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WAN = 20% of IT budget
Enables 10X-100X better WAN at 50%+ savings
Internet vs. private WAN (MPLS)
$120,000 /year
for 1-10 Mbps
$1,000 /year
for 10-100 Mbps
MPLS
Internet
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Old remote office environment: Active/Backup connectivity
REMOTE OFFICES DATA CENTER
Internet
MPLS
IMPACT High performance access to AWS
1-10 Mbps
100 Mbps
• Extremely expensive resources under-utilized
• Poor availability model
• Poor cloud-connectivity
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The routed model poses several challenges
CLOUDGENIX
CONTROLLER
Routed WAN
IPSLA ACL
Routing loops
VLAN
Active-Active
NBAR
Packet to app
PfR
App SLA’s
App to IP & Port Mapping
Asymmetric Routing
Redirection Chaining
DMVPN
NHRP OSPF BGP PKI
VRFMPLS
Subnet
Device sprawl
• Active load balancing extremely complex
• While maintaining flow symmetry
• Network based metrics insufficient
• One-sided cloud traffic engineering required
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Old remote office environment: Hardware footprint
REMOTE OFFICES
Routers
Proxy
Firewall
WAN op
AP
Switches
• Expensive
• Poor RMA times
• Complex policy implementation
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LegacyRouters/MPLS
Gen 1 Gen 2
WAN Optimization
• Shift to Mobile / Branch Access
• Video, Voice, SaaS
• Caching
• WAN utilization
The Evolution of the Wide Area Network
Hybrid WAN
• Active/Active path selection
• Packet defined Network
• Proprietary Hardware
• Application “Aware”
• Refresh “Rat Race”
Gen 3
Software Defined WAN
• No proprietary HW
• Application Defined Network
• No Routing Protocols
• App SLA
• Cloud Without Compromise
• App Visibility, Rich Analytics
• Software Defined Ent. (NSX)
• EverLAST
Gen 4
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Unsolved customer problems addressed by CloudGenix
Micro-segmentation
Virtualization
Commoditization
Software-defined X
50%-70% cost savings
Hybrid WAN
Secure transport
Actionable analytics
Performance SLA
Cloud Fast
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CloudGenix target use cases
HYBRID
WAN
COTS
BRANCH
SOFTWARE
DEFINED
ENTERPRISE
CLOUD
FAST
DYNAMIC
SECURITY
PERIMETER
10X+
Better WAN
Price &
Performance
0
Proprietary
Hardware
6mo to
60sec
IT at the Speed
of Business
10X+
Faster
Performance
Data Center
Class Security to
the edge
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Cloudfast extends path selection to the cloud
ISP 1
ISP 2
Not CODEC compliant
CODEC compliant
IMPACT No cloud point of presence required
REMOTE OFFICES
SAP Client
DATA CENTER
MPLS
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2X-5X hardware
cost savings
10X-100X+ WAN capacity
at 50%+ lower costs
Data-center class security at
the edge of enterprise
PCI/HIPAA/SOX
CloudGenix software-defined hybrid WAN solution
Branch office
CLOUDGENIX
CONTROLLER
software
1. Eliminate hardware
MPLS
LTE
INTERNET
2. Pool/virtualize WAN resources
Data center
PUBLIC
CLOUD/SAAS
3. Enforce app security & SLA policy
RECREATIONAL
INTERNET
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App-defined SD-WAN
Technology shift: Routed to app-defined fabrics
CLOUDGENIX
CONTROLLER
Routed WAN
IPSLA ACL
Routing loops
VLAN
Active-Active
NBAR
Packet to app
PfR
App SLA’s
App to IP & Port Mapping
Asymmetric Routing
Redirection Chaining
DMVPN
NHRP OSPF BGP PKI
VRFMPLS
Subnet
Device sprawl
App SLA Security
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How application network is built
• Contexts are isolated
from each other.
• Each context uses
unique encryption keys
over the WAN.
• Contexts do NOT
require changes at the
physical layer (e.g.
VRF’s).
Controller builds
application
contexts4
HR & Finance
All users
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Policies and app contexts directly reflect business intent
CONTEXT:
All users; Google, Linkedin, Facebook
No traffic can traverse mpls
CONTEXT:
Sales and Customer Service; Skype
All paths eligible
All traffic must traverse a firewall
NO SECURITY SERVICE!
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Measure & control based upon end user observed
application performance
Application transaction time is monitored & controlled in real time against SLA
requirements. No user action required.Impact
