Beyond MPLS: The Network as the CloudComputing Delivery Platform

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Todays Presenters

Sarah Wallace
Analyst Heavy Reading

Mitchell H. Auster
Senior Advisor Market Development Ciena

David White
Senior VP Global Business Development Ipanema Technologies

About This Webinar

This webinar is intended for Carriers, Network Service Providers and Network Managers who are considering offering cloud services as part of their revenue stream. This webinar will discuss:

Why service providers are unique in offering cloud services What challenges may come in preparing their networks to offer cloud-based services
How cloud computing increases the complexity of enterprise WANs How MPLS is a 15-year old technology and under threat of revenue erosion from enterprise IT transformations and a commoditization of MPLS services

solutions?

Why Cloud

The Appeal of Cloud Services

Reduction of cost - Operations - Maintenance - Paid for incrementally

More resources and staff - Agility - Security - Privacy

Increased Storage - Organizations can store more data than on private computer systems

Scalability - Multi-tenant environment - From 1,000 clients to 10,000 very quickly

Cloudpocalypse When the cloud fails

Amazon
(EC2)

New York Times

FourSquare

Hootsuite

Quora

Reddit

SCVNGR

These sites supported by Amazons EC2 experienced outages, some up to 36 hours.

Amazon reports trouble due to excessive re-mirroring of its Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volumes and that a networking event caused a domino effect across availability zones in that region, in which many of its storage volumes created new backups of themselves. That filled up Amazons available storage capacity and prevented some sites from accessing their data.

solutions?

Hence: The Time is Right for Service Providers

Service Providers can provide

Service Providers are in a prime position to capitalize on the cloud revolution because they can provide the following compared to traditional cloud vendors:

INFRASTRUCTURE

STORAGE

MANAGEMENT

VALUE-ADDED VPN SERVICES

The Challenge for Service Providers

Use the existing network infrastructure to offer value added services Offer new cloud services using traditional data transport Meanwhile, delivering all these cloud services in an environment that is: Secure Scalable In real-time Reliable

The Key
The key for service providers who want to provide superior cloud services will be to:
Have Superior WAN Optimization and Management

Have Superior Bandwidth Management

Move Beyond Dated MPLS

Beyond MPLS: Optimizing the Cloud Backbone

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Key Messages
The ability to place and/or migrate workloads (VMs) in arbitrary data centers improves resiliency, efficiency and application performance

Before migrating a VM, the associated data store must be reachable at new DC Trend to active-active data replication among 2 or more DCs
The ability to migrate a Live VM is becoming table stakes Minimizing interruption (pause) is critical The cloud backbone network is a critical determinant of success

Two broad requirements for the inter-DC Cloud Backbone:

Virtualization for scalable multi-tenancy

Orchestrated QoS to optimize profitability

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Cloud Service Driven Inter-DC Traffic

Traffic Type Data Storage Migration Live Virtual Machine Migration Data Storage Update/Replication Quantity of Instances Low Low-High Medium Flow Duration per Instance Short-to-Medium Short-to-Medium Medium-to-Long Bandwidth per Instance Very High Medium Medium QoS Sensitivity Medium High High Total WAN Bandwidth High MediumVery High Very High

Transactional

Semipermanent

Distributed vApp Inter-VM traffic, VM mgmt (VM-VPN)

Medium

Short-to-Long

Low

Medium

Low

Bulk VM Migration Periodic VM Migration Unplanned VM Migration

Disaster avoidance, DC consolidation or geographic re-location ~5000 VMs @ 20 GB 100 TB (~10x to move datastore) Workload balancing capacity, follow sun/moon, power cost ~500 VMs @ 20 GB 10 TB (~10x to move datastore) Cloudbursting for capacity enhancement ~50 VMs @ 20 GB 1 TB (~10x to move datastore)

High Peak-to-Valley pairwise DC-DC bandwidth demand, especially driven by high-bw, short-medium duration, QoS-sensitive flows
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VM Migration Performance
Effects of Latency, Loss, Bandwidth
VMM Completion Time (secs)
600 500 400

VMM completion Time (secs)

Latency Effect on VMM Completion Time

2500 2000 1500 1000

Loss Effect on VMM Completion Time (e.g. @ 5 msec RTT)

300
200 100 0 0 0.5 1 2 3 4 5 6 10 20 50

500
0 0 0.1 0.2 0.3 Loss % 0.4 0.5 1

Latency (ms)

Bandwidth Effect on VMM Pause Time

Client-Server Business App Development Workload Retail Web Server w/ 600 Users

Completion time increases with network latency Frame loss rapidly compounds the effect of network latency

