SVTech

Network Automation Evolution

2018 — 2025

From Scripts to Platform — DevOps/DevNet Journey at SVTech

Network Automation NMAA Platform ITIM AI/LLM

Foundation

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

Large Scale Deployment Automation

Viettel Mobifone Metfone
Foundation Journey - First NMAA Framework
📡

Scale & Scope

Network equipment automation

  • Remote mass upgrades
  • Device rollout & configuration optimization
  • Fully automatied
🎯

Key Milestone

First production deployment

🚀 Metfone Network — First NMAA Customer

Strategic Migrations

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

Critical Network Migrations Under Pressure

VNPT-NET Migration - Automated Config Conversion
VNPT

VNPT-NET Migration

Northern Vietnam

  • Huawei → Juniper full migration
  • Complex live services preserved
  • Consolidated SVTech position
Strategic Win
Movitel

Movitel Automation

Mozambique 🇲🇿

  • Service automation delivery
  • Network optimization workflows
  • First Africa expansion
International Milestone

Platform Maturation

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

Intelligence Integration & Scenario Libraries

📈

Customer Expansion

CMC, QTSC, Unitel

  • PoC → Production
  • Platform refinement
  • Multi-year support
Growing Portfolio
🔍

Healthcheck Library

Dozens per customer

  • Config validation
  • Protocol checks
  • Performance baseline
Reusable Scenarios
🔄

Audit Cycles

Mobifone, Movitel

  • Yearly network audits
  • Compliance reports
  • Remediation tracking
Recurring Revenue
🔗

NMAA Integration

Platform unification

  • Centralized inventory
  • Workflow engine
  • Multi-vendor support
Core Platform
Smart Error Analysis Pipeline

Scale Achievements

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

Upgrade & Topology Automation

VNPT Multi-Version Upgrade Automation
Unitel Topology Auto-Discovery

ATP Automation

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

ATP Hardware Acceptance Testing

Time Compression 10x faster
Manual
2-3 months
Automated
2-3 weeks
Chassis tests Linecard tests Module tests
DOCX
Official Acceptance Report
Auto-generated after test run
10+ projects deployed
Hundreds of engineer-days saved
Continuous improvement into 2025

Production Scale

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

Official NMAA Deployments

Production Growth Trajectory
🏢
Growing
Official Deployments
📡
10K+
Devices Managed
🌏
Multi-Region
APAC Coverage
Exponential
5-Year Growth

Customer Stack Integration

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

Techcombank Professional Services

Techcombank × F5 Networks

🎯 Project Scope

  • Automation scenario development
  • F5 load balancer configuration
  • CI/CD pipeline integration
  • Custom Python automation scripts
  • Knowledge transfer & training

🔧 Customer Technology Stack

Jenkins

Jenkins

GitLab

GitLab

Python

Python

💡

Key Significance

Demonstrates platform-agnostic expertise — not just deploying proprietary NMAA, but adapting to customer's existing CI/CD infrastructure

Audit Workflow Builder

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

No-Code Platform for Network Engineers

🧠

Web-Based

Browser access

🧩

No-Code

Drag & drop

Audit Workflow Builder Cycle
📦

Container

Easy deploy

💸

100s-1000s

Man-days saved

LLM-Powered Error Analysis

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

AI-Enhanced Support Services

Knowledge Base Sources

Juniper
Vendor KB
Juniper
Auto web search/scraping
Juniper
Vendor Problem Reports
Juniper
Vendor Signal
SVTECH Juniper
SVTECH-Vendor tickets
Support corpus
Historical
SVTECH
SVTECH-Customer tickets
Customer incidents
Field Reality
LLM/RAG Architecture

Capabilities

  • Automated error pattern detection
  • Root cause identification
  • Resolution step suggestions
🧪 Status: Pilot phase for internal support — enhancing service quality before customer deployment

Automation Tools

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

Transmission Testing & ITSM Integration

Bitel Primary Customer for Both Use Cases
📡

Transmission Line Quality Testing

Remote Site Speed Testing

Problem: Technicians driving to each site for speed tests

  • Multi-tenant SpeedTest system
  • Agent-based automation at remote sites
  • MQTT real-time status reporting
  • SLA compliance framework
1000s Sites per Customer
Jira

NMAA-Jira JSM Integration

Streamlined ITSM Workflows

📥 Asset Sync

Auto-pull network assets from NMAA into Jira

🚨 Error Reporting

Automated error alerts → Jira tickets

🎫 Ticket Creation

ITSM workflow automation

Reduced Manual Ticket Entry

ITIM Platform

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

Beyond Network — Full Stack Monitoring

ITIM 6-Layer Stack

ITIM: Integration & Deployment

First Customer Implementation

VNPOST

First Customer

Full IT Infrastructure Monitoring • 24/7 NOC Operations

Development

Late 2024 → 2025

ITIM Integration Pipeline
🎯

Strategic Vision

Enterprise IT infrastructure monitoring with full-stack visibility across 6 layers — complementing network automation with complete infrastructure observability

🔄

Alongside NMAA

Parallel development track

📊

Complete Observability

Network + IT Infrastructure

The Journey

Scripts → Platform → Intelligence

Timeline Evolution
~20,000 Devices
20-30% Effort Reduction
100s Engineer-Days Saved
10x Faster ATP

Years of Evolution

From Scattered Tools to Unified Platform

Architecture Evolution
MariaDB InfluxDB ES K8s 🎯 Strategic Impact 📈 20K+ Devices 🤖 AI-Powered
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What We Built

Where We're Going

✓ Achievements

  • Custom automation infrastructure serving 20k+ devices
  • Vendor-independent solutions vs. commercial NMS
  • Business data integration capabilities
  • AI/ML adoption in production workflows

→ Future Direction

  • Expanding agentic AI capabilities
  • Workflow automation platform maturity
  • Knowledge base expansion for LLM accuracy
  • ITIM deployment scaling
"Building automation infrastructure that scales with customer needs — not just deploying vendor solutions."
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