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Transforming the Network to Seize
Business Advantage
Don Clark
Director of Business Development & Strategy
NEC Corporation
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Agenda
▐ Network Challenges for Data Centers and
Distribution Networks
– Automation, configuration management,
integration with other IT systems, and
maintenance are roadblocks to agile
service delivery.
▐ Software Defined Networking is
fundamentally changing networking
– New model solves biggest network challenges
▐ Use Cases
– Simplified, open infrastructure for data center and cloud networks,
dramatically automates while driving down operational costs and time
to deliver business services
▐ SDN is driving real business value
– NEC customers reduced time to new services by 75%, saved dollars
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NEC Corporation at a Glance
▐ Established: 1899
▐ Sales: $37 Billion
▐ Employees: 109,000 worldwide
Sales by segments
IT Services
27%
Platform
12%
Carrier
Network
21%
Personal
Solutions
22%
Others
7%
Social
Infrastructure
11%
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Cloud Infrastructure from NEC
▌ LAN/WAN
clustering
▌ Disaster
recovery
▌ Capacity
planning
Software
Express Cluster
GX
▌ Highly scalable
▌ Highly available
▌ Intel based
Servers
D/M-Series
▌ Fibre Channel
and Ethernet
(iSCSI)
▌ Archiving
▌ Feature rich
Storage Network
▌ Network
virtualization
▌ High availability
▌ High throughput
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Software Defined Networking
Software Defined Networking
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What is SDN: Google Maps for Networking
SDN Increases Business Agility
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Conventional
Network
SDN/
ProgrammableFlow
3 days
5 minutes Tim
e to D
eliv
er
a 3
-Tie
r A
pp
lication
Out-of-Band
Control-Plane Network
OpenFlow = Control / Data Plane Separation
▐ Basic principles:
– Control / Management plane in a dedicated controller
– Networking devices perform forwarding and maintenance functions
– IP / SSL connectivity between controller and OpenFlow switch
– OpenFlow = Forwarding table managed by controller
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B1 B
Prefix B
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PROGRAMMABLEFLOW
PRODUCT LINE
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SDN Industry Momentum
2H2011
1H2012
2H2012
1H2013
Jan 2010
1H2011
2006 – 2011
IDC: SDN a $2B Market by 2016
Brocade Releases OpenFlow
Cisco Invests $100M in Insieme with Option to Buy
NEC Announces major customer Wins
IBM Announces Support for OpenFlow in Data Switch Line
NEC Co-Founds Clean Slate Lab at Stanford OpenFlow
Standard Created, releases first OpenFlow enabled Switch
Nicira Lands $9M for Software to Virtualize Networks
NEC Releases Open Source Controller Trema
Interop 2011 – “the OpenFlow Show”
NEC announces first enterprise-class OpenFlow SDN: ProgrammableFlow
NEC ProgrammableFlow wins Grand Prize at 2012 Interop
NEC brings SDN to Windows
PFC API OpenStack API
Logical/Physical Mapping
OpenFlow Driver
ProgrammableFlow API architecture
Microsoft
PF1000
Hyper-V vSwitch
Virtual Tenant Network
Legacy
WAN/
LAN
Third Party
Orchestration
System
Application
Partners Quantum Plug-in VSEM Provider
OpenFlow Switches
Open vSwitch
Multipath Supporting East-West Fabric Traffic
• Automatically discovers multiple paths (8-way ECMP)
• Automatically avoids loops
• Automatically balances flows across paths
• No route flapping
Physical Network
•Multipath without HW vendor lock-in
•Support any interconnect topology
•No complex distributed protocols
Any Physical Network Topology
Virtual Network 1
(L2)
Virtual Network 2
(L2 + L3)
Physical Network
Multi-tenant Virtual Networks
Data Flow Migration
Physical Network
(Time start/stop)
• Data Flow Migration with minimal packet loss
• Maintenance, network load balancing, failure recovery without outage
NEC ProgrammableFlow Networking Suite A complete OpenFlow SDN solution
PF1000
Network Functions
- OpenFlow 1.0
- Virtual Routing and
Bridging
- Multipath
- QoS/CoS
- IPv6
Network Virtualization
-IP/VM Mobility
Scalability
-100 switches
- 300,000 MAC addresses
- 10,000+ VLANs
Management
- Metering/Monitoring
- Flow Visualization
PF6800 Version 4
10GbE/40GbE
-OpenFlow 1.0
PF5820
PF5240
1/10 GbE Switch
-Hybrid OpenFlow/L2/L3
- 60,000 Flow Entries SDN for Windows
-256 Switches/Server
-1280 Ports/vSwitch
Network Programmability
- Restful API
- Openstack
- Virtual Redirect
Reliability
- MCLAG
- VRRP
- Active/Standby
Clustering
Security
- Virtual Tenant Networks
- Advance ACL
- Traffic Filter
Visibility
- GUI
- Flow visualization
SDN Controller SDN
Switches
Drag and Drop Network Configuration
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What is Project Daylight?
