Cisco Gives Waiting World ConfD For Low, Low, Price of $0

Cisco has offered a sweetener which is concerned that its acquisition in 2014 of the tail-f would see the products of the latter burst into total anonymity, offering a free version of the F-ConfD NETCONF accepted implementation.Tail control last June, Cisco began a transaction to get their hands on the orchestration software corporate network from Sweden, launched dispose monolithic operational support systems (OSS).

Cisco describes ConfD management agent framework with a rich set of APIs for developers to physical devices and virtual network, and says it's in use by 75 network equipment providers .NETCONF - full name of the Network Configuration Protocol RFC 4741 - was written by former Juniper engineer Rob Enns, providing installation, operation and delete the configuration of the network device using XML.

The free version of config, Cisco says, is available for use in production without additional charges; share software version adds command line northbound, REST and SNMP interfaces. Conf includes native support for data modeling language YANG - RFC 6020. Tail-f which authored modeling operations and layers of NETCONF content (such as RFC explains).

Cisco says the ten years NETCONF is starting to hit its path in the industry, and hopes that the offer of free ConfD accelerate adoption.The idea Cisco Greg Smith (Marketing Manager for routing service provider and switching) explains in this blog post, is to make cheaper and services agile.Smith says the ability of open programming provided by solutions such as NETCONF / Yang "can reduce setup costs almost in half."