an introduction to avaya fabric alex williams network specialist – western region

An Introduction to Avaya Fabric

Alex Williams Network Specialist – Western Region

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The simple truth

Networks are largely managed and operated as they were over ten or more years ago

Brute force, CLI, scripts, spreadsheets and chasing spanning tree or OSPF gremlins is more often than not, the norm.

…why?


“IT budgeting is both art and science, combining financial management

expertise and executive judgment”Gartner, 2012


But the nagging question is why….

• Why are we still doing moves, adds & changes manually?

• Why do we “live with” unstable networks causing application downtime?

• Why do we build “overlay” network for critical applications?

• Why, when OPEX = 80% budget, do we settle for complexity?

• Why, when labor is the largest line-item expense, do we make it so labor-intensive to plan, configure & maintain a network?

And why hasn’t anyone done something about this?Where’s the ‘Executive Judgment’ side of IT budgeting?


“We need 1,000 more security cameras up by Friday”

“Our financial transactions need to be isolated by next week”

“We need to transfer a live server instance now!”

“We need to have confidence of uninterrupted service”Throughput

Resiliency

Latency

Density


The Bold Truth

“It is nearly impossible for

today’s networks to run at business

speed.”Zeus Kerravala, ZK Research

We wait…

Minutes for network re-convergence

Hours for troubleshooting

Weeks for maintenance windows

Months to roll out significant applications


1.Add HD video surveillance and multicast sites in minutes

2.Deploy services on the fly

3.Create unlimited separated services with minimal effort

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Whatif you could…

The old network needs to evolve to support today’s business speed

4. Deliver unified access solutions at the edge

5. Enable Guest, BYOD Access control all at once

6. Increase and monitor real-time Network quality

7. Enable data center continuity within clicks

8. Reduce latency and time to service in the data center

9. Deliver collaboration applications in a stack

Would you be Interested?


Service Service

Physically Managed Control Plane

Autonomic Control Plane

Virtualize devices into one network

entity

Services are provisioned to

physical devices

Services are provisioned to a single

virtual network

Business Speed Requires Agile Network Control

IP Packets


Network “Constructs” Stacked Protocols

Instability

Ethernet has been built upon “one floor at a time” Adding on when needed

802.1

Protocols run independently & are

provisioned and managed separately.

This can cause flapping and instability.

Stability

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Rome wasn’t built in a day… neither was the “network”

Multiple protocols to support:

Loop prevention, L2& L3 forwarding,

management, virtualization &

multicast


Fabric Attach – How does it work?

Baseline Setup Fabric (SPB cloud) is preconfigured with services

FA Client and FA Server need not have ISIDs, VLANs, port membership, uplink/trunk ports and tagging, etc., configured

FA Client need not have IP and mgmt VLAN configured (i.e., vanilla switch “out of the box”)

Zero Touch Provisioning FA Client auto attaches to the FA Server to obtain

mgmt VLAN and IP config

End points and client connections trigger auto configuration of ISIDs, VLANs, port membership, etc., on FA Client and FA Server

End points and clients are automatically attached to authorized services

Fabric Attach builds on top of the

Fabric Connect architecture

Identity Engines is the centralized policy decision

point for BYOD management and NAC

Fabric Attach is fully integrated into the overall Avaya Networking solution

Fabric Attach Server

Fabric Attach Client FabricAttach

FabricAttach

Employee Zone

Contractor Zone

Management Zone

Guest Zone

DHCP

Authentication and Authorization

Authentication and Authorization

Fabric Connect Switch

Fabric Attach Client

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Competition’s Independent

Solutions

Multi-vendor solutions

Manual integration

Independent security layers

Wired and wireless access

Identity Engines with Fabric

Connect

Secure employee and guest access wired and wireless

Automatic VLAN / QoS / VSN Assignment

Single Sign-on for Aura Applications

Reporting and analytics for compliance

Secure Guest and BYOD NetworkingUse Case – Unified User Access

EmployeeMobile ZoneGuest

Zone

Identity Engines


Superior Application PerformanceUse Case – Video Surveillance and Multicast Applications

Competition’s Interdependent legacy protocols

Slow network recovery

Strains CPU

Low scalability

Complicated troubleshooting

Avaya Fabric Connect

One seamless protocol network-wide

Removes scalability limits

Faster time to serviceCamera

Recording

Multicast Application

Camera Recording

Multicast Application


Superior Service SeparationUse Case – Dynamic and Secure Service Provisioning

Must touch every affected device

Slower to configure

Must configure core of network

Dependent upon maintenance windows


Edge-only configuration

Eliminate need for maintenance windows

Mitigate core configuration risk

New Service

New Service



Superior Virtual NetworkingUse Case – Multi-Tenancy


Extremely complicated

Practically un-scalable

Error prone

Static model


Highly scalable

Agile configuration

Simple troubleshooting

Highly dynamic

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Access Unification is Changing

Policy Enabled Access

Integrated Network Services

Unified Access Inflection Points

End-to-End Fabrics

Primary Access

UnifiedAccess

BYOD Mission Critical


Summary: Avaya delivers an outstanding user experience with unified access

Wi-Fi Challenge Avaya Solution

APPS

• Unpredictable volume of application use

• Unknown and uncontrolled recreational app use

• Next generation Application Recognition and Control at the network edge

• End-to-end proactive quality of experience monitoring

USERS &DEVICES

• Unpredictable types of BYOD devices

• Different users with multiple devices

• Device fingerprinting, roaming assist, Bonjour support & secure network and BYOD access

