Model-Driven Telemetry

When IOS XR was first designed, mass-scale networking and its related challenges were not around.  However, we already had a clear vision of building a highly scalable, reliable, available, upgradeable, high-performance NOS for the service provider space that caters all the way from low-end single c…

New learning labs and sandbox As our journey through network automation grows, so does the need for our network tools. Network Engineers have always been considered the absolute escalation point for any performance difficulties and problems, irrespective whether the root cause is really the network,…

Why Streaming Telemetry? Cisco IOS XE is the Network Operating System for the Enterprise. It runs on switches like the Catalyst 9000, routers like the ASR 1000, CSR1000v, and ISR 1000 and 4000’s, Catalyst 9800 Wireless LAN controllers, as well as a few other devices in IoT and Cable product li…

The race to 5G is intensifying as exemplified by a number of public announcements made by leading mobile operators. However, deeper conversations with service providers yield a very simple but important question. How will we make the investments in 5G upgrades profitable?  The bet is that 5G technol…

The wide-spread adoption of the Internet is simply phenomenal. 2018 marks the year where the number of Internet users has surpassed half of the world’s population with 3.6B users. And, according to Cisco VNI, IP traffic will grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 24 percent from 2016 to 202…

Innovation, quality and customer focus are part of Cisco DNA. Our customers expressed the need to have a platform that is compact, dense, flexible, feature rich and supports programmability. I’m thrilled to announce the availability of ASR 9901 – a compact Two-Rack-Unit (2RU) platform designed for a…

Traditional features such as SNMP, CLI, and Syslog, used for collecting operational statistics from a network, have several restrictions due to the growth of the objects like IoT devices and cloud based applications. SNMP uses the pull model when retrieving data from a switch. This model cannot scal…

The Other Half of the Story With model-driven telemetry (MDT), routers can stream out large amounts of operational data in a highly efficient, easily consumable way. But getting data off the box is only half the story. You have to have something on the other end to collect and transform the raw data…

MPLS+SDN+NFV World Congress 2017 is just around the corner and I want to explain why I think this is a must-see event. Simplification, automation and virtualization are words that have been used by marketers, like myself for years. I think we can all agree, at some point, for these words to become r…