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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

I just spent the past week in San Jose with some of the best customers that I could ever ask for. As many of you know, last week was ConfD …

When I think back to how we used to manage our devices, I am struck by how primitive and limiting the old methods were.  I used to be involved in …

Over the years, ConfD has demonstrated the power of the data model-driven paradigm.  Having a formal description of the data provides a rock solid foundation for automation.  The most visible …

As we discussed in our previous white paper “Network Programmability in Cloud-Native NFV”, there is a movement towards exploring cloud-native technologies in building virtual network functions (VNFs). We continue to …

With the recent 6.5 release of ConfD, the internal representation of leaf-lists has changed so that they now behave similarly to lists in terms of operations performed on them.  This …