Network
Automation and
Orchestration
Sofia Athanasiou, Customer Success Specialist
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1 Definitions
Current State vs Desired
2 State
Orchestration in Modern
Agenda 3 Networks
4 Helpful Skills
5 Q&A
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Number of
Connected devices in 12.9 billion
the internet in 2016
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Introduction IBN BW
Intent-based Networking
ML NFV
Machine Network
Learning Function
Virtualization
SDN
IoT
Software
Internet Defined
of Things Networking
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Number of
Connected devices in 46 billion
the internet in 2021
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Example: Intent-based Networking IBN
What ? Automation
(intent) How ?
(Orchestration)
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Current operating models aren’t working
95% 70% 75%
Network Changes Policy Violations OpEx Spent on Network Changes
Performed Manually Due to Human Error and Troubleshooting
$60B Spent on Network Operations Labor and Tools
Source: McKinsey study conducted for Cisco in 2016
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Strategic network investments for 2018
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From Automation to Orchestration
Orchestrate
O1 O2
Tasks:
Automate
T1 T2 T3 T4 T5 T6
Tasks:
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DEFINITIONS (ORCHESTRATION)
WIKIPEDIA
“…the study or practice of writing
music for an orchestra…”
“…is the selection of different
instruments to play the different
parts of a musical work...”
GENERAL
“…to arrange, coordinate, or organize the elements of (something) in order to
achieve a goal, result, or effect…”
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CURRENT STATE – MAIN CHALLENGES
• Bring service to market: 300+ days
• Cross-domain service activation: 2 - 4 weeks
• Service configuration Fidelity: NO single
source of truth
• Maintain & Troubleshoot: Manual
• Complex & Expensive
• Slow & Error Prone
• Manual
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EMS Event Monitoring
CURRENT STATE (VS DESIRED STATE) System
Network Management
NMS System
NMS NMS
Provisioing
Provisioning
EMS EMS
DC 1 DC 2
HQ
NMS
Provisioning
EMS NMS
Provisioning Provisioning
EMS
NMS
BIG OFFICE
NMS
MID
OFFICE
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CURRENT STATE – LEGACY METHODS
ACME SITUATION
• Optimize BW usage
DC 1 DC 2
§ MPLS/SP
§ Internet HQ
§ Mobile networks
LEGACY BIG OFFICE
• Manual monitoring
• Manual analysis of data
• Manual configuration
MID
OFFICE
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CURRENT STATE – LEGACY METHODS
ACME SITUATION
• DC scaling DC 1 DC 2
§ Dealing with holidays
HQ
§ Daily peaks and valleys
LEGACY BIG OFFICE
• Rent Public DC
• Scale DC
MID
OFFICE
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CURRENT STATE – LEGACY METHODS
ACME SITUATION
• Expanding + New DC 1 DC 2
department
§ New offices, countries HQ
§ New VLANs, networks
LEGACY BIG OFFICE
• Search and copy templates
• Manual configuration per device
• Configure all current devices
MID
OFFICE
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DESIRED STATE
NFV SDN PnP
• Continuous innovation
• Fast to scale and adapt
• Fast deployment IoT 5G Overlay
• Repeatability
• Self-fixing
• Reduce costs
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This is what we want
to avoid...
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Where Automation can apply
• Network configuration
• Service Provisioning
• Configuration validation
• Plug-and-play (PnP)
• Documentation
• …
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ORCHESTRATION IN MODERN NETWORKS
Orchestrate any device, vendor or technology
Over
NFV lays
NETWORK
ENVIRONMENT
SDN Legacy
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Percentage of
infrastructure
automated
~5%
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ORCHESTRATION MODEL
Services Layer L2VPN L3VPN NFV Security
• Service Centric
API ( REST / NETCONF )
• Future proof
• Model driven Service models
Orchestrator Mapping
Device models
NETCONF / CLI / REST
Network devices
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HELPFUL SKILLS – REST APIs
Representational State Transfer (REST)
Method that uses regular HTTP GET, POST, PUT, etc. to get information to and from a resource
HTTP Request
HTTP Reply
Messages can contain information formatted as XML or JSON
Tool: Postman
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HTTP Methods
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Most famous HTTP response code?
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HELPFUL SKILLS - NETCONF
• Transactions management
• Different data stores
• Modify multiple values – parameters at once
• Validate configuration
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HELPFUL SKILLS - NETCONF
IETF configuration management protocol
Addresses short-comings in SNMP methods
NETCONF was meant to ease configuration management across vendors
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HELPFUL SKILLS - YANG
list l3vpn {
Yet Another Next Generation data model leaf name {
language (YANG) }
Modular language representing data structures leaf as-number {
}
in an XML tree format
list site {
Used to model configuration data and state data leaf name {
of network elements }
leaf link {
Protocol independent, can be converted in any }
encoding format (e.g. XML or JSON) leaf vlan-id {
}
leaf ip-address {
}
}
}
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HELPFUL SKILLS – YANG
Simple service Mapping example: L3VPN
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Questions?
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