Demand for Automated Network Management
Today’s networks provide constant connectivity, across greater distances and into every corner of the world, with whatever quality of service is necessary for the right user experience and for as little cost as possible. Network endpoints are human users, applications on phones, datacenters and small business. And things – sensors, actuators, robots – that create grids of awareness and capability.
The services and applications delivered by networks are created quickly and can spread like wildfire, going from the spark of an idea to millions of users.
This increases the speed at which network devices are added, removed, and moved within networks and how their configurations and relationships are changed. Human operators increasingly prefer to express policies and specify their intent for the desired network behavior rather than configuring each device making up the network. Automation and programmability transform this policy and intent into configuration and monitoring at the device level.