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History of WAN circuits I still remember the mid to late 1990s and my first interactions with the Internet. At that time I had my Pentium personal computer for around a year and Windows 95 was all the rage. And while Solitaire and Minesweeper were fun enough, that Broadcom 56kbps modem really opened…

Earlier blogs have covered PnP use cases for simple deployments of a single switch.  This blog covers the design and automated deployment of a complete branch infrastructure. There will be no need to connect to the Command Line Interface (CLI) of any device. Topology In this example, Enterprise Netw…

It’s no secret that one of the biggest challenges network engineers face when they embark on the network automation journey is the lack of concise documentation in open source projects. In many cases, I find myself digging through the code of projects to understand how to use it (therefore my…

As a junior network engineer at a university I wrote a lot of management scripts in Perl.  I had scripts to do things such as check switchport configurations and upgrade switch code. Times have changed a lot since then. The university’s web server now runs in the cloud, rather than on my personal wo…

I like Cisco Chats because they give us an opportunity to connect with our global Developer Community. It’s a time for Cisco programmability experts to share helpful information that can guide you in your new or ongoing projects. Our next #DevNet #CiscoChat is about Partner success! November 1, 2018…

How encoding and transport of the data-model gives you power and flexibility In the first blog, I attempted to make the point that the declarative approach of using function-specific modules in Ansible is not scalable. In the second blog, I introduced data models into the conversation to help organi…

Webex Teams REST APIs and SDKs are easy to use on their own, but you can super-charge your collaboration integration project by leveraging this growing collection of community generated code, libraries, tools and links lovingly curated in the “Awesome Webex” repo on the DevNet Code Excha…

Is your city “smart?” From automatically dimming street lights, to stopping escalators when not in use, to finding out if your bus is on schedule – it’s fascinating how advances like these can make our lives easier and save money. Most of these changes seem magical to most of…

The IIT RTC Conference and Expo is a collaborative event where industry and academia connect. Leveraging its unique academic setting, this annual conference brings together technical professionals and business executives from the data and telecommunications industry, standards bodies, policy and reg…