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intelligent NETWORK SECURITY
David Goeckeler, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Cisco’ s Networking and Security Business
Announcing the DNA Centre platform
Cisco is releasing new developer tools and open APIs into Cisco DNA Centre – the command and control centre for campus, branch and edge intent-based networks. DNA Centre 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 catalogue, DNA Centre allows customers to protect and inform their business like never before.
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Elevating network intelligence into business operations: DNA Centre helps enable developers to program the network as a single
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system through intent-based APIs. Now, developers can more easily create a new generation of networkaware applications, and partners can integrate the network into business processes Streamline IT processes across functions: DNA Centre helps enable network IT administrators to exchange information to automate processes across IT systems through software adaptors. Now, IT can move resources from operation to innovation
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Managing multi-vendor networks: DNA Centre 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 Centre 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.
Intent-based networking represents the next generation of open, IP-based systems that we’ ve seen can change the actual fabric of society.
In building this large and active community, Cisco has introduced a new source of innovation as the network becomes increasingly programmable.
Cisco is announcing three new developer initiatives to fuel its innovation ecosystem:
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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 more than 1,300 solutions DevNet Code Exchange gives developers a place to access and share software to quickly build nextgeneration 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 organised according to Cisco platform and product areas DevNet DNA Developer Centre is a one-stop-shop for developers to build applications and integrations on the DNA Centre platform. It provides comprehensive resources, capabilities, use cases and learning materials for developers
Availability, services and support
The new DNA Centre 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 intentbased networks. u
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