Sinh viên được yêu cầu thực hiện các bước sau:

a. làm toàn bộ các bài tập trong phần D và E (trang 23-25), bài 1 (trang 80), bài 2 (trang 80), bài 4 (trang 82-83), bài A (trang 86), bài B (trang 87) của bài Project 4 (bản thân viết tay đáp án lên bản in đề bài),
b. dịch sang tiếng Việt bài đọc (passage) Phần C (trang 22-23), bài đọc của bài tập iv thuộc Phần E (trang 25), bài đọc trang 86-87 (sau khi đã điền từ vào chỗ trống, và bản dịch phải do chính bản thân viết tay),
c. nộp bài trên giấy vào đầu giờ buổi học thứ 5 cho giảng viên tại lớp,
d. đánh số trang và viết đầy đủ tên sinh viên kèm SBD trên từng trang
bài nộp.
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Define a computer network in your own words.

Have you ever heard about Intent-based networking?
What do you know about it?
What do you expect to find out?

C Read the Article

What is Intent-Based Networking?

by Brandon Butler

Intent-based networking, or IBN made a big splash in 2017 and it

represents the next evolution of network software management. This
technology uses machine learning and advanced orchestration to
reduce the complexity of managing and maintaining network policies.

Managing networks has always been a complex process. Teams of network administrators have
been responsible for managing network equipment, provisioning user access, configuring policies
and ensuring the system is doing what is supposed to. Many admins use command line interfaces to
control their networks. Unfortunately, this way of managing the network does not scale very well.
The idea of IBN is that network administrators simply tell the network what their intent is and the
network automatically implements it. The IBN configures the network hardware. If the network
changes, for example a new firewall is added, or a new WAN link is created, the IBN will change
with it to maintain the intent.

Think of a hospital with a network carrying sensitive patient information. Using an intent-based
networking system, network administrators could dictate their intent that only doctors and nurses
are able to interact with sensitive patient data, but no other users on the network are. The IBN
automatically recognizes the identity of the doctor and enforces their access policy.

Research firm Gartner has defined IBNS (Intent-based networking systems) as having four
components:

 Translation and validation: One of the key tenets of IBNS is its ability to translate
commands from network administrators into actions the software performs. The idea is that
network managers define a high-level business policy they want enforced in the network.
The IBNS verifies that the policy can be executed.
 Automated implementation: After a network manager defines the desired state of the
network, the IBNS software manipulates network resources to create the desired state and
enforce policies.
 Awareness of state: Another key component of IBNS is its gathering of data to constantly
monitor the state of the network.
 Dynamic optimization and remediation: IBN adapts to changes in the network to maintain
the desired state of the network.
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In a nutshell, IBNS is about giving network administrators the ability to define what they want the
network to do, and having an automated network management platform create the desired state and
enforce policies.

The security implications for IBN are promising. The IBN ingests the intent of the network
administrator and can automatically maintain security policies. This frees network security
administrators up to focus more on incident response rather than implementing policies.

As new advancements in technology have only just now made IBNS a possibility, the market for it
is almost entirely untapped. Only the bravest of pioneers, like Cisco and a forward-thinking SEO
company, have even begun to try and implement IBNS with expectations that it could actually
work. So how are these early adapters fairing in their quest to transform modern ways of business?

Cisco’s attempt to create an “intuitive” network has garnered quite a bit of media attention. The
company’s CEO claims that its new system is capable of “thinking” on behalf of customers, and
while it may be a stretch to say current IBNS are fully autonomous or intelligent now, the
technology that’s driving this phenomenon is only getting more advanced, more rapidly.

Investment in artificial intelligence, for instance, has leaped upwards by a huge amount in the past
few years alone, to the point where some are beginning to question whether we’re developing it too
quickly. As AI, machine learning, and data analytics all come to be more common place in our
markets, companies like Cisco will soon find that they’re not alone when it comes to embracing
IBNS-centered approaches to business and research.

Intent-based networking is, like many other automation and AI-related tech, simply better at human
beings at doing specific task. IBNS has the ability to take directions from a human network
administrator and translate it into a flurry of actions carried out by software throughout an entire
network, creating the system the network administrator wants faster and cheaper than a team of
human workers could.

As fears continue to grow about the perils of automation and artificial intelligence, intent-based
networking shows that there’s often more to gain by embracing these technologies than by shunning
them. IBNS is only in its formative years, and has a long way to go before it’s recognized and used
throughout the business world, but its ability to cut cost while transforming how we build our
digital networks will undoubtedly shake up our markets for years to come.

(See more at: https://www.networkworld.com/article/3202699/lan-wan/what-is-intent-based-

networking.html; https://www.networkworld.com/article/3223428/lan-wan/how-intent-based-
networking-is-transforming-an-industry.html; https://www.networkworld.com/article/3221468/lan-
wan/how-to-buy-intent-based-networking-today.html)

D Comprehension Check
Answer the following questions.

1. Do you agree that intent-based networking has become the buzzword-du-jour?

2. What is the main aim of IBNS?
3. Why is IBNS different from past innovations?
4. How is intent-based networking transforming an industry?
5. What do you know about the security implications for IBN?
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 E Use of Language Practice

i Mark the statements as True (T), False (F) or No Information Given (NI).
Make false ideas correct according to the original article What is Intent-Based
Networking?

