network operations

Automating your Network Operations, Part 5 – Just the Facts

To come up with a template or model for all your network devices before you automate any of them would delay the benefits of automation.

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Automating Your Network Operations, Part 4 – Dude, Where’s My Data?

If you are relatively new to Ansible, you might have noticed that the playbook examples in my last blog did not have any variables defined in them. Common examples often…

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Automating Your Network Operations, Part 3 – Data-Driven Ansible

The combination of YANG and NETCONF give us structure and determinism to enable network programmability, and give us several operational advantages over CLI.

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Automating Your Network Operations, Part 2 – Data Models

Before I get into data models, I want to take a slight diversion to incorporate some of the feedback that I received from the first blog. It was pointed out…

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Automating Your Network Operations, Part 1 – Ansible Basics

New blog series gets you beyond the hype and simple demonstrations, and lets you dive more deeply into how and why to automate your network operations.

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The Solution Capacity Management Has Been Waiting For

Operations Managers are very familiar with all the reasons their appliance-based networking infrastructure needs to be reconsidered—they live the problem constantly, day in and day out.

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Smart Services Build a Better Business Model

Cisco Software-Enabled Services Help Transform Network Operations Imagine that you’re a network operations director for a large company. You’re pleased that your management has invested millions of dollars in Cisco

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Behind the WiFi Network @ Mobile World Congress 2014: Site Surveys

In my last blog I discussed setting the stage in preparation for the Wi-Fi network for Mobile World Congress 2014 which supported more than 80k devices over a span of…

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