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Network Programmability with YANG: The Structure of Network Automation with YANG, NETCONF, RESTCONF, and gNMI
Cisco has gone all-in on model-driven management across all major operating systems. Modern versions of IOS-XE, IOS-XR, and NX-OS all support YANG-powered NETCONF with IOS-XE and NX-OS also supporting RESTCONF and IOS-XR supporting gNMI. Moreover, in addition to pushing configuration changes and pulling config and operational state via model-driven protocols, these same platforms support streaming […]
YANG Opensource Tools for Data Modeling-driven Management
This blog describes some of the opensource tools around YANG. While there exist some tools around the YANG language validation, I want to cover the bigger landscape of data modeling-driven management tools. Data modeling-driven management is built on the idea of applying modeling languages to formally describe data sources and APIs. For some applications, this […]
Accounting and Routing in the Internet
Accounting Traffic in the Internet Today [the full article can be seen at http://www.internetsociety.org/sites/default/files/BGP-for-regulators.pdf] Business Model Changes In the past, voice traffic was transported over a dedicated voice infrastructure, and the data network infrastructure was established in parallel so that voice and data traffic did not interfere with each other. Traditional voice accounting and performance […]