YANG

Open vRAN Update: NETCONF/YANG Comes to 5G RAN!

1 min read

One of the key principles of the Open vRAN ecosystem that Cisco and its ecosystem partners announced earlier this year, is to establish open, standard interfaces and management for vRAN. Recently the xRAN Forum has defined the use of IETF’s NETCONF/YANG standard for programmatically configuring and managing its lower layer split RAN architecture.

The YANG Language – Up, up and away!

2 min read

Interoperability tests with service-layer YANG is finally coming together. Some comments on an interesting report from EANTC.

May 24, 2018

DEVELOPER

Want to Get Started with Network Programmability? Meet me at Cisco Live!

2 min read

Are you interested in network programmability but not sure where to get started? Are you going to Cisco Live? If you answered yes to either question read...

December 20, 2017

DEVELOPER

It’s time to move away from SNMP and CLI and use Model-Driven Telemetry

4 min read

Traditional features such as SNMP, CLI, and Syslog, used for collecting operational statistics from a network, have several restrictions due to the growth of the objects like IoT devices and cloud based applications. SNMP uses the pull model when retrieving data from a switch. This model cannot scale for today’s high-density platforms, and offers very […]

October 23, 2017

DEVELOPER

New DevNet Learning Module, “Home Lab: Setting up Your Desktop OS for Network Programmability”

5 min read

Hey, you networkers out there. (Yes, it’s a little weird – I’m talking to networkers in a blog post at a site where a lot of Developers hang out.) Remember the short struggle when you first learned about Cisco devices? What cable to use to connect to the console? What drivers to add to make […]

Fast Tracking Network Automation

2 min read

Traditional telco operations support systems (OSS) have tended to focus on point solutions that provide specific functions in their own attempt to automate networks. However, this approach has often failed to live up to its promise.

September 25, 2017

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Advancing your programmability journey with latest IOS XR innovations

3 min read

Discover the latest IOS XR innovations to help you drive the next level of network programmability.

August 22, 2017

DEVELOPER

How a Traditional Network Engineer Got Started with Network Programmability

4 min read

When I was asked to write my experiences preparing to present in the DevNet Zone at Cisco Live 2017, the first thought that came to mind was,...

August 14, 2017

TECHWISETV

Catalyst Switching Programmability: The Workshop

3 min read

Let me just start by saying this…10 minutes before we even started the webinar, the questions started rolling in. The first question, of course, being “Do I need to understand programming to be a network engineer?” Something we’re hearing over and over these days. If you’re asking my honest answer on that, I would say…it […]