NetBrain
Technologies, Inc. announced the launch of
Next-Gen Release 12 (R12), a major update to its flagship platform. New
capabilities include a GenAI LLM Co-Pilot to assess, orchestrate and summarize
network automation results with natural language, and Golden Engineering Studio
(GES), which can reverse engineer a network's design rules and features. This
new release helps improve operational efficiency, minimize risk and maximize
network performance - all while achieving critical security and compliance
objectives.
From Reactive to Proactive Network Operations with
Reverse Engineering
R12's new GES allows network and operations teams to analyze
millions of lines of network configuration code to decode the live network's
configuration and state in minutes. Teams can discover these "Golden
Configurations" and remediate any deviations on Day-1. GES can then be utilized
to create no-code automation, as "Golden Intents," to proactively verify the
live network at scale - proactively preventing configuration drift, network
outages and other security risks.
"Our early-adopting customers are in awe of the new reverse
engineering capability within Golden Engineering Studio. Organizations often
struggle to understand the intentions of the network's original architects,
which limits their ability to diagnose and address problems or anticipate the
consequences of network changes," said Song Pang, SVP of Engineering at
NetBrain. "This helps them understand these intentions, detect problems and
spot configuration drift before they cause outages."
Reverse engineering is ideal for long-running network
environments that lack consistent documentation because of many years of
leadership and structural changes. It allows current network engineers to
understand the design rules previously put in place and helps them generate
thousands of no-code automations for efficient, compliant network operations at
scale.
Proactive automation shifts NetOps from reactive remediation
to continuous observability. This allows for greater focus on enhancing network
operational efficiency to drive business innovation.
Faster problem diagnosis and auto-remediation with AI
Another major feature of R12 is the new AI-powered Co-Pilot,
which allows users to ask questions in natural language for intuitive problem
resolution improving troubleshooting, change management and observability
workflows. The Co-Pilot can rapidly orchestrate NetBrain automations, use
intent-based reasoning to chain different actions together, and return the
diagnosis results in natural language or summarize them into other formats such
as a table, map or dashboard.
This AI Co-Pilot functions as a technology translator for
human users to interact with no-code automation without training. It acts as a
virtual self-service option that allows other operations and security teams to
gather network information, saving critical NetOps resources for higher-level
activities.
"Humans no longer have to figure
out how to fix network problems alone. The fixes are already built into
reverse-engineered golden configuration templates," said Pang. "The ability to
troubleshoot network problems, protect it for safe changes, and have real-time
observability for proactive network operations is a game-changer for our
clients."
Other updates included in R12:
- Triple Defense Change
Management:
NetBrain R12 offers improved pre- and post-change validation that enables
users to assess impacts to the network before, during and after network
changes with GenAI. This prevents unintended consequences that negatively
affect business-critical applications and services or introduce security
vulnerabilities now and when making future changes. According to an EMA
analyst report, 45% of network outages have root cause in configuration
and change management errors.
- Hierarchical dashboard
with Geo Location: Layers
tailored, map-based device visibility onto summary network dashboards
across organizational levels - company-wide, regional and senior
management. Clear red/green indicators for network health and direct
auto-remediation capabilities help streamline decision-making and enhance
operational efficiency.
- Enhanced Ability for 3rd-Party
Tools to Trigger Automations: NetBrain R12 upgrades integrations with critical
3rd-party tools like ServiceNow to execute network automations via API
calls and retrieve execution results.
- Intent Programmability: Expanded data type
support and improved UI for ease of use.
- Visual Parser
Enhancements: New
features for parsing and merging tables, and support for no-code API
definitions.
- Automation Data Table
Improvements: New
views give multiple options for diverse data browsing and enhanced
table-building.
"I'm thrilled about the R12 release for NetBrain -
especially the new AI Co-Pilot feature," said Dennis McDougall, Director of
Network Engineering and Operations at Boston University. "The reverse
engineering and auto-remediation capabilities make configuration cleanup and
compliance management easier than ever."
NetBrain R12 is available on November 15 to all customers
with active subscriptions or maintenance contracts at no additional charge.