Case Study: Yahoo! Japan streamlines Clos fabric network operations with Apstra

Apstra was selected for Yahoo Japan Corporation’s Clos fabric network infrastructure

Yahoo! Japan, one of Japan’s largest internet service providers, needed a way to manage and operate rapidly growing Clos fabric data center networks with a limited staff while also supporting a multi-vendor environment. To address these challenges, the company evaluated intent-based networking options and chose Apstra’s AOS for simplifying the design, build, and operations of its Clos fabric infrastructure.

Apstra implemented AOS to automate network configuration and streamline operations across Yahoo! Japan’s multi-vendor Clos fabric, including white-box systems. After a two-month validation, the first deployment covered about 30 network devices and 500 nodes, reducing network build and replacement tasks from days to tens of minutes and making cabling issues easier to detect through Intent-Based Analytics, resulting in substantially streamlined network management and faster troubleshooting.

Yahoo! Japan

Kakuya Ando

Data Center Network