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A Unified Network for the Mobile Era
1. Introduction
The appetite for mobility has never been greater. Driven in large part by the
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) phenomenon and user devotion to smart-
phones and tablets, this trend is motivating IT departments to increase their
investment in wireless LAN (WLAN) technology. In doing so, enterprises seek to
ensure that the user experience of their mobile workforce is seamless and that
business applications are available anytime, anywhere, on any device.
As the enterprise WLAN becomes the network of choice for employees and
associates, networks are expected to support an increasing number of real-time
applications, such as voice and video communications. Yet WLANs were not
designed to meet business demands for performance, scalability, consolidated
management, improved Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and, more importantly,
security. In addition to the pressure that real-time applications place on WLANs,
the influx of personal devices is forcing enterprises to be much more vigilant in
protecting assets, intellectual property and sensitive information.
So how should an enterprise address the expectations of their increasingly
mobile workforce in this BYOD-driven era? The answer is an intelligent, easily
managed network that is truly unified and smart enough to deliver services
rapidly and seamlessly.
Bottom line, the answer is Avaya Virtual Enterprise Network Architecture
(VENA) Unified Access.
Section 1: A New Era In Enterprise WLANS
Ubiquitous enterprise mobility and accommodating the BYOD traffic explosion
require a thorough rethinking of current WLAN architectures.
For many enterprises, the upgrade to 802.11n and 802.11ac* will mark a new era
in the use of WLANs because, prior to the 802.11n standard, WLANs were seen
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A Unified Network
for the Mobile Era
Establishing a scalable, high-performance,
and intelligent network
Table of Contents
Introduction................................... 1
Section 1: A New Era In
Enterprise WLANS...................... 1
Section 2: Inadequacies of
Current WLAN Architectures
.......................................................... 2
Section 3: A New Approach:
Avaya VENA Unified Access
..........................................................4
Section 4: Unified Identity
and Network Access Control
......................................................... 6
Conclusion: A Scalable, High
Performance Unified Network
.......................................................... 8
*802.11ac is a WLAN standard under development and is expected to be
finalized late 2012. It will enable WLAN throughput of at least 1Gbps.
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as secondary and complementary to the wired infrastructure and, in general
practice, were implemented on an ad hoc basis in support of highly targeted
mobility, productivity or cost-saving objectives.
The 802.11n standard has helped usher in a new era in WLANs in which they are no
longer just a “network of convenience” but an integrated dimension of the
corporate IT infrastructure providing employees with high-performance, ubiquitous
wireless access to critical tools and applications. And vital to enterprises, this
includes support for bandwidth-hungry, real-time voice and video applications.
Delivering these types of applications to users wherever they need to roam will
require a thorough rethinking of current approaches to WLAN architectures on
the key issues of:
• Scalability: traditional WLAN architectures offer limited scalability
• Reliability: WLAN reliability must be on par with that of wired LANs
• Quality of Service: WLANs must ensure optimal QoS on mobile devices by
prioritizing network flow
• CAPEX and OPEX: expenses associated with WLAN hardware and
management resources must decrease
Section 2: Inadequacies of Current WLAN Architectures
Current WLAN architectures, whether centralized, distributed or somewhere in
between, come up short in a number of areas including:
Lack of performance: Many existing WLAN architectures were built as an
overlay, never optimized for performance, and never intended as the primary
network access methodology. Therefore, existing WLAN architectures:
• Offer limited scaleability
• Have built-in traffic management inefficiencies
• Use LAN hardware as dumb plumbing which fails to optimize the hardware
• Are not designed for real-time applications
Extra hardware costs: All current architectural approaches to WLANs require a
significant investment in additional hardware such as extra:
• Devices to control APs
• Servers to manage the WLAN separately from the LAN
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• Devices to maintain WLAN security (with some having an overlay sensor
network on top of the overlay AP network)
• Quality of service (QoS) features
• Wiring closet hardware to power APs in many cases
• Network administrators to keep it all running
Reliability: All current approaches suffer from inherent reliability issues and
have multiple points of failure:
• Controller failure impacts both control and data plane functionality
• Failures typically take minutes to recover from, with APs generally having to
reboot and locate a new Controller
• More components in a system mean more spares to maintain and a greater
likelihood that some component will fail
WLAN management: All require additional management resources:
• Separate standalone management application that has very limited
integration into a holistic management application framework
• Standalone management applications for add-on solutions, such as RFID tags,
advanced WIDS security , or guest account provisioning
Security: All require a separate focus on security:
• Functions such as policy enforcement and intrusion detection and prevention
(IDS/IPS) are handled in separate silos
• WLAN products rarely leverage previously deployed and maintained security
appliances and applications such as firewalls, wired IDS/IPS, or endpoint
inspection and tend to have their own built-in (and scaled down) versions of
these features, making security management even more complicated and
prone to breakdowns in policy enforcement
What is needed is a different approach, a next generation architecture than can
address the issues discussed above and deliver seamless, ubiquitous and
scalable Wi-Fi. The answer is Avaya VENA* Unified Access.
