APIs

Every year, on the weekend before CiscoLive Europe we organize a DevNet Express for those passionate customers and partners willing to spend Saturday and Sunday with us. It’s two full days on how to get started for a specific product set of APIs… from scratch. As an attendee you get to listen, learn…

Evolve. Be Relevant. Get Certified. Why are a bunch of CONEs (Crusty Old Network Engineers) rallying around a certification focused on programming? The short answer is that we, too, must evolve and keep our skills relevant. The new Cisco DevNet certifications announced at Cisco Live US 2019 give us…

Only 56 percent of security alerts are investigated, and more than half of those are not remediated, according to the Cisco 2017 Annual Cybersecurity Report. Responding to these alerts is an overwhelming job, and most organizations do not have the security staff to keep up. Companies of all sizes fa…

Stealthwatch Enterprise is returning to the DevNet Zone this month in Barcelona, and we are bringing some new REST API capabilities with us to share! Cisco Stealthwatch Enterprise is the most comprehensive solution for visibility and security analytics on the market today. It is no surprise that Ste…

Node-RED tools for programming with Meraki The new year is here, and chances are you have a list of tasks you plan to tackle once and for all in 2020. Maybe there is some learning, or “brushing up” you’d like to do on your programming skills – and maybe this is a topic you’ve meant to explore…

This is the time of year for fresh starts – and what better way to kick it off than by setting some time aside for learning, brushing up on, or diving in to APIs? This could be the year you finally leverage the programmability of Cisco Meraki networks to better automate, configure at scale, an…

Demo overview If you read my previous blog post your demo environment is now completely set up and includes the following main components: 1 central headend router where partner extranet VPN connections from remote devices are terminated 4 remote partner routers (partner1, partner2, partner3, partn…

APWhy? Why a product without an API is not a product at all In early 2007 a certain Steve Jobs stepped on stage in Cupertino California. In his pocket he had a small device and in his mind one of the greatest product presentations of all time. The presentation, or rather the product, he introduced w…

As we get ever closer to the highly anticipated availability of Cisco DevNet Certifications exams (February, 2020), the excitement is building for those wishing to take and pass the DEVNET CCNP. For the professional track, exam requirements are similar to the CCNP current R&S track. In order to…