Hindrik Buining, David Jericho, Orchestration, Automation and Virtualisation, BOF, TNC19, Tallinn, Estonia, June 20, 2019 (pdf)
ARNES
ARNES is working on the project WLAN-2020 to offer wireless connection within the schools in the country, hiring consultants during the deployment phase. They are using Automator as the middleware and doing ZTP (Zero Touch Provisioning)
built the ARNES network service orchestration stack, automation based on Ansible
GÉANT has automated the testbed setup for IP/MPLS type certification testing using the Robot framework and pyEZ. Version control using Gitlab. Using Ansible for the automation system, Saltstack for network devices and Jsnapy to collect operational status checks for before/after action comparison.
GRNET
Afrodite Sevasti, Orchestrating service delivery @GRNET, BOF, TNC19, Tallinn, Estonia, June 20, 2019 (pdf)
GRNET network automation stack consists of some internal (in house developed) tools for service/customer DB and network inventory.
HEANET runs the Schools Network and provides services to all the primary and secondary schools in Ireland (one router in each school). Approximately 4,000 routers access routes and 17 core and aggregation routers. Provisioning takes place by means of in-house developed scripts.
Internet2, USA
Rob Vietzke, Automation, Orchestration & Virtualization Bo, BOF, TNC19, Tallinn, Estonia, June 20, 2019 (pdf)
Everything automated, connecting blocks through standardised interfaces.
UNINETT
Uninett is running a project to define and establish CNaaS (Campus Network Automation Software) from 2020. The service is already operational for a small pilot customer.
UNINETT also developed NAV, which is software for automatic configuration of devices.
The Monitoring and the Automation are done using NAV.