*See Avaya VENA sidebar
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Section 3: A New Approach: Avaya VENA Unified Access
The Avaya VENA Unified Access solution delivers performance,
scalability and flexibility
The attempt to balance cost, performance, and accessibility in today’s WLANS
results in a series of perpetual tradeoffs. None of the current architectural
approaches offer a satisfactory resolution. What is needed is a solution that
leverages the power of the centralized Controller without sacrificing
performance and yet allows for distribution. That is exactly what Avaya VENA
Unified Access does.
Typical Wireless Controller
Wireless Switching Point
(Application Traffic)
Wireless Control Point
(Wireless Management Traffic)
Figure 1: Wireless Controller
What is Unified Access?
Separation of the data plane (the actual packet forwarding path) from the
management or control plane (where all other decisions are made including
authentication) has been around since the first controller-based architectures.
Many fat AP solutions implemented Controllers as control-only or security/
firewall appliances and left the data plane local to the AP.
Avaya proposes a new approach that lowers costs by doing away with the need
for WLAN switching hardware. Instead of focusing on whether the data plane is
best handled in the AP or in the Controller, the Avaya approach, called Unified
Access, integrates the wireless data plane directly into the wired networking,
splitting it off from classic WLAN components altogether.
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Avaya’s Unified Access approach works as follows:
Traditional Ethernet Switches already have most of the capabilities, including
processing power, needed to handle WLAN traffic natively. What traditional
Ethernet Switches lack is knowledge of the mobility context for roaming
sessions because, when a mobile device has moved around the campus, it
carries an IP Address from a foreign subnet. Using a lightweight mobility agent
added to the Switch to program switching tables in real-time as sessions move,
and with a little assistance from the control plane, the Avaya Unified Access
approach incorporates IP address information from foreign subnets. And,
because it does not hamstring the WLAN by inserting software switching
points throughout or by backhauling packets to another location just to make
switching decisions, the Avaya Unified Access approach is more efficient,
elegant and effective than other approaches.
Scalability and Performance: No longer burdened by data plane operations,
existing Controllers can scale their control plane capacity several fold by
reusing resources once reserved for data plane switching or attempts to
become unified. Additional benefits include increased Controller capacity and
reduced data plane tromboning, hardware tunnel processing, and overlay
traffic forwarding hardware.
Reliability: As the data plane takes on the reliability characteristics of the
underlying Ethernet Switching network, WLAN reliability makes a giant leap
forward. Now that the WLAN Controller is out-of-band, single points of failure can
be removed from the WLAN data plane and data forwarding responsibilities can be
offloaded from the traditional Controller. This means that the 5x9s reliability profile
enjoyed by best-in-class core network deployments can be inherited automatically
by the WLAN solution. Furthermore, the control plane becomes more robust
because failure of a control point has no direct impact on switching point
functionality. Sessions continue to work as before even if a single control point
should fail which, for the most part, negates the requirement for complex, expensive
active/standby or active/active failover capabilities.
