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Adding Intelligence to Enterprise Networks

Rohit Mehra

Director, Enterprise Communications Infrastructure

Nov 15th, 2011

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Agenda

IT Trends supporting Intelligent Economy

Defining Network Intelligence

– Attributes of an Intelligent Network

– IT Requirements

Network Intelligence and Virtual Services

– Datacenter

– Application Delivery

– Remote Branch

Emerging Trends in Network Intelligence- Examples

Essential Guidance

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Intelligent Economy needs Intelligent IT

We are going through a phase of

intelligent industry transformations

– e.g. Retail, Healthcare, Energy

IT is seen as an equal business

partner in many of these

businesses

– For some, IT is the business

– From back office to front office

2011 is seeing emerging and

disruptive IT technologies become

mainstream

Pervasive

Analytics

Social

Business

# Devices # Users # Apps Spending

Broadband

Internet

Cloud

Services Mobile

Devices

& Apps

2011 Productive Enterprise

LAN Client-

Server

PC

1981

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Intelligent Industries Embrace Mobile, Cloud

Revenge of the Consumer

2011 brings a different level of

legitimacy to mobility in the enterprise

Use Cases

Healthcare- Mobile Health, Wellness

Retail- Mobile Transactions

Financial Services- Payments

Media- Video-streaming (e.g. Netflix)

Collaboration

Communicate with employees,

partners and suppliers globally

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Rapid Growth in Smart Devices, Cloud

Smart Devices Grow 4x

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Enterprise Network Video Traffic

Immersive Videoconferencing

Worldwide revenue grew 24% to over

$2.9 billion in 2010

Facilitate corporate collaboration

Digital Marketing

The digital marketing or ecommerce team

responsible for the organization's overall Web

presence Media

Almost 2/3rds use video on web site

High-quality needed for brand/image

Consumer Traffic From Work

In 2010 590 million people around the globe

watched streaming video over the Web

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Proliferation of Video End Points

N = 300

Source: IDC, 2011

Video Conferencing Endpoints

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Challenges to Enterprise Video

Bandwidth Limitations

– Inconsistency of bandwidth available

across organizations

– Costs to upgrade

Video Performance

– Brand Image

– Hinder Success of IT investment

Security

– keeping enterprise video off the public

Internet (the last place they want to see

confidential information turning up is on

YouTube

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Intelligent Network: Going up the Food Chain

Makes dumb pipes “smarter”

Addresses higher layers of the OSI

stack

Moves up from connectivity to

applications

Addresses Multi-media

capabilities/requirements

Provides unified access:

– Data/Voice/Video

– Wired/Wireless

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What “Lenses” does IT use to evaluate Network Intelligence

IT is close to the business than ever before

Needs to do more with less, and with

increased visibility and control

Moving from reactive to proactive

It’s all about “awareness”

– Device

– User

– Application

– Location

– Time

Context-based Networking

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QoS

Management

Policy

Energy Efficiency

Analytics, Visibility

Cloud- Readiness

Reliability

Security

Key Attributes of an Intelligent Network

Network Edge/BYOD

Datacenter

Campus

Cellular/WiFi Integration

Management

– Automation/Provisioning

– DNS, DHCP, IPAM (DDI)

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Distributed Enterprise Traffic Flows: Many to Many

Internet

Cloud Services

Management

Provisioning

Security

HQ

Branch Office,

Mobile Worker

Private Cloud/

Datacenter

Regional

Office

Cloud Applications

CRM

ERP

Evolution to peer-to-peer communications of

business and collaboration applications

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Virtual Services

Extends from the edge to the Core/Datacenter

Provides integrity of identity from the user to the datacenter

Adds Intelligence to your network infrastructure

Orchestration of Data, Management and Control Plane

Home Offices, Mobile Users

Branch Offices

Regional Offices

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Adding Network Intelligence

Management

Control

Data

Centralized

Hybrid?

Distributed

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Increasing Intelligence In The Datacenter Datacenters require unique network intelligence functionality

Converged Infrastructure

Treats server, storage, and network infrastructure resources as

pools, to be assigned as needed to business

Virtualized “inside”

Manage complexity of massive interconnects

Ethernet Fabrics

Enable resources to move freely throughout the datacenter

Right size bandwidth requirements

Align network policies with application requirements

One network to support holistic “workload” requirements

Network Management

Efficiency and complexity requirements bring a spotlight to

network management offerings

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Video Data Message/Presence Voice

Application Delivery

Network is the business

Provide a secure, reliable, predictable architecture to organizations applications

Ability to enforce corporate policies, regulatory mandates and best practices

Architecture requirements

Intelligent delivery decisions on network traffic

Optimization, acceleration, security, visibility, load balancing

Shared services layer

Unification of performance management will lead customers to consolidated

and coordinated application delivery policies

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WAN Application Delivery

Application Delivery

Best practice in network designs

“Services” delivery

Virtualization is reshaping form factor landscape

Leading the branch consolidation effort

Worldwide WAN Application Delivery Revenue

Source: IDC Worldwide Datacenter Network Qview, Q12011

($ Millions)

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Remote Branch Network

Strategic opportunity for IT to add business value

Need for “many to many” even greater with real-time access needs,

exponential transaction growth

Ability to make IT centralization a reality

Traffic partitioning, shaping, bandwidth controls, content filtering

Delivering network as a cloud-based service?

Internet

Cloud Services

Branch Office

Cloud

Applications

Datacenter

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Emerging Trends in Network Intelligence

OpenFlow

Good example of how network virtualization

can help add network intelligence

Separation of control from the

data/forwarding plane

Simplifies configuration, provides centralized

control and visibility

Cloud-based Networking

Emerging network and services offering that

leverages cloud-capabilities

“Network As A Service” model that can apply

to Routers, WLAN, UC, App Delivery, etc.

Network provisioning, configuration and

management

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Essential Guidance

Network Intelligence will proliferate and become strategic

– Will extend from apps to network silicon to management/provisioning

– The “engine” for network managers to be successful business partners

Architect your network for tomorrows

needs in application performance

– New ways of deploying the network

includes virtual network services

For vendors, network intelligence

will increase the competitiveness

of your portfolio

– An intelligent, secure network

is strategic for IT

For Service Providers, look to providing improved automation in deployments and

provisioning while being cost-effective

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Questions & Discussion