Arista Networks unveiled a cloud networking automated turnkey software solution Tuesday that it says is drastically different from rival Cisco Systems' software-defined networking approach. Dubbed ...

Certification programs like those offered by Cisco and Juniper Networks can help network engineers document their proficiency in network automation. Modern networks require more dynamic changes than ...

Network engineers who learned the command line interface (CLI) for configuring network devices often prefer to make changes using manual processes, citing the speed with which changes can be applied.

Some network teams are finding power and simplicity in the shift from telling devices what to do, using imperative programming, to describing what they should be, using declarative programming.