Cisco DNA Center
Bringing Domains Together with Intent-Based Networking
Cisco’s multidomain integration is a new chapter in the intent-based networking journey with access and security policies that follow users and devices as network traffic traverses between domains. Automating connectivity and policy across domains – data center, campus, and branch – is…
Clair Global rocks hospitality experience with Network Analytics
Clair Global is one of the primary developers of Rock Lititz, a campus shared with other companies in the live event industry. The 96-acre campus in the middle of a cornfield in Lancaster County, PA, brings together top production-based vendors and resources for live entertainment. Guests, vendors,…
Unpacking IoT, a series: The complexity challenge and what you can do about it
In my previous two blog posts, I explained how Cisco addresses the security and scalability challenges associated with an Internet of Things (IoT) deployment. In this post, I cover the final of the top three challenges: complexity. For an IoT initiative to be successful, the deployment and managemen…
Drag and drop your way to network segmentation
I can understand if you dread configuring network segmentation. Not only is it hard to configure the many different switches and routers, creating VLANs, using ACLs to create lists of permit or deny IP addresses, it is also easy to make mistakes and risk shutting down parts of the network. And with…
Unpacking IoT, a series: The scalability challenge and what you can do about it
The Internet of Things (IoT) presents a number of challenges for network engineers. In my previous post, I explained how Cisco is helping to address the biggest IoT challenge by far: security. In this post, we’ll cover the next challenge: scalability. As shown in the figure below, tens of billions o…
WIT fosters startups and nurtures students with an open yet secure network
Just about two years ago, Aidan McGrath, Pat Cluney, and Jerry Horgan found themselves in a dilemma. The infrastructure of the network at Waterford Institute of Technology needed an upgrade. The dilemma was whether to simply upgrade what was in place and keep IT running as usual, or be bold, and use…
Gartner names Cisco a Leader in LAN Access for 5th Year Straight
Over the last year, Cisco has continued on our intent-based networking journey, making sure that we addressed our customers’ business outcomes and use cases for the entire wired and wireless access networking. No matter the new products, from our switches to access points, to controllers to software…
Cisco DNA Center Template Archive/Restore
Background I have written a number of blogs about CLI templates in Cisco DNA Center. These templates can be used as part of the “provisioning” workflow in the UI, or programmatically directly from the API. One question that often comes up is the ability to share templates through archive and restor…
pyATS | Genie APIs Unlock the Power of Cisco DNA Center
Join me on Nov 7 for a DevNet hosted webinar: Network Automation with pyATS, Genie and Cisco DNA Center. The blog below is a primer for that webinar. Integrating APIs into the pyATS automation ecosystem Intent-based networking using Cisco Digital Network Architecture Center provides you an eagle’s…