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Application Delivery: Core benefits, IPv6 & Virtualisation
Paul NicholsonDirector of Product Marketing
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Agenda
Who is A10?
Application Delivery & Server Load Balancing
Core Application Delivery Features
IPv6 Migration
Cloud Computing/Virtualisation
Summary & Conclusion
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Who is A10?
Corporate Vision:
Founder:
A10 Expertise:
Headquarters:
To be the technology leader in Web Application Delivery solutions
Lee Chen, co-founder of Foundry Networks
and Centillion Networks
Networking, Applications and Security
San Jose, California. Local offices worldwide.
200 employees
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AX Series Sample Customers
Florence County
A10 Confidential and Subject To Change
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AX Series: Core Application Delivery
Application Delivery
Controller
Server Load Balancer
Global Server Load Balancer
Large Scale NAT
Dual-Stack Lite
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Application Delivery and Load Balancing
Users• Site Always Available
• Faster Response
Primary Datacenter
External
Network
• High Volume Traffic
& Unpredictable Spikes
• Disparate Devices &
Protocols
ADC• Application Delivery
Controller
Internal Network
Servers
• Efficient Distribution
• Reduced Connections
• Normalized Traffic
• CPU & Network Off-load
• Easier Management
• Connection Efficiency
•Automatic
Failover
• Datacenter
Redundancy &
Disaster
Recovery
Backup
Datacenter
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Users
Cloud
Data Center
Vital InfrastructureFor cloud & hypervisors
Reduce cost &
complexity
EvolutionLoad balancer
ADC
Advanced ADC
Application Entry Point
Scalability
Availability
Security
What are Application Delivery Controllers?
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Server (and Network) Optimisation
Acceleration & off-load technologies
Off-load compute intensive tasks
TCP Optimisation
SSL Off-load
RAM Caching
Compression off-load
SSL off-load
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Server (and Network) Optimisation
Acceleration & off-load technologies
Off-load compute intensive tasks
TCP Optimisation
SSL Off-load
RAM Caching
Compression off-load
RAM Content Caching
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Compression
Server (and Network) Optimisation
Acceleration & off-load technologies
Off-load compute intensive tasks
TCP Optimisation
SSL Off-load
RAM Caching
Compression off-load
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AX Series: Application Delivery Controller
Platform: Advanced Features & High Performance
Leverage multiple Layer 4-7 features without performance degradation
• 64-bit ACOS
• Multi-core CPU System
• Global Server Load
Balancing
• TCP Optimisation
• Secure Email
• IPv4/IPv6
• Layer 7 Scripting
• DNS Application Firewall
• SIP Load
Balancing
• Hardware SSL
Acceleration
• Spam Filter
(PBSLB)
• Line Rate DDoS
Security
• High Availability
• Caching &
Compression
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Advanced Core OS (ACOS)
Development started in June 2005
Multi-core CPU, shared memory architecture No Inter-process Communication (IPC)
Efficient design Power, memory, space & resource consumption
Scalable Symmetrical Multi-processing (SSMP) Same architecture scales to 100+ Gbps
Current products from 4 Gbps to 40 Gbps
aVCS: increase performance times X devices
Flexible design Supports architectures with or without hardware assist
Little hardware dependency, can be ported to other target processors (e.g. hypervisors)
64-bit or 32-bit ACOS products shipping today
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AX Series Hardware & ACOS Performance
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AX Series Hardware & ACOS Performance
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Proof Points
Max power consumption less than 680 Watts
Superior performance
per Watt – over 10x
Dramatic savings per
transaction – 80%
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Capacity Planning
Concerns
Regular load
Peak loads
Growth
Monetize metrics
$ per Gb throughput
$ per connection per second
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AX Series: IPv6 Migration
Application Delivery
Controller
Server Load Balancer
Global Server Load Balancer
Large Scale NAT
Dual-Stack Lite
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Carrier & ISP Challenges
IPv6 Migration: Demand for IP addresses rapidly increasing
However, IPv4 addresses = very short supply
Tight control on new allocations
Projected to run out by 2011/12
New users coming online
Smartphones
Gaming devices (Xbox/PlayStation/Wii/DS)
Many other network-aware devices (e.g. DVRs)
Good situation to have ~ ISPs want to
continue to increase customer base and grow
their business
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IPv4 Address Shortage Gaining Momentum
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IPv6 Migration & IPv4 <-> IPv6
IPv6
Adoption underway
IPv4-only nodes and content will still be around
Large Scale NAT
Sharing of “public” IPv4 addresses among multiple customers
Dual-Stack Lite
Supports both native IPv6 and traditional IPv4 concurrently
Solutions
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LSN on IPv4 Networks and Pure IPv6 Networks Relieve IPv4 Address Shortages
