A New Breed of Enterprise Cloud Network Automation

NaaS Accelerator Flat Hammer

A significant transformation from vertical to horizontally integrated Enterprise Networks is taking place. This transformative involves retail providers and managed service providers (MSPs) leveraging network services from a diverse range of partner providers who are co-located or interconnected at shared points of presence.

This new approach to building Enterprise Networks brings new  requirements for seamless, automated negotiation and management of network services between retail providers and their ecosystem of partner providers. These networks encompass a wide array of suppliers offering various service components, including last-mile access, inter-connectivity, transit/multi-cloud core, cloud services, security, and applications.

Flat Hammer aims to address these challenges and demonstrate the ability to:

• Offer a comprehensive one-stop solution for procuring and managing the whole Enterprise as a Service through a single unified interface
• Establish intuitive and standardized methods for sourcing and operating services provided by different types of service providers within the Enterprise Cloud Networks.

The project will leverage innovative techniques and advanced orchestration capabilities to facilitate optimal buying decisions based on policies, criteria, and various factors.

The project will be executed in phases, with the initial phase focusing on establishing standard processes and APIs for negotiating and ordering products and services for e2e connectivity across multiple, provider networks. The adoption of these processes and APIs is fundamental to the success of these horizontally integrated networks. Subsequent phases will expand the project’s scope to encompass operational aspects, such as Performance Management and Trouble-ticketing.