Transforming Campus Networks to Intent-Based Networking

Chapter 13. IT Operations

Intent-Based Networking (IBN) describes how to manage and operate a network infrastructure. Traditionally, IT operations teams are organized around IT operations frameworks based on best practices. These kinds of changes would have to follow (strict) change procedures including approvals from the change advisory boards.

This often results in the fact that a relatively simple change (for example, in some organizations even a reload of a switch) will take much more time and require significant resources to write a change procedure, request the change to the advisory board, wait for approval, have a discussion about the denial, and then after a long period of time, be able to reload that switch in the evening.

Change procedures ...