Unleash the power, intelligence, and analytics of your networks with a flexible and open SDN solution

COPYRIGHT © 2014 ALCATEL-LUCENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
David Fortini
October, 2014
Unleash the power, intelligence, and analytics of your networks with a flexible and open SDN solution

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Corporate Data Center Site 1
Corporate Data Center Site 2
DATA CENTER
PRIVATE CLOUD
UNPRECEDENTED CHANGE IN APPLICATION DELIVERY
NEW DEVICES
NEW APPLICATIONS
NEW TECHNOLOGY
Network
VIRTUALIZATION
Servers
Applications
PUBLIC CLOUD

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INCREASINGLY COMPLEX SYSTEMS
MPLS
Internet
Private DC
Private DC
XaaS
Consumer resources
(Gmail, Dropbox, etc.)
Source: Forrester Research
Backup

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SDN – AN EVOLVING TECHNOLOGY TO MANAGE THE COMPLEXITY BUT... WHAT IS SDN?
Base: 2206 Network and Telecom Decision Makers: Forrsights Network and Telecom Survey, Q1 2013
15%
0%
14%
31%
32%
40%
41%
47%
Not sure
Other
Fast and dumb network
New data center technology to enable virtualization of the network
Programming the network
Network overlay to enable servers to communicate with each other over layer 3 boundaries
Separation of data plane and control plane and enabling communication through OpenFlow protocol
Virtual switches, routers, firewalls, and other networking devices
Which of the following attributes do you believe describe the term software-defined networking (SDN)?

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WHERE WILL IT BE USED?
SDN Values
Survey Results
Allowing the network to adjust automatically to
virtual machine migration
36.5%
Improved network security
32.8%
Ability to program the network
16.1%
Improved quality of service
42.7%
Ability to segment the network (multi-tenancy)
17.2%
Reduction in operational costs
26.6%
Reduction in network hardware costs
26.6%
GIGAOM PRO Survey: SDN benefits unclear to enterprise network managers 08/29/2013
APPLICABLE TO CAMPUS LAN & DATA CENTER NETWORKS

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Decoupling of control and forwarding plane
API based programmable interfaces to tweak and influence the data plane from a centralized appliance in real-time
Global view of the network
Network to transform into an application
Single logical switch with homogenous policies
Vendor independent
WHAT IS A SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORK (SDN)?

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A COORDINATED VIRTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE
GLOBAL CONTROL
NETWORK
GLOBAL CONTROL VIEW
Applications
THREE KEY ELEMENTS
1.PROGRAMMABILITY
•Link between application and network
•Orchestrated activity to optimize performance
•Cross-referenced performance visibility
2.FROM APPLICATION AWARENESS TO APPLICATION FLUENCY
•Network automatically reacts to virtualized workloads
•Dynamic tuning of network traffic handling
3.GLOBAL CONTROL VIEW
•Improve local decisions making
•Export view to application control

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WHAT IS SDN TO ALCATEL-LUCENT ENTERPRISE?
•Evolution of our AFN Strategy
•Solving Automation needs Today
•Delivering Standards-based Interfaces:
•Across the entire portfolio – Campus & Data Center
•Investment Protection leveraging software upgrades to deliver
•Enable our Enterprise customers to move to SDN at their own pace
•SDN Technology not currently compelling for majority of Enterprises
•BUT: Enterprises want to know that you’re products will fit into the SDN Framework if/when they may move towards it.
•Providing Practical Use Cases on how SDN can solve issues in today’s Enterprises
A
UTOMATION
PROGRAMMABILITY

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SDN – AUTOMATION/ORCHESTRATION RETHINKING IT OPERATIONS
Red color indicates manual/human input/feedback
Blue color indicates digital/analog/mechanical components
Legend
Network AdminEnd user feedback

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GAPS EXIST AT MANY LEVELS
Computing Resources
Hypervisors
Applications
Application and Network Perspectives are NOT Aligned
Network
High Availability
QoS, SLA

