Executives at the Edge

Executives at the Edge


Service Orchestration: Automating Good Intentions

August 24, 2023

Inmanta’s Co-founder and CTO, Bart Vanbrabant, explains the importance of intent-driven service orchestration in the telecommunications industry and the benefits of using a digital twin to test service-orchestration models. How do these technologies help operators automate services, improve efficiency and reliability, minimize outages, and reduce costs?



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In this Executives at the Edge episode, host Pascal Menezes explores these topics and more with Bart Vanbrabant of Inmanta:



  • How does a service orchestrator streamline network deployment by translating high-level intent into actionable network actions?

  • What advantages does intent-driven orchestration offer over traditional manual methods?

  • What is a digital twin and how is it used in pre-production testing of service orchestration models?

  • What are the benefits of adopting an iterative implementation approach to automation?

  • How does this approach lead to opex reduction, revenue growth, and faster feature launches?


About Our Guest

Bart Vanbrabant, Co-founder and CTO, Inmanta


Bart Vanbrabant is co-founder and CTO of Inmanta. He is responsible for the company’s product strategy and development of the product portfolio.
With his background in software and systems engineering, Bart has over 15 years of experience in managing and operating IT and network infrastructures, and using innovative software-defined approaches to increase operational efficiency.

Bart holds a PhD in computer science, with focus on effective management and orchestration of large-scale distributed systems.

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