Ryan Tischer, a technical services architect at Cisco Systems, is the author of Programming and Automating Cisco Networks. Networks consist of distributed nodes — routers, switches and the like — that ...

If you’re a network engineer, don’t rush out and learn a programming language. To compete in the new world of software-defined networking, it might be more important to start thinking like a ...

In this digital software-driven world, where companies must move with speed, software skills are now a must for network engineers The shift to software-defined networks (SDN) was the catalyst to usher ...