May 2019 Edition

Case Study: Sandvine

Sandvine, a provider of Network Intelligence solutions, needed a common programmable management API that was based on NETCONF and YANG as well a common CLI across all their products. After researching various options, Sandvine chose Tail-f’s ConfD solution because of its reputation for flexibility and ability to auto-render a variety of northbound management interfaces.

Read how Sandvine was able to quickly deploy NETCONF and YANG based programmable API’s in order to eliminate older APIs that were outdated and less versatile.

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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 Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems." Reading it made me think of how increasingly important the skill of doing “deep work” vs “shallow work” has become.

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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 rise of a solution that includes what I like to call the triple threat in networking.

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Cisco NSO Developer Days 2019 – Come for Work, Stay for Midsummer

I know that at many points in our lives we have Wanderlust; a very strong or irresistible impulse to travel and see the world. We get it, being in a new place and experiencing the culture can be exciting and relaxing all at the same time. Yet, there is this thing called work that often gets in the way of these experiences.

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