Cisco DNA Center Primary Use Case
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Shu Isaac Spens
Chief Technology Officer/ Network Engineer at Dunamis Networks Inc
Currently, we are working on building a small data center for a client. The goal is to connect all their branches and host various in-house developed services, such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications.
We are utilizing Cisco DNA Center with at least 9000 series switches and a couple of SD-WAN solutions. With Cisco DNA Center's single interface, we can efficiently manage and deploy devices across all branches.
View full review »My company uses the solution frequently for configuration, monitoring, and ZTP, which is Zero-touch provisioning. The solution is for configuration purposes, making it a centralized configuration tool.
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Cees Rhebergen
Technical Consultant at KPN IT Solutions - Trusted Services
Our primary use case is for building and maintaining networks while adhering to security policies. It offers automation, security enforcement, analytics, and integration with other Cisco technologies, making it a key driver for efficient network operations and compliance with security protocols.
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The solution is useful when an organization has a mature infrastructure with all Cisco devices.
View full review »I have been using Cisco DNA Center for almost two and a half years.
View full review »Cisco DNA Center helps to manage user networks.
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reviewer2273595
Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
In my former company, we used Cisco DNA Center specifically for monitoring. I also used the solution as a troubleshooting tool to investigate issues on the wireless infrastructure.
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reviewer2127081
Network Engineer at a construction company with 10,001+ employees
We are using Cisco DNA Center for network management and wireless assurance.
View full review »I used Cisco DNA Center for centralized management for the projects I worked on. My projects had different sites and fabric networks connected. A fabric module was created for every site, and Cisco DNA Center acts as a centralized manager, so you don't need to configure the switches. You need to integrate the device with Cisco DNA Center, and the configuration will be centralized.
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SyedImran
Tech Specialist, Client Network DeliveryTech at AT&T
I used Cisco DNA Center for LAN automation for the DnaC.
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reviewer2303172
Consultant - Enterprise Managed Services Centre Of Excellence (EMS-COE) at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
We use the solution’s capabilities to the maximum.
View full review »We are using the solution for network management.
View full review »We use this solution for network architecture and data implementation. I was working on a project, designing a city. We used Cisco DNA Center as the software-defined solution for this city.
View full review »We use Cisco DNA Center for management. You can configure any device, and if you put the device without configurations, you can start to configure it through Cisco DNA Center. For example: if you get a new Cisco switch, and you have other Cisco switches configured, you can plug in the new switch, copy the configuration, make the changes, and make the template, or you can use an existing template and just upload it to the device.
View full review »We use the solution as a management platform for campaign work.
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Nihar Kapadia
Managing Director at Allot Group
The solution is mainly used for setting up SPN or intent-based networking for the customers.
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Yafar Khan
Senior Network Engineer at a museum or institution with 501-1,000 employees
We use the solution for location tracking. We have to monitor the traffic in our environment since we have more than 3000 visitors per day.
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reviewer2178027
Network Security Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The availability endpoint is in the Cisco DNA Center dashboard, which allows us to push configurations and address compliance issues to all devices on Cisco network from a single location.
View full review »I use DNA Center for network administration. Four people in the IT department use this solution.
View full review »We deploy the Cisco DNA Center through Cisco Prime Migration, and we use Cisco DNA Center to monitor all the wired connections, endpoints, and switches such as access switches, data center switches, and routers. We also manage the wireless access points through the Cisco DNA Center.
We get reports on availability, health, manageability, logs, and critical errors. We monitor and maintain all the network devices using the solution.
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reviewer1449057
Cloud and Digital Transformation Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
We use it to manage and monitor our branch network equipment.
View full review »I am a solution architect. I design for the data center and I also write technical presentations.
View full review »It can assess traditional networks.
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reviewer2289510
Analyst of IT at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use it for incorporating around four hundred wireless access points into our network infrastructure.
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reviewer1073793
Solution Selector Communication and IT Security at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
My experience with Cisco DNA Center is with selling it and receiving feedback from my customers. I have not personally done any configuration or management with it.
I have worked with the demo and also presented it to customers.
My clients use this solution to give them more visibility into their network, and the management mode helps with to troubleshoot and fix problems.
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reviewer2010738
Senior Manager, Customer Life Cycle Management Specialist at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Our primary use case is for real-time data transmission. I'm a senior manager and we are customers of Cisco.
We are an educational environment that is similar to a university, but we only teach management and leadership. We have a variety of visitors every day, more than 2,000 of them, and they are unknown to us. This makes it very difficult to centrally manage using a traditional network.
We are currently in the second round of the implementation phase for this solution. We have two buildings with the solution implemented now, and we are working on other buildings. We are on the same campus but we are doing the work in four phases. Now that two are complete, we have two more that we are about to finish.
Everything is secure in our environment, so we are using the overlay of the DNA Center to separate the visitors and the employees and the trainers. We are using a multi-segmented network, so DNA was a very good solution for us to deal with this type of environment.
View full review »Automating customers' campus networks, redesigning their networks and giving much more visibility on traffic flows.
View full review »We are using Cisco DNA Center for four key major areas. The first area we use it for is for setting the policy for multiple devices and from one single point of configuration.
The second use is for provisioning because we will have a lot of switches and access points. The provisioning has been very helpful for us.
The third use is the assurance module and the fourth use is automation.
We have not started the automation phase. We used it for policy, provision, design, and assurance.
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reviewer1513455
Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
We use this solution for network assurance and automation, network segmentation with ISE integration, and LAN automation deploying new devices out into the switching estate.
This was for a TSA project that we were doing for a client.
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reviewer2290770
Sr. Solutions Architect, Consulting Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The solution helps in user microsegmentation.
View full review »We are a solution provider and this is one of the products that we implement for our customers.
Our clients use this solution to manage their network, including their access points.
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reviewer1797993
Consultant - Enterprise Network at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I am a solution architect. I design solutions using Cisco DNA Center.
We use Cisco DNA Center to provide network management.
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April 2024
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