June 08, 2020 Nabil Michraf Programmability in 5G Networks Intent-Based Networking (IBN) and automation are key success ingredients that need to be present in any modern network. These have recently been the center of attention of many, if not … Read More
June 01, 2020 John Lawitzke Change and the Importance of Programmability As a result of COVID-19, we have experienced a transformation and many unexpected changes in how we live and do business every day. What rises to the top are the … Read More
April 16, 2020 Nabil Michraf Improving List Filtering Performance in ConfD Performance optimization is a key component to our success here at Tail-f/Cisco and is always a goal we aim to achieve. In the world of networks, one fundamental way to … Read More
April 14, 2020 Jan Lindblad Turbulent Times, but NETCONF/YANG Healthier than Ever The annual EANTC NETCONF/YANG Interop event took place in Berlin during the first two weeks of March. By a wide margin, this is where the deepest and largest number of … Read More
March 31, 2020 John Lawitzke Programmability: Don’t Just Do It – Pay Attention and Do It Well! We all remember the very popular Nike tag line “Just Do It.” What a great way to live your life as it applies to the world of sports and getting … Read More
February 20, 2020 Jonas Johansson ConfD Startup and Supervision with Kubernetes App Note You’ve dipped your toes in the Kubernetes pool and have a good basic knowledge of how to leverage containers. Now is the time to dig a little deeper and understand … Read More
February 20, 2020 John Lawitzke Is SNMP Dead? Network Programmability Proves It Is. SNMP was created to simplify network device management by enabling centralized discovery, monitoring, and configuration of devices on the network. It has had a long run for sure and it … Read More
January 27, 2020 John Lawitzke ConfD 7.3 Release Highlights We are happy to announce the release of ConfD 7.3 with several exciting new features. This blog post highlights the most important enhancements, changes, and deprecations. These, however, are just … Read More
January 27, 2020 John Lawitzke Customer Use Case on Simplifying Development and Speeding up Time to Market with ConfD Staying ahead of the competition in the business of real-time communications, cloud services, and beyond requires a forward-looking strategy that meets customers’ demands for new services and capabilities. We recently … Read More
January 24, 2020 John Lawitzke Network Engineers become Network Programmers I have been in the networking and network programmability world for more than three decades and every year as the year changes people talk about the demise of some portion … Read More
December 19, 2019 Greg Olin NMDA and ConfD – Getting Datastores Right One of the core principles of IETF standards is that they should continue to evolve and be revised based on real-world experience. RFC 8342, Network Management Datastore Architecture (NMDA), is … Read More
December 17, 2019 John Lawitzke End of Year Trends and Predictions – Part 2 My last blog post dipped into a couple of trends highlighting what I expect to see in 2020. I addressed the trends that NFV and SDN are dead and how … Read More
November 21, 2019 Wai Tai Update to NSO Driven NETCONF and YANG Interoperability Testing User Guide I’m glad to report that improvements have been made to NSO 5.2 in which the ability to build a NETCONF NED has now been fully integrated. This new feature is … Read More
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