Cisco DNA Center Scalability
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Shu Isaac Spens
Chief Technology Officer/ Network Engineer at Dunamis Networks Inc
I would rate them a nine out of ten. My impression of scalability is that the solution can scale to any size, whether it's just a few nodes, containers, or perimeter servers in your data center. The scale doesn't matter.
So it can accommodate any scale you need. The only potential limitation would be the license, but that can be upgraded by contacting Cisco. The license is not a problem, and upgrading it is always an option by reaching out to Cisco.
If we're talking about devices, we have more than 500 devices. And in terms of users, we have over 800. Our clients are mostly medium-sized businesses.
View full review »It is a highly scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
Around 30 to 40 percent of my company's clients use Cisco DNA Center, which may consist of more than a hundred users.
Most big companies opt for Cisco DNA Center. The smaller companies may find Cisco DNA Center to be costly.
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Cees Rhebergen
Technical Consultant at KPN IT Solutions - Trusted Services
It offers good scalability features.
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I don't think there is an issue with scalability. The main issue with the solution is that there is no way to integrate any other vendors with it. It is scalable, but we need Cisco devices.
View full review »Cisco DNA Center has good scalability. For one customer, we deployed between 60 to 80 devices. So altogether, we have 160 to 180 devices or users using the solution. We have plans to increase the solution’s usage.
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Jack Manes
Senior Network Engineer at Ozark Technical Community College
Scalability is based on the number of licenses you buy. That's expensive sometimes. It's just software. So, you just buy more licenses. At some point, if you had a big enough network, you might have an issue, but we haven't had any issues with roughly 350 networking devices and 7,000 end devices. It hasn't reached its own limit yet with us, but I could see where it might, and it's just a matter of buying more licensing to expand it.
View full review »The product is scalable. My company has 500 users.
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reviewer2127081
Network Engineer at a construction company with 10,001+ employees
The latency limits our scalability.
We have approximately 10 network engineers using the solution.
We might increase our daily usage of the solution.
I rate the scalability of Cisco DNA Center a seven out of ten.
View full review »Scalability-wise, Cisco DNA Center is very good.
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SyedImran
Tech Specialist, Client Network DeliveryTech at AT&T
The scalability of Cisco DNA Center is okay.
On a scale from one to ten, I would give scalability a seven.
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reviewer2303172
Consultant - Enterprise Managed Services Centre Of Excellence (EMS-COE) at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
The tool is scalable. If we want to scale it, it will be expensive. There should be a good ratio between scalability and cost. Our clients are medium and large enterprises.
View full review »It is a scalable solution. I rate its scalability eight out of ten.
View full review »It is easily scalable in Mastercard. We are designated in card distribution and access the claim assistance. I would rate the scalability a nine out of ten.
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How scalable Cisco DNA Center is would depend on the license you get. If you need more devices, you can always buy more licenses, or expand your current license.
View full review »I rate Cisco DNA Center's scalability a five out of ten.
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Nihar Kapadia
Managing Director at Allot Group
Scalability isn't really an issue. However, it all depends on the version or the flavor that you are selecting. We don't see a challenge. All options are available to us.
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Yafar Khan
Senior Network Engineer at a museum or institution with 501-1,000 employees
The network team uses the solution in our organization.
View full review »DNA Center is scalable.
View full review »It's definitely scalable.
View full review »The solution is very scalable.
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reviewer1449057
Cloud and Digital Transformation Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
I haven't really got a view on that one because we haven't had a need to scale.
In terms of its users, we probably have 15 people, which also includes our partners, who use it as well as manage it.
View full review »The solution is suited for large organizations.
View full review »I would rate it 8 out of 10.
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reviewer1513455
Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
My impression of the scalability is all positive.
It's highly scalable. DNA itself is deployed as either a single node or a three-node cluster.
We were deploying it in a single node state, but my impression of it is quite positive. I like it a lot.
DNAC itself is an orchestrator and its collecting audit assurance, and telemetry. The entire IT staff of the end organization will be using the DNA center. It's probably a staff of 15 to 20 people.
In terms of endpoint end-users, that DNA is collecting assurance and telemetry from several thousand. It's being fully utilized.
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reviewer1073793
Solution Selector Communication and IT Security at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is easy to expand this solution because it is easy to configure, add new sites, and get bigger because you already have the plan. With the configuration already done, it's just plug and play.
The only problem with scaling DNA Center is that it doesn't support IP version 6 yet.
Our clients have between 3,000 and 8,000 users.
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reviewer2010738
Senior Manager, Customer Life Cycle Management Specialist at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution is scalable, we have around 100 users.
View full review »The scalability is one of the reasons that we chose Cisco DNA. We have ten buildings within the same campus and when we implemented the PoC, Cisco said that scalability is very important for us.
We have had about 3,000 people using this solution to this point, but we are not yet at full capacity. We expect to have more than 4,000 concurrent users.
View full review »It can scale very well from really small to huge and distributed networks.
View full review »The scalability is good, it is quite extendable.
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reviewer2290770
Sr. Solutions Architect, Consulting Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I rate the tool's scalability a nine out of ten.
View full review »This solution is scalable.
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reviewer1797993
Consultant - Enterprise Network at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is scalable only on a Cisco portfolio.
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