The official release of Cisco IOx 1.3 is now out and ready to upgrade your edge computing ninja tool belt. Greater scale for your applications. In this release, you can now deploy your applications to up to 150,000 IOx connected devices using Fog Director and its APIs. Sign-up for DevNet and visit the DevNet Sandbox to start deploying and managing application your lifecycle on IOx with Fog Director. IOx adds greater micro service support. In IOx 1.3 you can publish micro services which can be consumed by IOx applications through RESTful APIs.This adds greater versatility and functions as service capability, not unlike like AWS’s Lambda, to your Edge computing development stack. IOx also adds in GPS availability through IOx services to ease the development of location-based applications. Additional platform support for Layer 2 traffic and VLAN to IOx app containers will supercharge your consumable services development by allowing developers to create Wi-fi hotspots on IOx fleet platforms (IR 8X9 routers) as well as media server applications. IOx 1.3 also allows app containers access to USB storage devices for additional data storage. Those new features look mighty nice in your tool belt upgrade, Master Ninja ;-). ... View more

As Cisco IOx continues to bring in more developer-friendly features, DevNet is there to support your needs in Edge computing.  Today we are releasing the first in a series of Learning Labs for getting started with Cisco IOx. Utilizing the Cisco IOx Track, you will learn the basics of deploying a basic IOx application as well as Docker tooled applications to IOx with ioxclient and Cisco Fog Director. We have also provided a video tutorial to accompany the Deploy a Docker Application to Cisco Fog Director and IOx learning lab. You will also need to visit the DevNet Sandbox and reserve an IOx sandbox environment to fully take advantage of these learning labs. Once you complete this learning track you will have more tools in your tool belt for IOx and be on your way to becoming an IoT Edge Computing Ninja. Don't forget to visit the new IOx DevNet Site for more information and documentation for taking your IoT Edge applications to the next level. We look forward to seeing what you are building and creating with IOx on the Edge. ... View more

One of the true pleasures of my job is being able to learn new technologies and integrate them in a real way to improve how we do our jobs and how we live our lives. The biggest challenge to learn new technologies, apart from the precious resource of time to do so, is having the right environment in which to learn and build. Unfortunately the high cost of Cisco technologies can be a barrier for development and learning .  Costs approach several thousands of dollars putting learning and development out of reach for many. Enter Cisco DevNet Sandbox. DevNet Sandbox provides you the ability to explore these technologies for the mere cost of your time, lowering your barrier of entry to these products. For developers, this provides you a way to test Cisco APIs on a large and growing number of Cisco technologies so you can compete in areas you never imagined possible. For IT and Networking professionals, this provides an environment to test, automate, and be on the cutting edge of what Cisco has to offer. As an example of innovative creation we built the DevCycle Demo. DevCycle (being a play on words of course) is our effort to show you what is possible and to become part of your development cycle. The demo highlights technologies from Cloud Collaboration, On-Premise Collaboration, IoT and Networking. The bike represents any application / integration / implementation of your own technologies coupled with Cisco tech. Here is how this particular demo works. The bicycle has a magnetic sensor connected to it and a Cat-eye spoke magnet attached to the wheel. Every time the magnet crosses the sensor, the sensor sends a signal to a raspberry pi computer. The computer tracks and interprets each data signal from the sensor as a revolution. Tracked revolutions over time are used to track, speed, cadence, RPM and distance. The data is then fed into a web application and API service in real time.  The web application shows you the cool metrics and the API service acts as a trigger waiting for specific events, such as riding one mile. Once the API service detects the events, it sends an API request to the Tropo Cloud Collaboration service which calls back to an on premise Cisco Collab end-point. Alternatively, it also sends an API request to a Collab service hosted in a lab environment in the DevNet Sandbox that connects the same on premise Collab end-point. By creating the DevCycle Demo we hope you see how easy it can be to build, create, and dream of possibilities with Cisco technologies through the Cisco DevNet Sandbox. Let us bring your creations and dreams to life! Jock Reed Cisco DevNet Sandbox Engineer ... View more