Cisco IOS XE

January 7, 2022

NETWORKING

Solving Multi-vendor Network Management Complexity with OpenConfig

4 min read

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

4 min read

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

2 min read

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

3 min read

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 …

6 min read

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.

July 19, 2021

DEVELOPER

Getting Data via RESTCONF – Flexing the Network Device APIs Muscles with “johann” Part 2

9 min read

Learn how operational and configurational data is requested directly from the network device, and how to implement device level APIs in your application.

July 6, 2021

DEVELOPER

Flexing the Network Device API Muscles with johann – Part 1: Introduction

5 min read

Learn how to collect configuration and operational data of your networking devices, in a structured way, in one single database, and display it on one dashboard with the "johann" web-based network device monitoring tool.

June 17, 2021

DEVELOPER

Create new possibilities at the IoT Edge with the Cisco Catalyst IR1800 Series

2 min read

IoT application developers: Try out all the new programmability features on a real Cisco IoT gateway in the new Industrial Router IR1835 Sandbox.

June 2, 2021

NETWORKING

Accelerate and Simplify – Guiding Principles in the Design of New Software Image Upgrade and Patching Solutions

5 min read

How the Cisco IOS XE team of developers is changing the paradigm of how enterprise networking image upgrades are done.  It has huge cost, time, productivity, and security implications for Cisco customers around the globe and the functionality and safety of their wide array of network devices.