The Cisco Open SDN Controller is a commercial distribution of OpenDaylight that delivers business agility through automation of standards-based network infrastructure. Built as a highly scalable software-defined networking (SDN) platform, the Open SDN Controller abstracts away the complexity of managing heterogeneous networks to improve service delivery and reduce operating costs. The controller exposes REST APIs to allow other applications to take advantage capabilities of the controller and unlock the power of the underlying network infrastructure, and JAVA APIs to allow for the creation of new network services. This session will present the basic constructs of the controller and the capabilities of the REST and JAVA APIs to demonstrate how the Open SDN Controller abstracts away the complexity of managing heterogeneous networks to improve service delivery and reduce operating costs.