The definition From the Technology Desk at SmartChoice Network automation is the use of software to perform individual network tasks — detecting an outage, opening a ticket, applying a configuration, sending a notification — without a human doing the work by hand. Network orchestration is the coordination of those automated tasks into a governed, end-to-end
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Understanding the basics of network automation
Understanding the basics of network automation From the Technology Desk at SmartChoice Most explanations of network automation open with history — engineers logging into routers one at a time, typing configuration commands into a terminal, and how software eventually changed all that. It’s true, but it isn’t the definition we use internally. Ours is simpler: