 "Cisco Announces Open Network Environment For Application-Driven Network Programmability")
Cisco introduced an approach to network programmability - Cisco(R) Open Network Environment (Cisco ONE) to help customers drive the next wave of business innovation through trends such as cloud, mobility, social networking, and video. Cisco ONE enables flexible, application-driven customisation of network infrastructures to help realise business objectives such as: increased service velocity, resource optimisation, and faster monetisation of new services.
The Cisco Open Network Environment is delivered through a rich set of platform APIs, agents and controllers, and overlay network technologies. Cisco ONE works with current approaches to software-defined networking while encompassing the entire solution stack from transport to management and orchestration. Cisco’s Open Network Environment claims that customers can harness the intelligent network through programmability and abstraction across multiple layers, offering a choice of protocols, industry standards, and usage-based deployment models.
As part of the Open Network Environment, Cisco announced One Platform Kit (onePK) which provides application programming interfaces (APIs) for developers across Cisco operating systems: Cisco IOS(R), IOS-XR, and NX-OS. Cisco also announced proof-of-concept controller software and proof-of-concept OpenFlow agent for Software Defined Networking (SDN) research. Cisco is also enabling scalable virtual overlay networks for multi-tenant cloud deployments with the Cisco Nexus(R) 1000V virtual switch. New innovations include: OpenStack support, programmability, multi-hypervisor capability, and VXLAN gateway functionality.
Cisco is collaborating on emerging network technologies with industry leaders, academic organisations, and standards bodies to meet their heterogeneous requirements for network programmability.
Cisco’s Open Network Environment supports a wide variety of deployment models including universities and research organisations, to help network partitioning or “campus network slicing” using proof-of-concept controller software and OpenFlow agents for SDN research.
Additionally, it also includes hyperscale datacenters, to network flow management with programmatic access via APIs, cloud providers, to help automated provisioning and programmable overlay network for scalable multi-tenancy.
It also includes service providers, for programmatic access, policy and analytics to optimise and monetise service delivery and enterprises, for private cloud automation for virtual workloads, including VDI.