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NOW IT IS ALL ABOUT AUTOMATION
•Computing is now completely flexible but the data center network is not
•The network and the applications are operating effectively in silos
The network today has little awareness of applications
Virtual application control systems are unaware of the network
•Any attempt to improve resource utilization likely delivers a suboptimal result
GLOBAL CONTROL
NETWORK
DISTRIBUTED CONTROL
VIRTUAL WORKLOADS MEANS NEW REQUIREMENTS TO ENABLE AUTOMATION
Applications

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SDN USE CASE VIRTUALIZATION AUTOMATION
KEY FEATURES
•The network understands applications
•Virtualization without add-on products (vSwitch)
•Direct interface with hypervisor managers
•Programmability via open API
Data center fabric
NETWORK PROVISIONING
SECURITY REQUIREMENTS
QUALITY OF SERVICE
PRIORITY
APPLICATION
NETWORK PROFILE
NP
KEY BENEFITS
•Break down silos between IT and Network
•Reduce time to service from few days to few clicks
•Significantly lower the Data Center TCO
OUT OF THE BOX AUTOMATION WITHOUT NEED FOR SDN

Fusion of virtual/physical with Layer 2 through Layer 7

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ALCATEL-LUCENT DATA CENTER SOLUTION DYNAMIC PROFILING & MOBILITY
•VM Classification
•Profile Association
•QOS
•Security
•Priority
•Bandwidth
•Automated VM Mobility
•Network Follows the VM
•Transparent to Inter or Intra DC Mobility

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ALCATEL-LUCENT DATA CENTER SOLUTION PROVISIONING & VISIBILITY
Create vNP Profiles
Bulk Provisioning across the fabric
VM Live/Historical Search
Data Center Inventory seen through 2 Interfaces: VMM Locater & vCenter

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SDN ANALYTICS SECURE THE ENTERPRISE
SIMPLIFY & SCALE DYNAMIC CONTROL
Problem:
•DDoS Attacks
•Scalability with distributed detection points
•Slow manual Network response mechanisms
•Manual Network reconfiguration
Benefits:
•Centralized collection with real-time standards based SDN Analytics
•Automated Dynamic Fast Network response
•Block DDoS attack traffic via OPEN Programmable Interface instantly
•Easy to deploy TODAY!
Threat
Mitigation

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SDN ANALYTICS INTELLIGENT FABRIC IN THE ENTERPRISE
Application Visibility & Guarantee Service
Problem:
•Few high bandwidth Elephant Flows cause jitter/latency to prevalent low bandwidth Mice Flows
•Deploy proprietary distributed detection appliance
•IT intensive Network response mechanisms
Benefits:
•Centralized collection with real-time standards based SDN Analytics
•Automated Dynamic Fast Network response
•Mark Elephant Flows via OPEN Programmable Interface on the fly
•Easy to deploy TODAY!
Elephant Flows Marked
All Flows Same Queue

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SDN
AFN FABRIC
OS6900
OS6900
OS6900
OS6900
PFC
Monitor
Control
Servers
APPLICATION POLICY
SDN ENABLED APPLICATION FLUENCY POLICY CONTROLLED DYNAMIC ENTEPRISE
•Application Fluent Network Visibility
•Flow-level Traffic Information
•Topology Information
•Network Link Utilization
•Congestion Alerts
•Application Fluent Network Orchestration
•Application Intelligent Network Path
•Dynamic Failover
•Secure Networks Via Logical VTNs

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Improving performance of existing Controller- based WiFi networks
Identification of high bandwidth/long lived flows.
Redirect via SDN interfaces to be switched at edge of network.
Benefits:
Better user experience
Improved network utilization - less traffic backhauled to OmniAccess controller
Software only upgrade – no need for migration to distributed IAP architecture in order to improve network utilization
SDN USE CASE WIRELESS TRAFFIC FLOW OPTIMIZATION
OmniAccess
Controller
OpenFlow Controller
Core Switch
GRE tunnel
Client to Client Traffic Flow
AP2
AP1
OpenFlow Enabled Switches

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DATA CENTER TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS ENABLING CHOICE
Server Virtualization
FC/Storage
Management
Ionix
Virtual Desktop, ADC, WAN Optimization
Server NICs
SDN Control
Orchestration
CloudBand
Applications & Services
NEW
NEW

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