Netrounds: Netrounds and Itential to Automate Provisioning and Testing of Global Network Services

BARCELONA, Spain, Jan. 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Netrounds, the leading provider of software-based automated active assurance solutions, today announced "Zero Touch Provisioning and Testing" - a Proof of Concept (PoC) conducted in partnership with Itential that demonstrates the drastic benefits that global enterprises and communication service providers (CSPs) can achieve with network automation solutions. More than 60% of network degradations are first found by end-users - or not at all - as shown by a recent survey. This is often a result of not all service deliveries being tested prior to onboarding the end-user. This leads to resource-demanding efforts being required by the customer service desk and field engineers to restore the service to its working state.Many enterprises and CSPs are now in the process of deploying software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) services in order to increase bandwidth at a lower cost and to achieve centralized management of the remote branches. SD-WAN also enables deployment of virtual network functions at the edge, which allows for more flexible and dynamic service creation. In order to confirm that services work when being provisioned, teams ...Full story available on Benzinga.com