Heavy Networking 561: Modeling Your Network For Intent-Based Assurance With IP Fabric (Sponsored)

Welcome to Packet Pushers Heavy Networking. We are deep in the software defined network transition in 2021 and, as an industry, learning more about software operated networks. In the first phase, SDN focused on making configuration changes using software. The early adopters learned that configuration at scale needed assurance and verification. What do I mean? You can’t configure a network without awareness of the entire system. In simplistic terms, you can’t configure a simple VLAN without doing assurance check for STP, available IDs, and so on. In today’s sponsored podcast with IP Fabric, you will get an appreciation of the company’s vision of using intent based networking for verification and assurance. Remember that intent simplifies to “results” and leans into software to assist with getting those results. The IP Fabric Network Assurance platform gathers network configuration and state, and then builds a network model using a graph database. The result is a “digital twin” of the network that engineers and security teams can use for troubleshooting, to plan and verify changes, for network and security analysis, and to enable closed-loop automation. Our guests from IP Fabric are Pavel Bykov, CEO; and Daren Fulwell, Network Automation Evangelist. We discuss: * How IP Fabric builds its model by collecting state and configuration data * Using the model to map and test changes, enhance troubleshooting, and get visibility * Getting from intent to actual network outcomes * How IP Fabric can enable closed-loop automation * Customer case studies * More Show Links: IPFabric.io @IPFabric – IP Fabric on Twitter IPFabric on LinkedIn