Cisco DNA Advantage 5 Year License EDU Only | Enterprise Licensing — C9500-DNAA-5Y-CAP

Keep campus infrastructure aligned to a longer planning horizon with Cisco DNA Advantage 5-year EDU licensing for Catalyst 9500 deployments. This license supports advanced intent-based operations, policy-driven segmentation, and centralized visibility for teams managing complex enterprise or education networks. For organizations standardizing on Cisco campus switching, DNA Advantage helps reduce manual configuration overhead while preserving control over access, assurance, and network policy. The 5-year term is well suited to multi-year refresh cycles, budget planning, and environments where consistency matters more than short-term procurement. Because this is an EDU-only entitlement, it is intended for eligible education customers that need advanced capabilities without overbuying features they will not use. It is a practical fit for institutions that want to protect uptime, simplify operations, and keep network services aligned with long-term academic and administrative demands. Ideal For Campus network refreshes requiring multi-year Cisco licensing coverage Education environments standardizing on Catalyst 9500 switching IT teams managing policy-based campus operations across distributed sites Procurement programs that require predictable 5-year software entitlement Why This Product 1 5-year term supports longer budget cycles than annual licensing 2 EDU-only entitlement fits eligible education procurement 3 Designed for Catalyst 9500 environments rather than generic campus licensing 4 Advanced DNA Advantage coverage suits teams needing policy and automation control