Multi-Vendor
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 & Remediationt
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.)
“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
Results Snapshot
Meraki SD-WAN Services Configured
<10 Mins
Growth in Orders
10% per Quarter
SD-WAN Services Delivered
Same Day
Automate & Orchestrate SD-WAN Management with the Itential Platform
Itential simplifies the management and configuration processes for SD-WAN, enabling organizations to drastically reduce risks, improve efficiency, increase agility, launch applications faster, and drive overall business value. Itential 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 orchestrate 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 Itential’s automation and orchestration solutions such as:
Low-Code Workflow Canvas
Drag-and-drop workflow canvas for network engineers and non-programmers to build integrated workflows that enable the orchestration of any CLI-based network devices and API cloud services.
Manage Configuration & Compliance
Ensure your SD-WAN network is secure and reliable by combining automation and compliance. Itential enables operational consistency across both physical and cloud networks, and CLI and API services.
Pre-Built Workflows for SD-WAN Use Cases
Get started Itential’s Pre-Built Workflows for SD-WAN deployment, change, and compliance use cases.
No-Code Integration with Everything
Integrate operational processes and connect your entire IT ecosystem such as ticketing, change management, inventory, monitoring tools, and any network technology and SD-WAN system with Itential’s library of open integrations to 100+ systems.
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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