SDWAN

WAN Transformation with Software Defined Wide Area Network

06.09.2018
 Agenda

• Today’s WAN Challenges

• Drivers for a More Efficient WAN

• SDWAN Overview

• SDWAN – Market Analysis and Opportunities

• What SD-WAN Does To Business

• SDWAN Benefits

• SDWAN Vendors Landscape

• SDWAN Deployment Models

• What Aricent can do with SDWAN

• Cisco SDWAN Solutions

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Today’s WAN Challenges

• Multi-protocol label switching (MPLS)

was never designed with SaaS and
cloud apps in mind
• With more applications moving to the
cloud, WAN reliability becomes key to
business continuity
• Bandwidth demands within the
enterprise are increasing at 15% per
year
• Businesses are transforming faster

• Complex & Costly to Manage than ever, and network agility is key to
• Increased Demand for Bandwidth keeping pace
• Harder to Secure and Poor Visibility
• Poor and unpredictable Performance
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Drivers for a More Efficient WAN

– Internet of Things (IoT) will soon outstrip human users,

requiring secure, simple connectivity
– Increasing complexity to manage and support the
(hybrid) WAN and Cloud in multiple locations
(e.g., 25+ locations)
– Exploding real-time, bandwidth intensive applications,
increasing stress on network performance, increasing
security needs
– Increasing cost of existing remote location/branch
equipment, especially during a refresh cycle
– Increasing provisioning times and the need for
enhanced branch availability/uptime
– Limited or no IT personnel on-site in remote locations
– Need to reduce overall IT budgets across the WAN

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What is SDWAN

A method for enabling flexibility, cost reduction, and redundancy by virtualizing WAN connections.

Separation of management, Redundant

control, data for scaling management—cloud or
Cloud on premises
Applications

Full segmentation Choice of topologies with

support for fast app point-and-click
deployment
Secure
SD-WAN
Data Center Zero-touch provisioning in Complete visibility from
minutes, not days single pane of glass
Small Office
Home Office Internet MPLS

4G/LTE
• Intelligent and dynamic load sharing
• Secure connectivity and integrated network services
Branch Campus
• Simplified management
• Lightweight replacement for WAN routers

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Traditional WAN vs SDWAN

An enterprise network created,

defined, and controlled by a central
software platform that remotely
configures and monitors physical and
virtual customer premises equipment
(CPE) connected by a mix of network
technologies including
Internet/Broadband, Wireless LTE,
Ethernet Local Access, and MPLS.

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SDWAN – Market Analysis and Opportunities

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Why SD-WAN Is So Compelling

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What SD-WAN Does To Business

REDUCE QUICKLY add OPTIMIZE network SECURE your ALIGN network

complexity, new branch infrastructure and entire network all services to user
maintenance, and locations better leverage the way to the and application
cost bandwidth intensive edge needs
apps across your
WAN

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Who Benefits
COMPANIES INTEGRATORS
RETAILERS, BANK EXPIRING MPLS INTERNATIONAL HISTORICALLY LOOKING TO
ATMS, KIOSKS CONTRACTS SOLVING WHOLESALE
(10Mbps and below) PRIVATE NETWORK SD-WAN
SEPARATELY INFRASTRUCTURE

Customers with many Customers Global customers Companies providing Solution

locations, but looking for with locations high bandwidth providers
standardized bandwidth where Internet is Internet connections adding network
requirements per upgrades available, but for traveler/business enablement and
site, e.g., (20Mbps or MPLS services convenience, such as broadband
more), but are cost- hotel chains. aggregation to
• Retailers
expecting per Owners prefer a list of
• Fast-food chains prohibitive
leveraging single provided-for
location costs
• Banks with ATMs connection for services.
under
• Lottery machines corporate and
$350/month customer use without
• Kiosks, etc. purchasing additional
MPLS service. 10
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SDWAN by Numbers
Present
• 20% annual growth/year of cloud
services causing organizations to
adjust their networks to match
prevailing user & application needs
• 65% to 70% of enterprises in N.A.
manage their own equipment
• 95% of enterprise sites are still
connected to their existing enterprise
WAN using on-premises network
hardware devices
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Future
• 50% to 80% improvement in branch
network provisioning times powered by
software
• 10% of enterprises will have replaced their
WAN routing with SD-WAN-based path
forwarding by year-end 2018, up from less
than 1% today
• 30% of enterprises will use software-based
(SD-WAN) products in all their branches
by 2019, up from less than 1% today
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SDWAN Vendors Landscape

