SD-Routing: Unlock Agility and Efficiency for the Secure WAN Edge

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Many Cisco enterprise customers have decades of Cisco Catalyst routing and security capabilities functioning at branch locations. However, many of their traditional network management solutions can’t keep up with the demands of cloud adoption, remote work, and ever-growing user expectations. This translates to poor user experience, sluggish applications,...

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Common Database Infrastructure in Cisco IOS XE Software Simplifies 160+ Enterprise Devices

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Developed by a global team of more than 3000 software engineers, Cisco IOS XE Software powers more than 160 Cisco enterprise platforms for access, distribution, core, WAN, and wireless — with many different form factors and combinations of hardware and software. One of the main reasons the software...

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Cisco Champions the Powerful, Evolving Networking Software Stack

With the interconnection of billions of devices in public and private networks and many applications and services moving to the cloud, software is increasingly becoming independent of and abstracted from hardware. At public cloud vendors like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure, hardware has been...

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Navigating supply chain disruptions for agile retail

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Business continuity is so important for retailers that face disruption to their supply chain. Between overseas shipments decreasing and physical stores closing, it’s no secret that the retail industry is coming face to face with the changing business landscape. Retailers that have solely relied on in-store offerings are...

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Running NetBeez Agents on Cisco Catalyst Switches

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I am happy to announce a new powerful integration between NetBeez and Cisco. Starting with Cisco IOS-XE version 16.12.1, Cisco users can install the NetBeez docker agent on Cisco Catalyst 9000 series switches. This new integration is part of the Cisco application hosting framework, which enables third-party off-the-shelf...

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Enterprise Streaming Telemetry and You: Getting Started with Model Driven Telemetry

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Why Streaming Telemetry? Cisco IOS XE is the Network Operating System for the Enterprise. It runs on switches like the Catalyst 9000, routers like the ASR 1000, CSR1000v, and ISR 1000 and 4000’s, Catalyst 9800 Wireless LAN controllers, as well as a few other devices in IoT and...

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Cisco Trusted Platforms

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Service Provider networks serve as critical infrastructure, and the security and trustworthiness of the network infrastructure is essential and the Trusted Infrastructure video from Mobile World Congress. Providers of digital infrastructure must be able to verify whether the hardware and software that comprise their infrastructure are genuine, uncompromised,...

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Trust in IOS XR

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I looked at the hardware Trust Anchor module (TAm) that enhances the security of Cisco Service Provider products and provides visibility into the authenticity and integrity of the platforms. In this blog I will go over the software functionalities in IOS XR that enhance the security posture of...

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Automate Device Provisioning with Cisco IOS XE Zero Touch Provisioning

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When new hardware is ordered and it arrives on site, it’s an exciting time. New hardware! New software! … But new challenges too!  But the age-old challenge of getting new devices on the network doesn’t need to be one of them. Sitting in the lab pre-provisioning devices is...

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On-Box Python for Cisco Devices – the Why, What, and How

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As a junior network engineer at a university I wrote a lot of management scripts in Perl.  I had scripts to do things such as check switchport configurations and upgrade switch code. Times have changed a lot since then. The university’s web server now runs in the cloud,...

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