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C9500-24Q-E-A-5-9500 DNA Essentials to Advantage 5 Year License is a network management software license upgrade designed for Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series switches. This upgrade transitions a device from DNA Essentials to the more feature‐rich DNA Advantage, offering an enhanced operational experience and advanced network control capabilities.
Targeted at enterprise and IT admin use cases, this license falls under the subscription category with a defined five-year term. It is delivered as a digital key via electronic download, activated online, and is compatible with cross-platform management environments, making it an ideal solution for modern network deployments that demand reliable, high-performance management tools.
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In a multinational enterprise campus supporting 10,000+ users, IT teams deploy the Cisco Catalyst C9500-24Q-E with DNA Essentials to Advantage 5-Year License to enable SD-Access, policy-based segmentation and automated device onboarding. This use case delivers zero-touch provisioning, consistent security policies across wired/wireless domains and a 60% reduction in manual configuration errors, ensuring compliance and accelerated time-to-value.
A financial services data center leverages the C9500-24Q-E and DNA Advantage license to implement end-to-end visibility, real-time telemetry and granular QoS for latency-sensitive trading applications. The result is 40% improvement in application performance monitoring, proactive anomaly detection and streamlined root-cause analysis, safeguarding SLAs and reducing mean-time-to-resolution by 50%.
A global retail chain uses the C9500-24Q-E with a 5-Year DNA Essentials to Advantage subscription to automate secure WAN extension and IoT on-boarding across 200+ remote stores. By leveraging centralized policy templates and device profiling, the solution cuts branch provisioning time from days to hours, enforces consistent access controls and reduces operational overhead by 70%, driving faster store openings and improved customer experience.
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 C9500-24Q-E-A-5 |  C9200L-DNA-A-24-3Y= |  C9200L-48-E-A-5 |  C9500-DNA-40X-E-A |  IM-C9500-DNALP1Y | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Product Type | Software License | Software License | Software License | Software License | Software License |
| Software Category | Network Management | Network Management | Network Management | Network Management | Network Management |
| License Type | Subscription | Subscription | Subscription | Subscription | Subscription |
| License Duration | N/A | 3 Years | N/A | 1 Year | 1 Year |
| Use Case | Enterprise | Enterprise | Enterprise | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| User Count | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Device Count | 1 Device | N/A | 1 Device | 1 Device | N/A |
| Platform Compatibility | Cross-Platform | N/A | N/A | N/A | Web-Based |
| Delivery Method | Digital Key | Digital Key | Digital Key | Digital Key | Digital Key |
| Activation Type | Online Activation | Online Activation | Online Activation | Online Activation | Online Activation |
| Language Support | English | English | English | English | English |
| Bit Version | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Cloud Integration | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Software Format | Downloadable | Downloadable | Downloadable | Downloadable | Downloadable |
| Support Included | Yes | Vendor Support Required | Yes | Yes | Vendor Support Required |
| Product Name | C9500-24Q-E-A-5-9500 DNA Essentials to Advantage 5 Year License | C9200L-DNA-A-24-3Y=-C9200L DNA Advantage, 24-port, 3 Year Term license | C9200L-48-E-A-5-48-port NW & DNA Ess to NW & DNA Adv Upgrade License (5Y) | C9500-DNA-40X-E-A-C9500 DNA 40P10G Upgrade License | IM-C9500-DNALP1Y-C9500 DNA Premier,12Q/16X/24Y4C ,1Year Term License |
| License Key Included | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| ESD (Electronic Software Delivery) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Renewable | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Compliance Certifications | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Product Region | Global | Global | Global | Global | Global |
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The Cisco DNA Essentials to Advantage 5 Year License (SKU: C9500-24Q-E-A-5) is a subscription upgrade that elevates Catalyst 9500 Series switches from DNA Essentials to DNA Advantage, unlocking advanced automation, assurance, segmentation and security features for a five-year term.
The C9500-24Q-E-A-5 license is fully compatible with all Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series switches running IOS XE 16.9.1 or later.
DNA Advantage adds advanced automation, AI-driven analytics, software-defined segmentation, encrypted traffic analytics and policy-based QoS, extending the core management and basic assurance found in DNA Essentials.
The Cisco DNA Advantage subscription provided by SKU C9500-24Q-E-A-5 is valid for five years from the activation date.