100

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Cloud backbone must deliver high bandwidth, and minimize loss & latency

General purpose IP/MPLS Core (typical 99.95% PDR) ill-suited for certain Inter-DC traffic TCP Throughput vs. PDR [RFC 5348]
4500
4000
RTT = 1ms RTT = 2ms RTT = 5ms RTT = 10ms

TCP throughput (Mbps)

TCP/IP flows of equivalent CoS

3500

Low bandwidth, semi-permanent QoS-tolerant flows

General Purpose IP/MPLS Core

3000 2500 2000 1500 1000

High bandwidth transactional QoSsensitive flows

Congestion
X

TCP is aggressively egalitarian each session gets the same bandwidth

500
0

Packet Delivery Ratio (1 - Loss%)

High bandwidth, QoS-sensitive flows must be traffic-engineered to ~zero loss

Real-time traffic like storage replication or live migration requires dedicated bandwidth, meaning that an optimization solution must be able to prioritize traffic flows, and prevent them from being pushed aside by other applications. (Forrester)
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Typical Constrained DC Resource Sharing

Resource capacity Resource used
Compute Storage

Enterprise DC

X3
Compute Storage
Provider DC 2 (Distant)

Compute Storage

General Purpose IP/MPLS Core

X1
New workload

X2

Provider DC 1 (Local)

Compute

Storage

X3
User
Provider DC N (Distant)

X1 = no capacity available, need to burst to provider IaaS cloud service X2 = no capacity available at local provider DC X3 = insufficient bandwidth/QoS to migrate live VMs/storage to distant DCs

Underutilized resources and unmet demand

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Cloud Service Provider Inter-DC backbone

Elastic, On-Demand, High-Performance Packet-Optical mesh
shared uplink

DC-B
CBE

Any-to-Any
Virtualized Workloads
VM VM VM

CBE

Common PacketOptical Mesh

Converged Data Center Fabric

DC-C
Point-to-Point Static and OnDemand
CBE

DC-A

L1 or L2 Packet Transport Server Connections L2 Service Flows

Extended VM-VPN (E-LAN) Re-directed User-vApp (E-LAN) Distributed File System (E-LAN) Storage Replication (E-Line, OTN) VM Migration traffic (E-Line) Storage Migration (E-Line)
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Static/Semi-permanent

Transactional

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Data Center Without Walls

Enables global efficient workload distribution
Resource capacity Resource used
Compute Storage

Enterprise DC

Performance On-Demand Cloud Backbone

Compute Storage
Compute

Compute Storage

Provider DC 2 (Distant)

X1
New workload

X2

Performance On-Demand General Purpose IP/MPLS Core Cloud Backbone

Provider DC 1 (Local)

Compute

Storage

Storage
User
Provider DC N (Distant)

X1 = no capacity available, need to burst to provider IaaS cloud service X2 = no capacity available at local provider DC

= performance on-demand to migrate VMs/storage to distant DCs and provide user-to-vApp QoS

Minimize capacity required; maximize resource utilization & maximize 18 fulfilled demand Anywhere, anytime provision of resources
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Guarantee High Performance to Increase Resource Efficiency

Ensure high BW and minimize inter-DC latency & loss

Increase radius of candidate DCs for Live VM Migration

Increase shared resource pool utilization

Minimize resource requirement in each DC

Resource capacity Resource used

Minimize cost of total resource pool required

Disparate DCs/Resources
DC 1
DC 3

DC 6

Virtual DC without Walls shared global resource pool

DC 2

DC 4 DC 7 DC 8 DC 9 DC 10

DC 10 DC 8 DC 4

DC 9

DC 5

DC 11

DC 5

DC 6

DC 7 DC 2 DC 1 DC 3 DC 11

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 but how to address the high peak-to-valley pairwise DC-DC bandwidth demand?
<5% of time High: NxY Gbps Cloudburst live VM, storage migration >95% of time Low: Y Mbps

build full fixed mesh for sum of each pairwise daily peak? build stat-mux mesh for daily peak sum of total forecast demands?

Inter-DC Bandwidth Demand (Enterprise to Provider)

Enterprise

Fixed connection sized for peak

Enterprise IaaS Cloud Provider

Fixed connection sized for median

IaaS Cloud Provider

Wasted bandwidth, $$$

Insufficient bandwidth Low performance, protracted cloudburst

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Inter-DC Bandwidth Demand (Provider to Provider)

Window 1 peaks
DC

Window 2 peaks
DC

Window 3 peaks
DC

Window 4 peaks
DC

DC

DC

DC

DC

DC

DC

DC

DC

DC

DC

DC

DC

DC

DC

DC

DC

Sum = X Tbps

Sum = 1.5X Tbps

Sum = 2X Tbps

Sum = 0.25X Tbps

High pairwise (DCa DCz) peak-to-valley (& mean) ToD bandwidth variation
How to build?
DC

Fixed mesh of wavelengths/circuits, sized for pairwise peaks?

