Cisco Makes Like Apple in Push for App Developers

 

Many companies have tried to emulate Apple application developer community, helped popularize mobile hardware. Cisco Systems may not immediately come to mind, but the company says that times are changing.The Silicon Valley giant is known for devices that transfer data around computer labs and internet funnel. But CEO John Chambers has said his company needs more and more of a software and services to develop in response to market changes that could make a hardware-centric strategy endangering the future of Cisco.

Cisco routers and switches have long been set individually by specialists involved in cryptic text strings, which programmers call a command line interface. The model helped the job security of many engineers third, known as CCIE, Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert.However, many companies want much more sophisticated tricks to do with the software, including the management of many cases of centralized network a more automated way. And the rise of mobile devices and the Internet of Things IT skills and communication, in addition to everything from light switches to provide opportunities latches for many new types of applications.

There is this great change, says Susie Wee, vice president of Cisco, another title is CTO of networking experience. Cisco is complete, accurateThe company is fleshing out its plans on Monday to cut the programmer to write new applications that run to improve or manage Cisco networks DevNet called an effort he hopes a growing community of developers focused on winning.An important goal, Wee says, is to promote cooperation between CCIEs old school programmers and other man thrust demanding applications.

Cisco efforts could only interesting people, computer labs seem to work, but says Wee start noticing results, as developers begin to take advantage of the advanced capabilities of smartphones and other consumer devices.Many companies are in the way software will be dramatic changes to networking, speaking encapsulated bring a change of double buzzwords functions virtualization software-defined networking and network. Some types of network management tasks to specialized network switching for standard servers, a strategy to reduce the cost of hardware they can move.

Cisco has publicly supported the trends. But startups and large networks of switches and cumulus networks also try to make it easier to reduce the trust of customers on suppliers of individual hardware such as Cisco, so to implement them and you centrally manage less expensive white box or "bare metal" switchgear come from different suppliers usually use Broadcom network chip.

Where are we with Cisco that we are important applications in the network, says Doug Murray, CEO of great change. But he says his company recently announced Great Cloud Fabric to its flagship product, also believes in "with the election in switch design and the choice of how to do it.Grossner Clifford, an analyst at Infonetics Research, Cisco writes to jump to the changes are easier to manage networks with software and reduce the price of gradual switching devices could. You got that convert says.But not want it to happen too fast.