Call to Arms!
Completed a great couple of days in labs and discussions with fellow travellers on the journey to the programmable network! We were in London on a Cisco Cat 9K/DNA Center Programmability course, with the legend that is John Swartz (of Boson tests and Cisco books fame). He really started opening our eyes to the possible, looking at how through the magic of Python it is possible to run event-driven processes on LAN switches, orchestrate the management capabilities of DNA Center, and build platform-agnostic configurations using YANG models, then deploy them over NETCONF. This stuff really brings it home what is there now and what will be possible in the networks of the 2020s. It's time to start assembling the ideas to build out the real tangible network service that we can offer customers so that they can consume the networks the way they need to for their business. Zero-touch provisioning for IoT. Software overlays for abstracting the complexities of the n...