Choosing the Best Overlay Routing Architecture for EVPN

When implementing an Ethernet Virtual Private Network, the choice of network design for overlay routing is influenced by scalability, multi-tenancy, segmentation, and operational simplicity. Learn how the key differences among varying overlay routing architectures makes it possible to evaluate and choose an implementation that offers the best fit for an organization.

Cisco introduces new Catalyst 9300X switches – designed for the need for speed

With a steady rhythm of innovation, the Catalyst 9000 portfolio has continuously expanded with switching options that with the new Catalyst 9300X, neatly covers nearly all our legacy Catalyst offerings – offering superior performance and advanced features that make the Catalyst 9000 family leaders in the industry.

3 Ways for Network Practitioners to Embrace DevOps with Infrastructure-as-Code

With IaC as a focus area of network agility and innovation, we are committed to ensuring that the network lives up to the expectations of seamless connectivity and intuitive operations in an ever-changing application landscape. The new innovations that we are announcing here today are a giant leap in this direction.

Enable Consistent Application Services for Containers

F5 CIS and Cisco ACI together offer unified control, visibility, security, and application services, for both container and non-container workload. The solution offers a seamless developer experience intended to maintain the simplicity of Kubernetes while still enabling advanced capabilities within the Cisco ACI fabric, and maintaining application availability, security, and visibility across the infrastructure.

First Multi-vendor NETCONF/YANG inter-operability testing: Proven Openness

With the growing complexity of the modern network, automation is becoming more important. NETCONF is one of the widely adopted protocols by networking vendors and customers among all programming interfaces. Alongside NETCONF, YANG provides a powerful, standardized modeling language to complement the NETCONF protocol. In practice, interoperability between service orchestrator and network devices provides flexible mix-and-match solutions based on customer’s deployment choice.