Carriers are motivated to scale their operations, reduce cost and bring innovative services to market. While new service offerings are the engine of growth, they are also more complex and expensive to provision.

Network Automation 2011 will bring together leaders among service providers, network equipment vendors, and providers of network management and operation solutions to discuss industry challenges, present new ideas, and share best practices around the topic of network automation.

Beyond Automation

Automating service provisioning and network configuration is one of several areas for potential improvement. Current approaches to translating service models into configuration changes are overly dependent on manual intervention from experts with detailed knowledge of the network and, where automated systems are used, they often use complex scripting code that is expensive to maintain and slow to adapt to requirements for new product offerings. In addition, there are limited mechanisms to ensure the consistency of multiple, interdependent configuration changes.