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carried this vision forward to drive much of Lumen ' s network automation and standardization strategy , which is the basis for Lumen ’ s transformation from telco to technology platform .
Network at the pace of compute In its shift from telco to technology platform , Lumen changed its approach and determined the company would no longer continue to simply accrue capacity , managing discrete systems and running different products over the top , but neither would it seek the traditional solution of migrating the siloed systems inherited with multiple expansions and acquisitions to a common platform .
Instead , it embraced the concept of federated inventory that gives a holistic overview of all its assets and enables the company to view , consume , plan , manage and assure its network as a common asset irrespective of legacy systems and processes . As Shawn Draper explains : “ We decided that our historical patterns couldn ’ t scale . As such , we sourced data from each of our systems creating a composite view that gave us a full topological look at our network , irrespective of systems and processes . We call this ‘ colorless network ’.” Full horizontal and vertical visibility of the entire network inventory became essential , he says . Whichever way you look at a network , whether as a physical system , or a geographical information system ( GIS ) or indeed from the end-users viewpoint because they depend on human interaction , they will have holes like Swiss cheese . But if these data sets are overlaid , its appearance will be close to solid , and automated decision making will be much more reliable — and of course much faster .
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