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Application Team Self Service

Every new application poses some connectivity and security requirements that network teams are not able to verify at the fast pace required by the business.

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In most organizations, the deployment of new applications creates significant workload on the network team. Every new application poses some connectivity and security requirements that network teams are not able to verify at the fast pace required by the business. At a global card payment processor, the network team was required to vet network connectivity requirements in terms of destination IPs, protocols and ports for every new application to rollout. To accelerate this process, the engineering team had developed a “firewall checker” tool that application team was encouraged to use directly, in order to know whether the proper ports on a given firewall were configured properly for the new application. This tool however was not designed to provide network level information and was very difficult to keep up-to-date with new vendors, new OS versions, and new technologies.

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Financial Services

Network Architecture

New applications added daily
Switching, routing,VXLAN, MPLS, RSVP, L3 VPN
Modern data center principles: large virtualization presence on server side
Network virtualization
Leaf-spine for each data center
4,500 devices in single model view
7 network equipment vvendors
60+ models of hardware
200+ unique hardware and software combinations

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