Avalon - Network Automation Platform
Unify and automate your network
Reduce costs, secure your network and ensure sovereignty.
Manage your network seamlessly, regardless of your tech choices.
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Pillars
Automation is the weapon to bringing order and serenity to your network.
Standards will protect your investments and ensure the homogeneity required for automation.
Challenges
A multi-vendor network is a tough beast to tame, fraught with pitfalls and obstacles on your path to automation.
Time is money, and network management is certainly a highly time-consuming task.
ROI
Avalon will guide you in your quest for a more agile, secure, and easy-to-manage network.
At the end of the journey, you will achieve time and cost reductions, improved performance, and much more!
From myth to reality
Avalon has been enriched with customer stories and use cases. Here are some of them.
Use cases
Multi-vendor networks
We intend to support major network and security vendors while providing a consistent user experience.
Standards
Whether you need VLAN deployment in a 3-tier architecture, MPLS or EVPN based network services, we can back you up!
Day-to-Day operations
Backup configs, upgrade devices, ZTP/ZTR, live or as scheduled services!
Up-to-date maps
With experienced network architects in the team, we know the need for up-to-date maps of your network, we can draw them automatically and you can enhance them at will.
Security & sovereignty
Your IT security begins with a properly segmented network and a complete control over your network’s management infrastructure, just host it!
Open
100% of our features are available through the API. We already support Netbox integration to gather your existing network assets and we’ll discuss any integration with other products.
Real customers!
University Hospital of Limoges
“We have deployed all the required configurations for our WiFi infrastructure migration across the entire Hospital, achieving a time savings of more than tenfold, and without any errors.”
Olivier H.
Network Administrator
Airbus Atlantic
“We use Avalon in a global automation process to ensure our maps are always up to date, streamlining workflows and enhancing the efficiency of our operational teams.”
Mathieu S.
Network & Security Architect
How it works
ROI is our driver, Avalon can bring the following benefits to your corporate network.
Time
From managing an existing network to creating a new one, Avalon will ease those time-consuming tasks as well as your day-to-day operations.
Reliability
We will integrate your network in a way that allows Avalon to automatically create and deploy the configurations needed for your network services thus eliminating human errors.
Flexibility
We have built a strong network model to quickly integrate your use cases and deliver a custom, yet replicable, solution.
Available features
Network discovery and maps
Avalon was built with the idea that up-to-date maps are mandatory for network management
- Discover your network and automatically generate the maps
- Visualize network services directly on the map
- Add custom shapes to the maps like your buildings
- Export your maps for field teams
- Provision with a CSV file or a SoT like Netbox
Configure
Avalon supports multiple methods for network services deployment
- Per device specific network services
- Per device group network services (with common parameters)
- Composite services: an aggregation of unitary services, logically chained to provide a high level of abstraction. Composite services are created to speed up our customers most time-consuming tasks
Day-to-day operations
Because simple tasks are also time consuming
- Back up your configuration
- Compare your configurations from different times
- Upgrade your devices (upload, activation, both)
- Execute these tasks live or as a scheduled event
Upcoming features
Engineering rules and compliance
Define a set of engineering rules that your network must comply to.
These rules will generate the appropriate configurations and apply them on the related devices.
These rules will be the pillar for our network compliance feature.
ZTP/ZTR
Add a new device directly on the map, specify an attachement point and a minimal configuration to enable ZTP.
Deploy the final configuration once the new device has been approved by the network operations team or automatically by Avalon (same process applies for ZTR).
Create new networks: ‘single site’
Start from a blank sheet, add your devices based on your vendor catalogue. Interconnect them very easily directly on the map.
Generate the configurations for all your devices and let ZTP do the job!
Create new networks: ‘templates’
For customers that rely on a few topologies to design their branch sites, we will be able to create ‘site templates’ that reflect those topologies.
You will then iterate over these templates to create as many instances as required to manage your branch sites.
Is Avalon a good match for you ?
| Vendor software | Open-source software | Software editor |  |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time to first ROI |
Medium to quick |
Medium to very long |
Quick |
Quick to very quick |
| Multi-vendor | 
Niche products for SP market exist with multi-vendor support |
It takes time to integrate all the subtle differences between vendors |
Vendors’ support upon editor’s choice |
Avalon is easily extensible, vendors’ support committed upon market rationale |
| EoL device support |
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Support may vary from editor to editor |
No limit, we love challenges! |
| Integrate existing networks |
Require configurations migration and devices support |
It takes time to create and fill the SoT |
Most solutions are limited to the physical layer |
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| User-friendly |
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| Sustainability |
Software lifetime may be impacted by acquisitions |
Pretty hard / costly Not easy to keep people with NetDevOps skills |
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| Network service abstraction |
You are required to go with ‘fabric mode’ |
Achievable by means of huge investments |
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Custom developments might be required |
| Monitoring |
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Through a dedicated open source software |
Usually a dedicated solution in a software suite |
Use our API connector to feed your existing tool |
Vendor software
| Time to first ROI
Medium to quick |
| Multi-vendor
Niche products for SP market exist with multi-vendor support |
|
EoL device support
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Integrate existing networks
Require configurations migration and devices support |
| User friendly
|
| Sustainability
Watch out for the next acquisition and you’ll have an idea of your software EoL... |
|
Network service abstraction
You are required to go with ‘fabric mode’ |
| Monitoring
|
Open-source software
| Time to first ROI
Medium to very long |
| Multi-vendor
It takes time to integrate all the subtle differences between vendors |
|
EoL device support
|
|
Integrate existing networks
It takes time to create and fill the SoT |
| User friendly
|
| Sustainability
Pretty hard / costly Not easy to keep people with NetDevOps skills |
|
Network service abstraction
Achievable by means of huge investments |
| Monitoring
Through a dedicated open source software |
Software editor
| Time to first ROI
Quick |
| Multi-vendor
Vendors’ support upon editor’s choice |
|
EoL device support
Support may vary from editor to editor |
|
Integrate existing networks
Most solutions are limited to the physical layer |
| User friendly
|
| Sustainability
|
|
Network service abstraction
|
| Monitoring
Usually a dedicated solution in a software suite |
Avalon
| Time to first ROI
Quick to very quick |
| Multi-vendor
Avalon is easily extensible, vendors’ support committed upon market rationale |
|
EoL device support
No limit, we love challenges! |
|
Integrate existing networks
|
| User friendly
|
| Sustainability
|
|
Network service abstraction
Custom developments might be required |
| Monitoring
Use our API connector to feed your existing tool |
Request a demo and start your quest!
