Why Is Network Automation such a Hot Topic?
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One of my readers asked a very valid question when reading the Why Is Network Automation So Hard blog post:
Why was network automation 'invented' now? I have been working in the system development engineering for 13+ years and we have always used automation because we wanted to save time & effort for repeatable tasks.
He’s absolutely right. We had fully-automated ISP service in early 1990’s, and numerous service providers used network automation for decades.
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