Demand for network automation and orchestration continues to rise as organizations reap the business and technical benefits it brings to their operations, including significant improvements in productivity, cost reduction and efficiency. As a result, many organizations are now looking to the next wave of network orchestration: orchestration across technology domains, more commonly known as Multi-Domain Service Orchestration (MDSO).
While the potential benefits of MDSO are high, there are unique challenges in multidomain deployments that organizations must tackle.
When designing an orchestration solution across multiple domains, network teams also need to be aware that the more systems with which they integrate, the more dependencies they’ll need to consider, including dependencies that can be outside their or their vendors’ control — such as those managed by a third party.
The IAP is a network automation and orchestration platform offered as a service or as an on-premise solution.