White Paper: Cisco Network Services Orchestrator: The Bridge to Automation

Whether architecting a service orchestration toolchain or building a DevOps environment, the underlying automation strategies have typically expected developers to understand how infrastructure works and infrastructure owners to be conversant with application development and service creation. Real world experience tells us that this approach is flawed.

Cisco® Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) offers a more realistic approach by serving as bridge between application or service owners and infrastructure owners, letting each team operate in their native environment, yet still collaborate effectively together. Years of operational experience have produced a platform with features and operational capabilities that these teams will find valuable as part of any automation initiative, enterprise or service provider.

NSO makes it easy to bring development tools and methodologies from the software world into the network world. When everyone is speaking the same language and using the same tools, and information flows freely in all directions, the time between coming up with a great idea and getting it into production is radically shortened.