Network automation for business leaders

Network automation brings consistent configuration, fewer human errors and automated documentation, for ISPs and telecoms as well as companies in finance, healthcare and retail.

Written for the people who fund and decide on it, this guide addresses the usual concerns and sets out a five-step path from Source of Truth to platform-based automation, with four case studies and a comparison of tools.

The main topics covered in this e-book:

A five-step automation path from Source of Truth to platform-based automation
Digital Twins, configuration as code and automated pre- and post-checks
500+ firewalls upgraded within three months, 100 in one maintenance window
Ansible, Terraform and Python SDK compared by fit and benefit
Downtime cost: over $100,000 per hour for 98% of organizations

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Why download this e-book?

Why automate the network?
The ebook explains how automation keeps configurations consistent, cuts the time and labor of manual updates, and reduces the human errors that lead to costly outages.
How do you start?
It walks through a five-step path from a Source of Truth to platform-based automation, with Digital Twins, configuration as code and automated pre- and post-checks along the way.
How do you bring the team along?
The ebook addresses the common concerns, from job displacement and new tools like Ansible, Terraform and Python to the fear of losing control. It shows how oversight, observability tools and a Single Source of Truth keep engineers in charge.
What does it look like in practice?
Case studies cover automated VNF deployment in public clouds, large-scale network operations automation, automated pre- and post-checks for network operations and an automated NFV telco cloud upgrade.