/mcpData sheet Cisco public © 2025 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Tables 16 and 17 show the features included in the Network Essentials and Advantage packages and in the Cisco Catalyst and Cisco DNA Essentials and Advantage packages. Table 16. Network Essentials and Advantage package features Features Network Essentials Network Advantage Switch fundamentals Layer 2, 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 Advanced switch capabilities and scale BGP, EIGRP, HSRP, IS-IS, BSR, MSDP, PIM-BIDIR,* IP SLA, OSPF Network segmentation VRF, VXLAN, LISP, Cisco TrustSec®, SGT, MPLS, mVPN Automation NETCONF, RESTCONF, gRPC, YANG, PnP Agent, ZTP/Open PnP, GuestShell (On-Box Python) Telemetry and visibility Model-driven telemetry, sampled NetFlow, SPAN, RSPAN High availability and resiliency Nonstop Forwarding (NSF), Graceful Insertion and Removal (GIR), Extended Fast Software Upgrade (xFSU), Software Patching (CLI based) IoT integration AVB, PTP, CoAP Security MACsec-256