Applications Used Every Day

Unified communications platform

Unified Communications (UC)

Enterprise-ready

Poor visibility

Complex QoS

BYOD shortcomings

>60% Poor Calls

Northbound API

Southbound API

SDN

Controller

Northbound API

Southbound API Southbound APIs

Northbound APIs

Data Center

WI-Fi

Campus

WAN

LTE

Cisco

Jabber

Microsoft

Lync

Apple

Facetime

Microsoft

Skype

Google

Hangouts

Office

365

You

Tube

UC

Server/Service Network Device

UC Client

App

SDN

Controller

Statistics and Telemetry data

Automated QoS

Automated Root-Cause Analysis

Automated Traffic Engineering

Orchestration of Network Security

Location

Influence Codec and Bit-rate

Influence Media Path

Influence Call Admission Control

Automated Root Cause Analysis

Influence Codec and Bit-rate

Influence Media Path

Automated Root Cause Analysis

Lync UC SDN Design Philosophy

UC Session and Quality of Session

Universal Communication

UC / Application Admin

Time in Weeks

Ongoing Monitoring &

Troubleshooting

Identify

traffic

classes

Configure

UDP ACLs

on Access

Switches

Inventory

WAN circuit

sizing

What

Codecs

?

Remark DSCP

for untrusted

applications?

Lock down UDP ports

ranges used for voice/video

Identify sites

Define Erlang traffic

models

Provision CAC

across sites

Review SLAs

Ok, ready to

start rolling out

Enable DSCP …on all

endpoints

… Deploy

across

Campus &

Branch Sites Network Admin

UC SDN

North Bound Interface

SDN

South Bound Interface

Cloud

UC SDN Value = Service Quality

• Address increasing complexity

• Realize operational efficiencies in Cloud-based UCaaS

• Improve agility for network operations, management and configuration

View

Control

Operate

Automate

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