Daylight is an open source project formed by industry leaders and others under the Linux Foundation with the mutual goal of furthering the adoption and innovation of Software Defined Networking (SDN) through the creation of a common vendor supported framework.
Platinum Gold Silver
Project Framework
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Open and Programmable Network Fabric
ProgrammableFlow
Controller
NEC PF5240 (x2)
NEC PF5820
NEC PF5240
IBM G8264
Radware Defense
Pro Extreme (Coming
soon) Intel (Coming soon)
Brocade MLXe-4
VMs on ESX
ARISTA 7050S-
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52 x 10G
INTEL
48 x 10G
DELL S4810P-
AC
48 x 10G, 4x
40G
Extreme X670
48 x 10G
NEC PF5240
48 x 1G, 4 x
10G
Centec E330
48 x 1G, 4 x
10G
Extreme X480
48 x 1G
IBM G8264
64 x 10G
NEC PF5248
2 x 1G, 8 x
10G
BROCADE
MLXe-4
20 x 1G, 8 x
10G
NEC PF1000 OVS
Demo Rack Topology
Demo Scenarios on Multivendor
Interoperable Fabric
Virtual Tenant Networks
L2 and L3 Forwarding
Multipath Routing
Network Visualization
DoS Mitigation with Radware
Application Provisioning with vArmor
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Use Cases
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Tap/Span Aggregation Filtering
Enterprise WAN
Backbone Campus A Campus B
Campus C
Building C-2
Campus C Backbone
Core Layer
Distribution Layer
Access Layer
Security Performance
Openflow
Filter
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Network Service Insertion
OpenFlow
Network WAN
Internet
Enterprise
Network
Servers
Controller
Mo
nito
r
Co
ntr
ol
DoS Detector
Traffic Statistics
Network Path Control
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2
3
Security Appliance
Traffic Steering for Dynamic Service Insertion
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WAN
To Internet
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Data Center Network Challenges
Optimized within the Silos
• Inefficient
• Complex
• Slow to respond
• Static
WEB
AP
DB
WEB
AP
DB
WEB
AP
DB
WEB
AP
DB
IP NW
Total IT+NW Optimization
• Optimized
• Simple
• Agile
• Dynamic
WEB
AP
DB WEB
AP DB
WEB
AP DB
WEB
AP
DB
IP NW
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VTN2 vRouter vBridge vBridge
FW SLB VM Storage VTN1
Load
balancer
Virtual Network Pool Virtual Server Pool Virtual Storage Pool
Network
virtualization Server
virtualization
Storage
virtualization
PFS
Server Storage Firewall vBridge
vRouter
vBridge vBridge
Firewall SLB VM
Storage
vRouter
NaaS
Cloud
Management
Cloud: Comprehensive Virtualization
Virtual Tenant Networks
Virtual Resources
Physical Resources
Virtualization
IaaS VM Management
System
Virtual Storage
Management SDN Network
Controller
OpenStack
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Enterprise: Departmental Isolation/Mobility
▌ Each department has own proprietary network
▌ Many firewalls required to align network policies
Conventional Network
Server
Router
Switch
FW
Department A Department B Department C
▌ Existing networks integrated by ProgrammableFlow
▌ Networks become visible (physical/logical
configurations)
Software Defined Network
Department A VTN
Department B VTN
Department C VTN
Logical Configuration
Department A Department B Department C
Network
Appliance
Pool
Network
Pool
Server
Pool PFC
Switch
Physical Configuration
PFS FW
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The New Era of Programmable Networks
▐ Simple
– Deploy Multi-Tenant Virtual Networks as easily as deploying VMs
– Integrate network and application policy
– Centralized network management and control
– Eliminates need for spanning tree or other distributed protocols
▐ Scalable
– Scales from single switch to entire data center fabric
– Policy-based appliance integration
▐ Secure
– Integrated Multitenant Access Control
▐ Open
– Multi-vendor OpenFlow enabled networks
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