When it comes to network automation, greenfield projects often get the spotlight—they’re clean slates where you can design and deploy from scratch. But for most enterprises, the reality is far more complex. Networks are a patchwork of legacy systems, multiple vendors, and years of incremental changes. This is the brownfield challenge, and it’s exactly where the right automation strategy delivers the most value.
In brownfield environments, IT teams face:
- Heterogeneous infrastructure – Multiple vendors, device types, and OS versions.
- Technical debt – Years of ad-hoc changes, undocumented configurations, and inconsistent standards.
- High operational risk – Manual changes are time-consuming and prone to errors.
- Slow modernization – New initiatives are delayed while teams just keep the lights on.
Network expansion and inherent complexity, limited IT resources, and evolving security and compliance requirements are driving an urgent need for agility and resilience. For brownfield networks, this means:
- Rapid change control without introducing downtime.
- Proactive security compliance across legacy and modern infrastructure.
- Scalable operations that free engineers from repetitive work.
- Multi-Vendor, Multi-Domain Support Gluware connects to your existing infrastructure—Cisco, Juniper, Arista, and more—without requiring proprietary scripts. It orchestrates automation across campus, data center, WAN, and cloud environments.
- Rapid Discovery and Inventory Gluware’s intelligent network automation platform automatically discovers your network devices, configurations, and software versions, providing a complete, real-time inventory without manual input.
- Intent-Based Automation You define the desired state, and Gluware ensures your network aligns to it. This eliminates drift, enforces compliance, and prevents configuration errors, whether for a single device or thousands.
- Safe, Incremental Rollouts Brownfield automation doesn’t need to happen all at once. Gluware allows for phased deployments, testing changes before full rollout, preventing operational risk.
Brownfield network automation is no longer “too hard” or “too risky.” With Gluware’s intelligent network automation platform, brownfield automation becomes a force multiplier, freeing IT teams to focus on innovation instead of firefighting.
