Season 4 Ep 1: New Automation Capabilities Simplifies Network Operations

Hi, and welcome back to CloudNets, where networks meet cloud.

And today we’re going to talk about DNOR, the DriveNets Network Orchestrator.

And we have the DNOR expert, Calin.

Hi.

Hi.

Good to see you, man.

Pleasure to be here.

Okay, so Calin, there are a lot of fun and interesting stuff coming to DNOR in 2024 that will make our audience life easier.

Let’s talk about the three major innovations we have there.

Fantastic.

So DNOR ’24, packed with new automation feature sets.

First up, Autoboot profiles

This helps you bootstrap new white boxes from the factory.

The automation makes it very easy to add white boxes to your network and turn them into fully functioning routers.

And this gives you true zero touch provisioning for your devices.

So a much faster and easier provisioning process altogether.

Absolutely.

Quicker to roll out boxes, faster to deploy a network.

Good.

What else?

Next up is Smart Rollout.

We think this is very innovative.

It’s our brand new feature and it allows you to push software into the entire network after configuring just a few parameters that you’d like it to listen to.

You configure a few parameters and you let DNOR do the rest.

So you configure what you want to do and when you want to do it.

You probably, he knows when are the maintenance windows and he does everything according to plan and you don’t have to worry about it.

Exactly.

It even knows about your maintenance windows.

Cool.

Okay.

And the third thing, because we always have 3 things.

It’s the Single Source of Truth integration that we’re doing.

We’re moving towards Active Inventory.

So we seamlessly integrate the inventory that we have in DNOR into NetBox or other inventory systems.

We push that information up and allows for true automation workflows to take place in between the inventory, what you want the network to look like, and what it looks like today.

Wow.

Okay, so this is cool and this is exciting.

So three things you need and should expect from DNOR in 2024 is:

• One Zero touch provisioning or auto boot. That means that your provisioning process is much easier and faster and error-free
• The second is Smart Rollout. So basically you tell the system what do you want to do in network and where you want to do it. When are the maintenance windows and it’s scheduled and does the rest.
• And the third is Single Source of Truth. That means that you have an active inventory and online truth inventory. And the network is the master instead of inventory being the master and don’t have to manage your network offline. Everything is online and you can be sure that your automation process is hitting the right spots.

So I have to say this is exciting.

So Calin, thank you for bringing this feature and thank you for joining us in CloudNets.

Pleasure to be here and thank you for joining.

See you next time on CloudNets.

Bye.