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Mid-Market Service Provider Automation Alternatives and Strategy Briefing
Mid-market service providers are faced with numerous operations challenges every day. Network rollout, new services and ever-tightening budgets are driving operators to find new solutions, particularly in the area of automation. But service automation and IT automation can be very different matters. Tools that work for data center rollouts may not work for deploying and managing new customer services. Operations managers, network planners and solution architects are asking: what tools are best for service automation, can we automate without a costly consulting project, how would automation affect my operation, could we support it, how can we get beyond CLI-based operations, and what are other mid-market service providers doing?
Juniper Northstar SDN Controller Fundamentals and Service Orchestration Lab
Juniper's NorthStar Network Management system gives you a way to graphically monitor, provision and troubleshoot your multi-vendor routed network. This lab will familiarize you with NorthStar's capabilities across a mixed Juniper vMX and Cisco IOS-XRv network. In addition to understanding NorthStar fundamentals, you'll also get familiar with Cisco's Network Service Orchestrator (NSO). NSO provides carrier grade service orchestration which works in conjunction with your other network management systems, like NorthStar.
Converged Optical & Routing Orchestration Lab
This lab demonstrates the use of automation tools to provision a multi-layer transport networking system. Cisco’s Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) and Itential’s Automation Platform (IAP) are used to turn-up a new transport network consisting of both optical- and packet-based equipment.
Midmarket Wireless Service Provider Accelerates Automation With WWT and Itential
Learn how WWT and Itential were able to drive automation deployment time from 12 weeks to 4 weeks — and help a midmarket company acquire carrier-grade automation on budget and on time.
Network Services Automation and Management Briefing
You’ve been tasked with creating an automation solution for network services. This problem is very different than infrastructure automation. You have to consider the customer/service relationship; the whole “service lifecycle”; and how to cleanly add, change and remove service configuration. Standard IT automation tools don’t seem to solve all the problems and you’re left doing expensive custom development (not to mention the support issues of such a solution). Are there tools out there which address this problem? Request this briefing to get ideas and information to help you solve your service automation problems.
Itential Automation Platform and Network Service Orchestrator (NSO) Lab
Itential Automation Platform (IAP) is an operations toolset and workflow engine from Itential. Large scale IT operations and service providers use IAP in conjunction with tools like NSO and Ansible. This lab focuses on IAP and building workflows on top of NSO (NSO is one of several systems IAP uses for device communications). This lab contains optional NSO review material to help you understand that portion of the solution.
Infrastructure Automation Briefing
Automating the deployment and management of IT infrastructure is crucial to running any IT operations organization. The goal of infrastructure automation is to reduce errors and risk while increasing speed to deploy infrastructure resources.
The market is littered with different infrastructure automation tools all claiming to solve your problems, but which tools are right for your organization? WWT has many years of experience automating infrastructure in both our Advanced Technology Center and our Integration Centers. This experience has allowed us to learn the best ways to approach building automation platforms.
How Do You Choose What to Do First?
Deciding what to focus on, where to begin and how to improve isn’t an exact science. At WWT, we have explored and discussed the components of decision making and have shared our insights below to help lend clarity.
Itential Automation Platform and Ansible Orchestration in an ACI Environment
This demonstration shows the Itential Automation Platform (IAP) leveraging Ansible as a device configuration orchestrator, to provision an ACI controller. The intent of the demo is to show you how IAP can use Ansible (and it's vast library of modules) as part of an operations workflow directly managing devices. The workflow provisions a new tenant into the controller, via the Ansible ACI module — no playbook is required.
Why Itential’s Automation Platform is Changing the Game in Configuration Management
Between Itential’s Golden Config, Operations Management and Workflow Engine, Itential’s Network Automation Platform provides a welcome low-code, flexible and user-friendly approach to configuration management
Orchestrated Service Deployment with Assurance (Itential, NSO and Netrounds)
This demonstration shows a “full stack” solution for automating service deployment and concurrently deploying probes and monitoring, to assure the service. Typical customer fulfillment processes treat service deployment and service assurance as separate steps. This solution shows that both can be done simultaneously. The advantage is that service health (or deployment failure) is known immediately. For service providers, this is key since billing typically begins after the customer accepts the service. In this solution, the service health is determined automatically. The customer can be emailed a report telling them their service is live (thus, justifying immediate billing).