Intent-Based Networking and Why You Should Care

There's always a "neighboring big event" in networking... Five years ago, it was Ethernet Fabrics in the data center, with came SDN, and currently it is SD-WAN. As SD-WAN adoption grows and shifts from bleeding to leading edge, the adjacent supreme event upon the networking horizon promises to be Intent-based Networking. Whether you've heard just about the concept of "intent-based networking" or not, the admission is one we will undoubtedly be hearing a lot more more or less in the coming months and years. More than just a specific technology it's the holy grail of networking. A drastically gathering access that enables the network to all the time align itself to the disparate demands of the point of view. It brings together all the latest networking innovations including SDN, virtualization, robot learning, model-based APIs, and many securities linked innovations into a closed loop system talented of identifying, predicting, and responding to matter needs. Intent-based networking system incorporates these four key things:

Translation and Validation - The system takes a distant-level business policy (what) as input from decline users and converts it to the vitriolic network configuration (how). The system then generates and validates the resulting design and configuration for precision.

Automated Implementation - The system can configure the take possession of network changes (how) across existing network infrastructure. This is typically finished via network automation and/or network orchestration.

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