DC

DC

Severely underutilized bandwidth for large windows

DC

DC

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Inter-DC Bandwidth Demand (Provider to Provider)

Window 1 peaks
DC

Window 2 peaks
DC

Window 3 peaks
DC

Window 4 peaks
DC

DC

DC

DC

DC

DC

DC

DC

DC

DC

DC

DC

DC

DC

DC

DC

DC

Sum = X Tbps

Sum = 1.5X Tbps

Sum = 2X Tbps

Sum = 0.25X Tbps

High pairwise (DCa DCz) peak-to-valley (& mean) ToD bandwidth variation
DC

How to build?
DC DC

Fixed packet access wavelengths/circuits, sized for DCn peak sum + pairwise stat-mux mesh (e.g. LSPs)?
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1) Stat-mux mesh CIRs sized for pairwise peak underutilized core bandwidth, or 2) Stat-mux mesh CIRs sized for pairwise mean packet loss on congested links

DC

DC

 how to address the high peak-to-valley pairwise DC-DC bandwidth demand? Build orchestrated Performance on Demand for daily peak sum of actual, smoothed demands!
Provider Cloud OS
Enterprise Data Center
Virtual Machine (VM) applications Server

Billing Systems
Provider Data Center

Network Hypervisor

Control Plane
Ethernet Ethernet

Server

VPLEX FC SAN Switch SAN Storage

SAN
SAN

Ethernet

VPLEX

FC
FC FC
SAN

SAN Switch SAN Storage

SAN

Network Hypervisor enables automated performance on demand

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Cloud Backbone Comparison IP/MPLS vs. Cienas Dynamic Converged Optical Ethernet
Large Carrier Cloud Economic Analysis
Normalized New Equipment Capex to 2015

53% Less
Any-to-Any
CBE CBE

Common PacketOptical Mesh

CBE

Point-to-Point On-Demand

IP/MPLS Greenfield

IP/MPLS Dynamic COE Brownfield Greenfield

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Beyond the Network

Beyond MPLS
Optimizing Performance in the Cloud
www.ipanematech.com

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Ipanema Overview
Headquartered in Paris, France

Globally, our systems support over 100,000 sites

Leading Visionary in Gartner WOC Magic Quadrant Market leader for application aware network services

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The Cloud Changes Network Requirements

Networks move from MPLS to hybrid MPLS + Internet Internet applications move from recreational to business tools

Standard applications move to SaaS

In-house applications and resources move to IaaS/PaaS
Cloud

MPLS

Internet

Unified Communications and video become critical business applications

Users access applications from everywhere: branch, home, hotel

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Networks Must Support New and Traditional Business Applications!

Internal business applications

(SAP, Oracle, homegrown)

Financial consolidation and reporting

(Oracle Hyperion, SAP Cartesis)

MPLS / Ethernet

SaaS collaboration
(Office 365, Google Apps, LotusLive)

Telepresence

Cloud Computing

(Cisco, Polycom)

Social media as business tools

Internet

(Facebook, Twitter, YouTube)

SaaS CRM, ERP

(SalesForce, Oracle On Demand)

HighDef video delivery

(eLearning, Digital Signage)

Unified Communications
(MS Lync, Cisco UC)

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Increasing Demands on Branch Locations

The New Branch Communication Hub for Global Organizations
The changing traffic matrix
Networks are moving from point to point to any-to-any Collaborative apps have multiple flows to each branch Hosted virtual desktops do not require routing from the desktop to the data center
Private DataCenter Private DataCenter

Tremendous demand on the access and distribution of data to and from branch locations Business continuity requires making real-time decisions & adjustments to session connectivity
Dynamically manage and control competition between critical and less-critical applications

IaaS/PaaS

Public Internet

Ethernet MPLS SaaS Cloud Computing Internet Main site HQ

MPLS is inadequate
Service providers own only 1-2 access points in a meshed, cloud network CoS cannot address multiple critical application traffic streams
Internationa l Branch Domestic Branch

Stateless QoS will be inadequate; per destination QoS with fairness is required
Application SLAs are required

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The Result
Cloud computing shifts application delivery complexity to the network

Cloud Impact

IT

Network

Application

Delivery
Complexity

The network is more business critical than ever

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The Challenge
How do you get full visibility over your global network?
Discover applications and their resources usage

Understand the root cause of application slowdowns

Communicate clear data about application performance

How do you guarantee application performance?

