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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

A

B1 B

Prefix B

B

B

B B

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-

52

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

1

2

3

Security Appliance

Traffic Steering for Dynamic Service Insertion

?

? ?

? ?

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

www.necam.com/sdn