Heavy Networking 649: Cisco NSO 6.0 Boosts Performance, Improves Usability (Sponsored)

Network automation and orchestration are top of mind for lots of engineers who are under pressure to deliver more services faster while also monitoring, managing, and supporting existing services and application. You can take a DIY approach with Python, Ansible and other tools, or you can look to commercial products to get you under way. On today’s sponsored Heavy Networking we dive into new features of Cisco’s Network Services Orchestrator, or NSO. NSO is a network orchestration platform for large enterprises and service providers that offers multi-vendor automation, configuration management, service creation, ongoing monitoring and upgrades, and more. We’ll dive into what’s new in NSO 6.0, including significant performance improvements in the platform (as well as how Cisco got those performance boosts), new usability and observability features, and support for additional third-party devices. Our Cisco guests are Omar Sultan, Director of Product Management for Orchestration; Viktor Leijon, Principal Engineer; and Nils-Petter Tisell, Product Manager for Orchestration. Show Links: Cisco.com/go/nso Cisco NSO Developer Hub – YouTube NSO DevNet – Cisco