for developers: why should i care about programmability
DESCRIPTION
An overview of developer benefits when building application utilizing previously unlocked network data. Introduction of new technologies & products available, and examples of what other developers are building today.TRANSCRIPT
Lauren CooneyDirector, Developer & Product MarketingJuniper [email protected]
For Developers:More information on Network Programmability
(and how it helps you build better apps)
Why Should I Care? Programmability allows you use software to change the behavior of the
existing box, rather than adding additional equipment to your network. You are no longer limited to the imagination of the network equipment vendor, you are free to innovate and extend anything you can imagine.
For Developers, you can now take advantage of rich data that was previously trapped within the network. With programmability the
power of creation belongs to you.
Opportunities include:- Better, Smarter, & Real-time Data for your Applications- Faster Applications- New Services & Opportunities for Revenue
Challenges Overshadow Opportunities
- Increased Opex Costs & Reduced Budget
- Software offerings fragmented & stuck in organizational
silos; limited access to network data.
- Lack of developer tools accessible to many limits
innovation at the network level; hardware companies
not able to make products for specific web-based
companies.
- Revenue opportunity creation complex & not easy to
integrate into existing infrastructures.
Current versus Emerging
- Limited Extensibility: Software, Applications & APIs control just devices. - Legacy Systems: Hardware, not software, driven efficiency and economics. Scale through boxes, not software- Vendor Lock-in: Network software comes from the network hardware vendor. - Massive inefficiencies: Siloed and disparate systems with limited methods of communication, paths and protocols by which to communicate with systems.- Limited extensibility & growth opportunity: Limited scale & simplification for virtualized & cloud-based systems.
- Open & Extensible: Open Application Models to control devices and redefine software behavior & communication; creation of value-added services. New Tools for simplification of data extraction. - New Architectures & Better Efficiencies: A combination of both centralized and distributed architecture models for simple & scalable communication. - Vendor agnostic: Software & Applications that run across networks of all types & brands. Economics defined by software allowing for massive scalability at lower costs. - Opportunities for Growth: Ability to alter, simplify, and scale network paths & protocols not only to systems but to the cloud & more efficiently.
Network Programmability Redefines Software Behavior Enabling New & Integrated Solutions
Making network infrastructure accessible to developers.
Using code to make the network adapt to
the needs of applications
Why Does Programmability Matter?To help make network value easily accessible to developers, and allow
developers to create more intelligent & smarter applications.To help make network value easily accessible to developers, and allow
developers to create more intelligent & smarter applications.
Coding to use network value natively inside
applications.
Network-Aware Applications
Application-Aware Applications
Programmable Networks
Network can provide information to Applications
Applications can provide information to the Network
Programmability Changes how the Networks Works
The New Network is Programmable.
The New Network allows you use software to change the behavior of the existing box, rather than adding additional equipment to your network. You are no longer limited to the imagination of the network equipment vendor, you are free to innovate and extend anything you can imagine. With
programmability implemented in your network the power of creation belongs to you.
The only way to make your network more intelligent is to give you great software platforms, tools, technologies, and products to extract valuable network data and use it to optimize your network’s operation. You can build amazing software that
helps you run your network better than ever before.
The Programmable Network drastically changes network economics through customizable software, allowing for massive scalability, resource efficiencies, and
unprecedented extensibility – across networks, devices, and to the cloud. Simply, Efficiently, and Cost-Effectively.
Why Do We Need a Programmable Network? Every IT department and enterprise has a unique combination of
applications, network architecture, efficiency constraints and goals, so out out-of-the box solutions rarely fit your needs.
Information Technology
Developers
Information Technology
Telecom Infrastructure
Application/Network divide OSS/Network divide
IT and Development often live separate lives
Enterprises / Customers Developers
Programmable Networks Solve This
Innovation needs to sit inside your organization. Juniper makes that a reality by providing the tools, technologies &
products you trust with a Software platform that offers:
• New architectures, new tools & new approaches that define the Network.• A network platform that is application-aware, allowing for the network to be
controlled, optimized and informed by applications. • Allowing developers to create the software (network-aware applications) that
utilize the network optimally, rather than the vendor providing custom-fit software.
• The ability to extend this to program to devices through data flow intelligence.
Network Programmability allow the fine-tuning & control that customers want, with the decoupling of software from systems that developers desire.
Current Network Application Capabilities • Allows Flexibility of Service Placement
– Place your services where you want, not necessarily where the user is physically connected
• Control of Resources from Applications– Customize network behavior to better meet user/application needs– Introduce non-configured device behavior changes: ephemeral classifiers
• Lowering of operational barriers– Decrease dependency on the traditional provisioning workflow– Enable automation and dynamic adaptability within constraints
Juniper is extending this to help customers, partners, developers, and more take advantage of new technologies. Customers should be able to
take advantage of more than just the above.
