New API network adapters allow for greater automation

Among the top networking challenges for enterprises are lack of skills, fragmented management tools and lack of end-to-end network visibility. Network automation specialist Itential is launching new purpose-built API adapters for Cisco systems that offer support for third party management tools and provide enterprises and service providers with a single network API that simplifies integration and enables end-to-end automation across complex, multi-domain and multi-vendor environments. "Network automation is inherently a multi-domain problem as the vendor ecosystem continues to introduce a litany of controllers and orchestrators as the new management plane," says Chris Wade, Itential's CTO. "Itential is focused on minimizing… [Continue Reading]