In the recent Webinar, Are You Creating Automation Islands?, Chip Redden, Ciena’s Senior Director of Vertical and Segment Marketing, and Dana Cooperson, Research Director at Analysys Mason, explored how consumer demands and technological advances are pushing significant shifts in the network landscape. Automation is only one part of the solution. It takes a combination of analytics and intelligence, software-controlled automation, programmable infrastructure, and human expertise to unlock the full potential of a network. This document recaps the Webinar and explains the journey to automation and how to avoid building an automation island.