Transforming the Network to Seize Business Advantage Don Clark Director of Business Development & Strategy NEC Corporation of America 1
Focus Today Network Challenges for Data Centers and Distribution Networks Automation, configuration management, integration with other IT systems, and maintenance are roadblocks to agile service delivery. Software Defined Networking is fundamentally changing networking New model solves biggest network challenges SDN is driving real business value NEC customers reduced time to new services by 75%, saved dollars ProgrammableFlow Product Line Simplified, open infrastructure for data center and cloud networks, dramatically automates while driving down operational costs and time to deliver business services 2
NEC Corporation at a Glance Established: 1899 Sales: $37 Billion Employees: 100,000+ worldwide Sales by segments Others 7% Personal Solutions 22% IT Services 27% Social Infrastructure 11% Carrier Network 21% Platform 12% 3
Cloud Infrastructure from NEC Servers Storage Software Network Highly scalable Highly available Intel based Fibre Channel and Ethernet (iscsi) Archiving Feature rich LAN/WAN clustering Disaster recovery Capacity planning Network virtualization High availability High throughput GX D/M-Series Express Cluster 4
5 Challenges in Networking Today
Enterprise Network Challenges Campus A Enterprise WAN Backbone Campus B Core Layer Performance/Security Visibility 4 2 Realtime Applications Campus C Backbone Access Layer Campus C Scaling Security Services 3 Distribution Layer 1 Virtual Circuits Virtualized DC 5 Building C-1 Building C-2 6
Challenges of Managing a Data Center Network Has your organization experienced any of the following network operations problems? 7 Too many manual processes Difficulties/delays associated with change and/or configuration management Integration and cooperation between network operations and other IT domains Inability to implement new technology in a timely manner due to lack of maintenance windows Difficulties and/or delays in provisioning network devices such as servers, switches, and security appliances Inability to implement new technology due to poor coordination between IT administration teams Manual IP address management using tools like spreadsheets We have a heterogeneous network where different technical elements need their own network operations Limited skills in the networking team Too many tools We have not experienced any network operations problems 7% Source: IDC Corporation, 2012 17% 20% 23% 29% 28% 26% 26% 34% 36% 40% Automation Agility Integration Maintainable Percent of respondents (N=280, multiple responses accepted)
8 Software Defined Networks
Software Defined Networking and OpenFlow The Biggest Thing Since Ethernet: OpenFlow New technology could disrupt the networking market, which for decades has relied on Ethernet and TCP/IP standards--and stalwart vendors like Cisco. There are things that can be done with OpenFlow that cannot be done with current protocols. OpenFlow will make it easier to implement customized functionality. Ivan Pepelnjak CTO NIL Data Communications Customers that re-architect their networks to take full advantage of OpenFlow can achieve the many benefits associated with virtualization and cloud computing, including increased flexibility in their networks, simplified management, and faster deployment cycles. - Rohit Mehra - IDC SDN is a major change in the paradigm -- logically centralized control function. This is the beginning of the software era of networking. Scott Shenker, UC Berkeley Pretty Sweet! -Jason Edelman, jdelman.com 9
SDN Industry Momentum 2H2012 1H2013 NEC brings SDN to Windows IDC: SDN a $2B Market by 2016 Brocade Releases OpenFlow NEC ProgrammableFlow wins Grand Prize at 2012 Interop Cisco Invests $100M in Insieme with Option to Buy 2H2011 1H2011 1H2012 Open Networking Summit 2012 Plays to a Packed House IBM Announces Support for OpenFlow in Data Switch Line Interop 2011 the OpenFlow Show NEC announces first enterprise-class OpenFlow SDN: ProgrammableFlow Jan 2010 2006 2011 Tech Titans Back OpenFlow Standard Nicira Lands $9M for Software to Virtualize Networks NEC Co-Founds Clean Slate Lab at Stanford OpenFlow Standard Created 10
Open Networking Foundation: OpenFlow Protocol Standardization ONF Board 11
What is SDN: Google Maps for Networking 12
Software-Defined Network Architecture Application Layer Network Applications API API API Control Layer SDN Control Network Services Software Infrastructure Layer Control Data Plane Interface (e.g., OpenFlow) Network Device Network Device Network Device Network Device Network Device 13
