Cisco Catalyst Center

Simplify network management

Overview

Smarter network management for campus, branch and WAN

Overwhelmed by the forces of mobility, IoT, analytics and cloud, the traditional enterprise network is undergoing radical change to meet the demands of scale, agility and advanced threat protection. Against this backdrop we present the next innovation in network management, Cisco Catalyst Center – formerly known as Cisco DNA.

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of connected IoT devices by 2025

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of data will be generated by those IoT devices

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of network changes today are done manually

Recognising that organisations are overrun sustaining their current environments, Cisco Catalyst Center does all the work for you allowing IT to focus on the business, not the network. Explore Cisco Catalyst Center, the comprehensive intent-based network management solution that gives you the power to design, provision, enable policy, and assure network performance from the one place.

Benefits
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Simplified, centralised management

Spend less energy managing the network and increase uptime with policy-driven provisioning and guided remediation.

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Optimised network and application performance

AI/ML network insights ensure consistent and secure application delivery for highly distributed, multiload environments.

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Secure access anywhere

Secure your hybrid workforce with zero trust policies, automated access policies, dynamic segmentation and capabilities to sense threats and take corrective action.

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Provision hands free

Replace previously manual onboarding, configuration, provisioning, and software management processes with single-button workflows and plug-and-play automation.

Solution

Adopt Cisco Catalyst Center with Data#3’s lifecycle approach

1. Automation
2. Assurance
3. Software-Defined Access

Leveraging Cisco Catalyst Center’s automation capabilities to reduce manual tasks and improve your time to value through:

  • Visibility: Automate device discovery for easy end-to-end network visibility and inventory management
  • Intent: Define network intent and translate into automation
  • Deployment: Utilise easy plug-&-play to instantly onboard new devices
  • Management: Maintain software version consistency across every device through the right software image management

Improve your users network experience through:

  • Network visibility and troubleshooting: Deeper visibility and management capabilities through one pane of glass
  • Efficiency: Uses the power of data to optimise networks and improve performance and reliability so you can pinpoint problems

Provide access to any user, device, or application from the edge to the cloud:

  • Enhanced security and compliance: Keep traffic separate with end-to-end segmentation.
  • Consistent experiences: a common user policy using a single fabric spanning wired and wireless infrastructure
  • Improved operational effectiveness: Automate user policy and network provisioning
  • Insights: Gain actionable insights from network data
Cisco Catayst 9000 Switching

Designed for the era of intent-based networking

The Cisco Catalyst 9000 switching family is a foundational element of the Cisco Catalyst Centre Architecture and Software-Defined Access (SD-Access).

Discover the benefits of upgrading to Cisco Catalyst 9000 Switches in this feature comparison list.

Cisco Catalyst Center Demos

Watch our Data#3 Principal Consultant, Chris Day, demonstrate some Cisco Catalyst Center (formerly Cisco DNA) network automation capabilities in these videos below:

Cisco Catalyst Center: Automating QoS

Cisco Catalyst Center: Plug and Play

Readiness Assessment

Data#3’s Cisco Catalyst Center Readiness Assessment

Our Catalyst Center Readiness Assessment identifies current network infrastructure that is and is not Cisco Catalyst Center capable and provides recommended next steps.

Why Data#3 and Cisco?

More than a procurement partner

As a Cisco Master Networking Specialised Partner and Cisco APJC Customer Experience Partner of the Year (2023), Data#3 is uniquely positioned to help you take your network into the future. We’re not just a procurement partner, we are your everything partner – here to guide you through the procurement, implementation and adoption phases of Cisco Catalyst Center.

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Automate your network today

To learn more about where you are at in your networking journey, or how to further unlock automation value, contact a Data#3 Cisco specialist.

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