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Azure Operator Nexus offers various capabilities to manage the lifecycle and configuration of the networking required to run the Operator's infrastructure and workloads.
Operator Nexus enables you to:
- Single pane of glass to manage your on-premises networking devices and their configuration.
- Create infrastructure and workload networks which are isolated.
- Configure route policies to import and export specific routes to and from your existing infrastructure network.
- Monitor and audit device performance, health, and configuration changes and take action against them via metrics, logs, and alerts.
- Set access policies to govern who can manage the network.
- Manage the lifecycle of the network devices.
- Tap or mirror desired network data with Network Packet Broker.
- Get highly available and robust control plane for your network infrastructure.
Key capabilities offered in Azure Operator Nexus Network Fabric:
Bootstrapping and lifecycle management - Automated bootstrapping & provisioning of network fabric resources based on network function use-cases. It provides various controls to manage network devices in operator premises via Azure APIs.
Tenant network configuration - Automated network configuration in Network Fabric for Container Network Functions (CNFs) and Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) that are deployed on the compute nodes. The network configuration enables east-west communication between network functions as well as north-south communication between external networks and VNFs/CNFs.
Observability - Monitor the health and performance of the network fabric in real-time with metrics and logs.
Network Policy Automation - Automating the management of consistent network policies across the fabric to ensure security, performance, and access controls are enforced uniformly.
Networking features built for Operators - Support for unique features like multicast, SCTP, and jumbo frames.