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Will we recognize Networking in 2 years? Exploring Networking Trends in Europe
I just got to spend a week at Cisco Live Barcelona, where I spent time with our European customers to learn about their most pressing networking needs. What did I hear? Over and over, one of the recurring themes was that teams are feeling overwhelmed by the unprecedented changes their networks need…
SD-WAN at an Inflection Point: As Deployments Scale, Enterprises Look Beyond Connectivity
Rohit Mehra is the Vice President of Network Infrastructure at IDC SD-WAN is on a strong trajectory. IDC survey data have captured these trends: In late 2018, 40% of enterprises had already tried or deployed SD-WAN, up from just 10% a year earlier. Of the 1,200 global enterprise WAN decision-makers…
SDN is Growing Up – It’s called IBN
Recently, there have been some questions circulating about whether software-defined networking (SDN) has been a success and even whether it has a future at all. In fact, if you look at the actual adoption numbers, SDN has been hugely successful in helping enterprise IT teams achieve more simplified,…
CLEUR Preview! Source of Truth Driven Network Automation
It’s a new year and a new decade, so it’s time for a NEW BLOG about network automation. I am getting ready for Cisco Live Europe 2020 and want to give everyone a preview of some of what I’ll be talking about in my session How DevNet Sandbox Built an Automated Data Center Network in…
In the time it takes for you to read this, one more person is diagnosed
‘Running makes me feel happy’ Like Max, that’s all I concerned myself with when I was his age. Just doing anything that put a smile on my face. As ‘responsible’ adults, we can be guilty of finding less time to do the things we enjoy. Not Max. He runs, he plays and does what is expected of a boy his…
Network Service Based Automation Part 2 – Building Services
Break out the popcorn and candy for the conclusion to my exploration of Network Service based automation and how we’re using it within DevNet Sandbox as part of our own internal automation strategy. In Part 1 the focus was on what consuming network services was like after they were built, and…
Open vRAN at MWC Los Angeles 2019
It seems that you can’t write about mobile without talking about 5G, and for good reason – what a year it has been! Launches around the globe have accelerated at a pace that is even faster than prior generations. While some deployments are larger scale, like we see in South Korea, many of thes…
What Changed In My Network?!! Let Genie Tell You
One of the common types of network engineering sleuthing is discovering what changed when the network is behaving differently, but everyone is saying “nothing changed.” In large networks this can be like looking for that needle in a haystack without a magnet… long, tedious, and rew…
Network Service Based Automation Part 1 – The Experience
Welcome back to my series on how we are putting network automation to work in the DevNet Sandbox. This time around I wanted todive into some of the deep technical bits on how we’re using automation to configure and manage our network in a “Network Service” based model. For this…