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Automation Strategy

The Advantages of APIs for Network Automation

The command line interface, or CLI, has been the primary method of interacting with the network for many years. Most network practitioners have become proficient at one, and probably more, CLI “syntaxes” over their career. It has been the "native tongue” of the network devices they manage, and they speak it fluently and often. CLI

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Automation Strategy

How Network Automation Can Drive Transformational Benefits

In the early phases of network automation, most of the efforts were focused on simplifying and condensing repetitive tasks to gain efficiencies. Business processes remained largely unchanged, with automation primarily applied to standalone tasks within the process. The impact of these efforts was meaningful for individuals — an engineer could perform 100 assignments in the

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Automation Strategy

3 Required Components of Modern Network Automation Solutions

Traditional network automation has focused solely on the implementation and activation of use cases but to experience the full benefits of network automation, organizations must find a way to extend automation across the entire network and integrate IT systems to address a full end-to-end process – from the beginning stage all the way until the

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Why Network Engineers Should Lead the Charge for Automation

Historically, network engineers have not fully embraced automation for a variety of valid reasons, so many in fact, that I won’t take up all of your time by listing them out. This is a rather unfortunate situation because when you dig deeper into the designs and protocols of the world of networking, you discover that

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The Reality of Today’s Network Complexity: Your Network Exploded on the Internet

One thing that’s become pervasive is the realization that networks look and function much differently than they have in previous years. Recently, we’ve seen a huge acceleration in innovation and change that is forcing organizations to rethink the way they have traditionally been managed. This shift was the focus of my recent presentation at Networking

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