Lower Costs and Virtualization of the Control Plane: Cost is minimized by
elimination of the need for expensive Controllers to handle tens of Gbps of traffic
switching and, without the need for specialized switching hardware and certain
port layouts, the control plane is reduced to a series of software functions that
are easily quantified in terms of scaling requirements per AP. Quantifiable
software scaling requirements can leverage powerful trends in the virtualization
of services on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) platforms. This way, Controller
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costs are reduced even further as the control plane is unified within modern Data
Center application delivery platforms. Hardware costs are reduced greatly and
are replaced by a less expensive software licensing structure.
Unified Network Management: With the Avaya Unified Access approach,
WLAN management becomes a plug-in application that leverages the full
framework of other Unified Management applications and, through unification,
both OPEX and CAPEX costs are reduced.
Wireless Controller
WLAN8180-C
(Dedicated to
control traffic)
WC Virtualized
(Future release)
Wireless Switching
Point integrated
into ERS 8600/8800
switch
Wireless
Control Point
Next Generation Model
Control Data Separated
Today’s Model
Control Data Combined
Figure 2: Legacy model versus the Avaya VENA Unified Access next-generation model
Section 4: Unified Identity and Network
Access Control
It is important to create an intelligent, policy-enabled network edge that
authenticates every device, every user, and application being accessed. By doing
so, network administrators have no need to provision users or devices manually nor
do they need to worry about whether devices are corporate or personally owned.
The network will profile (fingerprint) a BYOD device and, based on policies in place,
will provision appropriate network connectivity automatically.
Avaya Identity Engines assigns network access rights and permissions based on a
user’s role, the user’s location (local or remote), and how the user connects (wired
or wireless). Depending on IT policies for devices, BYOD device access can be
Benefits of a Unified
Wired/Wireless
Architecture
Scalability: Control and data
planes scale independently and
at rates determined by their
relative requirements
Lower Costs (CAPEX and
OPEX): Unification of the data
plane onto the Switching
hardware—or virtualization of
the wireless control point—
results in fewer boxes and less
to administer and maintain.
Greater Resiliency: The Avaya
Unified Access solution enables
wireless control plane clustering
and the ability to leverage
established high-availability
solutions for the wired network,
for example, Avaya VENA
Switch Clustering.
Common Policy: Avaya Identity
Engines centralized access policy
offers consistent policy
enforcement, security, and guest
management. In conjunction with
Avaya VENA Unified Access, it
offers a complete solution for a
unified access layer.
Improved Performance:
Implementing the Avaya Unified
Access solution results in a platform
that is optimized for specific
functions that must be performed,
lowers forwarding latency, and
reduces energy consumption.
Simplification: In addition to the
ability to run the data plane as a
unified service on common
Switching hardware, the Avaya
Unified Access approach enables
a common network management
system for both wireless functions
and the data infrastructure.
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limited to select resources, granted secure corporate access, or be treated as a
guest device. The centralized nature of the access control solution unifies the
user access experience across wired and wireless networks and, without placing
additional burden on stretched IT staff resources, grants system administrators
full visibility into who has accessed and who is on the network.
The Avaya Identity Engines Ignition Server performs user and context-based
authentication and authorization for clients attempting to access the network.
It supports:
• AAA identity-based network access control
• An easy-to-use, standards-based policy engine
• RADIUS integration with all enterprise network equipment
• Quick and deep integration with major directories
Avaya VENA Unified Access – Integrating Avaya WLAN 8100 and
Avaya Ethernet Routing Switch 8800
Avaya WLAN 8100
A next-generation WLAN solution from Avaya, the Avaya
WLAN 8100 is designed to deliver a scalable, high
performance foundation that enables enterprises to fully
leverage their mobility investment. The Avaya WLAN 8100
Series is comprised of three primary components:
• WLAN Access Points, which provide wireless access to
mobile devices and perform encryption/decryption for
wireless traffic, priority queuing and radio frequency
(RF) monitoring, including rogue AP identification and
containment.
