July 25, 2019 John Lawitzke Are you ready for Digital Transformation? Your Competitors Are! You can’t go anywhere these days without seeing how digital transformation is changing the way things work and the way we do business. For instance, I recently had to visit … Read More
July 25, 2019 John Lawitzke ConfD 7.2 Release Highlights We are happy to announce the release of ConfD 7.2 with several exciting new features. This blog post highlights the most important enhancements, changes, and deprecations. These, however, are just … Read More
June 26, 2019 John Lawitzke Book of the Month, Quarter, and Year Club: Network Programmability with YANG If you are reading this, then you clearly see things the way we do: networks are evolving at light speed and require a superhuman effort to scale faster than what … Read More
June 20, 2019 Wai Tai NSO Driven NETCONF and YANG Interoperability Testing How do you tell if your NETCONF and YANG implementation is done right and can allow your device or application to be easily automated without requiring any special or error … Read More
May 23, 2019 Conny Ohult Andersen Machine-to-Machine Network Wide NETCONF Transactions and Why “Shallow” is Vastly Less Valuable than Going Slightly “Deeper” While preparing to write our new white paper “Managing Distributed Systems Using NETCONF and RESTCONF Transactions”, I have been reading Martin Kleppmann’s excellent book “Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas … Read More
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 … Read More
May 08, 2019 admin 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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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, … Read More
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