Cisco DNA Center

August 30, 2018

NETWORKING

Intent-Based Networking Ready Mobility Express – What’s New? Part 1

This is part one of a two-part blog series about the latest enhancements of the Cisco Mobility Express solution. You already know that Cisco Mobility Express is a great tool for the SMB set. Now larger organizations can deploy Cisco Mobility Express and Cisco DNA Center thanks to new multi-site-base…

August 29, 2018

DEVELOPER

See How to Use the Plug and Play Template Editor in Cisco DNA Center – Part 3

The Rubber Hits the Road.. The first and second blog posts in this series gave an overview of network Plug and Play (PnP) and how it has evolved in Cisco DNA Center.   They showed a very simple workflow to provision a device with a configuration template with a variable called “hostname.”   Th…

August 23, 2018

NETWORKING

Cisco Tools for SD-Branch Orchestration and Management

As we have discussed in this series, enterprise and service providers are consolidating network services from dedicated hardware appliances into virtualized on-demand applications running on branch office software with centralized orchestration and management. Eliminating the hardware need for each…

August 16, 2018

NETWORKING

5 Reasons Cisco DNA Center is your Network Lifeline

By now, you’ve probably heard that the network is open for business with Cisco DNA Center. But, before we get into what that really means, let’s take a walk down the Cisco DNA Center memory lane. DNA Center is a complete software-based network automation and assurance solution in the form of a 360 d…

August 7, 2018

NETWORKING

Cisco Named a Leader in the 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for the Wired and Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure

When we released Cisco DNA Center last year, we knew that it was going to make a big splash in the industry. After reading the evaluation in the 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for the Wired and Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure, we now know it for sure. DNA Center is a complete software-based network…

August 1, 2018

NETWORKING

Shining a Light on Shadow IT

I touched on the problem of Shadow IT in the expanding world of IoT in a previous blog A Security Fabric for IoT. But there is another ecosystem of applications and hardware besides IoT devices to manage in the realm of Shadow IT. From the old days of departments buying OTS packaged software for spe…

July 25, 2018

NETWORKING

Customers Vote with their Dollar$$$

For twelve years, I have been at Cisco in the field of helping customers meet their needs.  Big customers, small customers and partners (that supply our solutions to customers) across all industries. The one constant in this sea of diversity, is that customers vote with their dollars. This is especi…

July 19, 2018

DEVELOPER

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…

July 16, 2018

DEVELOPER

Python Scripting APIs in Cisco DNA Center Let You Improve Effectiveness

Get your free DevNet account for access to our developer resources, learning labs & sandbox Just before I left for Cisco Live US, I was given the chance to work with the APIs on Cisco DNA Center. Having never used Cisco DNA Center this was a quick learning curve, but once I started I could see…