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
February 22, 2018 Nabil Michraf Data Model Driven OAM Multi-Vendor Networks are the most common Networks that our customers rely on to provide a diversity of services to their customers. A long-lasting pain that our customers have is the … Read More
February 15, 2018 John Lawitzke Customizing the ConfD CLI: Operational Mode One of the most visible and powerful features of ConfD is its ability to automatically render a variety of CLI styles from YANG data models. A ConfD user can simply … Read More
February 13, 2018 Jan Lindblad NETCONF/YANG Interop Testing Every year in March, a lot of networking companies get together in Berlin for an interop event hosted by the Berlin Tech University spinoff EANTC. A few years ago, EANTC … Read More
January 18, 2018 Jonas Johansson AppNote: ConfD on Docker From time-to-time we get asked some interesting questions on ConfD’s integration capabilities and what else can it be used for. We have been asked on more than one occasion about … Read More
January 04, 2018 Wai Tai What’s New with NETCONF and YANG? As I attend a number of events each year it never ceases to amaze me how conversations have evolved over the years. Less than a decade ago very few engineers … Read More
December 18, 2017 Wai Tai Model-Based Management with YANG While considering the purpose of life and the universe as we know it, I came across a great whitepaper by IDC on “Achieving Automation with YANG Modeling Technologies.” With our … Read More