gRPC

November 10, 2022

NETWORKING

Cisco Champions the Powerful, Evolving Networking Software Stack

3 min read

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.

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.

September 24, 2020

DATA CENTER

Telemetry in Action: NETCONF and gNMI with a Custom-Built Collector!

7 min read

Model-Driven Telemetry Telemetry is used to subscribe to meaningful data and measurements from remote devices and transport it to a receiving system for monitoring and analysis. This data allows network administrators to proactively visualize their network, and helps them automate tasks and forecast capacity requirements. When we talk about streaming telemetry, we typically refer to […]

August 18, 2020

DATA CENTER

Network Automation and the Ingenuity of Data Models

10 min read

Explore two new methods of network automation in NX-OS using a model-based approach.

July 21, 2020

DATA CENTER

Hot off the press: Introducing OpenConfig Telemetry on NX-OS with gNMI and Telegraf!

10 min read

Learn how to set up streaming telemetry with gNMI on your Cisco Nexus switches and stream it to an open source collector.

November 7, 2018

DEVELOPER

Documenting Network Automation Examples on DevNet Code Exchange

2 min read

Don't let the lack of concise documentation in open source projects slow down on your network automation journey. DevNet Code Exchange can help.

January 20, 2017

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

OpenConfig on Cisco Platforms

3 min read

With a lot of buzz around supporting vendor-neutral data models at the device layer, it's a good time to discuss how Cisco is supporting open models, and OpenConfig models.

November 19, 2015

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Software Innovations for Cloud Scale Networking

4 min read

Back in 2011, web pioneer Marc Andreessen wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, entitled “Why software is eating the world”. I couldn’t agree more! First, let’s have a look at what’s going on in the industry at large. Every company in every vertical industry is facing unprecedented competitive pressure from new players making […]