Karthikeyan Subramaniam Chief Software Architect ADARA Networks NFV-SDN Synergy Technology Track Session ONS2015: http://bit.ly/ons2015sd ONS Inspire! Webinars: http://bit.ly/oiw-sd Watch the talk (video) on ONS Content Archives: http://bit.ly/ons-archives-sd

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Karthikeyan Subramaniam / Chief Software Architect / ADARA Networks

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• Founded by the Pioneers
of the Internet
• Experienced Management
• Financially Solid / Highly
Capitalized / High Revenues
• Visionary Leadership
• Proven Product
• Complete Portfolio
• Physical + Virtual Networking
and Computing
• Software Defined Networking
• Network Functions Virtualization

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Firewall IDS / IPS WAN Optimization QoS
(DPI)
Application Firewall
Load
Balancer
ERP
DATA CENTER
• Expensive
• Complex to manage
• Difficult to deliver Network Services
to specific applications
• Failure of single device cause service disruption
• Performance degradation because of the filtering
by multiple networking Hardware
Clients
Internet
Firewall
IDS / IPSWAN Optimization
Campus

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• Network Functions/Services :
Firewall, WAN Optimization &
Load Balancers
• SDN – Abstracted forwarding
Layer (hardware) controlled by
Software
• “Software” is Meta-Controller,
Orchestration and Service
Choreography Manager

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Server 1
Server 2
Internet
vSwitch
Hypervisor
VM1
Apps
VM2
Apps
VM3
Apps
vSwitch
Hypervisor
VM1
Apps
VM2
Apps
VM3
Apps
vSwitch
Hypervisor
VNF 1 VNF 2 VNF 1
VNF 1
Firewall
VNF 2
WAN
Optimization
VNF 3
3rd Party
Load
Balancer
VNF 4
QoS
COMET
Internet
SIRIUS
• OpenFlow as the Service Chaining
Protocol
• Enterprise Network Functions
such as Firewall, WAN Optimization,
Load Balancer and QoS
• Traffic Classification using OpenFlow
• Service Chain is a list of input and
output ports (Virtual & Physical)
connecting VNFs

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• Network Functions
– Firewall
– TCP Acceleration
– Virtual Routing
– WAN Optimization
• Products
– OpenFlow Switch
– Meta Controller
– Orchestration Engine
• Benefit
– 1500% increased Transactions
– 500% increase in WAN Link Utilization
– ROI = 90% / year & 300% / 3years

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• Network Functions
– TCP Acceleration
– Virtual Routing
– WAN Optimization
• Products
– OpenFlow Switch
– Meta Controller
– Orchestration Engine
• Benefit
– 350% increased Transactions
– 195% increase in WAN Link Utilization
– ROI = 75% / year

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Customers have realized significant benefits from SDN implementation
• Better QoS, low latency
• Ability to easily prioritize applications
• More efficient use of bandwidth
• Better DC-DC replication and DR
• Cost savings