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SPAUI Training for Your Team — Implementing Automation for Cisco Service Provider Solutions
A backbone with thousands of routers cannot be operated by hand — yet in many providers it still is, one SSH session at a time, with tribal knowledge as the configuration standard. SPAUI (Implementing Automation for Cisco Service Provider Solutions) is the course that moves an SP engineering team past that ceiling: data models and YANG, NETCONF and RESTCONF, Python and Ansible against real routers, model-driven telemetry, and the discipline of automating a network you are not allowed to break.
It maps to exam 300-535, the automation concentration of CCNP Service Provider, and doubles as the practical on-ramp for NetDevOps initiatives — config compliance, telemetry pipelines, service provisioning — that keep stalling for lack of skills rather than lack of tools.
As a training operator, we arrange delivery through authorized partners with instructors who automate production networks for a living — live online in your time zone, on site, or as a private group built around the workflows your team wants to automate first.
Who this course is for
- SP network engineers whose device counts have outgrown manual configuration
- NOC and operations teams building telemetry and self-service tooling
- CCNP Service Provider candidates choosing the automation concentration
- NetDevOps engineers bridging the network team and the software team
What your team will learn
Topic areas below are grouped in our own words. The full official agenda is available on request — it comes from the authorized partner as part of your quote.
- Why CLI-at-scale stopped working: the operational case for programmable SP networks
- APIs and data models — NETCONF, RESTCONF and YANG without drowning in acronyms
- Python and Ansible against real routers: from one-off scripts to repeatable playbooks
- Model-driven telemetry: streaming state from the network instead of polling it to death
- Orchestrating services across the backbone rather than configuring boxes one by one
- Guardrails for automation — testing, dry runs and not outaging the core with a loop
Key facts
| Duration | 5 days |
|---|---|
| Level | Professional |
| Prerequisites | SPCOR-level service provider networking plus basic Python familiarity; deep programming experience is not required |
| Certification | Prepares for exam 300-535 SPAUI — a CCNP Service Provider concentration |
| Formats | Live online (VILT), On-site at your location, Private group, Seats in scheduled groups |
| Languages | English + local-language instructors on request |
Formats and how we organize it
- Live online (VILT)
- On-site at your location
- Private group
- Seats in scheduled groups
One request → three options
Fill in the form below — it takes a couple of minutes. Within 5 business days you compare 2–3 concrete offers — provider, instructor, dates, price below the public list. We contract and administer the delivery end to end. Details:how we work and vendor training.
SPAUI vs alternatives: which to choose
Factual criteria only — level, duration, audience and certification. The right choice depends on your team's starting point and stack.
Cisco DEVASC (DevNet Associate)
The associate-level entry into network programmability across all Cisco domains — Python, APIs, Git fundamentals. Choose DEVASC for engineers starting from zero code; SPAUI assumes those basics and applies them specifically to service provider platforms and workflows.
Cisco NSO201 (NSO Essentials)
Product training for Network Services Orchestrator, the tool many providers standardize on for service orchestration. Choose NSO201 when NSO is already your platform; SPAUI teaches the broader automation toolbox and the concepts NSO builds upon.
A custom intensive
If the goal is automating one concrete workflow — config compliance, telemetry pipelines, service provisioning — a custom 2–4 day program builds it against a lab modeled on your backbone instead of covering the full concentration syllabus.
Need only part of SPAUI?
If your team needs a subset of this program — or a mix of topics from several courses — we build a custom 2–4 day intensive on our own materials, shaped by your infrastructure. One custom program typically replaces 2–3 catalog courses.
Explore custom coursesSPAUI: frequently asked questions
How much programming does SPAUI require?
Basic Python literacy — reading scripts, editing variables, running them — is enough to start. The course is written for network engineers adding automation, not developers learning networking. Teams with no coding exposure at all usually take DEVASC or a Python primer first.
Where does SPAUI fit in CCNP Service Provider?
It is the automation concentration: exam 300-535 pairs with the core exam 350-501 (SPCOR course) to complete CCNP Service Provider. Teams typically send most engineers through SPRI or SPVI and their tooling-minded engineers through SPAUI.
Does the course cover our orchestration platform?
It covers the standards and techniques — YANG models, NETCONF/RESTCONF, Ansible, telemetry — that commercial orchestrators are built on, with Cisco tooling in the labs. For product-specific depth such as NSO, we arrange the dedicated course or a custom module.
Is SPAUI relevant if we run mostly IOS XR?
Very — IOS XR is the most model-driven of Cisco operating systems, and the course leans on exactly the interfaces XR exposes: YANG-modeled configuration, streaming telemetry and commit-based workflows. That makes SPAUI a natural follow-on for XR-based backbones.
How do we organize SPAUI training?
Fill in the request form on this page — team size, format, timing. Within 5 business days you receive 2–3 options from authorized partners with vetted instructors, dates and prices below public lists.
Request 2–3 SPAUI training options — quotes within 5 business days
No commitment — describe the task and we come back with concrete options, dates and prices.
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