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Both AmpCon Network Controller and the PicOS-V Virtual Software Switch are available for free download.
Automation
Push-button Automation
- Pica8’s AmpCon Network Controller provides push-button automation for all of your routine daily tasks.
- This includes switch deployment, enforcing day-to-day security and compliance policies, scheduled backups and upgrades and customization with Ansible playbooks.
I’m pleasantly surprised about how feature packed their orchestration platform is and the automation piece caught my attention. It’s a Cisco DNA Center and Arista CloudVision counterpart.
Automate Business Workflows to Reduce Opex
- The most useful automation is for what you do everyday.
- Automate mundane daily tasks to save you hours in your day, for example configuration updates, software upgrades, license updates and more.
- Zero Touch Provisioning for a block of 100 switches will save you over three days.
- These are savings that every C-level executive will appreciate, and every network operator can use.
Virtualization
Virtualization with EVPN/VXLAN
- Same Pica8 software on every layer from access to aggregation to core.
- Virtualization extends all the way from the core to the access switches.
- When you connect the device to the network, you don’t see the network. When you connect the device, you see the point where it enters.
- You don’t need to follow your network cables, with Pica8 software, networking becomes invisible.
- Templates and Playbooks to simplify your deployment.
Security
Zero Trust Principles
- Support all of the major NAC vendors for automated endpoint policy enforcement.
- User identification and device authentication for IoT devices, phone devices and unknown devices such as contractors’ laptops.
- Zero Trust strategies by combining NAC and Private VLANs for network segmentation.
Analytics
Analytics with Network Monitoring
- We offer traditional network monitoring with SNMP.
- This works well with major, incumbent network monitoring solutions.
- It also pairs nicely with enterprise network monitoring solutions like Zabbix.
AmpCon includes everything I’d expect from a network management platform – zero touch provisioning, monitoring, config management, etc. It also includes some really cool automation capabilities right away.
Analytics with Streaming Telemetry
- Support the next generation with big data collection tools developed by third parties such as statistics for control plane, data plane and virtualization.
- Includes the interface for integration.
- Leverage popular tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.