Network programmability

Guest Author: Diogo Andre de Assumpcao is a network engineer working on network reliability and automation, and has a deep passion for writing code. If you walk into a room full of developers, there is one thing you’ll quickly notice on their screens — multicolored text. Coloring source…

I am so excited. Just today I’ve started working in a new role around infrastructure programmability and NetDevOps.  But how did this happen to a classic network engineer? And why is this relevant to you? Please come with me on this 20-year trip! Background info In my previous life I worked fo…

Earlier blogs have covered PnP use cases for simple deployments of a single switch.  This blog covers the design and automated deployment of a complete branch infrastructure. There will be no need to connect to the Command Line Interface (CLI) of any device. Topology In this example, Enterprise Netw…

As a junior network engineer at a university I wrote a lot of management scripts in Perl.  I had scripts to do things such as check switchport configurations and upgrade switch code. Times have changed a lot since then. The university’s web server now runs in the cloud, rather than on my personal wo…

Is your city “smart?” From automatically dimming street lights, to stopping escalators when not in use, to finding out if your bus is on schedule – it’s fascinating how advances like these can make our lives easier and save money. Most of these changes seem magical to most of…

The IIT RTC Conference and Expo is a collaborative event where industry and academia connect. Leveraging its unique academic setting, this annual conference brings together technical professionals and business executives from the data and telecommunications industry, standards bodies, policy and reg…

Get your free DevNet account for access to our developer resources, learning labs, and sandbox. A few weeks back I shared this blog post New XR Programmability Learning Labs and Sandbox introducing the new IOS-XR Learning Lab and a dedicated sandbox environment for IOS-XR programmability. This IOS-X…

Get your free DevNet account for access to our developer resources, learning labs, and sandbox. Chances are, if you are in engineering, you have been involved in an outage at some stage in your career – be this your current role or a former role. No one likes the unexpected wake-up calls at 01…

If you have visited the Cisco community forums lately, you might have noticed that things have changed a bit. In July, Cisco migrated the communities to a new platform. However, the biggest change isn’t the new platform. Rather, it’s the fact that now all of Cisco’s communities have joined together…