One of the biggest issues for network managers is the growth of costs for network operations. The growth of data and devices is starting to outpace IT capabilities, making manual approaches nearly impossible. Yet up to 95 percent of network changes are performed manually, resulting in operational costs 2 to 3 times higher than the cost of the network itself. Increased IT automation, centrally and remotely managed, is essential for businesses to keep pace in this fast changing world of devices, features and capabilities.
As chair of the NETCONF Working Group in IETF, I have spent years in the development of solutions that enable providers to orchestrate the deployment of network equipment. This talk will not only provide the motivation why API driven orchestration is important, the protocols and language that support that effort, but will offer practical tools and resources to enable providers to adopt network orchestration.
Speaker: Mahesh Jethanandani - Arrcus, Inc.