What is Intent-based Networking? Characteristics and Companies

We have seen the revolution in IT infrastructure networking with SDN and NFV in last 5 years. We are witnessing tremendous upgrade in digitization which resulted in agile and highly available network connectivity with the help of both of these technologies. Be it telecom or data center, SDN and NFV played huge role to reduce costs with adding benefit of faster resource allocation with its software defined nature. After revolutionizing network with functions virtualization and software defined operations, thought process is moved towards providing'intent' to network to perform tasks. Intent comes from business and IT services in form of demands from network to keep up with growing requirements, while reducing operational and maintenance costs and keep security in place.