automated provisioning
See How to Use the Plug and Play API in DNA Center – Part 2
Continuing the PnP story… The first blog in this series gave an overview of network Plug and Play (PnP) and how it has evolved in DNA Center. It showed a very simple workflow to provision a device with a configuration template with a variable called “hostname”. One of my customers had a requ…
How much time do you need to on-board a new device in your network?
Co-written with Patrick Warichet, Technical Marketing Engineer I’ve been asking that question to many Service Providers and I’ve always got unclear answers. Either they don’t have the answer handy or they don’t really want to share this insight fearing to be compared with their peers … Without discl…
Serious Simplification Advancement
Recently I spent time at Cisco Live Orlando where I caught up with Trey Layton, CTO, VCE. We had an opportunity to talk about automation and orchestration of Vblock with Cisco UCS Director (formerly Cloupia). Over recent months, we have been doing even more work for our customers, collectively betwe…