• WLAN Controllers, that control access points and
perform key centralized functions such as security,
networking, quality of service (QoS) and roaming for
mobile users. Controllers can be deployed as either
standalone Wireless Controllers (control data traffic)
or as a dedicated control point where the data plane is
integrated into the Ethernet Routing Switch
(ERS)8600/8800 Switches as part of the VENA Unified
Access Architecture.
• WLAN Management Software is a comprehensive
design and management tool that identifies ideal access
point locations on detailed floor plans, configures all
devices with a single click and provides granular
monitoring and reporting for complete visibility and
control over the entire system.
Avaya ERS 8800
The Ethernet Routing Switch 8800 is a collection of modular
Ethernet Switching systems that deliver always-on
networking and high-density connectivity. Supporting hot-
swappable modules, redundant fans, and power supplies,
each of these individual platforms is highly resilient and, when
deployed in Switch Cluster configurations, delivers true end-
to-end reliability and always-on application access. Available
in a wide range of models, these systems are specifically
designed to address the critical enterprise need for reliability,
efficiency, and scalability.
The Ethernet Routing Switch 8800 is a key component of
the Avaya Virtual Enterprise Network Architecture,
supporting full-featured network virtualization capabilities
for campus cores and data center applications.
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The Identity Engines Ignition Access Portal grants access to users with devices
that do not support the 802.1x protocol and users with un-managed devices. In
addition, the Access Portal can host the Identity Engines Ignition CASE Client, a
dissolvable client that enables auto-configuration of managed and un-managed
devices for wired and wireless secure access.
Avaya Identity Engines also supports Unified Guest Access Management and,
with Avaya Identity Engines Guest Manager, front desk personnel can generate
unique user IDs and passwords for each visitor, providing secure, convenient
network connectivity for guests and temporary users. Employees or even
guests themselves can self-provision access.
A key value of Avaya Identity Engines guest access solution is that it is a unified
solution; a user is provisioned once and, whether they connect using a wired or
wireless connection, will be associated with the same security profile.
Conclusion: A Scalable, High Performance
Unified Network
Avaya is delivering a unified access solution that addresses key
challenges in today’s enterprise.
The Avaya Unified Access Solution delivers ubiquitous access to enterprise
applications and unified communications tools which can have a dramatic
impact on productivity and performance. By integrating the wireless data plane
with the wired data network through a Unified Access approach, this solution
overcomes the disadvantages of current centralized and distributed WLAN
approaches and creates a scalable, reliable, high-performance architecture for
the mobile era.
Available today, Avaya Unified Access and Identity Engines network
authentication services to create an intelligent edge that reduces costs through
a smart efficient network that authenticates, auto-provisions and provides
security without the constant intervention of a network administrator.
Avaya Virtual
Enterprise Network
Architecture (VENA)
Avaya Virtual Enterprise Network
Architecture (VENA) is an
enterprise-wide virtualization
framework that simplifies the
network, streamlines the
deployment of cloud-based
services and improves the
delivery of always-on content. It
enables enterprises to
successfully build and operate
next-generation architectures,
such as the Private Cloud.
Avaya VENA groups together a
number of complementary
capabilities – some well
established and some new and
emerging – under an umbrella
that clearly identifies them as
being strategic, fit-for-purpose,
business-centric solutions. So
whether it’s the decade-old
Avaya VENA Switch Clustering
or the new Avaya VENA Unified
Access, the most important
thing to know is that if it’s part
of the Avaya VENA strategy
then it is specifically engineered
to promote availability,
performance, and simplicity.
Avaya VENA solutions are
designed to meet the needs of
mainstream enterprises. Matching
the business goals and aspirations
of a typical enterprise with a typi-
cal corporate network, VENA
solutions are engineered to deliv-
er more IT performance for every
IT dollar invested through lower
levels of complexity and higher
levels of uptime and throughput.