Understanding Intent-Based Networking
During the course of this chapter, you have learned about many amazing technologies that work together to help you as a network engineer automate many tasks on your enterprise network. In this section, you will learn about two additional pieces of technology that bring everything together for network automation. These are known as IBN and Cisco Digital Network Architecture (DNA) Center.
In the past, network engineers would implement a concept known as a software-defined network (SDN) to virtualize a network and provide a new method to offer network administration and management tasks. With SDN, the goal was to ensure network operations tasks were made simple and streamlined for network engineers.
Within a network device, such as a switch, a router or a security appliance contains three planes. Each plane has a unique role and function on the network. The following is a description of each plane:
- Management Plane: This plane is responsible...
