/mcpSoftware licenses Table 10. License matrix
Cisco Catalyst Software
Subscription new
Cisco DNA subscription
Network Stack
Packages1
3, 5 or 7 Year Terms
3, 5 or 7 Year Terms
Perpetual
Tiers
Advantage, Essentials
Advantage, Essentials
Advantage, Essentials
Portability2
✓
✓
✓
Management options
Catalyst Center, Meraki
Dashboard
Catalyst Center, Meraki
Dashboard
CLI, Web UI
Included support
Base product-level support
for Hardware, Software and
OS
Software support (SWSS)
X
Included3 add-ons:
Common ISE policy,
Thousand Eyes network and
application assurance,
Cisco Spaces
X
X
X
1 For all new orders, subscription licenses are mandatory and must be of the same tier as network licenses
2 Portability within the same Catalyst 9K series of hardware
3 Only available with Advantage tier
Network licensing
Table 11.
Network Essentials and Advantage (Perpetual) features
Features on Cisco Catalyst uplink switches
Network Essentials
Network Advantage
Switch fundamentals
Layer 2, Static Routing, Routed Access (RIP, EIGRP Stub, OSPF -– 1000
routes), PBR, PIM Stub Multicast (1000 routes), PVLAN, VRRP, PBR, CDP,
QoS, FHS, 802.1X, MACsec-128, CoPP, SXP, IP SLA Responder, SSO
Yes
Yes
Advanced switch capabilities and scale
EIGRP, HSRP, IS-IS, BSR, MSDP, IP SLA, OSPF
BGP on C9200CX SKUs
No
Yes
Network segmentation
VRF, VXLAN, LISP, SGT
No
Yes
Automation
NETCONF, RESTCONF, YANG, PnP Agent, PnP
Yes
Yes
Telemetry and visibility
Model-driven telemetry, sampled NetFlow, SPAN, RSPAN
Yes
Yes