The Self-Driving Network™ Episode 3_ Motivations copy

If you ask me why we would like a self-driving network, I would say that there's several imperatives. There's the economic imperative: that everyone says networking is very expensive. At the same time, it's absolutely essential. . . The other part of this is the agility or the competitiveness challenge. How do I run my network but I'm able to bring up new services or do new things with the network in a much quicker way than today, so that I can be relevant, so that I can be competitive? How do I do this in a way that's manageable, that's operationally feasible? And the last thing is the security imperative. If somebody's attacking my network, I want to find out very quickly. I want to be able to analyze this, figure out how to defend it, mitigate it and know that I've actually defended it successfully.