Dell Telecom Infrastructure Automation Suite (Automation Suite) provides the infrastructure management and orchestration capabilities that disaggregated telecom networks require.
As telecom operators transform to an open, disaggregated cloud-native architecture, their networks are becoming increasingly complex and generating more data. Manual processes and legacy systems cannot scale to support the volume and velocity of changes due to this growing complexity.
In order to manage modern network infrastructure, operators must:
- Fully automate infrastructure deployment and configuration updates.
- Enable the monitoring capability required to engage with and act on network functions.
The goal of Automation Suite is to simplify and automate the additional complexities within disaggregated network operations. Automation Suite manages the various multivendor combinations of hardware and network applications (cloud-native network function). Automation Suite provides a single entry or exit point management plane for infrastructure management and orchestration. It reduces the time leading up to day-0, but also addresses day-1 to day-N updates to the infrastructure to make it operationally efficient.
Key functionalities include:
- A model-based orchestration capability for handling complex dependencies and long-running automation and failure scenarios gracefully.
- Support of extensible precheck and postcheck steps so that operators can automate their method of procedures (MOP).