IOS XE

Just before Cisco Live US, Cisco unveiled “The Network. Intuitive.” and with it is “Introducing an entirely new era of networking.” If you’re like me, you are likely intrigued, and are asking yourself.. “How do I get started?”. A great first place to start i…

With Open IOS XE, Cisco is Changing the Game Old-school network engineers probably remember the Cisco 2500-series router. It ran a slow Motorola 68000 CPU, the monolithic IOS operating system, and did one thing only: route packets.  Routers and switches have certainly sped up since then, and the ope…

Once again, MPLS World Congress 2017 proves to be a major event for the Networking industry and a key milestone for Segment Routing debates between vendors and customers. Industry at large is backing up Segment Routing: we are seeing adoption across all customer market segments – Telcos, Web Provid…

Cisco PSIRT has become aware of attackers potentially abusing the Smart Install (SMI) feature in Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software. While this is not considered a vulnerability, PSIRT published a Cisco Security Response on February 14, 2017 to inform customers about possible abuse of the Smart Install f…

Guest Blogger: Jeffrey Lo, Principal Engineer, Enterprise Networking Group. Jeff is a member of the founding engineering team that led the execution for IOS-XE and later evolved IOS-XE to enable a converged software stack across the routing, switching and wireless platforms in Cisco’s Enterprise Ne…

Guest Blogger: Pratap Pereira, Distinguished Engineer, Enterprise Networking Group. Pratap sets the long-term engineering direction for IOS and IOS-XE at Cisco. He was a founding engineer of IOS-XE and has seen it grow from the first commits of a new foundational infrastructure for routing platforms…

Guest blogger: Suresh Sangiah, Sr. Director, Enterprise Networking Group  Suresh leads the effort to reinvent the software stack that powers Cisco’s enterprise network portfolio. He spends his (long) days pushing the envelope on the infrastructure and networking technology needed to influence and le…

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As part of our IWAN series I wanted to take a closer look into what trends are impacting the Service Providers. My previous blog talked about how Enterprises can use the CSR 1000V  to migrate to the Cloud. This week I wanted to talk about how Service Providers are using the CSR to deliver services t…