Why Did The Cisco Cross The Network? A: To Automate What's On The Other Side

Switchzilla wants telecommunications companies to allow him to manage all his equipment, regardless of who has done it

Cisco extended its network service orchestrator (NSO) and WAN Automation Engine in the hope that service providers see them as a way to achieve automated management of the entire kit on their networks, no matter who did it.

As the senior and senior manager of Cisco service provider networks Jonathan Davidson explained to El Reg, Switchzilla believes that operators are tired of operating multiple management silos in different kits from different vendors because it slows down both remediation and innovation. Join Cisco with tools that can find the APIs that are offered across an operator's equipment fleet and wrap the lot in the warm welcome of the policy.

New things glory in the name "Crosswork". NSO provides Crosswork with its configuration intelligence (with the buzzwords driven by Cisco's imperative intent), while WAN Automation is the optimization piece.

The new products include:

•     Crosswork change automation: regular readers know that a big thumb can knock down huge networks, so Cisco's "automated operations application" is designed for "large-scale changes and closed-loop control";
•     Crosswork Health Insights: telemetry (sensors and alerts) and network remediation;
•     Crosswork Data Platform: analyzes that can be executed on open source or "commercial class" platforms; </ lis>
•     Crosswork Network Insights: analysis in the cloud to handle "large-scale routing problems" (such as black-holing across a country due to a BGP ad); Y
•     Crosswork situation manager: you would not be doing 2018 correctly without some machine learning. In the Situation Manager, the ML provides event correlation, and the chat tools help network administrators solve problems.

Crosswork products will be sold with licenses and will be consumed on the premises, with the exception of Crosswork Network Insights, which will be SaaS.
The long Tail-f

Crosswork seems to be the result of the acquisition, in 2014, by Cisco of the network orchestration group Tail-f. 700-150 exam dumps is the best one among all at Dumpspedia.

Tail-f's $ 175 million acquisition gave Cisco a virtual network management and orchestration solution (NFV-MANO) solution that was mapped to its own Network Services Orchestrator, a migration that began in December 2015. of NFV-MANO, Tail-f brought with it the Python-based APIs that it developed for the network hardware integration mentioned above.

Crosswork is also, Davidson said, a part of Cisco's response to events such as large telecommunications companies, such as AT & T, that pull their networks as fast as they can. Davidson told us that Cisco sees the value of open networks, understands that providers do too, but believes that telecommunications companies will want ready-to-use products instead of having to learn to paste everything together

It also exhibits Cisco's desire to enter the software whenever possible, as part of its strategy of years to subscribe instead of its core business.