¿Cómo funciona la automatización de redes?

How does network automation work?

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These days speed, efficiency and flexibility have become the most important considerations for companies, particularly when they are linked to security, efficiency, and reduced costs. And this is what network automation provides.

Network automation is a process in which software will automatically test, manage, and configure different devices in a network.

Once daily tasks and functions are automated, services availability in the network improves.  Additionally, repetitive processes can be controlled and managed in a fully automatic way.

Network automation tools include from basic network assignment and device discovery to more complex workflows; for example, managing network configuration and provisioning virtual network resources.

Network automation also plays a key role in software-defined networks, which enable automatic host provisioning and virtual network functions such as balancing virtual loads.

Benefits of network automation

Data and the use of devices are growing, so the cost of IT for network operations is also rising and exceeding IT capacity, making manual approaches obsolete.

By automating services and network resources management, network operations equipment gain flexibility and efficiency and, consequently, help backup modern business demands.

Greater IT automation managed remotely and centrally allows companies to not only stay up to date but also to optimize processes.

Network automation, however, also provides other benefits that we will now explain briefly.

  • Easy process execution: Automation facilitates a series of processes that do not require constant human decision-making, thereby reducing the margin for human error.
  • Efficiency in company tasks: Reducing the time invested in company tasks generates greater efficiency, so employees and associates can focus on other highly important work.
  • Reduction in unnecessary costs: Network automation lets companies reduce costs that could originate from keeping manual processes. For example, acquiring licenses or programs that later will become obsolete and, therefore, unnecessary.

The future of your company lies in automation

Integrating network automation has allowed many companies to improve progress in their activities by optimizing processes and, therefore, saving time and money.

With network automation, you can design and apply policies throughout the network in a simple and quick way. The flexibility of network automation also gives you the opportunity to choose forms and rhythms.

Automation is enabled with a graphic user interface that allows users to determine how network operations will be carried out in order to fulfill specific goals. All of this is accomplished in the configuration and with changes in the administration of network components.

Why choose NGIN Services?

Because we offer solutions adapted to your needs. If you require network automation in your company or any other service for your IT department, NGIN Services is the option for you. We have a team of certified engineers who follow the highest standards in the industry.     Call us today!

Conoce los principales beneficios de la virtualización de redes

Learn about the Main Benefits of Network Virtualization

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Network virtualization is becoming the norm and this means we need to find new cybersecurity protocols to safeguard information and data in a simple, standard way. Let’s remember that Network virtualization allows us to manage telecommunications (physical networks in a virtual network) and meet growing services demand more agilely.

Indeed, the benefits are huge, especially as regards to business scalability and evolution. So, let’s look in greater detail at the benefits of network infrastructure.

What are the benefits you get?

Having virtual machines to store and analyze the data generated by the internal networks of a company constitutes network virtualization. The clearest benefits of this include:

  • The first, and possibly most attractive, is cost reduction:

This happens because hardware use is minimized. The same can be said of infrastructure components required for equipment execution.

  • Fewer Processes:

Network virtualization does not involve physical equipment, which reduces maintenance processes.

  • Greater Productivity:

Your IT team will be able to focus on strategically planning for the next and best technologies for your business. This is possible because with network virtualization, administrative processes can be automated.

  • Data Security:

Network virtualization likewise lets you augment data security with easy and safe backups. This network infrastructure feature provides users better support.

  • Increased mobility:

Another advantage of Network virtualization is greater mobility for users who can access from anywhere in the world.

  • Business Scalability:

Network virtualization enables greater expandability and scalability and therefore can be used by companies of all sizes. Both SMEs and multinational corporations can enjoy a highly customizable virtual infrastructure with solid profitability standards.

Tailored Network Virtualization

Network virtualization features great benefits that allow companies to have virtual infrastructure to support business needs. Besides, it will be key to the success of any business aiming to be in great demand by new consumers whose sense of urgency is constant.

This is why NGIN Services offers a broad range of technological solutions after analyzing your real needs. Our expertise includes internet backbone (trunk networks) for large ISPs, transportation networks, DCI, Wireless LAN solutions, security, virtualization, and automation. Our team of certified engineers ensures you get the know-how and experience necessary to solve your problems. Contact us and learn about the different services we have for you.

Mitigación de ataques DDoS: Descubra la solución

DDoS Mitigation: Discover the solution

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Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks are one of hackers’ favorite methods to render web sites, services that provide internet, and servers unusable. This is why we definitely need to talk about DDoS mitigation.

One of the most commonly used techniques for  S attacks consists in flooding band-width with large volumes of traffic. Although this can also be accomplished by overloading system resources with semi-open connection requests, or likewise, blocking web application services.

DDoS mitigation designates the means and measures adopted by suppliers to attenuate or eliminate the negative effects of a DDoS attack by screening flow, so that only legitimate traffic can come through.

Why is it important to have DDoS mitigation?

As mentioned before, DDoS mitigation is important to avoid losing money due to attacks against our networks. Nevertheless, there are other reasons to consider having this service in your company.

1. Service availability:

During an attack, your site or applications may become intermittent or definitely unavailable to users. DDoS mitigation lets you ensure that your audience may continue using them normally, and this will help your company’s reputation.

2. Business continuity:

When your site, applications, and network functions become unavailable due to an attack, this also means that inside operations may be sidetracked to take care of the problem. Thus, mitigation allows you to maintain the regular operation of the company.

