Cisco Live Amsterdam 2023 Recap

We had a blast at Cisco Live EMEA in Amsterdam (CLEMEA) 2023! It was five days chock-full of incredible working sessions and workshops, personal meetings, and education.

The first day kicked off with an announcement of Network to Code becoming an official Cisco Select Advisor Partner, enabling NTC to provide Cisco customers with greater network automation support.

But the excitement didn’t stop there.

For those who weren’t able to attend, or just want a quick refresher, below are the top trends and takeaways from CLEMEA 2023 from Network to Code.

Unique Organizations and Industries, Similar Challenges

Regardless of the industry or the organization, each entity faces similar challenges when it comes to improving the overall reliability, management, performance, and security of their networks. Whether an organization is in the finance industry, education, or is a service provider, most of the daily business operations require a reliable network.

Network automation solutions can have a vast range of benefits, from increased network stability to improved security, and each solution can be tailored and built upon to solve an organization’s unique needs. On top of that, a network automation solution can greatly reduce the downtime caused by human errors or manual diagnosis and fixing the issue, while making operations more scalable and uniform.

Making Network Automation Simple

Simplicity was a key theme at the event all around, and that carried over into the questions and conversations had at the Network to Code booth.

It is easy for any organization to see the value of implementing a network automation solution, but many are still unsure of how and where to start that journey. The best answer to this question is that the “tool” is the last bit of concern when defining the solution. It mostly depends on what problem the organization is trying to solve or the task the organization is trying to automate.

Network to Code at CLEMEA

During the event, we had the pleasure of hosting and participating in various working sessions and demonstrations.

Joint Demonstrations with IP Fabric

We joined the IP Fabric team for two working sessions: Building a Network Automation Solution with a Source of Truth and Automation Assurance Engine and Open Source Contributions for Network Automation. 

DevNet Workshops

The team also hosted two DevNet Workshops: Take Advantage of Your Telemetry Stack! How to Retrieve Data Programmatically to Aid in Your Network Operations and Managing Source of Truth Network Data with DiffSync.

Interested in learning more about any of these sessions or topics? Contact us at info@networktocode.com.

Network Automation as a Service (NAaaS)

Network to Code offers a variety of solutions and services designed to help organizations jump-start their network automation journey. Network to Code helps enterprises by offering Network Automation as a Service to provide a fully managed network automation platform built on top of Nautobot, the most open and extensible Network Source of Truth. We also just launched Fast Track Solutions, a catalog of prebuilt network automation workflows, that can be added to the NAaaS platform!