Cisco ushers into new era of programmability

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Cisco has introduced Cisco Open Network Environment (Cisco ONE). It is delivered through a set of platform APIs, agents & controllers, and overlay network technologies. The company announced One Platform Kit (onePK) with the aims to provide application programming interfaces (API) for developers across Cisco operating systems: IOS, IOS-XR, and NX-OS. In addition, Cisco also announced proof-of-concept controller software and proof-of-concept OpenFlow agent for Software Defined Networking (SDN) research. 

Padmasree Warrior, Cisco CTO, SVP Engineering, GM Enterprise Business said, “The Cisco Open Networking Environment is key to our vision of an intelligent network that is more open, programmable, and application-aware—a vision in which the network is transformed into a more effective business enabler. With Cisco’s Open Networking Environment, customers get a comprehensive and robust set of capabilities to address emerging enterprise and service provider requirements to harness network intelligence and provide value for new business platforms in an evolutionary manner.” 

David Yen, SVP & GM, Data Center Technology Group, Cisco said, “This announcement is a milestone event that signals Cisco’s leadership, contribution and dedication to open networking. Using the Cisco one Platform Kit, developers will have access to over twenty years of intelligent networking software produced by Cisco’s top R&D talent.  Together, we’ll usher in a new era of programmability through transparent and granular interaction between applications and network infrastructure.”

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