Intent Based Networking in the ISP Industry

Intent-based networking seems to be like an algorithmic based type of network configuration. Think AI art tools like Dall-E, Midjourney, or Stable Diffusion.

Ric Burton @ricburton

Who is tuning Stable Diffusion for software interfaces?

Some weeks ago, I was amazed when I realized that someone had tried to instruct OpenAI to configure an access list for a Cisco device.

@ayourtch@mstdn.io @ayourtch

This thread will be me checking out netops capabilities of GPT-3 for my fun and your entertainment. Green text is generated by the AI. Here’s one for the start. Not too bad ?

This is literally what Intent-Based Networking as used in Enterprises feels like. You define your policy or sometimes referred to as your intent, and then the device gets configured.

Source: Cisco Live

In Networking Field Day Service Provider 2, Chris Cumming, spoke about how the Internet Service Provider he works at uses Intent Based Networking.

What I love about this architecture above is this, no matter the configuration intent you specify, it can be provisioned across any vendor device.

There are several other cool features from the event. But since its beyond my understanding, I’ll be sharing a link to the full video