Rewriting The Networking Playbook

Prashanth Shenoy, Cisco's vice president of product marketing, told CRN that Cisco's new certifications are rewriting its networking playbook from hardware-centric to software driven, and from closed to programmable.

"The way of doing things manually on a box-by-box basis is not going to cut it. So that's one of the key reasons why we completely rewrote the networking playbook, to provide a foundational platform that is open and programmable so our customers can rapidly address the business demands and then customize the network for the way they want to behave in the digital era," said Shenoy.