Network Automation Evolution
2018 — 2025
From Scripts to Platform — DevOps/DevNet Journey at SVTech
Network Automation
NMAA Platform
ITIM
AI/LLM
Foundation
2018
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2019
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2020
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2021
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2022
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2023
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2024
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2025
Large Scale Deployment Automation
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Scale & Scope
Network equipment automation
- Remote mass upgrades
- Device rollout & configuration optimization
- Fully automatied
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Key Milestone
First production deployment
🚀 Metfone Network — First NMAA Customer
Strategic Migrations
2018
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2019
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2020
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2021
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2022
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2023
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2024
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2025
Critical Network Migrations Under Pressure
VNPT-NET Migration
Northern Vietnam
- Huawei → Juniper full migration
- Complex live services preserved
- Consolidated SVTech position
Strategic Win
Movitel Automation
Mozambique 🇲🇿
- Service automation delivery
- Network optimization workflows
- First Africa expansion
International Milestone
Platform Maturation
2018
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2019
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2020
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2021
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2022
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2023
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2024
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2025
Intelligence Integration & Scenario Libraries
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Customer Expansion
CMC, QTSC, Unitel
- PoC → Production
- Platform refinement
- Multi-year support
Growing Portfolio
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Healthcheck Library
Dozens per customer
- Config validation
- Protocol checks
- Performance baseline
Reusable Scenarios
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Audit Cycles
Mobifone, Movitel
- Yearly network audits
- Compliance reports
- Remediation tracking
Recurring Revenue
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NMAA Integration
Platform unification
- Centralized inventory
- Workflow engine
- Multi-vendor support
Core Platform
Scale Achievements
2018
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2019
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2020
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2021
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2022
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2023
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2024
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2025
Upgrade & Topology Automation
ATP Automation
2018
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2019
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2020
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2021
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2022
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2023
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2024
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2025
ATP Hardware Acceptance Testing
Time Compression
10x faster
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
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2019
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2020
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2021
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2022
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2023
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2024
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2025
Official NMAA Deployments
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Growing
Official Deployments
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Multi-Region
APAC Coverage
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Exponential
5-Year Growth
Customer Stack Integration
2018
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2019
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2020
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2021
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2022
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2023
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2024
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2025
Techcombank Professional Services
×
🎯 Project Scope
- Automation scenario development
- F5 load balancer configuration
- CI/CD pipeline integration
- Custom Python automation scripts
- Knowledge transfer & training
🔧 Customer Technology Stack
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Key Significance
Demonstrates platform-agnostic expertise — not just deploying proprietary NMAA, but adapting to customer's existing CI/CD infrastructure
Audit Workflow Builder
2018
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2019
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2020
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2021
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2022
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2023
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2024
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2025
No-Code Platform for Network Engineers
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100s-1000s
Man-days saved
LLM-Powered Error Analysis
2018
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2019
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2020
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2021
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2022
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2023
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2024
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2025
AI-Enhanced Support Services
Knowledge Base Sources
Vendor Problem Reports
Juniper
Vendor Signal
SVTECH-Vendor tickets
Support corpus
Historical
SVTECH-Customer tickets
Customer incidents
Field Reality
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
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2019
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2020
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2021
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2022
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2023
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2024
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2025
Transmission Testing & ITSM Integration
Primary Customer for Both Use Cases
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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
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
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2019
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2020
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2021
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2022
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2023
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2024
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2025
Beyond Network — Full Stack Monitoring
ITIM: Integration & Deployment
First Customer Implementation
First Customer
Full IT Infrastructure Monitoring • 24/7 NOC Operations
Development
Late 2024 → 2025
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Strategic Vision
Enterprise IT infrastructure monitoring with full-stack visibility across 6 layers — complementing network automation with complete infrastructure observability
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Alongside NMAA
Parallel development track
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Complete Observability
Network + IT Infrastructure
The Journey
Scripts → Platform → Intelligence
~20,000
Devices
20-30%
Effort Reduction
100s
Engineer-Days Saved
10x
Faster ATP
Years of Evolution
From Scattered Tools to Unified Platform
MariaDB
InfluxDB
ES
K8s
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🎯 Strategic Impact
📈 20K+ Devices
🤖 AI-Powered
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."