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Over the years Cisco IT has built many tools to manage support. We had one tool to track subscriptions, another to keep tabs on service contracts, and yet another to view asset lifecycle information. The problem? We spent too much time correlating information scattered across the different interfaces. When we received a security alert on one interface, for instance, we had to go into another interface to identify the affected assets. Supporting the Cisco network…

Hopefully by now you’ve been embracing industry trends around network programmability.  Many network engineers are learning programming using popular languages like Python.  Indeed, it is a notable part in the blueprint from the DevNet Associate (DEVASC) certification.  You may be like me; you learn by doing.  We start with pretty simple script development to solve some current need – push config changes to many devices, upgrade software images across a set of branch offices, collect…

Intel on Monday expanded its network processor roadmap with the announcement of the Infrastructure Processing Unit (IPU). Think of it as the next step in the SmartNIC market, because Intel does. The announcement was made at the Six Five Summit 2021, where Navin Shenoy, the head of Intel’s Data Center Group, announced its intention to create the new processor family specifically for cloud workloads. There has been a move toward dedicated networking chips, called SmartNICs,…