How Colt Built an Automation Factory to Transform Network Operations with Itential

With a global digital infrastructure that includes over 3,300 devices across 230+ cities in 40+ countries, Colt’s network operations teams were struggling to keep up with scale. The network engineering team took the steps to build a scalable automation practice from the ground up, with the goals of accelerating network service delivery and providing more consumable value to the business. Itential’s integration, orchestration, and network federation capabilities have made our platform the central nucleus of Colt’s Automation Factory.

In this on-demand session from NAF’s AutoCon 1, Colt’s Head of Network and Systems Architecture Joan Espin Garcia walks through his team’s automation journey — from their initial ad-hoc scripting approach all the way to the efficient, integrated, operationalized platform approach they take today.

Using Itential as the integration layer across their distributed network architecture allows them to deliver a unified presentation of APIs to operations teams, streamlining automation delivery and ensuring the value they create is easily consumable to meet business needs. The team has built a scalable framework for network automation, accelerating time to value, supporting rapid innovation, and turning the network into a driver of business value.

In this video, you’ll hear:

• The business and technology goals that are driving Colt’s vision for integrated, orchestrated, easily consumable networking.
• How the complexity and distributed nature of their network creates challenges of scale for network operations.
• How the network engineering team built the right mindset, strategy, and skills to mature their automation practice and deliver more value to the business.
• How the team is thinking about Joan’s central question: how do we make networks more intelligent for the business?