ProgrammableFlow: Driving SDN Innovation "Cloud in a Vault is a proven solution that has already been successfully deployed across several organizations within the financial, healthcare and legal verticals. Its capabilities are highly flexible and attractive to any enterprise that values security, scalability, reliability and control." Jack Pressman Managing Director of Cyber Innovation Labs, LLC It s been six months since ProgrammableFlow was installed, and we re very satisfied with the functionality and quality of the product. Shinji Fujibayashi Nippon Express The NEC SDN solution is completely compatible with Hyper-V Network Virtualization and allows for easy configuration of virtual appliances such as load balancers, intrusion detection systems, and network monitoring solutions. Jeffrey Snover Windows Server This global scale ICT infrastructure is flexibly controlled and takes only a few minutes to remotely complete connections between data centers that conventionally took several days. The NEC PF5820 met all of our evaluation objectives and the initial deployment with ProgrammableFlow has gone well completely as expected. Matt Davy Co-director of the Internet2 NDDI program and Chief Architect for Indiana University This collaboration reflects the reality that the data center network is vital to business, driving new ways for users to control the functionality of networks to meet application requirements, for cloud, Big Data/analytics and high performance computing, more simply, flexibly and intelligently. Vikram Mehta VP System Networking Awards 14
15 Use Cases
Data Center Network Challenges Optimized within the Silos Inefficient Complex Slow to respond Static IP NW Total IT+NW Optimization Optimized Simple Agile Dynamic IP NW WEB AP DB WEB AP DB WEB AP DB WEB AP DB WEB AP WEB DB WEB AP DB DB DB AP WEB AP 16
Cloud: Comprehensive Virtualization OpenStack Network virtualization Server virtualization Storage virtualization SDN Network Controller NaaS VM Management System IaaS Virtual Storage Management Virtual Tenant Networks VTN1 vrouter Firewall SLB VM Storage FW SLB vbridge VM vbridge Storage Cloud Management VTN2 vrouter vbridge vbridge Virtual Resources Virtualization vrouter vbridge Firewall Load balancer Server Storage Physical Resources PFS Virtual Network Pool Virtual Server Pool Virtual Storage Pool 17
Enterprise: Departmental Isolation/Mobility Conventional Network Each department has own proprietary network Many firewalls required to align network policies Software Defined Network Existing networks integrated by ProgrammableFlow Networks become visible (physical/logical configurations) Logical Configuration Server Department A VTN Department B VTN Department C VTN Router Switch Network Appliance Pool Physical Configuration PFC Network Pool Server Pool FW PFS FW Switch Department A Department B Department C Department A Department B Department C 18
Monitor Control Network Service Insertion Controller Traffic Statistics Network Path Control DoS Detector WAN Internet Enterprise Network 1 OpenFlow Network 2 3 Attack Mitigation Servers 19
Traffic Visibility for Security Monitoring and Management for Big Data Aggregate Mirror Traffic Create Custom Flow Filter Rules Monitor Traffic Analytics Challenges Traditional Monitoring breaks down at 10G speeds Data Analytics requirements for security and performance monitoring continuously changing Purpose built monitoring tools expensive Solution ProgrammableFlow Controller ProgrammableFlow PF5240 and PF5820 Switches Results Aggregate mirror/span traffic from multiple sources Create filters through easy to use interface Customize flow filters on Source Port/ MAC/IP/TCP Port/VLAN Visualize Traffic Flows Connect to other tools for additional analytics 20
SDN and Cloud Connections Today we live in the Quantum era of so much data growth and interconnectivity. 21
Challenges Without SDN Remaining high costs (financial and administration overhead) maintaining current network Legacy IT has become a bottleneck to change, and the inability to address change affects business agility One Size Fits All simply won t address all requirements Significant complexities arise with legacy networks in traditional and cloud computing environments 22
SDN Breaks Down Barriers SDN breaks down barriers to offer: Centralized control with network abstraction and vendor neutrality Virtual Networks with creation and configuration in minutes, not days Enhanced security and multi-tenancy Extensible service insertion Dynamic response, on-demand, and programmatic innovation 23
Time to Deliver a 3-Tier Application Reduces Time to Deliver Applications 3 days 5 minutes Conventional Network SDN/ ProgrammableFlow 24
