Cisco Releases New Developer Capabilities Across Its Intent-Based Networking Platform
June 12 2018 - 8:00AM
CISCO LIVE — Cisco today
announced that it has released new developer capabilities across
its intent-based networking platform. These advancements underscore
Cisco’s continued progress in delivering an open, programmable
platform that spans the entire network, from campus to data center,
branch to edge. By providing an open network, Cisco is empowering
500,000 developers, 60,000 partners and three million network
engineers to innovate upon the platform.
Intent-based networking represents a fundamental shift in the
way networks are built and managed. Moving away from the manual,
time-intensive methods by which networks are traditionally managed,
these modern networks capture business intent and translate it into
network policies. These policies are then automatically activated
across the entire infrastructure, with the assurance that the
business intent was delivered as planned.
“Intent-based networking represents the next generation of open,
IP-based systems that we’ve seen can change the actual fabric of
society,” said David Goeckeler, executive vice president and
general manager of Cisco’s Networking and Security Business. “Cisco
is building an open architecture that will power an ecosystem to
accelerate intent-based networking innovation. Already, our
customers and partners are creating value from their networks in
ways they thought weren’t possible as recently as one year
ago.”
Announcing the DNA Center platform Today, Cisco
is releasing new developer tools and open APIs into Cisco DNA™
Center — the command and control center for campus, branch and edge
intent-based networks. DNA Center turns the network from a
combination of hardware devices into a single system. With the
availability of network-wide APIs, Cisco now allows developers to
easily program this system, tapping into all of the analytics and
insight the network can provide.
With a rich API catalog, DNA Center allows customers to protect
and inform their business like never before.
Elevating network intelligence into business
operations: DNA Center helps enable developers to program
the network as a single system through intent-based APIs. Now,
developers can more easily create a new generation of network-aware
applications, and partners can integrate the network into business
processes.
Streamline IT processes across functions: DNA
Center helps enable network IT administrators to exchange
information to automate processes across IT systems through
software adapters. Now, IT can move resources from operation to
innovation.
Managing multi-vendor networks: DNA Center
gives developers and partners the flexibility to support
multi-vendor networks via a software developer kit (SDK). This
allows customers to simplify the complexity of heterogeneous
networks and manage them consistently, as a single
system.
Already, 15 Cisco partners have built innovative solutions on
the DNA Center platform and are demonstrating them at Cisco
Live.
Announcing the largest developer community for
intent-based networking Cisco is also announcing that its
developer community, DevNet, has surpassed 500,000 members. In
building this large and active community, Cisco has introduced a
new source of innovation as the network becomes increasingly
programmable.
Today, Cisco is announcing three new developer initiatives to
fuel its innovation ecosystem:
- DevNet Ecosystem Exchange makes it easy to
find and share an application or solution built for Cisco
platforms. Business leaders and developers alike can use this
online portal to discover partner solutions that span all Cisco
platforms and products. It contains over 1,300 solutions.
- DevNet Code Exchange gives developers a place
to access and share software to quickly build next-generation
applications and workflow integrations. A curated list of sample
code, adaptors, tools, and SDKs is available on GitHub and written
by Cisco and the DevNet community. Code Exchange spans Cisco’s
entire portfolio and is organized according to Cisco platform and
product areas.
- DevNet DNA Developer Center is a one-stop-shop
for developers to build applications and integrations on the DNA
Center platform. It provides comprehensive resources, capabilities,
use cases and learning materials for developers.
Availability, Services and Support
- The new DNA Center capabilities are scheduled to be available
during the summer of 2018. Customers can purchase these new
capabilities from Cisco and its partners via existing subscription
offers.
- DevNet’s Ecosystem Exchange, Code Exchange, and DNA Developer
Center are available now.
- Cisco and its partners offer a full lifecycle of services to
help customers streamline the journey to truly intent-based
networks.
Additional Information
- Executive Blog: Why We’re Making Intent-Based Networking Into
a Platform, By Scott Harrell
- Executive Blog: Imagine the Possibilities, Blog by Nirav
Sheth
- Executive Blog: Cisco DevNet Hits 500,000 Members, Gain
Critical Mass, by Susie Wee
- Feature Story: The Network is Open for Business
- Video: Perspectives on the Power of an Open Platform
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