Why Use this API?
With the emergence of the cloud, the Internet of Things, and wide-scale applications like augmented virtual reality and analytics demanding higher and higher bandwidth, applications need the network more than ever. These applications require bandwidth, they need security, they need performance. And now that the network has APIs represents a big shift and a big opportunity for everybody.
Application developers love it when they hear that the network can help provide security for their apps. They love being able to take advantage of cloud-managed security and threat intelligence to build intelligence into the solution so that the application is automatically protected. Cisco EPNM now provides an extensive RESTConf APIs that provide easy integration capabilities, more securely.