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-NetBox is an IP address management (IPAM) and data center infrastructure
-management (DCIM) tool. Initially conceived by the network engineering team at
+
+
+NetBox is an infrastructure resource modeling (IRM) tool designed to empower
+network automation. Initially conceived by the network engineering team at
[DigitalOcean](https://www.digitalocean.com/), NetBox was developed specifically
to address the needs of network and infrastructure engineers. It is intended to
function as a domain-specific source of truth for network operations.
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The complete documentation for NetBox can be found at [Read the Docs](https://netbox.readthedocs.io/en/stable/). A public demo instance is available at https://demo.netbox.dev.
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-| **master** |  |
-| **develop** |  |
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