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Elastic Fabrics & Cloud ISPs
The document discusses the rise of elastic fabrics and cloud ISPs. It summarizes that elastic fabrics allow on-demand provisioning of IT resources through pay-as-you-go pricing models without long contracts. This will revolutionize connectivity and telecommunications. It recommends that service providers innovate to offer services through these elastic fabrics, as major vendors are developing virtual network functions that can be deployed on cloud platforms. Within the next year, full-featured cloud ISPs could be rapidly deployed without hardware limitations through these elastic fabrics.
Elastic Fabrics & Cloud ISPs
- 1. ELASTIC FABRICS & CLOUDISPs Carriers: Ignore them at your peril Skeeve Stevens Network Architect & Futurist COMMSDAY SYDNEY 2015
- 2. ELASTIC FABRICS What arethey? • Removing one of the last barriers of full elastic IT • Revolution* in connectivity/telecommunications • Characterised by – OnDemand* Provisioning / Automation Cheap pay-as-you-go pricing No (or short) Contracts* Extreme speeds Marketplaces of Services • A predictable eventuality – the gourmet world • Enterprise service delivery revolution
- 3. FABRIC PROVIDERS Megaport Others….Nextgen (What happened toit?) Equinix Cloud Exchange Pacnet PEN (TEN?) IX Australia
- 4. • Cloud–DirectAccess(AWS,Azure,otherscoming) Compute,HostedDesktop,Storage,CloudApplications(AaaS),Hadoop,etc • CoreISPInfrastructure(LNS,CGN,Routing,Peering,etc) •PhysicalInfrastructureaaS • StorageProviders(mostlyviapubliccloudplayers) • IPTransit–Backuppaths,OnDemandcapacity • Tails-xDSL,Fibre/NBN,MetroE,InternationalCircuits-anythingLayer2 • Voice-SIPTrunks,HostedVoice;FullEnterprisePABXs • DDoSProtection-aaS/CleanFeed–i.e.Micron21 • Virtual/PhysicalAppliances-Firewall-aaS,LoadBalancing-aaS • Mostoftheaboveavailableaswhitelabelledwholesaleofferings WHATS AVAILABLE NOW
- 5. • Enterprisetargetedservices,especiallycapexintensive,multi-tenantable solutions • Storageseemstobeoneofthebigones •Manyvendorappliances–Ciscomakingbigmoves • HostedLayer2/Layer3environments • MorePublicCloud–GoogleCompute,OrionVM,SoftLayer,RackSpace • EnterpriseCloud–SalesForce,SAP,Adobe,Oracle • Private/HybridCloud–Fujitsu,HP,IBM,EMC,etc • HostedDesktopsarehot–licensingiswhatisholdingitbackabit RealWindowsdesktops,VirtualisedMacs,hostedembeddedsystems(e.g.POS), hostedadvertisingplatforms,industrialcontrolsystems,etc. WHATS COMING (or likely to)
- 6. • No, Nota Cloud Provider • Not a reseller • Not the old term ‘VISP’ • A REAL, multi-carrier, self managed, elastic infrastructure, Internet Service Provider • Almost doable – within 6-9 months • Some partial deployments exist – I’ve built them THE CLOUD ISP What is it?
- 7. • Rapid deploymentof ISP environments • No Hardware/Licensing delays • No equipment failures* • Scalable capacity without hardware upgrades • Highly redundant – Multi-cloud, regions and AZs • Minimise business risk – no capex • Elastic Infrastructure – pay only for what you need, when you need it • Global reach and possibilities • Replicatable – i.e. copy/paste in Singapore, HK, etc CLOUD ISP – WHY?
- 8. • The BigVendors - Cisco, Juniper, Brocade, A10, F5, Citrix • Core Functions - Virtualised Routing and Switching • ISP Functions - LNS, CGN/LSN, Proxies • Security - Firewalls, IPS, DDoS Mitigation/Cleanfeed • Servers – Virtual/Containers/Physical • Cloud Providers - AWS, Azure, Softlayer, GC, Cisco InterCloud, VMware vCloud Air… more coming • Elastic Fabrics (the glue) • Datacentre Physical X-Connects – togettothosenotyeton THE BITS Now and in the next 12 months
- 9. WHAT DOES IT LOOKLIKE?
- 11. • Machine Imagesstill coming – many more needed • Licensing from Vendors could be nicer • Cloud Provider internal networking still needs work • Inter-connection pricing for data needs to be improved • Terminology is a pain • Have to figure it out yourself • Minimal Expertise/help/support WHAT DOESN’T WORK …YET
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- 13. • If you’renot selling via Elastic Fabrics, your competition will be soon or already is • Expanding Globally – Equinix, Megaport…. • Ease of migration – TO or FROM you (thinkMobileportability) • Hardware vendors are rushing to release virtualised equipment to Elastic Fabrics • You can ignore it, but others are already servicing the (your) market • Wholesalers: You will still sell tails, but your VA profit will go • Enterprises are already buying services directly • Why not? WHY YOU NEED TO CARE
- 14. • SpeedofLegals • SpeedofProvisioningServices •ContractTerms • ValueAdd • Youcannotsellyourcustomereverything–getoverit-Partnerships areking–evenatthehighestendoftown • Joinotherfabrics–participateinthemarketplace • Youneedtoknowyourcustomerandhowtheybuy–watchwhat12 yearoldsaredoing • Die?Altavista,MySpace,Kodak,Nokia,Nintendo,Atari,Sega,Pizza Hut–manymore. • Themightycanfall–carriersarenoexception HOW YOU NEED TO CHANGE Innovate or Die
- 15. THE NEXT 6-12MONTHS • Cloud ISPs. Rapidly deployed full service ISPs • More VxC Fabrics, on demand and fast (more 100Gb) • Vertically Focused Fabrics • Interconnected Fabrics • Marketplace maturity • A LOT more wholesale product offerings with Value-add products making all the difference • EC Awareness
- 16. SKEEVE STEVENS e: skeeve@eintellegonetworks.com w:eintellegonetworks.com t: @skeevestevens linkedin: /in/skeeve w: www.TheISPGuy.com f: /theispguy THANK YOU. COMMSDAY SYDNEY 2015