We Are Introducing More.Open Application Models
Decoupling of Software from Systems
Real-time Data, Analytics, and Better Reporting
Visibility of Applications in the Network
New Protocols & Communication Methods
You Need to Make your Applications Smarter, More Flexible & Faster
New Service & Revenue Opportunities
Juniper’s New Network Is Programmable
Network Programmability Network-Aware
ApplicationsNetwork visibility in an
application or delivery service used to build enhancements.
Focus is on location of the end user and proximity to the
server/cache. Examples include services for network performance management,
WAN Optimization, customer experience management,
content filtering, and internal billing of networked
applications.
Application-Aware Networks
Real-time data capture and extraction & correlation of information from the
network to be used in applications, services, & solutions. Allows for new service topologies, new paths, ability to dilate or constrict bandwidth on a link, path, take preventive measures
and protect network assets in real time. Allows developer to create better
services such as Bandwidth & Resource Optimization, Quality of
Service (QoS), Content-Based Billing, Quality of Experience (QoE), VoIP Fraud Monitoring and Regulatory
Compliance.
ProgrammabilityA networking device with a published set of APIs or SDK
that is enabled with standardized protocols
allowing Applications to program the forwarding, control or management
plane of the device. Include orchestration (OSS/BSS),
Routing Signaling Activity, Analytics, and Perimeter
Service Control.
Future Innovation
Language independent, scalable and
accessible to the general purpose developer: meet
disruption where it happens
Programmable Networks
New Opportunities for DevelopersNew
Standards & Protocols
Provide fine-grain control over where
services and content are placed in the
network, and how traffic is routed to and from them.
Programmable Perimeters
Security, services, devices: make them
more functional, flexible, and valuable
through data flow intelligence.
Open Data Access
Get data about network flows, users,
applications, and network topologies to inform applications,
and have applications inform the network
Intelligent. Open. Efficient.Programmability allows for developer customization and provides services & solutions enabling flexible business models and innovative service delivery.
Open Data AccessNetwork-Aware Applications
• Extraction of data from the network with massively simplified tools to define policy, communication methods (protocols), resource optimization, control data and more in the form of Applications.
• Creating resources for developers with REST APIs, exposing resources for manipulation (persisted, cached, copied, queried, and more).
• Control of resources from applications including:• Customization of network behavior to better meet user/application needs• Introduce non-configured (ephemeral) device behavior changes.
• Juniper is putting APIs on services, and our services go deeper into the network elements, giving network operators a level of inspection and control that’s highly valuable – down to the network flow or packet level.
• By extending this abstraction from the single network element to an entire network with the programmable network platform it enables developers to go deep into networking stack and focus on their value add without the need to know intricacies of networking hardware and protocols.
Programmable PerimetersAbility to simply program to new devices through new methods.
• The perimeter is no longer defined by devices, but by APIs and interfaces.
• Programmable Device plays open up much richer off-network element computation as part of the network processing.
•Flexibility of service placement• Place your services where you want, not necessarily where the user or service
client is physically connected.
• Control of resources from applications• Customize network behavior to better meet user/application needs
Introduce non-configured device behavior changes: ephemeral classifiers
• Lowering of operational barriers• Decrease dependency on the traditional provisioning workflow• Static configurations are maintenance heavy & expensive to change• Enable automation and dynamic adaptability within constraints
New Standards & Protocols:Application-Aware Networks
• Scalable infrastructure able to influence and adapt to applications, content and end-users
• Enables new business models• Enables continuous service adjustment between the customer & operator
• Makes network more relevant to applications, content & end-users• Enables in-network placement of applications & content• Simplifies interfacing with network entities
• Communicates to application how fast it can/should run• Triangulates content, distance, and utilization for end-user.
• Traditional network models are defined by a north/south operational model, while the programmable network expands applications east/west, allowing new services to be inserted and monetized with finer-grain control over flows between service and network elements.
Future InnovationLimitless Opportunities
The Programmable Network Enables:
•New business models
• New revenue-generating services
•Faster movement to scale and control data & applications
• Software to provide massive cost-savings
Programmability gives developers the keys to jump-start innovation (along with directions to drive it), at all levels, with all the tools, platforms & products they
need to be successful.
New Ideas, New Technology: What You Need to Know
• OpenFlow: takes network information & exposes it to make new things possible; selecting traffic to “steer”
• ALTO – location (where is my app in the network?)
