Itential SD-WAN Network Automation Solution
Dramatically enhance and accelerate automation for multi-vendor, SD-WAN network creation, growth, and migration.
Jump Start SD-WAN Network Automation
Managed SD-WAN services have created a significant new revenue stream for service providers, but the technical and operational challenges of delivering a streamline SD-WAN offering has been challenging for many operators.
Delivering a reliable, high-quality, responsive SD-WAN service requires coordination across multiple cloud platforms, data centers, WANs, LANs, and customer environments. Each technology domain has unique interfaces, protocols, and best practices that should be automated individually, while at the same time the service provider must enable an end-to-end capability to ensure reliable service.
Given these complexities, Communications Service Providers require tools and capabilities that can provide granular control within domains, using native protocols and APIs, as well as end-to-end orchestration and automation.
The Itential SD-WAN Network Automation Solution combines the Itential Automation Platform with a robust set of Pre-Built Automation components that can be easily customized to support a wide range of vendors, environments, and technologies. By utilizing these pre-built components, users can immediately start implementing the automations for their SD-WAN deployments and can dramatically reduce the time normally associated with development, testing, and deployment of custom automations. In addition, the SD-WAN Network Automation Solution enables users to benefit from ongoing innovations and improvements as Itential introduces availability of new features and capabilities.
Itential simplifies and automates the management and configuration processes for SD-WAN, enabling organizations to drastically reduce risks and improve efficiency, increase agility, launch applications faster and drive overall business value. Itential’s low-code automation environment with built-in network intelligence empowers NetOps and DevOps teams to simplify and accelerate automation initiatives, like orchestrating entire service lifecycles using different combinations of multi-domain and multi-cloud offerings, by closing the skills gap.
Service providers that are using the Itential SD-WAN Network Automation Solution are achieving significant business benefits, including:
Itential Solution Features
The Itential SD-WAN Network Automation Solution combines the Itential Automation platform with pre-built and integrated components focused on automating the most common and time-consuming activities associated with the creation and operation of multivendor SD-WAN environments.
The Itential SD-WAN Network Automation Solution includes:
- Itential Automation Platform and Itential Automation Gateway, designed for high-performance, high-capacity network automation and orchestration. For example, the Itential Platform executed more than 100 million automations in 2020 for one national carrier.
- Pre-Built Automations for activities such as zero-touch-provisioning, SD-WAN branch onboarding, SD-WAN branch management, configuration compliance and remediation, device upgrades, and health checks – to automate the full lifecycle of SD-WAN networking activities.
- Pre-Built Adapters to provide integration with a wide range of systems and SD-WAN vendors to support activities including ticket creation, fault management, code repository interaction, and integration with orchestration systems.
- Pre-Built Transformations to simplify the integration of data from existing and new systems, and to solve the problems associated with mismatched data.
- Pre-Built Templates and Forms that can be easily customized to meet users’ unique requirements.
SD-WAN Network Automation Solution Use Cases
- SD-WAN Device Onboarding
- SD-WAN Service/Template Creation & Management
- SD-WAN Device Group Creation & Management
- SD-WAN Organization Configuration Lifecycle
- SD-WAN Controller Compliance & Remediation
- SD-WAN Branch Management & Lifecycle >
Itential is Automation for Complex, Heterogenous Networks
The Itential SD-WAN Network Automation Solution supports a wide range of southbound options for interacting with the network and SD-WAN systems, including CloudGenix, Versa, Cisco Meraki, Cisco Viptela, FlexiWAN, Silver Peak, VeloCloud, and others; allowing users to automate even the most complex multi-vendor SD-WAN environments. Users can gain greater velocity for their SD-WAN deployments and operations by leveraging the capabilities of the Itential Automation Platform, including:
Consolidated Network API
Integrate ITSM, monitoring, inventory, and analytics systems once using the Itential network API consolidator.
Advanced Network Intelligent Workflows
Itential’s Network Intelligent Workflow Manager easily integrates capabilities across diverse toolsets and IT ecosystem types.
Robust Network Service Management
Itential’s Network Service Manager provides deep service enablement, management, and disconnect capabilities through its API-ingestion and correlation engines.
Federation Across Network Technologies for Unified View of the Network
Itential mitigates the complexity of managing multiple SD-WAN platforms, by consuming and federating the systems and networks managed by those systems, abstracting the complexity from the user for simplified automation.
Get Started with Itential & Prepare for SD-WAN Acceleration
Let Itential show you how it’s SD-WAN Network Automation Solution can enhance and accelerate your multi-vendor SD-WAN build and operations, and enable your next-generation, agile network engineering and operations teams to lead your organization to realize the business benefits of SD-WAN lifecycle automation.
