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Charles Eckel

Principal Engineer

Global Technology Standards

Charles is a recognized champion of open source, standards, and interoperability. As a member of Cisco's Global Technology Standards team, Charles is responsible for identifying and guiding open source efforts related to key standards initiatives. In MEF, Charles co-chairs the Digital Services Committee, home of network service standards for SD-WAN and SASE. Charles is also active in IETF, where he started and runs the IETF Hackathons, advancing the pace and relevance of networking standards by combining the speed and collaborative spirit of open source communities with the rigor and precision of standards organizations. Charles is also an active member in a number of open source projects in the Linux Foundation and elsewhere. He is a frequent speaker at open source conferences and manager of the Software Defined Networking devroom at FOSDEM. His current focus areas include application networking, network automation, and the intersection of networking and security, particularly where there is a need for new standards and closely associated open source projects.

Articles

November 26, 2018

DEVELOPER

Syntax Highlighting For Network Engineers on DevNet Code Exchange

4 min read

Learn how Syntax Highlighting improves code readability to make it easier to derive context from an otherwise monochromatic block of text.

October 10, 2018

DEVELOPER

What’s Next for Developers Working on Real-time Communications Applications?

3 min read

Join experts from industry and academia to exchange ideas on leading future development in the rapidly changing field of real-time communications.

September 27, 2018

DEVELOPER

Curated Code Repos Get Your Integration Project Done Faster, Better

4 min read

Code Exchange curated code repos makes it easy for others to not only use your code, but also help make it better.

July 30, 2018

DEVELOPER

Running Code for the Win at IETF Hackathon in Montreal

5 min read

IETF Hackathon in Montreal hits its goals for advance the pace and relevance of IETF standards, and attract developers and new people to IETF.

May 24, 2018

DEVELOPER

Hackathon@AIS Builds Technical Capacity Around Networking Standards in Africa

5 min read

Participants used programming languages such as Python, and network and device level YANG models via NETCONF and RESTCONF to interact with Cisco IOS XE devices and OpenDaylight.

November 29, 2017

DEVELOPER

IETF Hackathon Closes Loop Between Open Source and Standards

7 min read

The first ever IETF Hackathon was held March 21-22, the weekend before IETF 92 in Dallas, TX. It was a late addition to the conference schedule, answering the call to action from Engineering CTO and Chief Architect Dave Ward’s talk at IETF 91, Open Standards, Open Source, Open Loop. Cisco DevNet teamed up with IETF […]

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