• PCE – what’s the best path for my application to use across the network?
• BGP-TE – let me balance traffic across that path (get my app there the best way possible)
How Do You Make This Happen?
Programmable Networking is SFW
THE APPLICATION WORLD
THE NETWORK WORLD
NetworkProgrammability
SIPartner
ISVPartner
ServiceProvider
ResearchInstitution
EnterpriseCustomer
THE APPLICATION WORLD
THE NETWORK WORLD
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Steering traffic through optimal paths
(PCE)
Selecting specific traffic(OpenFlow)
Opening more touchpoints to control: Gateways,
billing collectors, service appliances, CDN, DPI/IDP
Types of Developer Applications
•Identify cost savings or operational improvements based on network element, subscriber and flow data. Applications that improve the security, policy enforcement or end to end reliability of the network are other efficiency-driven models.
• Converge networks & layers by integrating functions for increased performance.
•Simplify: Reduce number of network elements and the number of control points into the network.
Efficiency:Save Money, Use Less
•Maximize utilization of existing resources, creating opportunities for customer-specific or fine-grain services, or end user experience improvement. The network becomes a valued ingredient brand in the end user mobile or desktop experience.
•Integration of core functions to increase performance. Drastically reduce number of network elements and the number of control points into the network.
Optimization:Improve systems & software
you already have.
•Added Value through Services: Reduce network data to context specific information, create delivery paths for new services, and integrate multiple external data sources that increase in value as they are correlated with network-centric data.
•Opportunities for customers and partners to create revenue-generating services with the programmable network – from subscriber-centric services to in-depth services specific to each customer needs.
Creation:New services & Revenue
Generating Opportunities
Customer Opportunities•Resource
optimization through software, saving money by optimizing what you have, reducing the need to purchase more by utilizing what you already have.
•Identify cost savings or operational improvements by integrating functions and increasing performance. Create applications that improve the security, policy enforcement and end to end reliability of the network.
•User experience, resource optimization and efficiency are delivered through the fine-grain control of new network elements to streamline service placement, path engineering, and policy decisions, simplifying your IT organizations.
Enterprise:Simplification, Optimization & Cost-Savings
•Unique & New Service Creation: the ability to insert services at multiple points in the data or control paths of the network, and the ability to open these entry points to Juniper’s and our customers’ software and services partners.
•Monetization: Traditional network models are defined by a north/south operational model, while the programmable network expands applications east/west, allowing new services to be inserted and monetized with finer-grain control over flows between service and network elements.
•Customization: Freedom & Ability to program & customize services based on customer needs: ie: subscriber-centric services to in-depth services specific to each customer needs.
Service-Provider:New Service Creation & Revenue
Opportunities
•Simplicity: Focus value add without the need to know intricacies of networking hardware and protocols due to new tools & technologies.
•Easy Access to Core APIs: Creating resources for developers with REST APIs, exposing resources for manipulation (persisted, cached, copied, queried, and more).
•Up-leveling of Data: Network level access as well as innovation in how information can be transferred and delivered across networks, transforms the type of solutions that can be built – up-leveling applications and services to be more intelligent, scalable, accessible to developers.
Developer:Simple access to intelligent data with great tools
New Opportunities & BenefitsReduce Cost &
Improve EfficiencyCreate & Differentiate
ServicesProvide Simple &
Integrated Solutions for Business
Generate Revenue for Customers, Partners
& Developers
-Converge networks and layers
-Integrate functions and increase performance
-Reduce number of network elements and the number of control points into the network
-Simplify service delivery
-Reduce number of service touchpoints
- Automate service topological Relocation.
-Improve service velocity
-Reduce time to service, lower new service intro cost
-Improve effectiveness of service delivery
-No compromise on service quality
-E2E restoration with transparency of network failures to service layer
- Enable quality of Experience guarantees
-No longer about the hardware or software, focus on solutions & service creation.
- Create a differentiated solutions platform enabling flexible business models and service delivery. Provide a full solution for specific services (e.g. caching, cloud CPE, etc).
-Network level access as well as innovation in how information can be transferred and delivered across networks, transforms the type of solutions that can be built – up-leveling applications and services to be more intelligent, scalable, and pertinent to business.
-Reduce network data to context specific information
- Create delivery paths for new services, and integrate multiple external data sources that increase in value as they are correlated with network-centric data.
- Freedom & Ability to program & customize services based on customer needs: ie: subscriber-centric services to in-depth services specific to each customer needs.
