NETCONF and YANG: The Dynamic Duo of Configuration Management

Speaker: John Lawitzke, Director of Application Engineering, Tail-f Systems

If you are interested in NETCONF, you need to know about YANG. YANG extends the benefits of NETCONF by providing a standards-based approach to modeling network element management data. This Webinar is designed for technologists and developers who need to understand the latest industry developments in configuration management.

NETCONF: Not Your Father’s Network Management

Speaker: John Lawitzke, Director of Application Engineering, Tail-f Systems

This webinar provides a technological update on NETCONF. We compare the benefits and applications of NETCONF to SNMP, SOAP, and other approaches to configuration management.

How to Achieve Uninterupted Service and Automated Configuration Management of Your Carrier-Grade Network

Speakers: Håkan Millroth, CEO, Tail-f Systems and Asif Naseem, CEO, GoAhead Software

This presentation defines how standards such as NETCONF and those published by the Service Availability Forum (SA Forum) are shaping COTS solutions to meet availability and network management requirements in a manner that lowers project risk and helps you deploy new, revenue-generating applications on schedule. GoAhead Software and Tail-f Systems discuss how to implement new systems with their combined technologies based on real-world customer feedback from network equipment providers (NEPs) who have implemented such a solution.

Moving Beyond HA: Achieving 100% Service Availability

Speakers: John, Humphreys, VP of Marketing, Tail-f Systems and Robert Monkman, Director of Strategic Alliances

The mythical 5 nines are the benchmark to which network equipment providers and communications carriers aspire – requiring great expense and risk – attaining varying degrees of success. Up until now, the focus of commercial middleware providers has been on meeting this goal through improved fault management. The industry has largely reached the limits of this approach, and it is now time to address the hidden, everyday operational sources of network downtime. Industry leaders Enea and Tail-f will present power alternatives for building network equipment software platforms that allow your carrier customers to achieve 100% service availability and lower overall TCO.

This webinar addresses the following things:

• Why manageability and serviceability are becoming key requirement for next generation communications equipment
• How to avoid human error in misconfigurations that lead to network outages
• How to enable your carrier customers to achieve in-service upgrades to deployed network elements with no service degradation – out of the box
• The role key standards, such as NETCONF and SA Forum, are playing in defining the future of manageability in communications equipment platforms

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Integrating Next Generation Capabilities to Existing Network Management Systems

Speaker: Carl Moberg, COO, Tail-f Systems

This seminar describes how network management systems must adapt to meet the requirements of next generation networks.  For example, a user interfaces may need to be refreshed with a state-of-the-art Web interface or support for the NETCONF protocol may be required to help customers deploy scalable networks. Adding functionality and integrating with existing applications and data stores has multiple trade-offs in terms of development time and system efficacy. Even if developers elect to build a new application, it is often necessary to keep a legacy CLI or convert existing customer scripts to use NETCONF..