Aaron CJeff Doyle! 🤩🤩🤩🤩
Jody Lemoine CD 🇨🇦Cisco’s integration of AI into their general certification tracks. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/john-capobianco-644a1515_cisco-just-settled-the-argument-ccna-v20-share-7463223964203655168-4M_x
AI in networking is a logical extension of large-scale analysis and orchestration. I get that. This has the same foundational thinking as the “every networking practitioner must be a developer” mantra from 10 years ago… and it holds a similar level of truth. This is why it belongs in the automation tracks and not the ever increasingly broad general tracks. #NetEng #AI #Cisco #CCNA #CCIE
Cisco just settled the argument. CCNA v2.0: effective February 2027 - dedicates an entire domain to AI and Network Operations. Prompt engineering. Agentic AI. Evaluating what a network assistant… | John Capobianco | 20 comments
Cisco just settled the argument. CCNA v2.0: effective February 2027 - dedicates an entire domain to AI and Network Operations. Prompt engineering. Agentic AI. Evaluating what a network assistant tells you. Not a footnote. 10% of the exam. And the CCIE? A new AI Deploy, Operate, and Optimize module embedded across every expert track. Data Center first in June 2027. Then Collaboration. Then Security, Service Provider, Enterprise, Automation, Wireless. The gold standard certification in networking just told the industry: if you can't work with AI, you can't claim expertise in modern networks. Four years. That's how long I've been saying this - from stages, in posts, in conversations where people politely smiled and changed the subject. AI is not coming for networking. AI is the next layer of networking. The engineers who learn to orchestrate intelligent systems will design the networks. The engineers who refuse will troubleshoot them - for a while. I'm not here to gloat. I'm here to point at the blueprint. Here's where it gets uncomfortable: a lot of network professionals are looking at this announcement and quietly doing the math. Some of you have been building this skillset for years and just got handed a runway. Some of you have been resisting it and just got handed a deadline. That's not a threat. That's a curriculum change. To everyone who told me automation was a fad, AI was hype, and prompt engineering wasn't a "real" skill; Cisco disagrees. Every hiring manager who reads a blueprint before writing a job description disagrees. You have until February 2027 to decide what kind of network professional you want to be in 2030. Cisco frames it as Operator or Orchestrator. Pick one. I'm here to help. I've always been here to help. Itential is here to help. Did you notice the huge wave of infrastructure MCPs just in the past two weeks alone? I'm so excited about the future of our industry. Imagine the impact having 10% of the CCNA about AI and the skills and tools the modern junior network engineer will be empowered with as a result? And the real experts the CCIE's of the world - they too will adapt and embrace these skills and have the force multiplying power of years of experience and real expert level qualifications *and* the ability to build digital coworkers; ReAct agents. By 2030 we won't recognize the traditional operations today and yesterday. It will be as unrecognizable as RIPv2 or Frame Relay. If you are not at the AI table you are on the AI menu - I think if you want to stay in this field the choice has just been made for you. If AI is not your thing - well - maybe networking isn't the right field for you anymore. Check my previous post about my availability in the Vibe Ops Lounge at Cisco Live or AutoCon5 if you want to have a serious discussion about this; your future; and if I can help in anyway | 20 comments on LinkedIn
BenjaminThe #Arista community site is such a treasure of information. I regularly find answer to very specific questions such as this one : https://arista.my.site.com/AristaCommunity/s/question/0D55w0000BMF9kdCQD/how-to-mirror-filter-vxaln-vni (on how to filter mirrored packets, per-VNI, in hardware, so you do not overwhelm the CPU)
And having asked a question there, I was impressed by the response time from Arista employees !
Wow. Fifteen years since I became a founding member of the #FNS. Great experiences, great people, dubious networking. https://flatnetworksociety.com/ #NetEng
Auditor: Can you send a screenshot of the access VPN timeouts so we can demonstrate policy compliance?
Me: (Sends relevant portions of the configuration.)
Them: This is a text file. We need a screenshot.
Me: (Sends screenshot of my terminal session showing the relevant portions of the configuration.)
#InfoSec #NetEng #MaliciousCompliance
Me: (Sends relevant portions of the configuration.)
Them: This is a text file. We need a screenshot.
Me: (Sends screenshot of my terminal session showing the relevant portions of the configuration.)
#InfoSec #NetEng #MaliciousCompliance
We have dozens of relatively simple methods to secure Internet traffic, but we’re often reduced to “just open access through your firewalls from this huge list of source addresses” because too many folks can’t be arsed to do any of those. Keeping it simple is •not• about moving the complexity into the customer’s realm of responsibility. #NetEng #InfoSec
I think I’ve been in this industry for too long. I searched for a synopsis this morning and accidentally typed “synoptics” instead. Last week I was teaching the NATO phonetic alphabet and taught “unicorn” instead of “uniform.” #NetEng #SiliconValley
"SD-WAN" (over MPLS no less!) with IPSec tunnels (not transports!), hard static routes for link monitoring, and floating static routes for tunnel failover... because that's less complicated than using a routing protocol. #NetEng #BangHeadHere