Cisco Platform Abstraction (CPA)

November 10, 2022

NETWORKING

Cisco Champions the Powerful, Evolving Networking Software Stack

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With billions of devices in public and private networks, software is becoming independent of and abstracted from hardware. Increasingly, more cloud native concepts are being added to Cisco IOS XE.

September 17, 2021

NETWORKING

Platform Abstraction Simplifies, Accelerates, and Enhances the Work of Cisco Developers

3 min read

Cisco Platform Abstraction (CPA) is a model-driven, administrative platform software development kit (SDK) created by Cisco developers that disaggregates software and hardware from a Network Operating System (NOS) like Cisco IOS XE. CPA streamlines the work of the hardware development team, the diagnostics team, and the platform team, saving time and money for development.