Heavy Networking 584: Optimize Your Peering With Crosswork Cloud Traffic Analysis (Sponsored)

The promise of Software Defined Networking (SDN) has been a long time coming. Seven years ago or so, SDN was going to change everything. CCIEs wouldn’t be needed anymore, blah blah. Remember that? 2021 reality is that SDN hasn’t transformed everything we do in networking. But that doesn’t mean SDN has gone away. Our Heavy Networking sponsor today is Cisco. We’re going to dive into an example of SDN that brings the cloud (because of course it does), management plane disaggregation, deep metadata analysis of BGP, prefixes, and flow, change recommendations, and automation together. Specifically we’re talking about Cisco’s Crosswork Cloud Traffic Analysis. This tool is available to make you deeply knowledgeable about your BGP peering relationships and traffic flows throughout your infrastructure. Crosswork Cloud Traffic Analysis will also recommend the routing tweaks to be made in your IGPs, BGP, RSVP-TE, and segment routing to eliminate those pesky congestion points. Joining us from Cisco are Omar Sultan, Leader – Product Management, Network Automation; and Dan Backman, Portfolio Architect, Crosswork Cloud, SP Network Automation. Show Links: Cisco Crosswork Cisco Crosswork Cloud – Traffic Analysis Data Sheet Cisco Crosswork Network Automation (Video) @omarsultan – Omar Sultan on Twitter