Open-source alternative  ·  Network Access Control

Replace Cisco ISE with PacketFence.

PacketFence provides 802.1X authentication, RADIUS, guest access, BYOD registration, and posture assessment. Full Cisco ISE replacement. Self-hosted, no per-endpoint licensing.

You'd keep~R6 600 to ~R13 320/year

Current licence  ·  Network Access Control

Cisco ISE

~R6 600 – ~R13 320/yr

10-user estimate

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PacketFence

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R13 320/yr

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Today's licence price

2 tiers. Cisco ISE's prices.

Vendor-advertised pricing converted to ZAR, 10-user estimate. Pick the tier closest to what your team is on today.

Base

R6 600/yr

R55/user/month

Per endpoint

With PacketFence

Keep R6 600/yr

Plus

R13 320/yr

R111/user/month

Per endpoint

With PacketFence

Keep R13 320/yr

Enterprise and negotiated pricing varies. Book a free audit for your exact number.

Five years on the books

What the spend looks like compounding.

Cisco ISE grows around 10% per year on average. PacketFence hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR6kR12kR17kR23kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R21kR12k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R0.03M

Salesforce alone, single tool, 50 users. Stack multiple tools and the maths compounds harder.

How this migration runs

Cisco ISEPacketFence, in four moves.

01

Audit

Workflows, customisations, integrations, users. Mapped against the OSS feature set.

02

Plan

Migration sequence, rollback path, parallel-run schedule. You approve every step before we move.

03

Migrate

Stream the data, verify checksums, replay the audit trail. Both stacks run side by side until cutover passes every test.

04

Operate

Documentation in your repo, monitoring on your infra. We stay on as the team that maintains and grows it.

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Other network access control migrations.

Running one of these alongside? Same migration shop covers both.

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Free audit. 30 minutes. We map your current setup, surface the real licence costs, and show you the migration in time and rand.