Case Study: NEC Corporation of America achieves rapid time-to-market and automated network provisioning with Ansible

Network Automation and Environment Provisioning for Improved Customer Experience

NEC Corporation of America, a telecom technology integrator, faced slow time-to-market for a new hosted unified communications offer because network engineers had to perform error-prone, manual CLI provisioning for each customer. NEC needed to accelerate onboarding while using the same team and reducing human errors and operational overhead.

NEC adopted Ansible and Ansible Tower, creating custom modules that interface with its Programmable Flow REST API and converting CLI scripts into Ansible playbooks (with Tower Surveys for self-service). The result was a dramatic speed-up—what once took weeks for the first customers became 10 minutes for the next 500—plus fewer errors, predictable deployments, better auditing and configuration management, and improved team efficiency and revenue potential.

NEC Corporation of America

Don Clark

Director of Business Development, IT Platform Group