about brain4net, inc. - july 2015

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Brain4Net. Smarter networksSDN/NFV software solutions vendor for Service Providers and Enterprise Networks

July 2015

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Who we are

About Brain4Net, Inc.

Brain4Net SDN/NFV software solution helps Service Providers and large Enterprises to adapt modern network technologies such SDN and NFV with existent network infrastructure. We develop a platform that turns benefits of SDN/NFV synergy and addresses performance and availability challenges that are the major stop factors of slow SDN adoption

We build wide partner ecosystem to provide complex solution for large networks for Service Providers and Enterprises


Management Team

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Oleg SchapovCEOOne of the most innovative executives in IT industry in Russia. The previous company Oleg ran, CTI, was ranked among “Technology Fast 500 EMEA” by Deloitte. More than 20 years experience.

Max KaminskiyCTOMore than 17 years in IT segment. Member of European Cisco PTAB committee. Certified Cisco Business Value Practitioner.

Alex RumyankovCPOMore than 10 years experience in software development. Participated in many innovative integration projects for ISPs.

Sergey RomanovChief ArchitectCCIE Certified. Veteran in Telecom industry.

About Brain4Net, Inc.


Trends & Driving forces

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60%Annual video and traffic

growth

10хTraffic growth 2015-2019

2GB/monthSmartphone traffic

450MB/month in 2012

11GB/monthMobile PC traffic

2,5GB/month in 2012

60%2019 LTE coverage of the

world’s population. 10% in 2012

85%WCDMA/HSPA coverage of

the world’s population55% in 2012

7 BillionMobile broadband

subscriptions. 1,7B in 2013

850 millionPC, Tablets and mobile routers 300M in 2012

9,1 BillionMobile subscriptions

Internet Bandwidth growth

Mobile Traffic growth

50 Billion devices connected by 2020

Why SDN/NFV?


Target Markets

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Large Enterprises

Telco

Mobile network

operators

Service Providers

$37Bby 2020$4B now

$26Bby 2020$4B now

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$120

2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

SDx Networking Spend Forecast by Customer Segment, $B

Cloud Enterprise Telco

Source: SDxCentral – SDN and NFV Market Size Report, 2015

Why SDN/NFV?


Portion of network purchases influenced by SDX Networking

* SDxCentral SDN and NFV Market Size Report, 2015

17%28%

45%57%

70%80%

83%72%

55%43%

30%20%

2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

SDN

Why SDN/NFV?


SDN/NFV adoption – Facts & Challenges

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Why SDN/NFV?

90% of Service Providers have IP/MPLS Networks

And they will exist in the coming years

There is no way to immediately replace existent IP/MPLS network with newer technologies

Facts:

13%

13%

48%

52%

75%

0% 20% 40% 60% 80%

Layer 0 (DWDM/ROADM)

Layer 1 (Sonet/SDH, OTN)

Layer 2 (carrier Ethernet)

Layer 4-7 (application and content

delivery networks)

Layer 3 (IP/MPLS)

Network Layer Expected to Benefit the Most from SDN

Source: Global Information Research, Nov. 2014


SDN/NFV adoption – Facts & Challenges

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Why SDN/NFV?

Challenges:

SDN integration within existent IP/MPLS networks

Earlier SDN assumptions had some misgivings about the technology (SDN concept authors assuming that network was homogeneous. The difference between core and edge switches – the existence of MPLS, essentially – wasn’t taken into account).

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“ This one is unforgivable. We just ignored current systems. One of the secrets, when you teach networking, is that nobody covers MPLS.

Scott Shenker, One of the minds behind the creation of SDN

Centralized or distributed approach? Service Providers need to have an option to create solution logically centralized but physically distributed

Incorporate the benefits of SDN and NFV


Brain4Net approach

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The goal: Provide complete Network Management solution for heterogeneous networks based on SDN/NFV concepts to Service Providers and distributed Enterprises!

Capabilities:• Integrate new technologies (SDN/NFV) within existent IP/MPLS Network;

• Provide logically centralized, but physically distributed approach to manage SP Aggregation networks;

• Reduce CAPEX by using inexpensive OpenFlow-switches of costly MPLS routers;

• Move toward commoditized infrastructure

• Transit network from proprietary technologies to open standards and protocols

• Enable unified management of physical and virtual network infrastructure

Why SDN/NFV?


B4N Solution Architecture and Integration with external systems

B4N Controller B4N Orchestrator

NFV Instances 3rd party VNF

3rd party Orchestrator

OSS/BSS

Traditional Networks

EMS/NMS

OF Switches

Switch OS

RESTNetconfJava

WebCLISNMP

YANGModel

Data Path Control Path- B4N Products

B4N Service Platform

Routing Protocols


B4N Controller

Core network service. Unified management of network elements and data traffic.

Topology Service

Topology control and monitoring

Commutator Service

Path calculation

Packet Processing plane

High performance OpenFlow packet processing

Cluster Service

Reliable cluster management

NETCONF Server

NETCONF implementation for service provisioning

Apps

P2P, P2M, IGMP, QoS, NAT, Static Routing, etc.



B4N Orchestrator

B4N Orchestrator – Single point of system and service management

Front-End

For managing controllers and VNFs

Monitoring

System and service administration UI

Provisioning

Systems management

Convert policies based on high-level abstraction to OF datapath instructions

Traffic steering among VNFs according policies

Scale VNF instances based on demand and traffic volume



NFV Farm

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OpenStack as a Virtual Infrastructure Manager (VIM). B4N Unified SDN Switching Fabric used instead of OpenStack Neutron to address performance challenges

B4N vSwitch with built-in DPI Engine for traffic classification

B4N VNF Manager for service abstraction and VNF onboarding (own or 3rd party) and management

B4N Orchestrator (E2E Service Manager) for Service Chaining and Management

NFV Apps

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NFV Farm

vSwitch Farm

B4N VNF Managers

E2E Service Manager


B4N Switch OS

An OpenFlow agent built on top of debian / ubuntu distrib accelerated by merchant’s SDK

Flow Cache in RAM

Offload OF rules to RAM to save flow request time for switches

with small TCAM tables

CPU Operations

In case of lack methods in ASICs, required operations will be

performed on CPU

Dependency Management

Own repository additional to standard debian / ubuntu

DataPlane SDK

Build your own OF 1.3 switch without sharing your acceleration

code with us

SDK

ONIE

Works in standard ONIE builds for bare-bone switches

Multi-vendor Support

Works with Intel & Broadcom created ASICs*


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B4N SW OS has 70% higher performance than Open vSwitch

Can be integrated with any OpenFlow switches


B4N Service Platform. Software architecture benefits

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VirtualizationFully virtualized components. Program code is executed inside the VM

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Docker ParavirtualizationService isolation with all standard virtualization features with near-to-native performance.

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Creating New ModulesSimple create new modules by export dependencies (core, topology, etc.)

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Carrier Grade PerformanceController Performance tests: 1М fps, 50ms latency per packet (1xXeon 2650 v3, 8 vCPU, 16GB RAM, 32 switches, L2 Mac Learning test). This results are best-in-class compared with other controllers on Java, Ruby, Python

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High AvailabilityController core provides HA by using master-slave mechanisms from OpenFlow 1.3

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Customized buildsNew software build can be created by building new delivery file. The result – new SDN Controller with all the necessary features

7No MAC Learning*Due to statically provisioned flow rules.*Not for all types of tunnels

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