What is the importance of Intent-Based Networking

If you look under the hood of an intent-based networking system (IBNS), you’d be crazy not to see it as the future. It’s really smart, really safe, and hardware agnostic — basically fixing most of the annoying little problems while satisfying the big requirements for the largest data centers. Luckily, it’s just the future. It’s here now (albeit in a limited capacity). But that’s about to change.

Intent-based networking systems (IBNS) will inspire a major shift in how networks are managed. Here are things you should know about intent-based networking.

Automating Processes and Keeping Data Secure…Naturally
First off, what are we talking about? What exactly is intent-based networking? A common analogy used to explain the technology is a self-driving car. You put in the destination, and instead of manually driving, the car makes all the turns, lane changes, starts at green lights, and stops to avoid collisions for you. All the decisions and granular moment-by-moment adjustments are controlled by the car’s computer.

Similarly, in intent-based networking, the admin defines how the network needs to look, and the network handles all the configuration of, well, itself. Imagine a simple policy saying, “Only HR needs access to the HR server.” Historically, to keep such sensitive data really, really safe, you would put the server and all the workstations into their own VLAN to segment them off from the rest of the network. Great, what if the department wants to move or add desks? The IBNS network knows the user or device on the port and applies policies to the port automatically. No more tracing down ports to set VLANs.

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