Enterprise networks are a crucial component of the digital economy and must constantly adapt to evolving needs. Most network changes are still done manually, however, leading to an increase in Opex ...

We all know how painful it is to enter the same text in to the CLI, to program the same network VLANs, over, and over, and over and over, and over…. We also know a better way that exists, with network ...

Gone are the days of manually logging on to different devices to type the same configuration commands over and over again. With this book, you'll find out how you can automate your network ...

Certification programs like those offered by Cisco and Juniper Networks can help network engineers document their proficiency in network automation. Modern networks require more dynamic changes than ...

Build or buy? That's the typical discussion around network automation. In reality, however, the discussion is more involved and nuanced than that. Every project today has some open source. It drives ...

Before I joined the awesome Cisco DevNet team, I worked for Cisco on two of their biggest cloud platforms as a network engineer. My old team and I designed and built one of biggest Cisco Data Center ...

If there’s one thing about the IT industry, it’s that nothing stays the same for long. New technologies are coming in, networks are getting bigger, and the demand for skilled professionals is rising ...

Imagine you’re a network engineer at an enterprise. You already have your hands full with IT priorities, including managing bandwidth related to working from home, the company’s new data center, and, ...

Ryan Tischer, a technical services architect at Cisco Systems, is the author of Programming and Automating Cisco Networks. Networks consist of distributed nodes — routers, switches and the like — that ...