Intent-based networking (IBN), a form of network administration that uses machine learning and deep analytics to automate network management and maintenance, is rapidly gaining popularity, yet much confusion remains about its application and potential benefits. “IBN systems take a business intent as input and automatically identify a desired state of the network to meet the business intent, and then allocate network resources to create the desired state and enforce corresponding network policies,” explained Yan Huang, an assistant professor of business technologies at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business.
