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Adam Radford

Distinguished System Engineer

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Adam Radford is a Distinguished Systems Engineer based in Sydney, Australia. His background is software and automation, having spent 10 years building and automating campus networks. He then joined Cisco and has focused on a variety of technologies including voice, wireless and data center. In recent times his focus has been Enterprise networks, specifically automation and programmability.

Adam has a first class honors degree in Science, majoring in Computer Science from the University of New South Wales (UNSW).

Articles

August 26, 2017

DEVELOPER

Look Mom, No Hands! Automating Device Deployment with IOS XE

5 min read

For those of you who have followed earlier blogs, you will have seen the major enhancements we have been making in open IOS XE. Jeff McLaughlin mentioned Day Zero deployment in his recent blog. Day Zero is a critical step in automation In the past, in order to install a new network device, a highly […]

March 11, 2021

DEVELOPER

Migrating PnP API from APIC-EM to Cisco DNA Center

7 min read

What is the best way to migrate from APIC-EM to DNA Center for Plug and Play (PnP) provisioning of devices? Hear Adam Radford discuss your options.

May 20, 2020

DEVELOPER

Using Advanced Velocity Templates in Cisco DNA Center – Part 4

4 min read

Velocity is a template programming language used in Cisco DNA Center. Part 4 focuses on passing in structured data to templates, something mainly applicable to API calls.

May 11, 2020

DEVELOPER

Using Advanced Velocity Templates in Cisco DNA Center – Part 3

3 min read

In part 3 of the series, see how to use interactive commands in velocity templates in Cisco DNA Center.

May 6, 2020

DEVELOPER

Using Advanced Velocity Templates in Cisco DNA Center – Part 2

3 min read

In part 2, learn how to take Bound Variables one step further with some more sophisticated examples linking them into loops.

April 27, 2020

DEVELOPER

Using Advanced Velocity Templates in Cisco DNA Center – Part 1

4 min read

Velocity is a template programming language used in Cisco Prime Infrastructure and APIC-EM.  This series is focused on Day-N templates.

October 24, 2019

DEVELOPER

Cisco DNA Center Template Archive/Restore

3 min read

Learn how to share CLI templates or take templates from one DNA Center to another using archive and restore.

October 3, 2019

DEVELOPER

Using the Cisco DNA Center SDK CLI Tool

4 min read

Take a look at the Cisco DNA Center CLI tool...No need to write Python code to take advantage of the API.

September 26, 2019

DEVELOPER

Cisco DNA Center Real Time Event Notifications into Webex Teams!

3 min read

Find out about Network Issues before your users do! Integrate the realtime events generated by Cisco DNA Center into WebEx Teams chat rooms via web hooks!