Intent-based networking (IBN) uses a declarative approach and model-driven management principles to abstract network service characteristics, simplify and automate network and service management, reduce integration efforts and decouple network innovations from service evolution.Declarative programming drives operations efficiently and consistently. This enables you to focus on your end goals instead of how to achieve them. Programmatic interfaces and data models mediate interaction with network elements to enable multivendor support and rapid onboarding of new equipment releases and types. IBN accelerates service deployment and improves service availability by ensuring the actual configuration is aligned with your intent.