We will discuss how you manage your network, identify your pain points and use cases, and determine if Avalon is a good match!
About Avalon
Avalon was designed to fill the gap between vendor-specific and open-source software. Our CEO, who has worked for a global service provider and integrator, values the benefits of using standard technologies. Avalon was created to help you manage your network with ease and confidence.
Our story
Avalon was born in February 2023 with the ambition to become the leading network automation software. We have demonstrated the value of Avalon to our first customers and are ready to write another success story with you!
Matthieu Drony
Avalon’s CEO
“Standards and homogeneity are the keys to network automation. Avalon will guide you on your automation path, delivering clear ROI and a new way to manage your network.”
What makes us unique
Experience and expertise
Our CEO has over 15 years of a successful track record in the network industry. Efficiency is his mantra, and the entire company embraces it.
Efficient support
The development team is also the support team, ensuring your demands are appropriately addressed.
Agility
Avalon was built as a platform, which means it can adapt very quickly to new contexts. The best way to find out how is to try it!
Growing with you
Working only with standard technologies allow us to enrich Avalon from and for every customer.
Our sponsors
BPI France
French investment bank supporting companies growth.
BPI awarded Avalon with the ‘Bourse French Tech’ in April 2024.
Reseau Entreprendre
15 000 french C-levels helping young companies to create jobs.
Laureate since January 2024 for both mentorship and financial support.
La French Tech
French startups ecosystem.
Avalon is a member of the French Tech since June 2023.
Crealia Occitanie
Regional fund supporting highly innovative startups.
Avalon was awared with a development loan from Crealia in May 2024.
Nubbo
Nubbo is the mission-driven incubator in the Occitanie region.
Avalon has been incubated at Nubbo since June 2024.
Offers
Avalon will be priced as a yearly subscription per device and features level. A license is counted for a managed IP device (except for Wireless Access Points) thus a switches’ stack is counted as one license. We are committed to maintain our prices over time, you won’t pay more for the same service from one year to the next.
Being among the first has its advantages!
Embrace the opportunity to tailor your Network Automation Platform!
Co-development
No license enforcement
- Benefit from the power of Avalon with no restrictions
- The dev team will be on your side during this phase
- It is the best time to infuse your ideas in Avalon!
v1 (ETA Q2 2025)
Licensing per device + features
- Benefit from two years of co-development with our first cutomers
- Pay the right price. Target per device yearly subscription will be in the 50-100€ range
- Scale Avalon’s usage as our solution grow
Our methodology during the beta
Step 1 : request a demo
Let’s talk about your network, your pains and use cases and see if Avalon can help you.
Step 2 : start your journey
We deploy the solution, you have the first ROI and we add/adapt the features you really need.
Adjustments to Avalon might be required to perfectly answer your use cases. We validate together what you expect and how we will deliver an appropriate solution.
Step 3 : increase the ROI
Every development made for other customers will benefit for the entire Avalon Community. We take care of the upgrades in sync with your network team.
Book a one hour slot to talk about your network and how we might help you.
Slots are reserved for customers and partners.
- Demo
- Start your journey
- Increase the ROI
You can also contact us by email or phone
- (33) 07 85 54 53 07
- contact@avalon-nap.com
FAQ
Interested? Here are some additional details on how Avalon works and how we can collaborate.
Is Avalon a SaaS or an on-prem application?
Avalon is an on-prem application. You will provide a virtual machine to install the application. This virtual machine can be hosted on your insfrastructure or by a Cloud Service Provider. The minimum virtual machine specifications are : 2 vCPU, 4Go RAM, 40Go disk space.
What are the technical requirements?
A virtual machine to host the application: 2 vCPU, 4Go RAM, 40Go disk space
This virtual machine needs to have access to our server to download the application images. We control the access to this server by filtering the HTTPS requests based on our customers’ IP addresses. There is no communication initiated by our server to you virtual machine.
A service account to connect to your devices. This account can have only read-only access to start the network discovery process and execute some day-to-day operations.
Access to your existing network tools. For instance if you use Netbox as your SoT, we will require the URL of your Netbox instance along with an API token.
Should I grant Avalon with read-write access to begin my journey?
No, you can provide a read-only service account on your infrastructure to start the network discovery process and execute some day-to-day operations.
Do you support proprietary technologies?
Yes, we support most common stacking technologies.
We do not support technologies that require a non-standard data model.
Do you operate worldwide?
At the moment we can accommodate customers in Europe.