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Cisco DevNet uses Postman to grow their developer community
Technology Category
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management
Applicable Industries
- Telecommunications
Applicable Functions
- Product Research & Development
Services
- Training
The Challenge
Cisco, a worldwide leader in IT, has a developer relations team, DevNet, which provides training and education about Cisco’s APIs to network and systems engineers, sales engineers, customers, and partners. One of the goals of the Cisco DevNet team is to help Cisco engineers and partners learn the latest automation capabilities of Cisco’s products and services. However, the traditional interfaces that Cisco engineers and partners have been using for years are not sufficient for learning and experimenting with Cisco's new REST API interfaces.
About The Customer
Cisco is a worldwide leader in IT that helps people connect, communicate, and collaborate. Headquartered in San Jose, California, Cisco designs and sells a broad range of technologies that have been powering the Internet since 1984. Across networking, security, collaboration, and the cloud, Cisco provides customers with a highly secure, intelligent platform for their digital business. The Cisco developer relations team, DevNet, provides training and education about Cisco’s APIs to network and systems engineers, sales engineers, customers, and partners.
The Solution
Postman, a platform for API development, is used by the Cisco DevNet team as a powerful tool for education. It plays a central role in both basic education about Cisco’s APIs and also in demonstrating specific Cisco technologies via online tutorials and webinars. Postman is an easy way for network engineers to work with Cisco’s new REST API interfaces. With Postman, Cisco engineers and partners can experiment with the capabilities the APIs support, including how to authorize and authenticate requests and visualize every step of a user flow. Postman also plays a starring role during live demonstrations at various workshops and developer conferences. The Cisco DevNet team even teaches advanced Postman workshops, leveling up their systems and network engineers to use Postman more efficiently and effectively.
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