The industry has high hopes for network automation. Industry research, as well as our own work, indicates that IT and networking professionals believe that many network management tasks can be automated using promising software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) technology.
What is realistic? Network automation and network virtualization enable automation by programmatically configuring and provisioning network connections, a process known as orchestration. These time and cost-saving capabilities, combined with automated management of the network based on business policy, and end-to-end automated Quality of Service are available in today’s market.
But network automation goes beyond orchestration – for example using analytics and monitoring tools to detect and diagnose network problems and respond to network demand ahead of time, delivering auto-healing and auto-scaling functionality.
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