"DNA Center is scalable."
"Cisco is a leading network company."
"What's most valuable in Cisco DNA Center is the ability to manage any Cisco infrastructure and device through it. Setup was straightforward."
"I like the visibility, instant build, network, policies, and the ability to control access. I also like that you can visualize your whole network."
"It does a lot of things automatically, and that's the big thing with it. They're making the software so that you don't need to be as knowledgeable as me on the switching and routing side to get your work done. If you want, you can have DNA troubleshoot your problem for you and give you solutions or fix it itself, if it was something that's just a configuration issue."
"I think that their LAN automation is a very good feature."
"We have many people from the team who manage a lot of devices. By using Cisco DNA Center, it has taken some of that burden away, we are impressed with it. We did the investment in CAPEX, but in the OPEX was very low."
"The solution has the capability to scale."
"It allows me to do more of the basic firewall features, like traffic management and others, in a single pane of glass."
"The most valuable feature is the management from a single pane of glass."
"There are some software problems from version to version. It takes a long time for DNA Center to recognize the video and control access devices."
"Integration with analytic tools and API integrations would be ideal."
"From the recent DNA point of view, there are some stability challenges with Cisco, but very minor."
"Cisco could improve the security side of their solutions."
"The solution can be quite pricey."
"Cisco DNA Center was a new technology for us, at the beginning, it was not easy to do, but Cisco did a lot of training with us to a level we could handle everything. The team is managing itself now without the assistance of Cisco."
"It seems to be a little bit more centered toward wireless than wired. You've got more options you can do wirelessly than you can with the wired switches, but it works for what we need it to do. We would like to see a little bit more about the traffic, and we're looking at what's out there to see about that. We are looking at something that might give us a bit more insight into the actual traffic. If they had the full functionality on the wired side, as they do on the wireless side in terms of being able to view traffic and everything, it would be good."
"What could be improved is the licensing cost of Cisco DNA Center. It's a little bit expensive."
"The upgrades are very time-consuming and difficult, and they often have to rebuild the product."
"I would like to see Space created to fully functional, where it's got multiple modules, particularly SD-WAN working on Corporate, or maybe become part of the Orchestrator portion."
Cisco DNA Center is ranked 3rd in Network Management Applications with 10 reviews while Junos Space Network Director is ranked 14th in Network Management Applications with 2 reviews. Cisco DNA Center is rated 7.6, while Junos Space Network Director is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Cisco DNA Center writes "Robust, zero-day configuration with wireless assurance and telemetry, with outstanding support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Junos Space Network Director writes "Central management with a single pane of glass, but they need to keep developing it". Cisco DNA Center is most compared with Cisco Prime, SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Huawei eSight and VMware NSX, whereas Junos Space Network Director is most compared with SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, Anuta ATOM, Fortinet FortiManager, ExtremeManagement and Cisco Prime. See our Cisco DNA Center vs. Junos Space Network Director report.
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