Cisco DNA Enterprise Network Architectures with Mark Montanez

Mark Montanez, Distinguished Consulting Engineer at Cisco, discusses how Enterprise network architectures are being challenged by the rapid adoption of mobile, cloud, video, and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. The emergence of Big Data, Analytics, and Machine Learning is enabling better real-time decision making, and driving the need for automation and efficiencies to enable these digital transformations. This session provides insights into the utilization of SDN (Software-define Networking…or Controller-led Networking) in the enterprise context. It will outline an evolutionary vision of DNA, including an outlook into the role of analytics and telemetry in combination with policy based automation to realize a ‘self-driving’ network. In this session we will discuss industry trends driving Enterprise IT to embrace digitalization and enabling digital business transformation.
Recorded at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2017, in Las Vegas on June 27, 2017. To learn more about DNA: www.cisco.com/go/dna/ For more information, please visit TechFieldDay.com/event/clus17/

[@overtheedge107]

Does Cisco DNA support a multivendor enviroment?

[@sititacharuraks8708]

No

[@MarionBogdanov]

No because non-Cisco devices do not have Cisco's UADP and therefor are not capable of being programmed by the APIC-EM.. However, SDA does not prevent non-Cisco devices from operating in the underlay ... in other words, you can run the SDA fabric and connect non-SDA Cisco or non-Cisco devices as underlays and pass traffic to them.