Book description
The complete guide to transforming enterprise networks with Cisco DNA
As networks become more complex and dynamic, organizations need better ways to manage and secure them. With the Cisco Digital Network Architecture, network operators can run entire network fabrics as a single, programmable system by defining rules that span their devices and move with their users. Using Cisco intent-based networking, you spend less time programming devices, managing configurations, and troubleshooting problems so you have more time for driving value from your network, your applications, and most of all, your users.
This guide systematically introduces Cisco DNA, highlighting its business value propositions, design philosophy, tenets, blueprints, components, and solutions.Combining insider information with content previously scattered through multiple technical documents, it provides a single source for evaluation, planning, implementation, and operation.
The authors bring together authoritative insights for multiple business and technical audiences. Senior executives will learn how DNA can help them drive digital transformation for competitive advantage. Technical decision-makers will discover powerful emerging solutions for their specific needs. Architects will find essential recommendations, interdependencies, and caveats for planning deployments. Finally, network operators will learn how to use DNA Center’s modern interface to streamline, automate, and improve virtually any network management task.
· Accelerate the digital transformation of your business by adopting an intent-based network architecture that is open, extensible, and programmable
· Integrate virtualization, automation, analytics, and cloud services to streamline operations and create new business opportunities
· Dive deep into hardware, software, and protocol innovations that lay the programmable infrastructure foundation for DNA
· Virtualize advanced network functions for fast, easy, and flexible deployments
· Translate business intent into device configurations and simplify, scale, and automate network operations using controllers
· Use analytics to tune performance, plan capacity, prevent threats, and simplify troubleshooting
· Learn how Software-Defined Access improves network flexibility, security, mobility, visibility, and performance
· Use DNA Assurance to track the health of clients, network devices, and applications to reveal hundreds of actionable insights
· See how DNA Application Policy supports granular application recognition and end-to-end treatment, for even encrypted applications
· Identify malware, ransomware, and other threats in encrypted traffic
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- About the Authors
- About the Technical Reviewers
- Dedications
- Acknowledgments
- Contents at a Glance
- Reader Services
- Contents
- Icons Used in This Book
- Command Syntax Conventions
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Goals and Methods
- Who Should Read This Book?
- How This book Is Organized
- Figure Credits
- Chapter 1 Why Transform Your Business Digitally?
- Chapter 2 The Business Value of Cisco DNA
- Chapter 3 Designing for Humans
- Chapter 4 Introducing the Cisco Digital Network Architecture
- Chapter 5 The Cisco Digital Network Architecture Blueprint
- Chapter 6 Introduction to Cisco DNA Infrastructure
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Chapter 7 Hardware Innovations
- The Importance of Hardware in a Software-Defined World
- The Making of a Chip
- What’s Happening in the World of Networks
- How Traditional Network ASICs Process Packets
- Traffic Handling with CPUs and FPGAs
- Introducing Flexible Silicon
- Flexible Switching Silicon: UADP
- Flexible Routing Silicon: QFP
- UADP and QFP—Summing Up
- Wireless: Providing Innovation for Mobility
- Summary
- Further Reading
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Chapter 8 Software Innovations
- The Importance and Evolution of Networking Software
- Cisco IOS: Origins and Evolution
- Evolution of Cisco Networking Software
- The Evolution of Cisco IOS to IOS XE
- Cisco IOS XE in a Nutshell
- Cisco IOS XE: Delving Deeper
- Cisco IOS XE: Bringing It All Together
- Cisco IOS XE: Platform Support
- Cisco IOS XE: Summary
- Protecting Platforms and Networks: Trustworthy Systems
- The Move to Intuitive Networking
- Summary
- Further Reading
- Chapter 9 Protocol Innovations
- Chapter 10 Cisco DNA Infrastructure—Virtualization
- Chapter 11 Cisco DNA Cloud
- Chapter 12 Introduction to Cisco DNA Automation
- Chapter 13 Device Programmability
- Chapter 14 Cisco DNA Automation
- Chapter 15 Introduction to Cisco DNA Analytics
- Chapter 16 Cisco DNA Analytics Components
- Chapter 17 Cisco DNA Analytics Engines
- Chapter 18 Cisco DNA Virtualization Solutions: Enterprise Network Functions Virtualization and Secure Agile Exchange
- Chapter 19 Cisco DNA Software-Defined Access
- Chapter 20 Cisco DNA Application Policy
- Chapter 21 Cisco DNA Analytics and Assurance
- Chapter 22 Cisco DNA Encrypted Traffic Analytics
- Chapter 23 Cisco DNA Evolution
- Index
- Code Snippets
Product information
- Title: Cisco Digital Network Architecture: Intent-based Networking for the Enterprise, First Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2018
- Publisher(s): Cisco Press
- ISBN: 9780134723952
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