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May 16, 2019

John Lawitzke

Orchestration, Automation and Programmability: The Triple Threat for Networking

For years, there have been solutions that provide one or two of the three capabilities needed to help organizations gain a competitive advantage. But every so often, we see the …

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May 08, 2019

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Cisco NSO Developer Days 2019 – Come for Work, Stay for Midsummer

Guest Post By: Nicklas Wagerth, Alliance Manager and NSO Community Lead at Cisco I know that at many points in our lives we have Wanderlust, a very strong or irresistible …

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April 18, 2019

John Lawitzke

ConfD 7.1 Release Highlights

We are very excited to release ConfD 7.1, with numerous exciting new features as well as deprecation notices for a few obsolete features.  This blog post will highlight a few …

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April 15, 2019

John Lawitzke

ConfD Kick Start Guide Gets a Makeover!

From time to time, we need to update things including hairstyles, wardrobes, and even the music that we listen too. In today’s content-driven world, this is no different. Sometimes the …

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April 09, 2019

John Lawitzke

2019 EANTC Multi-Vendor Interoperability Test Results

The EANTC Multi-Vendor Interoperability Test results have been published this week as part of the EANTC showcase at MPLS+SDN+NFV World Congress in Paris.  These tests which we support and participate …

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March 28, 2019

John Lawitzke

Programmable Management: The Key Pillar for Automating Edge Computing

Looking back on my career and network computing, it has been a lot like watching a pendulum swing back and forth between centralization and decentralization.  In the beginning, we had …

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March 21, 2019

John Lawitzke

Alternatives to the ConfD Provided pyang Tool

The pyang utility tool is a YANG parser written in Python which can use plug-in backends to format its output.  This tool has previously been part of the ConfD distribution …

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February 21, 2019

John Lawitzke

NETCONF Call Home and ConfD

There has been quite a bit of interest from customers in the NETCONF Call Home feature which is described in RFC 8071, “NETCONF Call Home and RESTCONF Call Home”.  Normally, …

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February 12, 2019

John Lawitzke

Get to know ConfD and YANG through the ConfD User Community Forum

It has been four years since we launched the ConfD User Community Forum, the best place for ConfD users to interact with one another and share knowledge about ConfD as …

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January 24, 2019

Conny Ohult Andersen

Shame on You if you haven’t Tested Your ConfD Device with NSO

As the Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) has become a popular industry-leading software for automating services across traditional and virtualized networks, I have observed that the orchestrated traditional (physical) or …

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December 27, 2018

Sal Lirosi

Looking Back on 2018

It is hard to believe that 2018 is coming to an end.  What a fantastic year to be in the field of network programmability.  We want to express our thanks …

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December 20, 2018

John Lawitzke

ConfD RESTCONF Token Authentication

This year has been a great opportunity to educate and help you build your knowledge about ConfD and its features; especially new features. One example of this is our recent …

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November 15, 2018

Wai Tai

ConfD and High Security Applications

In the United States, FIPS (which stands for Federal Information Processing Standard) is a set of rules which outline the basic security needs of cryptographic modules used in computer and …

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