1. Effective Network Orchestration Starts by Automating Provisioning Downloadable Figures
Simon Richard

2. Figure 1. Standards-Based Automation Methods: NETCONF and YANG
Switch/Router
Agent
NETCONF
SSH-Based
SDK or Development platform
Agent parses YANG-modeled data and translates into local configuation snipet.
Encapsulates configuration elements into a XML/JSON blob and populates YANG model data.

3. Figure 2. SDN-Based Automation
Southbound
Network Abstraction, Topology Database, Policy Mapping
Control Plane
Data Plane
Network Element
Traffic Engineering
Visualization
Network Virtualization
Other Third-Party Apps
App Plane
Open Northbound
Exposes State
Enforces Behavior Discovery
Events
Consume API
SDDC Policy and Orchestration
Close the Feedback Loop
Management
Policy Config. Monitoring
Statistics
Element Setup