3. Brand Protection:

We’ve already mentioned this before, and that is in the event of an attack, your clients may suffer a bad experience, which could lead to their considering switching to your competition.

4. Peace of mind:

Having an expert team help you with DDoS mitigation, will give you the peace of mind that your company can continue operating normally.

How to choose a DDoS mitigation service?

Before purchasing a risk mitigation service for this kind of attack, it’s important to make sure such service covers various aspects.

First of all, scalability. This means that the solution should adapt to the growth needs of the business and therefore, to the growing scale of DDoS attacks.

Secondly, we need to talk about flexibility. A DDoS mitigation service must be able to adapt to threats in real time and implement policies and rules in consequence.

Thirdly, we must consider reliability, which means that the service needs to function correctly at all times, even when it is only used at specific times. Finally, you need to have an ample network with integral data transfer that will make it possible to analyze attacks and respond immediately.

DDoS Mitigation through the Cloud

NGIN Services can provide DDoS mitigation to keep your company from falling prey to such attacks that can be very annoying and costly.

Either using cloud or managed security solutions, we can monitor activity in your company network. Any time we detect unusual traffic or malicious activity, we direct traffic to a cloud screening system that only lets legitimate traffic through.

Contact us today and ask about our DDoS mitigation service .

Transforma tu negocio con la Virtualización de Redes

Transform your business with network virtualization

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Companies are facing new scenarios in which data centers are no longer enclosed physical structures, so connectivity is key to IT infrastructure deployment. Therefore, it’s important to talk about network virtualization.

Network virtualization is an efficient way to manage telecommunications and provides greater flexibility and agility to face service demands. It also uses software to combine several physical networks into a single virtual network, which makes it possible to divide a physical network into several independent virtual networks.

This means that you can use software to centralize all services traditionally executed through CPD hardware such as routing or WAN and Firewall optimization.

Internet traffic continues to grow, which makes network virtualization crucial to more rational resource management. Besides, it cuts costs, reduces latency and improves user experience.

Advantages of Network Virtualization

There’s no question that network virtualization supports business transformation. Network Function Visualization (NFV) technology can be linked to Software Defined Networks (SDN) and substitute hardware-defined IT network architectures with software that manages and executes the entire deployment.

In other words, this software groups together resources in a physical network such as switchboards and routers to make them accessible for any user via a centralized management system. Thus, instead of a specific task, every piece of equipment is assigned a software (that could change in the future) and that can be exchanged among other equipment in the same network.

This focus allows you to superimpose one or more logically separate networks on top of a physical network, thereby eliminating time/space limitations. Additionally, this can be applied where and whenever necessary without having to wait for complex, manually built deployments.

In the same manner, network virtualization provides a smart access layer that recognizes the specific needs of each resource or service automatically dissecting it to a given network to guarantee high performance.

Let’s talk about function virtualization

We’ve already mentioned that network virtualization is supported by SDN and NFV. NFV has to do with virtualizing network functions and allows every node become a data center capable of hosting different applications. That is what network flexibilization is all about.

NFV technology can therefore turn a local telecommunications node into the operator of a service provided to clients, so that when a large number of users are utilizing a certain application, a node nearby will host it and in this way reduce latency in the network.

We at NGIN Services are experts in IT solutions. We can help you transform your business with network virtualization services so you can reap the benefits of lower network latency, greater flexibility and most of all, better security and cost reduction for your company. Contact us today!

Automatización en el futuro de la arquitectura de redes

Automation in the Future of Network Architecture

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As explained in our previous blog, network architecture thinking towards the future and network simplification, are IT objectives. And in this simplification, automation plays a crucial role.

In network architecture, automation is in fact the process of automating network and network services planning, deployment, operations, and optimization.

At a first level, automation solutions for network architecture move manual tasks and processes to software applications to be completed repetitively and reliable.

The Role of AI and ML

Artificial intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) have made it possible for advanced network automation solutions to analyze metadata. This in turn allows you to leverage model-based network programming and also to learn network performance to produce predictive analyses and, in this way offer recommendations to operations teams.

In other words, network architecture automation facilitates improvements in operational efficiency reducing the potential for introducing human error. This increases network services availability and, of course, renders better user experiences.

Automation Considerations for Network Architecture

NetOps teams can achieve constant improvement while rapidly responding to increasing network interruptions and threats. To this end, they work through several automation stages:

  1. Repetitive administrative tasks
  2. Network access
  3. Network policy at the business data center
  4. Integral segmentation based on multidomain policies

Today’s automation solutions in network architecture may encompass a wide variety of tasks such as network design and planning, device testing, and configuration verification, supplying services and physical device deployment, in addition to virtual device deployment and supply.

Automation solutions also focus on tasks such as compiling and analyzing data in the network, software updates, network supervision, and so on.

How does automation benefit network architecture?

There’s no question that the switch to the cloud and network architecture  automation will make networks increasingly reliable, safer and with minimal interruptions.

For example, a reduction in the number of common problems can be expected. In other words, the use of work flows with strategies, fewer codes and efficient intention-based closed operations, will make it possible to solve these kinds of errors spontaneously.

Lower costs is another benefit of  network automation. The complexities of underlying infrastructure are considerably reduced requiring less man-hours to complete tasks such as services and network configuration, supply, and administration.

In addition to these benefits there is also better network endurance and reduced idle time, plus an increase in strategic work force with better perspective and control.  Automation will benefit your organization for sure.

NGIN Services offers an automation solutions and product portfolio that focuses on network architecture to maximize the resources of your business. Contact us.