How to optimize and automate your network with Cisco NSO
Cisco Network Services Orchestrator simplifies work in heterogeneous networks. Here's how we use NSO to solve common network problems.
Managing a complex network is a challenge – especially when you need to keep everything updated without downtime. Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) automates the entire lifecycle for network services and communicates with equipment from multiple vendors simultaneously.
What NSO actually does
- Provision services (VLAN, VPN, QoS, ports) transactionally.
- Keeps track of desired state versus actual state in the equipment.
- Rolls back automatically if something goes wrong.
How we use NSO in real-world projects
We always start with a service model together with the customer – "what should a Customer port look like for us?" – and then build templates per platform. Once the model is complete, all daily operations become pure API calls to NSO, regardless of whether it's a Cisco, Juniper, or Arista box on the other end.
Common benefits
- Shorter lead time from order to delivery.
- Fewer incidents caused by manual misconfigurations.
- Easier compliance – you see exactly what is rolled out, where.
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