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Guest blog by: Ajay Chenempara Senior Network Automation Engineer Network to Code If you were to tell your cloud or server admin friends that in this day and age you have to manually configure every switch as you un-box and deploy them, you’ll probably get expressions that range from sympathy…

On 25 September 2017, Vodafone, in collaboration with Cisco, Ericsson and a number of auto technology partners, successfully drove a BMW car around a test track in Düsseldorf by remote control, connecting the operations of a remote driver to the car over a cellular network. As we reach the end of th…

Digitization of communication service providers(CSPs) starts with SDN and NFV. But they are facing a lot of challenges as they transform their network and operations to meet the demands of becoming a digital service provider. Adoption has been slow. Most of them are stuck in proof of concept stage w…

Daren Fulwell is a Cisco Champion, an elite group of technical experts who are passionate about IT and enjoy sharing their knowledge, expertise, and thoughts across the social web and with Cisco. The program has been running for over four years and has earned two industry awards as an industry best…

Welcome back!  In Part 1: Embrace NetDevOps, Say Goodbye to a “Culture of Fear”, I introduced my definition of NetDevOps and talked about how we need to dispel the “Culture of Fear” as we move to NetDevOps.  We also considered the two stakeholders of NetDevOps, the builders a…

NetDevOps is one of many new terms coming into the IT lexicon as “DevOps” has become widely adopted and lauded as a positive and valuable approach to software development.  As the  IT industry looks to expand DevOps to other areas, NetDevOps has emerged along with other new terms such as…

Uniserver, a leading cloud and IT services provider in the Netherlands, has a single, clear mission: to make IT simple. Internally, however, the effort involved in provisioning cloud infrastructure and services for customers was anything but. Today, Uniserver is using Cisco virtualization and networ…

Itential Pronghorn Platform Extends Cisco Network Services Orchestrator’s Automation Service providers seeking to reduce costs and improve revenue know that increasing network automation and orchestration brings significant benefits. Traditional telco operations support systems (OSS) have tended to…

The networking industry is going through an incredibly dynamic time of change and opportunity. Global IP traffic will increase nearly threefold over the next five years and 127-fold from 2005 to 2021.  The number of devices connected to IP networks by 2021 will be three times higher than the global…