Cisco NSO · ZTP · Service Delivery
Prime Automation Solutions helps service providers, professional services firms, and enterprise network teams fix and deliver network automation systems faster.
Best Fit Clients
Telco, cable, fiber, and MVNO operators running Cisco NSO or building toward it.
In-house network engineering groups at carriers and operators with stalled automation work.
Cisco partners and SIs with overflow NSO or automation engagements who need bench capacity.
Enterprise IT using Cisco NSO, orchestration, or home-grown automation that isn't scaling.
What We Do
Prime Automation Solutions provides hands-on engineering and consulting for network-automation systems that are either being built, being fixed, or being delivered to a customer. We do not sell slide decks, re-architecture workshops, or vendor-agnostic strategy. We show up, we read the code, we fix what is broken, and we ship.
Service model development, NED work, NSO upgrades, YANG modeling, and production NSO operations.
Python, Ansible, NAPALM, Netmiko, Nornir, CI/CD pipelines for network changes, and configuration-as-code workflows.
Zero Touch Provisioning for Cisco, Juniper, Extreme, and Ubiquiti devices. DHCP, bootstrap scripts, device templating, and first-boot validation.
We take existing pipelines that are failing, slow, or opaque and trace them to root cause — whether that is a model issue, a transport bug, or a data-quality problem.
Legacy automation is often layered and brittle. We map what exists, isolate the parts that are still earning their keep, and migrate the rest onto patterns that scale.
When a customer deadline is at risk, we come in alongside the existing team and take on the delivery work that is blocking the ship date.
Who We Work With
We work well as a subcontractor to an existing professional services practice, as a direct engagement with an in-house team, or as a fixed-scope delivery engagement against a customer SoW.
Problems We Solve
NSO is in, but the service models do not work end-to-end, NEDs misbehave, or commits regularly fail in production.
The pipeline ran once, it works in lab, and it has been failing in production for weeks. Nobody on the team has time to trace it.
Customer turn-ups that should take minutes take weeks because of manual steps, brittle tooling, or a fragile change-control process.
NSO is complex and the senior engineer who set it up left. The remaining team is operating it by memory and hoping nothing breaks.
Three scripts, two Ansible repos, one SSH-for-loop, and a pile of shell snippets. Nothing is the source of truth. Config drift is a daily event.
It worked on 10 devices. It does not work on 10,000. Race conditions, concurrency bugs, and data-quality issues surface at scale and nobody has owned fixing them.
The change plan exists on a whiteboard. The engineering time to actually execute it does not. We supply the engineering time.
Services
Six engagement types. Each one has a defined scope, a defined deliverable, and a defined price range. No custom-quote labyrinths.
Service model design and implementation, NED selection or development, NSO version upgrades, YANG modeling, and production troubleshooting. Works against existing NSO installs or greenfield deployments.
Python-based automation built against real network equipment. Libraries we use: Nornir, Netmiko, NAPALM, requests/REST, NETCONF, YANG clients, gNMI. Deliverable is tested code in your repo.
Zero Touch Provisioning for Cisco, Juniper, Extreme Networks, and Ubiquiti hardware. DHCP + HTTP bootstrap, device templating, first-boot validation, and rollback paths for when bootstrap goes wrong.
A time-boxed engagement against a broken pipeline. We read the code, reproduce the failure, and either fix it or give you a written root-cause report with the minimum-viable patch. Scoped in days, not months.
Service provider and enterprise network architecture review specifically through an automation lens. What can be templated, what needs orchestration, what should stay manual, and in what order to attack it.
Net-new Python and Ansible automation against Cisco IOS, IOS-XE, NX-OS, Junos, and multi-vendor mixed environments. We ship code with tests, documentation, and a runbook — not a tarball.
Engagement Model
1 to 2 weeks. We look at your automation or NSO environment and return a written assessment with concrete next steps. Good first engagement.
2 to 4 weeks. A specific broken thing. We diagnose and fix, or we diagnose and hand off a clear fix plan. Fixed scope, fixed price.
4 to 12 weeks. A scoped deliverable — a new NSO service, a rebuilt pipeline, a ZTP rollout. Milestone-based SoW.
Retainer. A defined number of hours per month against your automation backlog. Good for teams that need a specialist on call.
We work on statement-of-work engagements. We are not looking for W2 employment, long-term staff augmentation, or hourly C2C arrangements.
Why Prime Automation Solutions
Fifteen-plus years writing network automation against production carrier and enterprise networks. Not a generalist automation firm that added networking — networking is the core.
The person writing the SoW is the person writing the code. No handoff from sales to delivery. No junior-engineer bait-and-switch.
We optimize for the fix landing in production, not for the number of architecture diagrams produced. Documentation follows the ship, not the other way around.
Cisco IOS, IOS-XE, NX-OS, Junos, Extreme, and Ubiquiti across service provider, telecom, and enterprise contexts. We have seen what does not work in production.
Small scopes, short timelines, visible progress. We prefer three 2-week engagements that each ship something over one 6-month engagement that never converges.
This is a consulting practice, not a staffing shop. You get a fixed scope and a defined deliverable. That is the product.
Ready when you are
Book a call and describe the issue you are trying to solve. We will tell you whether we can help in the first conversation.