Fast Tracking Network Automation -

Leveraging Itential Pronghorn and Cisco

NSO for True Zero Touch Provisioning
John Malzahn – Host, Senior Manager, Cloud and Virtualization Solutions Marketing, Cisco Systems
Carl Moberg – Technical Director, Cisco Systems
Chris Wade - CTO, Itential
Today’s Presenters

Chris Wade, Carl Moberg John Malzahn

Co-Founder & CTO Technology Director, Senior Manager, Cloud
Itential Cloud Platforms and and Virtualization
Solutions Group, Solutions Marketing,
Cisco Systems Cisco Systems

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Agenda

Architecture for Lifecycle Service

1 Automation

Cisco’s NSO Solution and Value

2 Proposition

Driving Automation and

3 Leveraging Programmable
Networks with Itential and Cisco

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Cisco NSO – Our Industry
Leading Automation &
Orchestration Platform

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Key Market Trend Observations
Changing customer
Execution at the speed Rapidly changing
behavior and new
of software business models
expectations

• Agility, DevOps, NFV, SDN, • Everything on demand • Cloud services, virtualization,

new services platforms • New services with a press programmable networks
of a button • New ecosystems and
value chains
• OTT Co-opetition

All of this requires successful, flexible automation.

But complexity has destroyed many automation initiatives.
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System Overview
• Model-driven end-to-end
Network Engineering Ops and Provisioning Service Developers
service lifecycle and
customer experience in
NSO focus
• Seamless integration
Service Manager with existing and future
Package
OSS/BSS environment
CDB Manager
Device Manager • Loosely-coupled and
modular architecture
Device Abstraction ESC (VNFM)
leveraging open APIs and
standard protocols
VNF Lifecycle VNF Service
NED NED NED • Orchestration across
Manager Monitoring
multi-domain and multi-layer
for centralized policy
and services across
Multi-domain Networks
entire network
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Automating Service Delivery

Complexity Simplicity
Before: Multi-vendor After:
• Time-consuming, manual • 70% operational
provisioning processes
Network efficiency increase*
• Days and weeks to implement Orchestration • 60% reduced time to revenue*
new services Comprehensive lifecycle • Optimized service and network
• Poor visibility across network service automation for quality through better visibility
during service activations hybrid networks

Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) enabled by Tail-f

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Automation Journey
PROFICIENCY

Consumer device and cloud

technology leaders have defined AI
infrastructure operations paradigms Consumer Device
& OTT Industry
to manage large scale ecosystems. Analytics

Complexity
Programmability
WE ARE HERE
These same principles TODAY
Models
Enterprise &
will be applied to network CSP/DSP

management and large scale Scripts

distributed systems.
Manual

OPEX COSTS
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 Network Operations
Journey Network
Operations
Proficiency

Convergence: Hybrid operations

CAPACITY

are necessary to combine legacy

and virtual systems, physical and
Virtualizaton automated operations.

SD-WAN Modest improvements

Models
Data-center overlay and limited benefits to
VCPE Ops Gap this track.
Multi-layer
Manual + Scripts

Manual

TIME
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Automation
Customer Results
Use Case Before After Net Result
Zero Rate Rule > 100 Days < 10 Days Down by 90%
Implementation
Service Migration > 8 hrs. ~20 minutes Down by 95%
(hardware refresh)
New Customer Turn-up > 25 days < 5 days Down by 80%
Core Router Upgrade 10 devices upgraded per >100 devices upgraded Increased by 10x
Automation night per night
Port Turn-up 3-5 days < 24 hrs. 80% Reduction
DNS/IPAM Update 3-5 days < 10 minutes 98% Reduction

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Itential Automation Domains
IT & OSS Systems

+ + Operational Models
Change Service Order
Management Management
Maintenance
Automation Service Management

Golden Services

Service v1, v2, v3… Service Models Service Service Lifecycle

Device Turn Up Day 0, Day 1… Templates Device Device Lifecycle

Device
Golden Config
Config Drift and
Compliance
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Dealing with complexity
Systems

High complexity-
Best effort In Today’s World,
knowledge complexity is pushed to
Complexity

high-level systems and the

No complexity- network. The scripts
Agnostic mapping connecting them are not
intelligent enough to
reconcile critical truths.
Device hides most
complexity

Network
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Dealing with complexity
Systems Future State

Application focus Federated, model-

leveraging models as based application
source of truth ecosystem
Complexity

Models capture Orchestration &

complexity here Model Focus

Device expose Network Function

complexity through expose granular
APIs, NETCONF models and telemetry

Network
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 Model & Platform Ecosystem
Customer Digital
IT Service Partners
Relationship
Management API-First
Management
Operational
Models
Service
Change Service
Management Management Catalogs

Service
Models
Service
Service Service
Orchestration Inventory Telemetry

Device
Models
Resource
Management IP Address Resource Resource
Router Switch Application
Management Inventory Telemetry
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 Demo
Customer Digital
Relationship Partners
Management API-First

Operational
Models
Service
Change Service
Management Management Catalogs

Service
Models
Service
Service Service
Orchestration Inventory Telemetry

Device
Models
Devices/
Resource
IP Address Resource Resource
Management Router Switch Application
Management Inventory Telemetry
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Summary

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 Itential Pronghorn Extends NSO Automation
Customer
Itential has joined the Cisco NSO SolutionPlus IT Service Relationship Digital Partners
program adding Itential products & support to the Management Management API-First
Cisco Global Price List.

Itential Pronghorn extends the Operationalization of Operational

NSO Solutions including MOP Automation, Service Models
Order Management, and Configuration
Management.

Service
Models

Device
Models

Router Switch Application

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Poll Question

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 What You Gain with Cisco Network Services Orchestrator
and Itential Pronghorn
• Pronghorn leverages the core benefits of NSO
- Network abstraction
- Software model of network device & service models
- Industry’s broadest multivendor support

• Agility throughout service lifecycle

- Strict YANG model-driven solution
- Auto-rendered business logic results in less code
- Effortlessly re-deployment of updated service and device models

• Automation & Use-Case focus extends the benefits of NSO

• Robust and proven in tier-1 deployments

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