Cisco Systems Senior Vice-President and General Manager of its DevNet program, Susie Wee, recently provided an update to a handful of analysts on the program’s changes and momentum. For those not familiar with DevNet, it’s Cisco’s developer program. One might ask a series of questions, such as: Why does Cisco need a developer program? Don’t they sell hardware? Aren’t developer programs for software companies?
Cisco does indeed sell the network, security and collaboration hardware–and a lot of it. In fact, it sells more of that stuff than any other vendor out there, more than all of their other major competitors combined.
Network engineers need to be software power users
However, Cisco delivers much of its innovation in software--advanced software with a number of best-in-class features to make the network more secure, automatable and less complex. Most of those features are available via a rich set of APIs (application programming interfaces). Now the term “developer” is very broad, and I’m certainly not advocating that all network engineers should become coders, but they should know how to perform an API call, write scripts and basic computer science vs computer engineering salary in languages like Python. Some network engineers might choose to go down the software coder path, but they all need to become software power users.
Cisco does indeed sell the network, security and collaboration hardware–and a lot of it. In fact, it sells more of that stuff than any other vendor out there, more than all of their other major competitors combined.
Network engineers need to be software power users
However, Cisco delivers much of its innovation in software--advanced software with a number of best-in-class features to make the network more secure, automatable and less complex. Most of those features are available via a rich set of APIs (application programming interfaces). Now the term “developer” is very broad, and I’m certainly not advocating that all network engineers should become coders, but they should know how to perform an API call, write scripts and basic computer science vs computer engineering salary in languages like Python. Some network engineers might choose to go down the software coder path, but they all need to become software power users.
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