JUNIPER’S DEVELOPER-CENTRIC APPROACH
Expensive and inefficient
Consistency, security and performance lapses
Focus on innovation Decrease production costs Increases speed of
development Decouple velocity of
application innovation from platform innovation
Unlock Intelligent Data
Rapid Development of Differentiated Apps
APPS + SERVICES
O L D WAYAPPS + SERVICES
NEW WAY
ApplicationInnovation
Platform Interfaces
and Foundation
development
ApplicationInnovation
Junos SDK & Junos
Space SDK
JUNIPER VISION: Network Programmability
Juniper Programmable Network Platform
SI Partner ISV Partner Service Provider
ResearchInstitution
Enterprise Customer
Pulse - Endpoint
Junos Space - Across the network
Network APIsControl
APIData /
Packet APIALTO
Management API
OpenFlow
Web Services APIs
Junos SDK
CDN Data Center
3rd party applications & SDKs
Network device
What will you
Build?
Where Juniper Plays
Content Placement
Junos Space
Control API
Data /Packet API
ALTOManagement
APIOpenFlow
Junos Space APIs
Junos SDK Network device
Subscriber Analytics
FlowAnalysisExisting Systems
3rd PartyApp
3rd PartyApp
Network APIs
Experience governed through data insight & ephemeral state control: make network aware of applications
Make applications aware of network:
resources, integration points, services
exposed
PROGRAMMABLE NETWORK: BIGSWITCH
Big Switch ControllerBig Switch Controller
RESTAPI
Web UI
OTHER APPLICATIONS WE’RE SEEING•Content / Service Routing
• Locate best copy of content for the end user; using customer rules
•Managed content distribution• Content prepositioning to caches• Live events
•Map-Reduce class of applications• High-end distributed computing
•Cloud OS network operations• Move VMs / Apps / Storage between
locations•Cloudburst
• Flexibly, on-demand allocate cloud & network capacity to customers
•Security• DDoS attack prevention
Spark new customer conversationsInspire new partnerships
Ignite Service & Application innovation
More Benefits ofNetwork Programmability
Intelligent: Network Data-Driven Intelligence Unlocked
•New services can be created and inserted into the transactional and data flows of the network and stimulate a shift equivalent to that of building websites on application servers rather than static content servers.
• Extraction of data from the network to define policy, communication methods (protocols), resource optimization, and more.
• Ability to alter, simplify, and scale network paths and protocols not only to systems but to the cloud – via simple to use software tools.
• Juniper has created massively simplified tools to extract data from the network for changes to policy, communication methods, control, security, and more.
• Juniper is putting APIs on services, and our services go deeper into the network elements, giving network operators a level of inspection and control that’s highly valuable. By extending this abstraction from the single network element to an entire network with the programmable network platform it enables developers to go deep into networking stack and focus on their value add without the need to know intricacies of networking hardware and protocols.
Open: APIs and New Protocols provide development opportunities
• Simple & Powerful APIs: Elimination of information & hardware silos, allowing the ability to communicate with different systems and servers that were previously unavailable.
• Data about consumption, users, subscribers, flows and policies is available - created, annotated, and aggregated across every single point at which the network comes into contact with a customer, employee or partner.
• The ultimate “social media” play for businesses that thrive on the economics of their own expertise, content and services – the value is conveyed in the graph of data exposed.
• The network has to be extendable in terms of services, their location, and the optimization of resources to deliver them.
• Visibility: Exposing Network elements and allowing insight into formerly closed systems.
Efficient:Software Scalability & Performance Optimization with Cost-savings
• Easy to use OpenAPIs and North/South-bound interfaces for connectivity to a multitude of devices
•User experience, resource optimization and efficiency are delivered through the fine-grain control of network elements to effect service placement, path engineering, and policy decisions.
• Far from the fixed function, cost-driven component of the data center, the programmable network is the dominant term in defining IT value. Everything from central office to data center to mobile device is connected to one or more networks.
• Identify cost savings or operational improvements based on network element, subscriber and flow data. Applications that improve the security, policy enforcement or end to end reliability of the network are other efficiency-driven models.
• Integration of core functions to increase performance. Drastically Reduce number of network elements and the number of control points into the network.
Extensible: Programmable Networks are limitless, and allow you to innovate & plan for the future.
• The programmable network approach adds unique value propositions for Juniper and our customers: the creation of new services, the ability to insert services at multiple points in the data or control paths of the network, and the ability to open these entry points to Juniper’s and our customers’ software and services partners.
• There is a further multiplicative effect when third parties can insert and leverage network services.
• Opportunities for customers and partners to create revenue-generating services with the programmable network – from subscriber-centric services to in-depth services specific to each customer needs.
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