From design to source of truth

Intent is the way we describe the service we want the network to provide - how we translate business requirements to network config and policy

Fulfilment is the way we take that intent and render it into actual network device configuration – whether that is manual, through automation or using full service orchestration

Assurance is the way in which we validate the network is doing what it should. This area covers monitoring and performance measurement but also such things as network modelling, behaviour analysis and configuration compliance.

Tim Schreyack began his career as a network engineer for a DSL provider and progressed to working on large-scale cloud provider networks. With a background in software development, he became an early adopter of network automation, writing code to facilitate network workflows. As a Senior Solutions Architect at Network to Code, he now guides clients on their journey to functional automation.

Tim Fiola is a Solutions Architect at Network to Code and has a network engineering and Python coding background. One of Tim's goals is to show how network automation can make network engineers a strategic asset by freeing them from high-volume, low-value tasks, allowing them time to do high-value network engineering. Tim has authored two books for Juniper Networks: "This Week - Deploying MPLS" and "Day One - Navigating the Junos XML Hierarchy." 

Tim also has an open source project called "pyNTM" which helps network engineers and capacity planners by allowing them to simulate failures, topology changes, and traffic changes on their wide area networks (WANs). In his spare time, Tim spends time with his family, staying fit, and maybe or maybe not wasting time by playing Halo for hours on end.

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Daren Fulwell is a Cisco Champion, Member of the CCIE advisory council, CCIE, CCDE and IP Fabric’s Network Automation Evangelist among many other things. Daren has spent the best part of 25 years working in our industry and has seen many changes over that time, but his true passion is in Network Automation. Daren is a leading light in the community, being a regular guest on podcasts and giving his view in interviews and blog pieces on the role of automation and its future uses, as well producing vast amounts of content with #init6, and many other outlets.

Daren has held roles with global giants in telecoms, banking and transportation but took a leap into the vendor world to join IP Fabric last year.

Dave Donohue is BlueCat’s first-ever Cloud Architect, helping to educate and guide customers along their cloud journey. Prior to that, he was a Solution Architect for BlueCat, working with customers to help them understand BlueCat’s offerings and engineer solutions. With over two decades of experience in many different IT fields of practice, he started his career in the operations world as tech support. He then moved on to become a network architect, working at Google, Sykes, and ExtraHop Networks, before landing at BlueCat.