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Cisco NSO has the broadest multivendor support in the industry. We currently support more than 100 different device types, physical and virtual, including those listed below. These Network Element Drivers (NEDs) use legacy communication mechanisms an...

NSO as the sample implementation of new technologyAbout Network Management Datastore ArchitectureDatastores defined in RFC 6020 / 6241Additions by RFC 8342 (NMDA)startup/candidate/runningintended datastoreoperational state datastoreNMDA with NSONETCO...

Martin Akerstrom, NSO Solutions Architect

Kristian Larsson, ArchitectSee how placing NSO in a Docker container can help you streamline your development, testing and deployment flow. Kristian goes through why you might want to use Docker for your NSO development and shows the official NSO Do...

Speaker Sebastian Strollo, Principal Engineer  Learn more about your NSO system fundamentals and how to optimize and troubleshoot in case performance is slower than you expect.

Dan Sullivan, Principal Solutions Architect A low code approach to brownfield service discovery in NSO

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Fredrik Jansson, Principal Engineer & John Mullooly, Distinguished Architect, SalesIn the first half of this lab, we build a k8s deployment of NSO from the ground up. We will start packaging NSO in a docker container, from there we will gradually bu...

Fredrik Lundberg, Dir. Strategy & Planning, NSO  NSO State of the Union

Michael Maddern, Technical Marketing Engineer This session will demonstrate the use of template-based fastmap in Cisco NSO. It’s easy to underestimate how quickly and simply a new service can be configured based on a synced configuration and templat...

Fredrik Swahn, Product Marketing ManagerNetwork automation is high on the agenda, but remains a daunting challenge, with results often failing to live up to expectations. Many are struggling with both the technical and organizational changes it requ...

Viktor Leijon, Technical Leader, NSO In this presentation, Viktor gives an overview of the design choices that goes into designing an orchestration solution, explaining the motivation for key NSO features and explain how that position NSO within the...

Hank Preston, Principal Engineer, Cisco DevNetSandbox is a public Software as a Service offering from Cisco DevNet that provides developers access to Cisco hardware and software (as well as relevant third-party and open source solutions) for buildin...

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Abstract: For about a decade or so, many of us have often talked about the need for a book that describes the Model-Driven Network Automation Architecture that we all work with. Going all the way from an automation business case down to the actual p...