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Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) provides a single pane of glass for orchestrating a multivendor network. To offer support for an exceptional range of multivendor devices, it uses Network Element Drivers (NEDs). Traditionally, device adaptors are a major roadblock, since they cannot be upgraded at the same pace as device interfaces, and adding support for new devices can take months. Cisco NSO NEDs, in contrast, are either generated automatically from the device YANG model, or can add new commands and devices in a matter of weeks. Using NEDs, NSO makes device configuration commands available over a network wide, multivendor Command Line Interface (CLI), APIs, and user interface. In addition, NSO services, like VPN, can configure a complex multivendor network.