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SDN in 2015
15 Minute Analysis
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4 Types of Enterprise SDN‣ SDN Data Centre (SDN-
DC) ‣ agility/speed, virtual edge,
mobility, segmentation
‣ SD-WAN ‣ carrier & technology
independence, ‣ save money
‣ SD-Campus (SD-LAN)
‣ identity, authentication, management
‣ application performance (QOS)
‣ Wired/Wireless single access network
‣ SD-Security (SD-Sec) ‣ The “DMZ” ‣ Monitoring/OOB
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Enterprise Market Segment‣ “high & low tech” companies ‣ Low Tech ‣ IT is a cost centre - controlled, minimised, reduced. ‣ Limited human resources ‣ Large capital spending ‣ Static, Change resistant. ‣ Reports to the “finance” function ‣ High tech ‣ IT is a profit centre ‣ competitive advantage ‣ core business focus ‣ Applies to all verticals - education, large/small enterprise,
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High Tech IT‣ “High Tech” companies ‣ Cloud deployments in small scale ‣ not virtualization ‣ end-to-end orchestration ‣ DevOps processes - you build it, you operate it. ‣ Early stage orchestration for user-provisioned infrastructure ‣Many are building deploying Whitebox/OpenSource
solutions ‣Willing to invest in “Human Infrastructure”
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Low Tech IT‣ Focus on operational costs ‣ insufficient head count ‣ overspending on capital purchases to “control spending” ‣ Safe is seen as expensive ‣ Low value on employee lead to low pay/salary ‣ unable to attract best skills ‣ training is a cost (what happens if we train them and they leave /
what happens if we don’t ?) ‣ Insufficient skills and time to evaluate or understand
“cloud”6
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SDN-DC
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But SDN-DC Sales Are Slow‣ The “promise” of agility
and reliability isn’t enough ‣ who believes promises ? ‣ High capital costs of
existing assets ‣ tree-based architectures ‣ VMware isn’t sharing
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CoreCore
DistributionDistribution Distribution Distribution
AccessAccess AccessAccess AccessAccess AccessAccess
ServerServer ServerServer ServerServer Server
© Greg Ferro 2015
Core & Distribution = Wasted CapitalIn a tree-based network, the most expensive switches are not used
Wasted Investment
Useful Assets
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SDN-DC Value Proposition
‣ Are enterprises SDN-proof in the DC ? ‣ ACI & NSX widely perceived as too expensive ‣ Best guess, Cisco ACI ~ 500 customers* VMware ~800. ‣ which isn’t much, when you think about it. ‣Widespread feedback/rumours/scuttlebutt suggests
that both NSX & ACI are struggling with bugs & scaling ‣ If you don’t have A LOT of time to invest, avoid SDN in
DC
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Market Share
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Cisco ACI
VMware NSX
OpenDaylight/“Open”
Total Addressable Enterprise Market - 100%
30-50%
30-50%
15-30% Others5-10%
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SDN Startups‣ Software startups are doing just fine ‣ profits ‣ Hardware vendors are rightly nervous about
Whitebox/Whitebrand ‣ Whitebox already 25% of all switches sold by volume (but
only 7% by value) ‣ Hardware requires large amounts of capital to design,
build & stock global spares. ‣ Good solution for mid-sized Enterprise
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SD-DC Technology‣ Overlays and Controllers are dominant ‣ Overlay/Underlay integration is here ‣ Cisco ACI in hardware, Cisco Prime using DFA, Nuage
using BGP/OSPF. NSX outlier. ‣ Protocols & Standards yet to emerge from
competition (duplication) phase ‣ VMware slow to partners in vSwitch - driving
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SD-DC Futures‣ Platforms vs Products ‣ Avoid lock-in ‣ Whitebox/Whitebrand demand is strong.
Sustainable ? Probably. ‣ Visibility/Analytics is still missing ‣ Waiting for Private Cloud Orchestration software
to show compelling value. ‣ e.g. InterCloud, Helion, OpenStack etc
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SD-WAN
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Carrier Independence
‣ Reduce WAN provider costs ‣ SD-WAN enables carrier independence ‣ workable multi-carrier networks
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Technology Independence
‣ Multiple network types ‣ Choose DWDM, MPLS, TDM, Wireless, 4g/LTE
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Reduce Bandwidth
‣ improving efficiency of traffic,
‣ improve “goodput” ‣ more bandwidth ‣ better quality
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Physical Network Rate
Retransmitted Data2
“Good-put”© Greg Ferro 2015
Over-BandwidthUnused Bandwidth
“Good-put” or ThroughputReal throughput doesn’t include retransmissions
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Operations
‣ Disable a path for router maintenance ‣ No change control for WAN path changes - risk
free ‣ Predictable, deterministic change (sanity check) ‣ Logging of all configuration in controlled
platform
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Visibility / Analytics
‣ SD-WAN (any WAN) needs visibility to operate ‣ Flow data combines with meta-data to build
analytics and algorithms
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WAN as a Service
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Service Features Service
Bandwidth Quantity, Immediate Availability Yes
Latency Non-impacting to performance Yes
Security / Integrity Data in Motion Security Yes
Cost Minimised Wise Use of Company Funds No
Availability High Reliability No
Internet Access Secure, Fast No
Fast Service Provision React to Business Need Yes-ish
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SD-WAN
‣ The SDN that will ramp quickly ‣ > 30% cost reductions in year 1 ‣ Provider-independence ‣ Technology Independence
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Defining SD WANs
‣ abstracted and independent from the physical network (evolve)
‣ many networks (segmentation) ‣ virtual/software and physical appliances (cloud) ‣ flows not packet (…….)
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Design Integrity
‣ Today : Connectivity, Resiliency and Redundancy ‣ static, self healing, overspending ‣ Tomorrow: Predictable, Safe and Evolving ‣ trustable change ‣ safe for change and operation ‣ able to evolve by components
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SD-LAN
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SD-LAN
‣ Stop panicking ‣ Vendors are moving to extend SDN in the Campus ‣ Campus is more complex than the data centre ‣ variety of end points, applications ‣ SDN DC technology likely won’t be useful ‣ Wireless is hard
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SD-LAN Technology
‣ Combine Wireless & Wired into a single overlay or flow network ‣ Security - access control, identity, authentication
and logging/monitoring ‣ New physical architectures ‣ reduce cost of cabling (mesh instead of tree) ‣ Reduce MTTI with better monitoring, analytics
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SD-LAN & QoS
‣ Current QoS simply doesn’t work ‣ DSCP QoS is the least best technology ‣ Flow managed QoS looks like it will scale. ‣ Flow-based systems get visibility & analytics
“free”
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Wrap Up
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SDN in May 2015‣ SDN-DC is stalled. ‣ Not enough value for customers to replace costly legacy assets ‣ hard to change the data centre ‣ forces breakdown in ITIL/Prince2 processes ‣ 6 more years before mainstream. 4 year into a 10 year cycle ‣ SD-WAN is emerging. ‣ Strong demand, immediate cost savings ‣ no changes outside of network team ‣ no requirement to replace or upgrade existing networks. Add on.
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SDN in May 2015‣ SD-LAN is starting ‣ Limited demand. Who cares about the campus ? ‣ printers, wireless, etc ‣ Long, slow sales cycles ‣ Genuine value. ‣ SD-SEC ‣ The Enterprise DMZ is a major pain point and cost ‣ Resistance to virtual appliances ‣ Maybe next year..
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