October 18, 2018 John Lawitzke The Evolution of Programmability 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 … Read More
September 20, 2018 John Lawitzke Time to get your Swagger on with RESTCONF 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 … Read More
August 16, 2018 Greg Olin ConfD and Kubernetes 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 … Read More
July 26, 2018 Jonas Johansson ConfD 6.7 and its New Examples Announced! We are pleased to announce the release of ConfD 6.7 with new examples that expand to all languages (C, Java and Python), add two RESTCONF examples and a way to … Read More
July 19, 2018 John Lawitzke NETCONF Integration of Legacy SNMP Operational Data It is a common occurrence for us to work with a customer who has a need to add programmability via NETCONF and YANG to a legacy system which is currently … Read More
July 03, 2018 Wai Tai What an experience at NSO Developer Days 2018 in Stockholm I recently attended the NSO Developer Days at the historic Vasa Theatre in Stockholm, Sweden. The Vasa Theatre was built in 1886 and has for many years been Stockholm’s main … Read More
June 21, 2018 John Lawitzke Changes in YANG leaf-list Handling 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 … Read More
June 14, 2018 Wai Tai Importance of the cloud-native architecture in NFVs After the Tail-f whitepaper I wrote on “Network Programmability in cloud-native NFV” was released, a quarterly report on Wireless Packet Core was published by the Dell’Oro Group which further validates … Read More
May 17, 2018 Wai Tai Network Programmability in Cloud-Native NFV Modern communications networks contain an ever-increasing variety of proprietary hardware. The launch of new services often demands network reconfiguration and on-site installation of new equipment which in turn requires additional … Read More
April 19, 2018 Conny Ohult Andersen Application Note: Providing State Data from PostgreSQL or Cassandra Over NETCONF Most recently and happening more often than it used to, I have come across different projects that want to add NETCONF to their existing or exciting new products. The goal, … Read More
April 16, 2018 John Lawitzke What did I see at MPLS + SDN + NFV World Congress 2018? 2018 is off to an amazing start; we have seen new opportunities with so many customers and have been able to travel to many of their communities. This past week, … Read More
March 21, 2018 John Lawitzke ConfD 6.6 – What’s New? As of March 1, 2018 we launched the newest release of ConfD, version 6.6 and with it we are pleased to introduce a few new examples. Below are simple descriptions … Read More
March 15, 2018 John Lawitzke Secure ConfD Client Application Communication In the not so distant past, ConfD instrumentation applications communicated with the ConfD over trusted networks within physical network equipment. As technology has evolved and virtual environments such as NFV … Read More
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