Heavy Networking 506: Where Is The Industry Headed With Intent-Based Networking?

Where is the networking industry with Intent-Based Networking (IBN)? On today’s Heavy Networking show we talk about efforts to come to some agreement on just what constitutes IBN.
We also look at an IETF draft that examines concepts and definitions of IBN.
Our guests for today’s conversations are Jeff Tantsura, head of networking strategy at Apstra and chair of both the Routing Area and RIFT working groups at the IETF; and Phil Gervasi, a solutions architect for a national VAR.
We discuss:

* The problems we’re trying to solve with IBN
* IBN from the perspective of the IETF
* How to express business logic as intent, and the data models that will translate that intent into configurations
* The role of graph databases
* Why IBN focuses on the data center
* Whether IBN has size limitations in the DC
* More

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Show Links:
Intent-Based Networing – Concepts and Definitions – IETF
Jeff Tantsura’s IETF profile – IETF
An Introduction To Intent-Based Networking (Whitepaper) -Packet Pushers Ignition
Intent-Based Networking Part 2: A Deep Dive Into Network Abstraction And Continuous Validation (Whitepaper) – Packet Pushers Ignition
Phil Gervasi on Twitter
NetworkPhil.com