Service providers worldwide are moving toward the dream goal of service automation from the front end of customer ordering and service monitoring to the back end of service provisioning, network monitoring, and active service-level agreement (SLA) enforcement. The dream becomes a demonstrated reality in this webinar, highlighted by a video of a live demo involving the orchestration and assurance of a carrier Ethernet 2.0 (CE2.0) Ethernet WAN services network using data centerbased software-defined networking (SDN) software. Also explored are a customer self-service portal for on-demand ordering and monitoring of Ethernet services, intelligent customer premises equipment for provisioning and monitoring, and testing and monitoring software for ensuring workability across physical and virtual networks.