SDN Enables Business Opportunities Remote research facilitated Entire cloud ecosystem built Provisioning automated and streamlined Automatic creation of isolated virtual networks 25
Hyper-V SDN in action The NEC Programmable Flow Switch and Controller for Hyper-V allows Edgenet to not only improve network service delivery by having a single control plane across the entire physical and virtual Microsoft environment, it allows us to increase our network utilization levels without concern of service level disruption and realize a truly converged network infrastructure affordably. Mike Steineke VP of IT, Edgenet 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 Edgenet is committed to being the highest quality provider of product content management, selling and advertising solutions in the world. Through the Edgenet Network, our customers access a product information ecosystem that ensures the highest quality, most complete set of product content available. Product content is managed by suppliers and distributed from our network to retailers, distributors and media channels. Challenges: Assuring Service Levels in unified network Network constraints of VM Migration Real time network visibility Solution: Software Defined Physical and Virtual Network Results: QoS assured for high priority storage traffic VM mobility without network reconfiguration Improved network utilization Enhanced network visibility 26
Genesis Hosting: Public Cloud Genesis Hosting Solutions provides one of the most flexible hosted computing service available today. Genesis build-yourown cloud environments enables customers to build and provision customized, highly available virtual machine clusters. Challenges Network complexity - needed strategy for mass scale Focused on delivering 99.999% availability at a value price a key competitive differentiator Diminishing number of IP addresses available Solution Software Defined Cloud Network Genesis looked at other, competitive network offerings, seeking a solution to their challenges. We wanted the same level of reliability at the edge as at the core, says Miller, We saw OpenFlow, and preferred the open architecture, and with NEC offering ProgrammableFlow, it was a no-brainer. Eric Miller, Genesis Hosting Results Simplified, manageable network enables mass scale-up ProgrammableFlow self-repair supports availability goals of 99.999% Reduced network administration by 100 hours weekly with automated network management Reduced IP address usage up to 60% Grew revenue with service offering of secure multi-tenant virtual networks 27
Nippon Express: Data Center Consolidation Multi-tenant Network OpenFlow network reduces complexity and increases flexibility Challenges Move to private cloud by 2014 Silo network infrastructure Limited flexibility for virtual environments Reduce costs and increase IT efficiency Solution OpenFlow based Software Defined Cloud Network for Primary and backup Center Result 32% Annual ROI Increased agility Network ticket turn around time reduced from 2 months to 10 days New level of flexibility and network control Full control eliminates need for vendor involvement, saving over $75K annually Improved reliability and availability, equipment faults take less than one second with no interruption Equipment footprint halved, power consumption cut significantly It s been six months since ProgrammableFlow was installed, and we re very satisfied with the functionality and quality of the product. Previously, the system centered on two chassis core switches to future-proof the system, but the new system doesn t require a big capital investment right away. Switches can be added easily when they are required, allowing us to cut housing costs through lower initial space requirements and reduced power consumption. Shinji Fujibayashi, Nippon Express 28
Nippon Express Benefits from SDN Unit Space Power Consumption U 35 30 32 (core switch rack space) KW 15 14 25 20 15 10 5 70% 10 10 5 80% 2.5 0 Alternative SDN 0 Alternative SDN Outsourcing Fee Reconfiguration Time $K 120 75 50 (for network configuration change) 75K 100% 50 40 30 20 8 Weeks 75% 25 0 0 10 0 10 Days Alternative SDN Alternative SDN 29
The New Era of Programmable Networks Simple Deploy Multi-Tenant Virtual Networks as easily as deploying VMs Integrate network and application policy Centralized network management and control Eliminates need for spanning tree or other distributed protocols Scalable Scales from single switch to entire data center fabric Policy-based appliance integration Secure Integrated Multitenant Access Control Open Multi-vendor OpenFlow enabled networks 30
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