Recently Sedona’s CTO Ori Gerstel sat down with Glenn Wellbrock, Verizon's director of optical transport planning, to discuss the practical challenges of introducing accurate discovery and automation into a Tier-1 service provider network, and the significant value in delivering services and saving network costs that can be achieved through such automation. As a backdrop to the discussion, Verizon deployed Sedona’s NetFusion network Intelligence and Automation solution earlier in 2017, specifically to address some of these challenges.

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• NetFusion Deployment in Verizon’s core

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• The need for network discovery as a foundation for successful automation
• The value of automation

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• Diversity assurance / management
• Service to fiber visibility
• Flexible optical layer

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• Use of flexible optical layer for optimization
• Need for multilayer coordination for optimization

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• Many operators still use spreadsheets
• NetFusion is needed for optical layer
• Merging networks (acquisitions)

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• Service migration

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• Big data analytics
• Python agility

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• Transitioning from Legacy to SDN networks

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• Understanding static networks
• Read only analysis as first step

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• Network restoration
• Disaster recovery

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• Service Awareness and its value