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processes can’ t meet the need for speed and scale.
Intent-based networking addresses this challenge by enabling customers to specify desired outcomes rather than detailed technical configurations.“ A customer or somebody who’ s designing that solution can specify meeting outcomes and the network will be able to respond to those outcomes either by providing a design or configuring the network so that it can meet those particular outcomes, those particular characteristics,” Wayne explains.
The approach transforms the relationship between the service provider and the customer. Rather than engaging in lengthy technical discussions about routing protocols, bandwidth allocation and redundancy mechanisms, customers can define performance requirements, security parameters and connectivity objectives. The network then autonomously determines optimal configurations and routing to meet these intentions.
The resilience component of intent-based networking provides additional value for mission-critical applications. In subsea network operations, cable failures represent inevitable operational realities. Traditional recovery procedures require manual intervention, network rerouting and customer notification processes that can extend service disruptions. Intent-based systems enable automatic failover and selfhealing capabilities that maintain service continuity without human intervention.
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