Itential
Executive perspectives from Itential across NextGenInfra's event and research showcases.
4 video interviews · 2019–2024
Reshaping Network Infrastructure with AIAutomation
- Itential's Chris Wade predicts AI integrated into all products, with smart agents replacing basic interfaces.
- Automation is essential to facilitate AI controls.
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Chris Wade, CTO of Itential, explores how AI will shape network automation, predicting its integration into all products and the creation of smart agents to replace basic interfaces. Chris also touches on the importance of automation to facilitate AI controls.
What's next for network automation in 2023?
- Itential's Chris Wade builds on years of network programmability progress to predict what comes next in automation.
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There has been a lot of progress in network programmability over the years. What's next? Itential's Chris Wade makes his predictions for what's next on network automation in 2023.
Automation, 5G Services and Multicloud
- Itential's Peter Sprygada predicts automation, 5G services, and multicloud to advance in 2022.
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Peter Sprygada, VP Product Management at Itential, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.
Advancing Network Automation through Software Principles
- Itential urges moving from manual, human-centric CLIs to machine-driven automation, treating the network as code.
- A software-centric approach lets organizations integrate across domains for end-to-end network automation.
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To advance network automation, organizations need to move from manual, human-centric command line interfaces (CLIs) to machine-driven automation. Chris Wade, Co-founder and CTO of Itential, talks about the critical issues associated with network automation and why it’s time to treat the network as code. By taking a software-centric approach, organizations can integrate across multiple domains for end-to-end network automation.