DATA CENTRE PREDICTIONS
Apstra CEO, Mansour Karam
Without automation, that simple intent
could spell weeks of work from a small
team of engineers, not only installing
and configuring but also sorting out the
inevitable complications of integrating
equipment from different vendors and
troubleshooting human errors.
But today’s most advanced IBN
installations will, in just a few minutes,
translate that same intent into a software
blueprint containing all the configuration
data across multiple vendors’ hardware,
with precise wiring instructions for rapid
installation. And, should any performance
problems occur, the system’s intelligence
would trace back to pinpoint the root
cause of the problem and suggest how to
repair it – updating itself and the blueprint
in real time as the changes are made.
Ongoing benefits of the agile IBN include
reducing network outages and grey failures
as well as reducing operating costs.
network for specific application needs and
turns the ordinary public Internet into a
secure and performant enterprise-class
network by enhancing it with next-
As it is abstracted and virtualised, it is
completely vendor, (in the Wide Area
Network) service-provider and Internet
agnostic. According to Philip Griffiths,
NetFoundry’s Head of EMEA Partnerships:
“By extending permission-less
innovation to networking, we are putting
programmable app connections in the
hands of the practitioners.
According to Apstra CEO, Mansour Karam:
“With intent based analytics, network
operators can quickly detect and prevent
a wide range of service level violations –
including security breaches, performance
degradations and traffic imbalances –
bringing the industry closer to the vision
of a self-operating network.”
Trend 5 – Application Specific
Networking (ASN)
ASN extends the software-defined
networking principle to build virtualised
network layers on top of a physical
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generation zero-trust cybersecurity, while
at the same time boosting ‘best effort’
Internet resilience and performance.
Philip Griffiths, NetFoundry’s Head of
EMEA Partnerships
“We’re partnering with ISVs and
developers so that they can use APIs
and SDKs connect their applications in
minutes regardless of where they are
hosted, accessed and consumed from
– essentially they get private network
benefits without private network
hardware, wires, complexity and costs.” ◊
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