1. Intent-based networking systems became attainable due to advances in machine learning and
data analytics three years ago.
2. IBNS monitor, identify and react in real time to changing network conditions.
3. Cisco is the only player in IBN.
4. Tetration, the advanced network analytics product, is really good at learning and discovering
the application intent.
5. Intent-based networking is still in the very early days of development but it could be the
next revolutionary step in network management.

ii Match words (1-10) to their definitions (a-j):

1. orchestrate a to collect something, especially information or approval

2. firewall
b to do something that gets a lot of public attention
3. tenet
c an occasion when there is suddenly a lot of activity within a short
4. make a splash period of time
5. garner d used when you are starting the main facts about something in a short,
6. flurry clear way
7. shun e a hardware or software security system between a server and the public
8. in a nutshell Internet that allows information to pass out to the Internet but checks any
incoming data before passing it on to the private server
9. command line
f to accept and use new ideas, opinions etc eagerly
interface
g to organize an important event or a complicated plan, especially secretly
10. embrace
h a principle or belief, especially one that is part of a larger system or
beliefs
i to refuse, to accept socially; persistently avoid, ignore, or reject through
antipathy or caution
j a user interface in which the user controls the operating system or
program by typing in command

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 iii Use the words from the table above to complete the following sentences.
Consider correct grammar use.

1. After a quiet spell there was a sudden _____ of phone calls.

2. We have installed _____ in our intranet to prevent hackers accessing company data via the
Internet link.
3. The company has developed the Apstra Operating System (AOS), which controls and
______ network resources.
4. The AWS ______ is a unified tool to manage your AWS services.
5. Corporate America quickly ______ the Web as a new vehicle for advertising.
6. Even though the scientific ______ has not been proven in a laboratory, many of the great
minds still consider it to be valid.
7. ______, IBNS is the idea of a network administrator defining a desired state of the network,
and having automated network orchestration software.
8. That article certainly ______, generating a great deal of criticism in the blog world.
9. It's a case of the more you ______ publicity, the more it makes you enigmatic.
10. The idea of informers and agents is ______ information to save lives.

iv You are going to read a conversation between Network World’s Michael Cooney
and Cisco’s CEO Chuck Robbins about the status of the intent-based networking.

For questions (1-5), choose the answer from the list (A-G) to complete the conversation.

There are two extra items that you do not need to use.

Cooney: Can you update our readers on the status of Network. Intuitive rollout?

Robbins: _____________________________________________________ (1)

Cooney: Can you delve a little deeper into the subscription idea?

Robbins: _____________________________________________________ (2)

Cooney: Can you expand further to talk about the advanced software and why it is important?

Robbins: _____________________________________________________ (3)

Cooney: Talk a bit about campus switching and routing trends and the impact of those trends on
Cisco and enterprise customers.

Robbins: _____________________________________________________ (4)

Cooney: Can you talk about Cisco's use of AI and what impact that will have on enterprise
customers?

Robbins: _____________________________________________________ (5)

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A We have rewritten our operating system to not only support modern API structures and
programmability but also to build analytics capabilities out of the network which helps deliver this
context. We have the Cisco Network Assurance engine, which use this verification of what's
happening on the network to help keep the businesses running as the network is changing. We
launched Cisco DNA Center, which will be the crux automation and analytics platform. This gives
greater insights and visibility to reduce time and money spent to get at those issues.

B The Catalyst 9000 is the fastest ramping new product in the history of Cisco, which is pretty
amazing.

C Our customers are dealing with multiple public-cloud providers and they still have private
data-center infrastructure to support. We launched Network. Intuitive and the first platform was the
Catalyst 9000, and we also launched the DNA Center which is an automation platform. We
launched encrypted traffic analytics, which lets users see malware inside encrypted traffic without
decrypting it.

D Within switching, we had strong growth in data-center switching and we're seeing great
momentum with our new campus switch, the Cat 9000. We also had strong wireless growth driven
by our Wave 2 offerings and Meraki. Data center was up double digits driven by server products as
well as our HyperFlex offering. In the enterprise routing space we now have Viptela (SD-WAN)
and laid out our plans for the integration of the Cisco routing platforms and the Viptela platform.

E AI/machine learning is integrated across our entire portfolio and it is part of our security
strategy to process all the threat information and be able to digest it and help customers dynamically
defend across their entire architecture and stay ahead of critical issues in their environments.

F The Catalyst 9000 brings a number of innovations to the customer. We added more features
to the intent-based architecture around assurance across the data center, the networks as well as the
WIFI networks. The predominant number of the Catalyst 9000s are going out with the advanced
software subscription which is really what enables the automation and the security embedded in the
network and the analytics capability.

G What we see is that AI is a core enabler of all of our technology, and in fact we just pulled
together our first face-to-face AI summit for all the engineers around the company that are working
on AI initiatives so that they can begin to share capabilities in what they are doing. We are very
focused on it. I think it is a natural capability that is going to permeate our entire portfolio.

F Web Research Activity

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