“Intent-Based Networking”– Automation and Orchestration for Enterprise Networks

Today, the whole world is talking about automation and artificial intelligence. Considering the scale on which IT administrators operate today, it’s important that the foundation of IT infrastructure is also automated and orchestrated. With an increase in digital footprint across industries of any scale and type, digital data transactions are also increasing immensely.

The rise in data flow and transactions is due to multiple applications, which lead to multi-port and protocol conversations between the host and endpoints.  The dynamic nature of data demands frequent changes in these communication patterns, including changes in ports & protocols on the transport layer.

So, automation is the right solution for the network administrators to manage and respond to these ever-evolving network changes effectively.

The big question is how automation will relate to changing demand for end users’ data connections. This is where Intent-Based Networking (IBN) comes into play.

What is Intent-Based Networking (IBN ...