Our Phased Approach to Network Automation: Karl Fosburg - Hughes Network Systems

Session: Our Phased Approach to Network Automation - NetDevOps Days NYC 2023
Speaker: Karl Fosburg, Senior Director, Network Management Systems, Hughes Network Systems

Session Description:

Hughes Network Systems is a global managed service provider deploying networks and technologies for a wide range of customers across many industries. We are early in our journey to the level of automation that we are striving to obtain. We employ multiple point solution automations for our service businesses and are now seeking to build out one layer higher and include an overall automation strategy that will directly tie into how we manage and monitor our services from the top level.

Using Nautobot, we are taking a phased approach to our journey – starting with deep discovery of our current deployed infrastructure, building the business relationships to that data, and measuring data quality to define a repeatable process to ensure all future systems align with the data model.