ATOM Image Management is designed to resolve the network operator’s problems to handle the software management of large networks consisting of thousands of devices. It provides one touchpoint for installing, upgrading, and patching the embedded operating system running in routers, switches, firewalls, VPN devices, and many other types of devices. ATOM Image Management feature incorporates different MOPs (Method of Procedures) for vendor and platform agnostic environments. ATOM not only provides the image upgrade but also includes pre-checks, post-checks, validation, image upload, traffic validations, etc. ATOM image management also provides the flexibility to shift the traffic on other nodes during the upgrade and recover the traffic on the upgraded node. It also automates the upgrade rollback in case of any failure. ATOM Image Management is the industry best feature to provide the entire life cycle support of Image Management for multi-vendor devices