Cisco IOS XE

April 14, 2022

NETWORKING

New Software Architecture Enables Session-Aware Networking to Massively Scale Authentication and Access Policy Control

The SANet re-architecture has evolved from being a single core Cisco IOS XE application to a horizontally scalable application adapting to Cisco’s database-centric programming model.  

March 29, 2022

NETWORKING

Continuous Learning at Cisco Leads to Career Advancement, Best-in-Class Networking Solutions

Continuous Learning across solutions and full-stack architectures is key to developing secure, innovative network technologies and keeping Cisco engineers growing in their careers.

March 22, 2022

DEVELOPER

Automation with Any Tooling on Any Interface

See how Terraform with IOS XE simplifies complex network configurations by orchestrating provisioning, configuration, and state management - in the cloud, on-prem in the campus enterprise network, or in the data center.

March 16, 2022

NETWORKING

Unified Software Tracing Comes to Cisco IOS XE – It’s Unified, Binary, Streaming, and Highly Scalable

Cisco has provided a more efficient and effective way to use network software traces at scale for our 80+ enterprise platforms. It’s called unified tracing.

January 7, 2022

NETWORKING

Solving Multi-vendor Network Management Complexity with OpenConfig

A better way to manage multi-vendor networks is here: The use of models from OpenConfig, which is fully supported in Cisco IOS XE Software.

November 10, 2021

NETWORKING

Building Resiliency Guardrails to Isolate Crashes in Cisco Products

The latest version of IOS-XE greatly improves software resiliency by reducing the fault domains to a single process using a process runtime architecture based on three software techniques: work units, transactions, and persistence.

November 9, 2021

NETWORKING

Welcome to Enhanced Programmatic Management of Enterprise Devices

Systems administrators in enterprise companies who are constantly upgrading, repurposing, and managing thousands of switches, listen up! Starting with release 17.7 of Cisco IOS XE, is support for a suite of Google Remote Procedure Call (gRPC)-based microservices that will simplify and lighten your workloads.

October 18, 2021

NETWORKING

The Cisco Catalyst 9000 Software Quality Mindset

Software quality is one reason behind the success of the Cisco Catalyst 9000 switching family. Cisco developers have a quality mindset culture that spans from product architecture to customer experience.

August 3, 2021

DEVELOPER

Using Django with Celery & WebSockets – Flexing the Network Device APIs Muscles with “johann” Par …

Part 3 in the series focuses on the web-based network device monitoring tool application itself, the frameworks used, why they were chosen, and what the implementation looks like.