How Does IP Fabric's Discovery Work?

IP Fabric discovers network and cloud devices through CLI commands and API calls using read-only credentials, then identifies neighboring devices until 100% of them are found. From there, it creates a vendor-neutral digital twin of your actual cloud and network behavior at that point in time, complete with native Layer 1–Layer 3 topologies. This is distinct from tools that rely on Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) for discovery, as they can’t always discover all on-prem / cloud vendors or map Layer 2–Layer 3 topologies. IP Fabric also layers on application data from external tools like Illumio, so you have a full picture of dependencies across cloud, network, and host layers.

How Does IP Fabric Help With Divestitures?

After divesting a part of your network, you need to prove that the separation is complete. IP Fabric maps every device and dependency implicated in the divested network, so nothing gets missed in the handover. Once the divestiture is complete, you can run end-to-end path lookups to confirm that none of your devices or applications were affected in a way that introduces any risk. IP Fabric’s end-to-end snapshots also serve as timestamped proof of security and regulatory compliance throughout every stage of the divestiture process.

What If the Acquired Network Runs Vendors We Don't Use?

IP Fabric is vendor-agnostic. It discovers and normalizes data across all major vendors into a single interactive model, so an inherited Juniper environment is just as visible as your existing Cisco Meraki one. Visit our supported features matrix to learn more.

How Does IP Fabric Uncover Cost Savings?

Most wasted spend hides in the parts of your network you can’t see. IP Fabric discovers every known and unknown device and dependency, so that you can identify wasted spend from underutilized devices, duplicate contracts, and more. Read about the “Hidden Bill of Bad Data” to learn how you can save on Operational Expenses (OpEx) and Capital Expenditures (CapEx).

How Does IP Fabric Prove Security and Regulatory Compliance?

In every snapshot, IP Fabric runs a series of pre-built and custom intent checks across millions of network data points. Pre-built checks are based on industry best practices, but it’s easy to create custom checks without any specialized query languages. The results of these checks are reported in a normalized, user-friendly dashboard, and can be accessed via IP Fabric’s open API and enterprise-grade MCP server.

Mergers, Acquisitions, and Divestitures

Understand the risks and opportunities in new networks, or prove separation from the ones you’re no longer managing.

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Transcript: Mergers, Acquisitions, and Divestitures

M&A and divestit are often long, complex
and risky projects making them critical
for the business. When you are divesting
or occurring infrastructure, you need to
understand what you have, secure it,
integrate it or decommission it. You
need to plan and implement changes in a
tight timeline while remaining
compliant.
So where do you start? Whether you’re
crying or divesting, it starts with a
question you need answers fast. What’s
actually there? Getting that answer is
usually painful. A manual process of
spreadsheets, site visits, chasing down
whoever still remembers how things are
wired. It takes times, weeks, sometimes
months or years. And what you end up
with is often an outdated or just plain
wrong.
IP Fabric replaces all of that. Point it
at the environment you want to discover
and within minutes you have a complete
accurate picture of that network. Every
device, every connection discovered and
documented automatically. No manual
effort, no guesswork.
With that picture in hand, you can plan
changes with confidence. Snapshot the
network before you touch anything so you
always have a clean baseline to compare
against. And once the change is made,
you validate it. comparing before and
after to confirm the network did exactly
what you expected. Nothing more, nothing
less.
On an acquisition, that validation needs
to go further. You’re not just
inheriting infrastructure, you’re
inheriting whatever standards or
shortcuts the previous owner lived with.
IP Fabric lets you check what you’re on
boarding against your own compliance
policies. So nothing gets integrated
until it actually meets your standards
or at least you’ve got a quick way of
finding out if something is non-standard
or outside of your policy.
None of this works without an accurate
source of truth on both sides of the
deal and a clear view of compliance. We
go deeper in both of those use cases in
other videos.
mergers, acquisition and diversity are
major projects that can be handled with
confidence with IP fabric.

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Stephanie Deroch

Network and System Engineer

@ Air France-KLM

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