Control private and public applications over a hybrid network Ensure excellent application performance to your distributed workforce Manage social media and recreational applications

How do you cost optimize your WAN?

Take advantage of the Internet as a business network Get global control without deploying technology everywhere

Reduce your WAN bandwidth requirements now and plan for tomorrow

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The Ipanema
Autonomic Networking System (ANS )
TM

Autonomic
Global, distributed coordination between appliances guarantees performance
Sense and Respond" dynamically adapts to traffic and network changes Full control requires only 10-20% of sites with an appliance

All-in-one
Tightly coupled Application Visibility, QoS & Control, WAN Optimization and Dynamic WAN Selection
Optimizes data transfers (CIFS...), interactive flows (Citrix...) and real-time flows (Videoconference...)

Service Framework
Unified management GUI for all features
Objective based control enabling global WAN Governance

Multi-tenant platform (SALSA) that scales up to 10MMs users & 100Ks sites

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The Autonomic

Network System Delivers

SaaS Data Center

Internet @

Service Provider Data Center

Enterprise Data Center

Business VPN

Enterprise Branch

Guaranteed performance for business critical applications based on customer specific SLAs
Complete autonomic application management, visibility and control across an enterprise network based upon global user defined objectives
Dynamic traffic optimization (session-by-session) across hybrid networks; both public or private Control and optimization with absolutely no decisions or actions required; zero demands placed upon IT staff resources Multitenant Central Management System that scales to very large networks and large numbers of customer domains

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Guaranteed Performance Over Any Topology

One to Any
Single Data Center

Some to Many
Multiple Data Centers

Any to Any
Multiple Data Centers

Tele-optimized Branch Offices

Tele-optimized Branch Offices

Branch Offices w/ inter-site traffic

Autonomic Control Agent (ACA)

Real-time Cooperation among ACA

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Dynamic WAN Selection

Guarantees Application Performance Across Hybrid Networks

Datacenter #1

Datacenter #2

XaaS

Appliances cooperate to analyze available bandwidth and quality for each path Automatic path selection based on bandwidth and congestion Flows are automatically adjusted to guarantee performance according to individual SLAs

SAP

Sharepoint

MPLS

Internet

Dynamically selecting the network to match performance objectives for each application Paths are instantly adjusted to adapt to any change in network and traffic conditions
Significant Benefits
Use broadband links in branches

Branch Office

Eliminate complex policy based routing

Increased reliability with dual operators/networks

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SALSA

TM

Scalable Application Level Service Architecture

Complete visibility and control of application performance
Global view of application usage and performance across the enterprise network Application SLAs are provisioned and analyzed through clear KPIs (AQS, MOS)
Global application performance objectives applicable throughout the entire network Multi-tenant capability provides separation between customer domains Proven scalability, tested to 400,000+ sites
Enterprise Applications Applications Criticality

Customer web-based portal

KPIs, reports, analysis

Real time view of data

Help desk access

iPhone application

SAP IP Telephony Telepresence CRM/Citrix CIFS Salesforce Gmail Sharepoint Skype YouTube

Top Top High High Med. Med. Med. Med. Low Low

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Fast to Deploy, Easy to Operate

Fast to deploy
Network Transparency

Fully transparent at Layers 2 and 3

Fully compatible with Classes of Service Provisioning Install plug & play appliances in a few key locations Use pre-defined application performance objectives Get meaningful KPIs in a few days (MOS, AQS) Then one click to activate control and optimization over the global network

Easy to operate
Zero day-to-day adjustments: ANS automatically controls application performance across the network
Application performance objectives are automatically enforced for new sites Set SLAs for new applications and automatically enforce them over your global network You need only a few minutes per month to check application SLAs thanks to simple KPIs

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The Bottom Line

Business Continuity
Guaranteed performance for critical business applications; now and as you implement Cloud based solutions

Have Raw Performance Superior WAN Optimization and Management

Improve application response times 10X or more

Bandwidth management

Have Superior Bandwidth Management Delay bandwidth upgrades by 24 months

Divide by 3 the cost to transfer a Gbyte of data across the network

Service Provider Benefits

Increase VPN profitability

Get away from MPLS commoditization and margin erosion

Move Beyond Dated MPLS

Reduce churn and acquire new customers by selling value!

Deliver highly differentiated cloud services enabled by a Cloud-ready network

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Q&A Session

Sarah Wallace
Analyst Heavy Reading

Mitchell H. Auster
Senior Advisor Market Development Ciena

David White
Senior VP Global Business Development Ipanema Technologies

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