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Cisco have published some great guides for enterprise Wi-Fi and Catalyst Center. In this blog, we run through a platform that sits right alongside them - **Cisco Spaces** (formerly Cisco DNA Spaces), which uses the location data from your Wi-Fi network to deliver location-aware applications. ![Free eBooks Enterprise Wireless and DNA Assurance](https://blog.iptel.com.au/hs-fs/hubfs/eBooks%20and%20Downloads/Free%20Cisco%20eBooks%20-%20Enterprise%20Wi-Fi%20and%20Catalyst%20Center/Free%20eBooks%20Enterprise%20Wireless%20and%20DNA%20Assurance-still.jpg?width=1680&height=945&name=Free%20eBooks%20Enterprise%20Wireless%20and%20DNA%20Assurance-still.jpg) Factor in the ability to be able to undertake tasks and trigger outcomes and you have a pretty interesting product.  --- ## Cisco Spaces: What does it do? The major question to get your head around with **Cisco Spaces** is: what does it actually do? The answer is—a lot. The key point is that, with a range of vendor applications it can interconnect to or work alongside, there are numerous productivity use cases. Not to be confused with **Cisco Catalyst Center** (which is the network management application), **Cisco Spaces** offers completely different functionality. - **Hotspot Wi-Fi**: Originally, Wi-Fi was deployed as a hotspot technology, enabling laptops to be used away from the desk. - [**Increasing AP Density:**](https://blog.iptel.com.au/increasing-access-point-density) Over the years, deployments have been upgraded to support Wi-Fi voice, IoT devices, Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) / Guest access, biomedical integration, and a host of other services. - [Location Awareness:](https://blog.iptel.com.au/ap-placement-location-grade)A newer capability—using Wi-Fi to essentially triangulate (or trilaterate) the location of a Wi-Fi transmitter. - **Location grade Wi-Fi**: We've deployed many Wi-Fi installations to [location-grade](https://blog.iptel.com.au/ap-placement-location-grade) standards, which typically locate devices to within about 10 metres. How Does This Fit Into Cisco Spaces? **Cisco Spaces** leverages location information and displays it on a map, enabling organisations to utilise this data in a variety of ways. Related reading - [Cisco Catalyst Center](https://iptel.com.au/technologies/cisco-catalyst-center) - [Security and ISE](https://iptel.com.au/technologies/security-and-cisco-ise) - [Cisco Catalyst Center Assurance](https://blog.iptel.com.au/blog/cisco-catalyst-center-assurance) - [5 Ways Catalyst Center Solves your Challenges](https://info.iptel.com.au/cisco-dna) ## Cisco Spaces: How to Connect Connecting **Cisco Spaces** in your environment is straightforward. There are two primary ways to connect: - **Cisco CMX**: If you already have Cisco CMX installed, you can use it to connect to the cloud and **Cisco Spaces**. - **Cisco Spaces Connector**: If you don’t have CMX or prefer an alternative connection method, the **Cisco Spaces Connector** provides a simple way to connect via a lightweight VMware installation. Either of these methods will connect you to the **Cisco Spaces** cloud. **Cisco Spaces** is licensed per Access Point (AP) and accessed through a standard web browser.   Related reading - [Cisco Catalyst Center Beginners Guide](https://blog.iptel.com.au/cisco-catalyst-center-beginners-guide) --- ## Cisco Spaces Accessibility With the ability to access via a standard web browser, once configured you have access to Cisco Spaces from anywhere you need - or via any device - in your organisation. The Cisco Spaces Dashboard is your entry point into the applications you can use. Clicking on each of the panel icons on the screen below takes you to the applications. You can update these via the [Cisco Spaces marketplace](https://blog.iptel.com.au/free-cisco-ebooks-enterprises-wifi-and-catalyst-center#dna-marketplace): ![DNA Spaces Overview Screen](https://blog.iptel.com.au/hs-fs/hubfs/Blogs/Cisco%20DNA%20Spaces/DNA%20Spaces%20Overview%20Screen.jpg?width=1294&height=954&name=DNA%20Spaces%20Overview%20Screen.jpg) There's an app for your phone to make life a little easier too, so you can have this installed as part of your standard corporate device MDM build. Staff can access the various applications that make up Cisco Spaces from the app or via a browser. This means that nursing staff can be on the ward and access the app to locate an infusion pump while at the bedside, or a visiting patient can call up the wayfinding information to find their way to their appointment.  