch out for issues in your network and resolve them.
- It needs a feature that provides more visibility about the client.
- It needs a feature that provides more information about the device network, like Cisco Prime.
We're about to sell it, and we used it for app/product demos and have a showroom. The business problems it tries to eliminate are the speed issues when trying to resolve any issue in the network.
- The application views and monitoring the health of the entire network through an application point of view
- Batch management
- Monitoring link status, bandwidth in routers and switches
- Status of SMARTnet maintanence contract, requirements
- Wish the dashboard included more detail
November 07, 2019
Actualmente se ha implementado con un cliente para optimizar la red lan en Ecuador
It has currently been implemented with a client to optimize their LAN network in Ecuador.
It has currently been implemented with a client to optimize their LAN network in Ecuador.
- Gestión de toda la red LAN // Management of your entire LAN network
- Visibilidad de todos los servicios // Visibility of all services
- Facilidad en los procesos de migración // Ease in migration processes
- Costo inicial de la plataforma // Initial platform cost
- No disponibilidad de ambiente virtual // No availability of virtual environment
- Atado a un appliance especÃfico // Attached to a specific appliance
We use it for a centralized point to control the entire network.
- SD-Access
- Encrypted Traffic
- Ability to control/access the network from anywhere
- None
- NA
- None
Cisco DNA Center Scorecard Summary
What is Cisco DNA Center?
Cisco DNA Center is the network management system, foundational controller, and analytics platform at the heart of Cisco’s intent-based network. DNA Center addresses the demands of digitization, cloud, IoT, and mobility by eliminating IT complexity and facilitating alignment with business intent, unifying policy, automation, and assurance with integrated security.
Cisco states that they have 30 years of experience and an end-to-end portfolio provided to help customers manage technology transitions, with embedded security detects threats in mere hours instead of in months.
Cisco now offers a two-question, two-minute interactive tool to identify the Cisco products and services that can help users solve up to five network challenges.
Cisco states that they have 30 years of experience and an end-to-end portfolio provided to help customers manage technology transitions, with embedded security detects threats in mere hours instead of in months.
Cisco now offers a two-question, two-minute interactive tool to identify the Cisco products and services that can help users solve up to five network challenges.
Categories: Network Monitoring, Software Defined Networking (SDN)
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