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

Today, I want to demonstrate why Python ... devices.) The script looks at all interfaces on the switch, and those that have been inactive (no traffic send/received) for more than seven days are shutdo... read more

Making network authentication simple in a Bring Your Own Device environment

That means that we do not provision those devices ... rlm_python module. (If the usual login/password method is used, the eap module is called to handle the decryption, and the Python script will be c... read more

How to Turn ‘Data Exhaust’ into a Competitive Edge

IoT will generate a staggering 400 zettabytes (or 400 trillion gigabytes) of data a year by 2018, according to the 2016 Cisco Visual Networking Index. This is being driven by everything from wearables ... read more

Can DevOps make over network engineers into coders?

Software developers are now plying their trade deep down the stack with programmable networks, so why not give network engineers ... that the class completed, using the Python language, retrieved a li... read more

Combine cloud and IoT edge analytics for embedded analytics

IoT edge analytics algorithms running on or near devices are a subclass of stream processing analytics ... of the massive data sets a company will collect. A recently conducted Cisco survey indicated ... read more

Why is Cisco Teaching Me Python?

At a recent network programmability workshop one of the attendees asked, “Why is Cisco teaching me ... build their own Python scripts (or curate and modify scripts they find) query the APIs for their ... read more

Adobe's Open Screen Project: Write Once, Flash Everywhere

Publishing the APIs for porting Flash to other devices. This currently also incurs a royalty fee. By opening it up, there is no reason why every device shouldn ... Intel, Marvell, Cisco, NBC Universal ... read more

Why and How to Shift From Manual to Automated Testing

According to the analysis of job postings by Indeed.com, the top five programming languages of 2017 are SQL (Structured Query Language), Java, Python ... and others. Cisco says that over 50 billion de... read more

Network automation scripts: Separating myth from reality

"REST or RESTful APIs or libraries that use languages like Python ... Cisco's IWAN, Viptela's Secure Extensible Network, VeloCloud's gateways and Talari's appliances. The first step to automating conf... read more

NetOps with SaltStack and PyNSO

I just pushed some code this week to 2 open-source projects and I’ve tried to articulate to people why I developed ... 100 network devices remotely) to any system that supports Python. So now PyNSO gi... read more

What networking automation tools should you consider?

Do these examples constitute networking automation, and why does it matter ... Writing programs in languages such as Python or Ansible to use the APIs in modern network devices is a good step toward t... read more

Disaggregating network, compute and storage allocation demystified

But why ... each device has its own unique low-level API you must configure to the device, Synergy has one high-level API across compute, storage and fabric. Granted, there are efforts by purveyors of ... read more