Jose,
You are right. You don't need ACS for NAC.
With Cisco switches you can do OOB and IB. Without, you can do IB.
Without the CCA servers, you can't do NAC, but can do Dot1x with ACS and Cisco switches (possibly with others too, but Cisco switches tested only)
HTH,
Faisal
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