• Two separate
options/networks
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The AX Series DS-Lite Solution Enables IPv6 Deployment
• The AX Series
communicates with
the service
provider IPv6 and
the IPv4 networks
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Industry-leading Implementations
Working closely with large ISPs worldwide
Solution evaluated and tested in ISP labs
Proven interoperability with DS-Lite client implementations
Award winning implementation
LSN deployed in Tokyo Interop 2009 & 2010
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AX Series Offers the Ideal Platform
Flexible high performance hardware & software platforms
Scalable
High session establishment rate
Large number of concurrent sessions
Very high NAT processing (packets per second) & throughput
Stateful high availability for robustness
Cost effective
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AX Series: Cloud Computing & Virtualization
Application Delivery
Controller
Server Load Balancer
Global Server Load Balancer
Large Scale NAT
Dual-Stack Lite
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Virtualisation Meeting Customer Requirements
Wide choice of virtualisation options
Private or Public Clouds
Scale as you grow
Operational Flexibility
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ADCs Solving Customer Issues
SaaS Solution
Collaboration in the cloud
L4-L7 Application Delivery
Removed traffic bottlenecks
Performance
County government
Optimise & accelerate VMware servers
Automated management with aXAPI
User reaction!
“What have you done to speed up the Website? It is incredibly fast now.”
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Virtualisation Benefits
CAPEX & OPEX reduction
Flexibility & portability
Shared platforms
Single shared application
Multiple applications
Elastic infrastructure
Vertical & horizontal scaling
SoftADC
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Cloud Computing Versus Traditional Infrastructure
Vast corporate datacenters
Long deployment cycle for applications
Static infrastructure
Armies of IT personnel
Expensive to run
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Moving Data Center Applications to the Cloud
Reduce costs
Increase service
Free staff to focus on business needs, not maintenance
More business focus
Cloud
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Cloud Computing & Virtualisation Concepts
“In the cloud” versus the corporate datacenter
Pay per use infrastructure
Multi-tenancy
Commodity or appliance hardware
Elasticity
Automation
Scale on demand
“Everything as a service” trend
Virtualisation as an
enabler
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ADC Virtualisation Overview
SoftADC
SoftADC appliance
ADC internal virtualisation
3rd party integration & solutions
aVCS – Virtual Chassis
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SoftAX (Virtual Appliance or SoftADC)
Based on Advanced Core Operating System (ACOS)
Leverage inexpensive commodity hardware
Scale-on-demand & portable
Full range of Layer 4-7 software features
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Software ADC Limitations
Performance
Hardware dependent
Hypervisor overhead
Resource contention
Hardware not designed for ADCs
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Software ADC Usage Examples
Hardware appliances for performance
SoftADC for flexibility
Early stage applications
On-demand ADC
Test environments
Rapid deployment
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SoftADC Appliance
VM flexibility, appliance reliability
Hardware & software HA
“Bare metal” hypervisor
Support, compliance and performance
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SoftADC Appliance
Hypervisor assigns hardware resources per ADC VM
Custom ADC hardware advantages
Including port density, ASIC & RPS
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ADC Virtualisation
ADC segmentation Only see the allocated
resources
Application Delivery Partitions (ADPs)
Cost effective Serve multiple applications
Less hardware
Multi-tenancy
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Cloud Computing & Virtualisation
Scale up as traffic increases
Scale down as traffic decreases
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Dynamic Datacenter Provisioning
• Infrastructure
reacts to demand
for “elasticity”
• vCenter changes
AX Series
configuration
• Triggered by
serverCPU utilisation
Memory usage
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A10 Application Delivery Offerings
Flexible Advanced ADC choice
Hardware and/or software
Internal AX appliance virtualisation
Comprehensive 3rd party integration
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A10 Approach to Customer Engagement
Discuss customers needs
The ADC is essential for VM deployment
Scripting (aXAPI) powers flexibility
Hosting provider applications
Enterprises deploying private clouds
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AX Series: Recap
Application Delivery
Controller
Server Load Balancer
Global Server Load Balancer
Large Scale NAT
Dual-Stack Lite
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Summary
Application Delivery
Capacity for peak loads & consolidation
Server (and network) optimisation are key
IPv6 migration technologies
Ensure Internet growth despite IPv4 shortage
Virtualisation
Provides cost effective flexibility
Many approaches
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