This overview presents the vision for Cisco® Digital Network Architecture (DNA).

The architecture is built to facilitate fast and flexible network services that support digitalized business processes.

DNA centers around a network infrastructure that is not only fully programmable and open to third–party innovation, but can also fully and seamlessly integrates the cloud as an infrastructure component.

The DNA controller facilitates simple, automated and programmatic deployment of network services.

It brings the notion of user–and application–aware policies into the foreground of network operations.

With DNA, the network can provide continuous feedback to simplify and optimize network operations and to support digitalized applications to become inherently network–aware