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Cisco To Develop Third-Party APIs For IOS

Posted by kdawson on from the letting-a-little-light-in-on-the-crown-jewels dept.

MT628496 tips a Computerworld article on Cisco's announcement that it plans to build IOS on a UNIX kernel, in modules, and allow third-party developers to access certain parts of it. IOS has traditionally been a closely guarded piece of software without any way for anyone to add functionality. No timetable was given for when APIs will be available. A Forrester analyst said, "...the network is one of the least programmable pieces of the infrastructure. The automation and orchestration market is far more oriented towards servers, storage and desktop environments. The ability to dynamically change the network is a missing component." The article mentions that Juniper Networks had announced on Monday its own developer platform for Juniper routers, and it's available now.

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  1. Speaking as a Cisco engineer... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    ...even we're not sure. Different parts of the company have experimented with all of the above options.

  2. Re:Get a D-Link or a LinkSys, Routers r a commodit by sjames · · Score: 3, Informative

    Does linksys or d-link support ssh? (I'd really like to know). Does linksys support T1, frame relay, and DS3? What about E1 and E3 support?

    If you reflash a Linksys with DD-WRT, it DOES support BGP and ssh. It's going to be fast ethernet only, and no support for automatic failover.