Cisco IBN
Cisco stands out in the crowd of leaders for Intent-Based Networking (IBN)
The intent-based networking (IBN) model promises to deliver on intelligent automation that continuously aligns the network to business needs. Many established and start-up networking vendors are recognizing IT needs more than basic automation to keep up with dynamic business needs. One could say tha…
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…
Ground floor – the foundation of Intent-based networking
Leading-edge networks—your network—can have the ability to comprehend business and application requirements and translate them to network and security policies. This ensures that your business critical services are continuously delivered and protected. We call it intent-based networking. Get started…
The Power of Multi-Domain Integration for Your Network
End-user expectations for digital experiences have never been higher. Cisco is meeting the demand to have an unplugged and uninterrupted experience with its multi-domain integration across the data center, campus, and branch. But what does this mean in practicality? Application access must be…
My Black Friday Wish List
I still haven’t decided whether I’ll be braving the crowds and shopping in the store on Black Friday, or if I’m going to wait until Cyber Monday to buy my holiday gifts. Regardless of my choice, there are still going to be a lot of people buying things in the coming week—over 165 m…
Cisco Catalyst 9000 – The best keeps getting better.
We can’t predict the future, but we can plan for the unknown. I think we can all agree that we are witnessing the real-time emergence of a new network. This is a network that must handle evolving technologies that brings IoT to the main stream, expands mobility to the back woods, and broadens horizo…
From Controllers to Multi-Domain: 7 Pillars of Intent-Based Networking
About four years ago, my team at Cisco sat down to re-architect enterprise networking, because we knew that the traditional models for running networks were not going to be able to scale with the changes being forced on to them. For example, we saw that the number and types of devices connecting to…
Simplicity Out of Chaos with Intent-based Networking
IT today is overworked, understaffed, and managing an increasingly complex network. Use cases for IoT are expanding. The proliferation of devices isn’t slowing down. The workforce is becoming more mobile. And applications and workloads are moving to the cloud and multicloud at a rapid pace. Without…
Network Assurance with Machine Reasoning and Machine Learning
Assurance is a key function of Intent-Based Networking (IBN). It is responsible for validating that the network is actively satisfying the business intent and objectives set forth by the operator. Network Assurance involves three main aspects: continuous verification of system behavior by examining…