Let's take a look at some of the applications. ## Cisco Spaces Applications One of the most powerful aspects of **Cisco Spaces** is that it’s not just a single application. Cisco has a great blog on [Cisco Spaces and Indoor IoT Services](https://blogs.cisco.com/networking/cisco-dna-spaces-indoor-iot-services-with-wi-fi-6-delivering-business-outcomes-at-scale) (I’ve included a couple of images below), which is worth a look for some background. **![DNA Spaces Market Place](https://blog.iptel.com.au/hs-fs/hubfs/Blogs/Cisco%20DNA%20Spaces/DNA%20Spaces%20Market%20Place.jpg?width=336&height=225&name=DNA%20Spaces%20Market%20Place.jpg)Cisco Spaces** includes a **marketplace**. Like many modern platforms that allow you to integrate third-party widgets and applications, **Cisco Spaces** offers this capability as well. This is where the real business value comes in—you can take your existing location systems, integrate them into **Cisco Spaces**, and utilise any existing location beacons and tags directly within the platform. This means you can leverage your **Cisco Location** data, the **Cisco Spaces** front end, and a range of snap-in applications. There’s a broad selection available, with a few examples shown below: ## ![DNA Spaces Partner Applications](https://blog.iptel.com.au/hs-fs/hubfs/Blogs/Cisco%20DNA%20Spaces/DNA%20Spaces%20Partner%20Applications.png?width=1421&height=864&name=DNA%20Spaces%20Partner%20Applications.png) Let's take a quick look at a couple of these (they need a blog in their own right, but a quick overview is hopefully useful): - **Real Time Location Services (RTLS):** Tracking of Wi-Fi devices and tags - **Wayfinding:** Application to guide you around a facility with wayfinding instructions on your device - **Temperature Monitoring:** Automated monitoring and reporting of fridges Related reading - [Cisco AI Analytics in operation](https://blog.iptel.com.au/cisco-ai-analytics-in-operation) - [Cisco Machine Learning and AI](https://blog.iptel.com.au/cisco-machine-learning-and-ai) --- ## Cisco Spaces Summary [![Cisco Catalyst Spaces Applications Instagram](https://blog.iptel.com.au/hs-fs/hubfs/Blogs/Cisco%20DNA%20Spaces%20Applications/Cisco%20Catalyst%20Spaces%20Applications%20Instagram.png?width=240&height=240&name=Cisco%20Catalyst%20Spaces%20Applications%20Instagram.png)](https://blog.iptel.com.au/cisco-spaces-applications)There's a lot more to explore in Cisco Spaces than we have run through in this blog. The suite of applications takes your Wi-Fi network to the next level. With the use of location data, you can really start to get greater value from your Wi-Fi network, enabling time saving and efficient processes and procedures.     There are a couple of key aspects of Cisco Spaces that are worth a look and will be a couple of future blogs: - **Asset Locator**: Formerly Operational Insights, this is a component to track your devices - anything with Wi-Fi built in, or you can attach a location tracking tag to - **Internal IoT Services:** Formerly BLE Manager, management for Bluetooth beacons Related reading - [Cisco Catalyst Center Assurance](https://blog.iptel.com.au/blog/cisco-catalyst-center-assurance) - [Catalyst Center Enablement](https://blog.iptel.com.au/cisco-catalyst-center-enablement) - [5 ways Catalyst Center solves your challenges](https://info.iptel.com.au/cisco-dna) - [Zero Trust Architecture](https://blog.iptel.com.au/zero-trust-architecture) - [Deploying Zero Trust Architecture](https://blog.iptel.com.au/zero-trust-deployment) ### Talk to an IPTel Engineer IPTel is a Cisco Preferred Partner designing, deploying and managing networks across Australia. 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