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SDWAN Deployment Models

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What Aricent can do with SDWAN

Plan Design Implement Operate

•Gap Analysis •Implement and Integrate •Support & Maintenance
•Architecture Definition
•Technology Innovation •Solutions with Data Integrity and •Managed Services
•Platform Rationalization Strategy
•Process Innovation Automation •Application maintenance and
•Service Based QoS & SLAs
•Vendor Analysis •Region specific Customization process automation

SD-WAN Gateway
SD-WAN Controller
Management Portal

WAN Fabric & Tunnels

Single-pane of glass Establishes and manages Secure Overlay Fabric Local Policy Enforcement

Zero-touch provisioning Secure Virtual Overlay to Transport Independence WAN Path Selection,
sites. Network QoS, Firewall,
Portal where user defines Network Segmentation
global policies Interprets the Global Policy Service Chaining
according to the knowledge Telemetry feedback loop
Aggregated visibility on
collected from the network to/from SD-WAN Controller
application performance

Managed SDWAN Services

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SD-WAN Service to Enterprise

TRANSPORT ROUTING

• MPLS • Application Aware

• LTE • Quality of Service
• Broadband Aggregation • Path Monitoring
• Customer Provided • Tunnel Management
• Role Based Access • Dynamic Path Selection

PORTAL SECURITY
SD-WAN

• Configuration Templates • Firewall

• Traffic Analytics • Content Filtering & Virus
• Utilization Reporting Scanning
• Event Management • IPS/IDS
• Role Based Access • Virus Scanning
• DNS Proxy

OPERATIONS • Provisioning
• Incident Management
• Co-Management
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Top SDWAN Players Features Comparison

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 Cisco Solution
Architecture

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Cisco SD-WAN Architecture

vManage Orchestration Plane

APIs

3rd Party Management Plane

vAnalytics
Automation

vBond
Control Plane
vSmart Controllers

MPLS 4G

INET
vEdge Routers

Data Plane
Cloud Data Center Campus Branch SOHO

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Cisco SD-WAN Solution Elements

Orchestration Plane
vManage
Cisco vBond
APIs

vAnalytics
3rd Party • Orchestrates control and
Automation management plane
vBond • First point of authentication
(white-list model)
vSmart Controllers • Distributes list of vSmarts/
vManage to all vEdge routers
MPLS 4G • Facilitates NAT traversal
INET • Requires public IP Address
vEdge Routers [could sit behind 1:1 NAT]
• Highly resilient

Cloud Data Center Campus Branch SOHO

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Cisco SD-WAN Solution Elements - Control Plane

Control Plane
vManage
Cisco vSmart
APIs

3rd Party • Facilitates fabric discovery

vAnalytics
Automation • Dissimilates control plane
information between vEdges
vBond
• Distributes data plane and app-
vSmart Controllers aware routing policies to the vEdge
routers
MPLS 4G • Implements control plane policies,
such as service chaining, multi-
INET
vEdge Routers topology and multi-hop
• Dramatically reduces control plane
complexity
Cloud Data Center Campus Branch SOHO • Highly resilient

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Cisco SD-WAN Solution Elements - Data Plane

Data Plane
vManage Physical/Virtual

APIs Cisco vEdge

3rd Party • WAN edge router

vAnalytics
Automation
• Provides secure data plane with
remote vEdge routers
vBond
• Establishes secure control plane with
vSmart Controllers vSmart controllers (OMP)
• Implements data plane and
application aware routing policies
MPLS 4G
• Exports performance statistics
INET
vEdge Routers • Leverages traditional routing
protocols like OSPF, BGP and VRRP
• Support Zero Touch Deployment
• Physical or Virtual form factor
Cloud Data Center Campus Branch SOHO (100Mb, 1Gb, 10Gb)

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Cisco SD-WAN Solution Elements - Management Plane

Management Plane
vManage
Cisco vManage
APIs

3rd Party • Single pane of glass for Day0,

vAnalytics Day1 and Day2 operations
Automation
• Multitenant with web scale
vBond
• Centralized provisioning
vSmart Controllers • Policies and Templates
• Troubleshooting and
MPLS 4G Monitoring
INET • Software upgrades
vEdge Routers
• GUI with RBAC
• Programmatic interfaces
(REST, NETCONF)
Cloud Data Center Campus Branch SOHO
• Highly resilient

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