Today’s Distributed Network
The explosion in the demand for new cloud-based services, applications, and networks has resulted in tangible changes within other network domains like data centers, WANs, and campus networks. However, a lack of interoperability across these distributed network domains has led to siloed operations, increased ‘ClickOps’ activities, and ultimately higher operational costs. This is placing an increased burden on already stretched network operations teams to not only maintain ‘business as usual’ services, but also deploy new ones, like migrating remote sites to SD-WAN. NetOps teams are now expected to manage multiple vertical solutions across multiple domains, which also comes with a steep learning curve.
Why Orchestration for
SD-WAN?
Network orchestration is the key to enabling organizations to transition and manage legacy networks in combination with next-generation technologies, like SD-WAN using a single platform, while providing agility and flexibility that allows for collaboration across IT and networking teams.
Outcomes
Deploy Faster
Deploy more SD-WAN sites in a single maintenance window, lowering operational costs.
Scale Operations
Orchestrate all SD-WAN changes at scale, mitigating human errors.
Maintain Compliance
Ensure SD-WAN configurations are always in compliance to evolving security standards.
Integrate Operations
Integrate siloed operations across distributed multi-domain networks, complex platform interactions.
Itential SD-WAN Automation & Orchestration Use Cases
- Streamline Day 0/1 SD-WAN Deployments
Automate the end-to-end process for SD-WAN deployment to integrate with any source of truth, ITSM, and network system to eliminate manual steps which cause delays and prevent teams from deploying sites quickly.
SD-WAN Device Onboarding - Simplify Day 2 Change Management
Build workflows that can open and update tickets, make network changes, ensure network function, and close tickets that reduce daily backlog due to manual changes.
SD-WAN Branch Management - Ensure Configuration Standardization & Compliance
Build Golden Configuration templates to define a configuration standard that can be used with an API integration to ensure that SD-WAN devices are always in compliance.
Network Configuration & Remediation - Orchestrate Across Multi-Domain, Multi-Vendor Networks
Itential mitigates the complexity of managing multiple network types and vendors by consuming and federating the systems and networks managed by those systems, abstracting the complexity from the user for simplified orchestration.
Multi-Domain Orchestration (ITSM, IPAM, etc.)
Hear From Our Customers
Lumen Orchestrates Deployment of SD-WAN Services to Increase Revenue 10%
Lumen needed to increase the efficiency of their new SD-WAN service rollout to support customer demand and avoid revenue leaks. They adopted Itential to orchestrate the entire process end-to-end, from service request to shipping to configuration to delivery resulting in a 10% growth in SD-WAN orders per quarter.
Customer Quote
By automating our SD-WAN process, we were able to configure devices in under 10 minutes and onboard more customers than imagined.
David Stozki
SVP of Managed Services, Lumen
TPx Communications Reduces Time to Provision SD-WAN Services from Hours to Minutes
TPx Communications faced an increase in customer demand for SD-WAN services that put pressure on network and operations teams. They adopted Itential to accelerate SD-WAN provisioning through rapid integration with their entire ecosystem, from Cisco NSO to their SD-WAN and firewall vendors. They built orchestrations for their entire process, reducing time to provision new customer SD-WAN services from 2 hours to 5 minutes.
Customer Quote
We deploy and implement about 500-600 devices in a customer environment a month and before Itential, it took each of those implementations at least an hour to do. With automation, we’ve now shaved that process down to minutes per install, including the time of upfront data gathering.
Norm Sullivan
Communications Enterprise Architect, TPX
Top FinTech Firm Delivers Self-Serve Automation for SD-WAN Configuration & Compliance With Itential
After taking a DIY approach to scaling their managed service offerings for SD-WAN sites to meet increasing customer demand, the team at this FinTech Firm quickly realized it would only take them so far. With Itential, they delivered a standardized, compliant SD-WAN solution at scale and achieved self-service delivery of SD-WAN configuration via ServiceNow. This ultimately reduced time to configure a new branch from 83 hours to 4 hours.
Customer Quote
We are now faced with more tools and systems that require automation via APIs, and writing our own code and scripts via Python and/or Ansible is not agile enough anymore. The end goal is to have an end-to-end, self-service automation platform that all our engineers can use. Itential is the only solution that can support this.
Network Automation Director, Top FinTech Firm
Orchestrate Multi-Vendor SD-WAN with Itential
Itential simplifies and acclereates the management and configuration processes for SD-WAN, enabling organizations to drastically reduce risks, improve operational efficiencies, increase agility, launch applications faster, and drive overall business value. Itential seamlessly integrates with any network and SD-WAN systems – including CloudGenix, Versa, Cisco Meraki, Cisco Viptela, FlexiWAN, Silver Peak, VeloCloud, and others – allowing teams to orchestrate even the most complex multi-vendor SD-WAN environments.
Teams can gain greater velocity for their SD-WAN deployments and operations by leveraging Itential’s automation and orchestration capabilities such as:
Orchestration Workflow Canvas
Low-code development environment that enables network and infrastructure teams to rapidly design and build integrated workflows that orchestrate processes across multi-vendor and hybrid cloud network infrastructure.
Strandarized Configuration & Compliance
Ensure your SD-WAN network is secure and reliable with Itential’s dvanced capabilities to meticulously manage configuration, compliance, and reporting for a wide array of network devices and cloud services. Teams can uphold the highest standards of security and performance.
Pre-Built Workflows for SD-WAN Use Cases
Get started quickly with Itential’s Pre-Built Workflows for SD-WAN deployment, change, and compliance use cases.
No-Code Integration with Everything
Robust and rapid integration capabilities remove the typical complexities and costs tied to orchestration, enabling users to quickly build powerful workflows that seamlessly interact with every network, cloud, SD-WAN, IT system, and custom-built script in your ecosystem.
Learn More with Itential Content
Blogs
- What’s the Difference Between Network Automation & Network Orchestration?
- Why ClickOps Can’t Solve Your SD-WAN Automation Challenges
- The Hidden Challenges of SD-WAN & How to Overcome Them
- How TPx Communications Automated SD-WAN Onboarding for Increased Speed & Time to Market with Itential
- Taking Action with ServiceNow: Cloud-Like Delivery of IT Infrastructure Services
- Understanding the Direct & Indirect Value Drivers of Network Automation
- How Itential’s Compliance Plans Transform CLI & API Compliance within One Platform
Other Resources
- Top FinTech Firm Delivers Self-Serve Automation for SD-WAN Configuration & Compliance With Itential
- Delivering Network Automation in a Hybrid Cloud World
- TPx Communications Reduces Time to Provision SD-WAN Services from Hours to Minutes with Itential Automation
- Network Automation & Orchestration Maturity Model
- SD-WAN Multi-Cloud Automation with Itential
- TPx Communications & The Value of Automating SD-WAN Provisioning with Itential (ONUG)
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