This nugget caught my eye in Cisco’s 2020 Global Networking Trends Report, fresh off the presses in October 2019:
“While only 4% of IT leaders and network strategists classify their network as an intent-based network today, 35% plan for their network to be intent-based within two years.”
Those 35% are on to something. Intent-based networking is a boon for network operations teams struggling with more user devices, more cloud traffic, and tighter schedules to provision new offices. Here are some of the ways we’re putting intent-based networking to work at Cisco.
