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Data Federation, Automation, APIs and Low-Code – Key Components of the Software-Driven Network

Network management has always involved the need to maintain some form of inventory of the devices, connections, and base configuration of those components. For service providers, inventory has always been one of the most difficult things to manage accurately due to their large, complicated networks. Knowing just what is deployed physically is hard enough, but

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Itential Bets on Low-Code to Automate Networks

Itential is applying low-code concepts to make network automation more accessible. The concept of low code, originally pioneered by providers of application development tools, uses pre-built reusable tasks components. It’s included in the latest version of the company’s namesake network automation platform, Itential 6.0 using the Workflow Builder. That low-code approach makes it possible for network

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The Current State of NFV: Virtual Network Functions

  This may be one of the shorter blogs in this series, as it is very straightforward. In this one I want to focus on Virtual Network Functions, where they are today and where they are headed. In recent years, as cloud environments have become more and more common, vendors have begun creating virtualized versions of

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Disaggregation and the Operational Nightmare It Presents

One of the big trends discussed at the OpenStack Summit in Austin a few weeks ago was the idea of disaggregation. While traditional thinking in the network world has been to aggregate as much as possible; in the NFV world the dominant model is quite the opposite. First you have OpenStack itself, which is a conglomeration

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