Cisco 350-401: SD-Access Architecture
Cisco Software-Defined Access changes campus design by separating the physical transport network from the virtual networks and identity policy experienced by endpoints. Catalyst…
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Routing, switching, wireless networks, network architecture and services.
Cisco Software-Defined Access changes campus design by separating the physical transport network from the virtual networks and identity policy experienced by endpoints. Catalyst…
Read articleCisco Catalyst Center combines network inventory, design intent, provisioning, telemetry, assurance, and platform APIs so that campus operations can be managed as a…
Read articleBGP is often introduced as the protocol that runs the Internet, but enterprise networks use it for much more than full Internet routing.…
Read articleSegment Routing SIDs and Forwarding Paths Segment routing changes how a service-provider network expresses forwarding intent. Instead of requiring every desired traffic-engineered path…
Read articleMPLS L3VPN Customer Isolation and Provider Transport MPLS Layer 3 VPN architecture solves a service-provider problem that ordinary enterprise routing does not: many…
Read articleNetwork segmentation supports zero-trust architecture by reducing the amount of access that follows automatically from being connected to a network. Traditional perimeter designs…
Read articleVXLAN EVPN separates a data-center network into an IP underlay and a virtual overlay. The underlay gives loopback and VTEP addresses reliable Layer…
Read articleVirtual Port Channel (vPC) lets a downstream device form one logical port channel to two separate Cisco Nexus switches. The downstream system sees…
Read articleCisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) manages the data center through an object-based policy model. Instead of configuring every forwarding decision as an isolated…
Read articleYANG gives network automation a schema for the data a device exposes. Instead of treating configuration as an arbitrary block of CLI text,…
Read articleNetwork APIs can expose the same authority that engineers once exercised through privileged command-line sessions, so authentication deserves the same design attention as…
Read articlePython is effective for network automation because it can connect API calls, data transformation, validation, file handling, testing, and reporting in one readable…
Read articleGit is useful in network automation because the automation itself becomes an operational asset. Python modules, Ansible playbooks, Jinja templates, inventory data, validation…
Read articleContinuous integration and continuous delivery apply software-delivery discipline to network automation artifacts such as playbooks, templates, Python code, intent models, and infrastructure definitions.…
Read articleAnsible gives network engineers a way to describe configuration tasks as repeatable automation rather than retyping command sequences on each device. The tool…
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