netconf

Let me just start by saying this…10 minutes before we even started the webinar, the questions started rolling in. The first question, of course, being “Do I need to understand programming to be a network engineer?” Something we’re hearing over and over these days. If you̵…

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…

CLI programming skills are still relevant in IOS XE, but adding a Linux container with Python natively embedded in release 16.5 takes programmable networks to the next level. With another Cisco Live fading in the rear-view mirror, I find myself reflecting on some of the really interesting events tha…

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…

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…

There’s a lot of buzz around just now when it comes to supporting vendor-neutral data models at the device layer, so it’s a good time to talk about what Cisco is doing to support open models, and OpenConfig models in particular. Customers have been rapidly adopting automation techniques…

There continues to be a lot of talk about automation and orchestration for carrier-grade workloads. However, these technologies can’t be fully leveraged until proper telemetry can be implemented. To shed some light on progress we’re making in delivering on network telemetry for we recently hosted a…

Software automation and data analytics are changing the face of computer networks. They are radically transforming how networks are built and operated. We are rapidly moving away from a world where a network operator manages tenths of network devices.  Instead, one individual can deploy and manage h…

We can’t express how excited we were when Cisco was asked to sponsor and participate in an independent event, hosted by Tech Field Day, which invited experts from NetFlix, Google, eBay, and SignalFX to discuss the technical challenges some of these web scale providers face and the innovations they h…