Item: Cisco Catalyst Center
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used to have a legacy L2 based campus network. DNAC, together with ISE, leveraged our Campus LANs into Intent based networking. We have 30+ fabric sites and using fancy features like LAN automation, PnP, SWIM and templating. Developer toolkit helps a lot to build automation through APIs, SDK is quite useful as well.

Pros and Cons

Sd-access (SDA)
Templating
SWIM
Compliance Check
Assurance

Tools and features are not customizable as expected
More API capabilities
Better GUI

Return on Investment

Shorter deployment
Ease on troubleshooting
Quite expensive in terms of licensing

Alternatives Considered

Cisco Nexus Dashboard and Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)

Key Insights

Do you think Cisco Catalyst Center delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Cisco Catalyst Center's feature set?

Yes

Did Cisco Catalyst Center live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Cisco Catalyst Center go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Cisco Catalyst Center again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

Cisco Catalyst Center acts as Sd-access management plane/orchestrator. Its integration with ISE leverages micro segmentation in the network. Not only SD-access, Cisco Catalyst Center also addresses quite interesting challenges in non-fabric environments. SWIM, templating, compliance check are a great feature to govern non-fabric environments. It suits well in a LAN environment.

Cisco Catalyst Center review

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Catalyst Center