Network Automation

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Why is Network Automation Important?

Networks stopped being about simple connections long ago, as integration, interoperability, and new capabilities have come to prominence and given rise to the need for more sophisticated network operations. Exponential growth in network complexity has also come into focus, owing to increased consumer and enterprise reliance on uninterrupted services for the applications that power their lives and businesses. Key network performance attributes, such as availability, latency, bandwidth, and mobility have become essential parts of delivering communications services. The modern network needs automation, assurance, and analytics to make operations more efficient and to enhance customer experience.

Network Automation for Seamless Service Delivery

Today, service providers and network operators need flexibility to configure and reconfigure the network infrastructure and applications based on the traffic content and context, with as little manual intervention as possible. Add network slicing capabilities to the mix and a whole new level of network automation, orchestration and assurance are needed. By blending orchestration, assurance and analytics, the entire network from the RAN to transport to the core IP network can deliver seamless digital services.

What are the Benefits of Network Automation?

Agile, Efficient Network Operations

Reduce manual labor and downtime by resolving network events faster.

Improved Quality of Service

Fine-tune for the optimal balance of latency, speed, bandwidth, and availability.

Improved Quality of Service

Fine-tune for the optimal balance of latency, speed, bandwidth, and availability.

Openness is Key to Interoperability & Flexibility

Open interfaces are essential to ensuring interoperability and flexibility across a multivendor environment, empowering network operators to deploy innovative, scalable solutions with relative ease. Open interfaces provide a uniform means to connect network infrastructure with higher-level applications and management systems. This use of standardized interfaces fosters a more automated, programmable, resilient network. As a leader in open networking, 1Finity is committed to advancing open networking standards, delivering cloud-capable architecture with modular, open, scalable interfaces that maximize service innovation, reduce capital and operational spending, and preserve investments in network assets.

Virtuora® Cloud Solutions for Versatile, Modular Network Automation

1Finity’s Virtuora cloud solutions are a versatile, modular collection of integrated software products for the virtualized, programmable, automated network. Built from decades of network operations expertise combined with extensive AI research, Virtuora is based on open-source technologies, enabling comprehensive, customized, multivendor solutions for the entire network lifecycle, from planning and design to implementation, operations, and maintenance.

End-to-End Operational Automation

Virtuora enables unified, end-to-end operational automation, providing a foundation for resilient, self-healing networks that make full use of resources to support even the highest performance demands and latency-sensitive applications. With Virtuora cloud solutions, service providers can leverage 1Finity’s established multivendor ecosystem and evolve any network to support modern service delivery.

A Foundation for Resilient, High-Performance Networks

Wireline Control & Orchestration

The Virtuora Network Control solution enables network programmability, optical orchestration, and multidomain network automation of Layers 0-3.

The Virtuora Network Control Solution ›
Multivendor ecosystem that enables network programmability, orchestration, and multidomain automation.

Network Control ›
End-to-end progammability & automation for heterogeneous networks

Network Management ›
Efficiently manage your network elements

Planning and Design ›
Expedite & optimize multivendor network planning, design, and testing

Optical Orchestration ›
Orchestration & visualization for the multivendor, multilayer, multidomain network

AI & Network Analytics

Virtuora AX microapplications optimize multivendor, multidomain operations efficiency through AI-driven automation.

Virtuora AX ›
Actionable, automated network intelligence that extends traditional network monitoring and operations

Network Coach ›
Virtuora AX Network Coach helps operations teams improve productivity and resolve incidents faster

Accelerated Root Cause Analysis ›
Applies AI/ML techniques to reduce alarm resolution time, predict new alarm data patterns, and improve
overall QoS, while eliminating hours of manual work

Open RAN Control & Management

With Virtuora MC, providers and operators can proactively manage RAN infrastructure and leverage advanced tools and techniques

Virtuora MC ›
Unified RAN control and management of Open RAN

Why is AI Essential to Network Automation?

Network operations teams face mounting pressures and challenges due to demanding SLAs and strict service key performance indicators (KPIs). Other factors include multivendor network complexity, dynamic service requirements, and burgeoning data sets. Engineers can no longer afford to take a reactive approach. Powerful automation tools are needed to help operations teams make decisions rapidly and accurately, so they can focus on more strategic tasks.
Intelligent automation and AI/ML can predict network performance and drive operational efficiencies with complex problem resolution, helping to simplify network operations. With AI automation, vast improvements in efficiency are possible through higher performance and reliability. AI automation can also reduce operating costs, maintain outstanding customer experience, and maximize ROI.

AI-driven Network Automation is also the foundation of autonomous or zero-touch networking, which refers to managing the network lifecycle with minimal or zero human intervention. Zero-touch automation goes beyond traditional automation by using AI and ML to make real-time decisions.

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