SASE Scriptlet Provisioning for Autonomous Network Service Deployment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing solutions fail to provide customers with the ability to purchase, preconfigure, and autonomously deploy SASE-based network services, lacking in-app ordering, configuration, and deployment of SASE scriptlets.
Innovation Solution
A customer portal and UX platform enable users to select, configure, and autonomously deploy SASE scriptlets on network devices, integrating SD-WAN and network security functionalities, with options for management and customization of SASE-based network services.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Extent of automation
If conventional siloed network solutions are used, then network security and connectivity functions can be provided, but customers cannot purchase, preconfigure, or autonomously deploy SASE-based network services
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements self-service by enabling customers to directly purchase, configure, and deploy SASE scriptlets through a user-friendly interface without requiring manual intervention from network administrators. The system automatically provisions services, applies configurations to network devices, and manages deployments autonomously, allowing end-users to independently manage their network security needs.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies preliminary action by providing preconfigured SASE scriptlets that are prepared in advance with all necessary security and connectivity settings. These preconfigured templates allow customers to immediately deploy SASE services without needing to perform complex manual configuration tasks, reducing both complexity and deployment time.
2Productivity
If manual configuration of network services is performed, then precise control over network settings is achieved, but deployment time and operational complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses copying by providing standardized SASE scriptlet templates that replicate proven network configurations. Instead of manually creating configurations from scratch, customers can select and copy pre-validated scriptlet templates that automatically apply the correct settings, accelerating deployment while maintaining operational simplicity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements preliminary action by pre-configuring all necessary network parameters, security policies, and connectivity settings within SASE scriptlet templates before deployment. This eliminates the need for manual configuration during deployment, significantly increasing deployment speed while keeping operations simple for end-users.
3Device complexity
If unified SASE management is implemented, then network complexity is reduced and cost is lowered, but system integration requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies universality by creating a unified SASE platform that integrates multiple network functions including security, connectivity, and access control into a single manageable system. The SASE scriptlets are designed to work across diverse network environments and devices, providing universal applicability while reducing management complexity through consolidation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements merging by combining previously separate network security and connectivity functions into a unified SASE architecture. This consolidation reduces the number of separate systems to manage, lowers overall complexity, and simplifies operations while maintaining the adaptability needed for various network configurations through integrated design.
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AI summary
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing network service ordering and provisioning of secure access service edge (“SASE”) scriptlets for providing SASE-based network. In various embodiments, a computing system may provide a user experience (“UX”) platform for a customer portal, the UX platform being accessible by a user via a user device over a first network(s); may provide, via the UX platform, options to configure, via the customer portal, one or more SASE scriptlets for providing SASE-based network services provided by a service provider; and may autonomously orchestrate deployment and configuration of the one or more SASE scriptlets on one or more network devices that are associated with the user or to an entity with which the user is associated, over a second network(s), based at least in part on user selection of options to configure the one or more SASE scriptlets and/or the corresponding SASE-based network services.