The WAN Automation Engine (WAE) is a software platform that provides multivendor and multilayer visibility and analysis for service provider and large enterprise networks. It plays a critical role in answering key questions of network resource availability, and when appropriate can automate and simplify Traffic Engineering mechanisms such as RSVP-TE and Segment Routing. This session will focus on use-cases and APIs for developers.
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What is the WAE? Itâs software that weâve been working on refining since 2002 that lets you build an abstraction of the network, offline, so you can model it.
You can figure out lots of âwhat ifâ scenarios. Such as âWhat if this link fails? Where will traffic go?â Building a time-series database of network models lets us anticipate and predict whatâs going to happen in the future.
With Cisco WAE weâre automating the network in keeping with the Software-defined Networking approach, providing the ability for applications to communicate with the network via the WAE and software programming. Ultimately, all of these features add up to optimization and automation in your network.