Cisco ACI allows your environment to deploy new networks virtually, adjust application policies on the network, and gain greater network visibility. The Cisco DNA Center takes these ideas a step further and builds upon the achievements of Cisco ACI. The DNA Center is a centralized automation and management platform for the entire network, and it is actually powered by a new enterprise-scale version of the APIC called the APIC-EM.
Beyond the templated approach to application policy, the DNA Center can also automate IWAN deployment and management. In addition, it can provide business insight from your Cisco wireless infrastructure with CMX Cloud. Using presence and location information, the DNA Center can deliver customer behavior data to the network administrators.