SPECTRUM& NETWORKCAPACITY

• Congestion in crowded 2.4GHz spectrum

• Sticky clients• Overlay tunnels and

controller bottlenecks• Disparate wired and Wi-Fi

• Flexible deployment options for spectrum optimization

• 2-tier architecture + Avaya Fabric (when available) + Unified Access

COMPLEXITY

• Changing requirements from 2.4GHz to 5GHz

• Complex planning, deployment & support

• Software upgradable (11n to 11ac); Ease of

• Ease of deployment with Cloud offering and Avaya Fabric to the wireless edge

• Automated edge

Avaya FabricConnect

State of the art WLAN APs and Management

Advanced RF Management

Application QoS Enforcement

Guest and BYOD

Unified Access

Capacity


Scale of the Olympic Games

Reportersand Media

14K

Volunteers

25K

Billions on the Internet

OlympicAthletes

6K

OlympicTeams

80

Thousands of Officials

Millions of Spectators

3 BillionTV Viewers

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The Scale of an Olympic Games Network

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Interconnecting

11 Competition Venues

2 Data Centers

2 Technical Operations Centers

3 Olympic Villages

2 Media Centers

2 Celebration Centers

Olympic Scale Network

54 Terabit capable backbone

2,000 Ethernet switches

50,000 Ethernet ports

2,500 Wireless Access Points

36 HD Video Channels

1,500 IPTV screens

6,500 VoIP phones

Similar to running 3 Super Bowls for 17 days straight!


Get 360o visibility into the Wi-Fi networkNext-gen management in action at Sochi Winter Olympic Games


Seven Secure Virtualized Networks Over a Converged Core

Competition venues

Data Center(secondary)

Data Center(primary)

Olympic Villages

Media Centers

CelebrationCenters

IPTV Service

Games Network

Unified Communications Service

Organizing Committee Service

Wi-Fi Services

Media Transparent LAN Services

Secure Management


High-Performance Data CenterUp to 4x Better Latency and 25x Better Time-to-Service

Built for north-south traffic

Additional tiers brings complexity and cost

Static model

Highly scalable

Agile configuration

Simple troubleshooting

Optimized for east-westtraffic

Distributed ToR / Fabric Connect Data Center Architecture

Multi-Tier Legacy Data Center Architecture


Competition’s Reactive Networks

Expensive with additional overlay

Reactive using historical mining

Incomplete with no end-to-end visibility

Avaya SLA Montm

Proactive monitoring

‘Agents everywhere’

Graphical reporting

Network-wide Proactive QoS MonitoringAvaya-on-Avaya Access Solution

Call to IT and troubleshooting

begins

Poor session quality

Synthetic tests sent

Trouble segments identified BEFORE

call begins

Avaya-on-Avaya

Advantage


WLAN 9100

ERS 3000ERS 4000/5000

Unified Access

Network-Wide Infrastructure

VSP 9010ERS 8000

VSP 7000

VSP 4000

Collaboration Pod

Fabric Connect

Avaya has a comprehensive wired and wireless portfolio

VSP 8284


Can we share more?

Questions?

Thank You


State of the art Wi-Fi ManagementAvaya WLAN 9100 Orchestration System

Flexible deployment options– On-premise software solution– Cloud management

Key benefits– Zero-touch deployment– Highly scalable to 1000’s of units– Flexible toolsets for remote management

and troubleshooting

Network Management and Analytics


State of the art WLAN APs State of the art WLAN APs that address a broad range of use cases

Next-gen wireless with predictable performance

802.11ac

Simplified RF planning

Application QoS control

BYOD/Guest access

2-Tier architecture with distributed controller

Swap-less upgrades

Cloud-based management

End to End Unified Access

Flexible deployment

Low TCO

Bonjour support

WAP 9122

WAP9123

WAP9132

WAP9133

WAO9122

WAP 9162/9173

802.11n 2x2 AP

802.11n 3x3 AP*

802.11ac 2x2 AP

802.11ac 3x3 AP

802.11n 2x2 AP

802.11ac2x2/3x3

2 Radios 2 Radios 2 Radios 2 Radios 2 Radios 4 Radios

Common Advanced Feature Set

Integrated Controller

Application Control

Zero Touch Provisioning

On-Premise or Cloud Management


State of the art WLAN APs Comprehensive offering that address a broad range of use cases


802.11ac

Simplified RF planning

Application QoS control

BYOD/Guest access

2-Tier architecture with distributed controller

Swap-less upgrades

Cloud-based management

End to End Unified Access

Flexible deployment

Low TCO

Bonjour support

WLAN 9122

WLAN 9123

WLAN 9132

WLAN 9133

WLAN 9162

WLAN 9173

802.11n 2x2 AP

802.11n 3x3 AP*

802.11ac 2x2 AP

802.11ac 3x3 AP

802.11ac 2x2

MultiRadio AP

802.11ac 3x3

MultiRadio AP

Fixed Chassis

Fixed Chassis

Fixed Chassis

Fixed Chassis

Modular Chassis

Modular Chassis

2 Radios 2 Radios 2 Radios 2 Radios 2 or 4 Radios

2 or 4 Radios

NA NA NA NA 4 Total Slots

4 Total Slots



Application Control



A New Class of Access Point: High End Features in a Low Cost AP

INTEGRATED CONTROLLER

• No single point of failure or performance bottleneck

APPLICATION CONTROL

• Full DPI at the network edge – an industry first

SPECTRUM OPTIMIZED

• Dual 5GHz AP for future proof migration

• Enhanced high density support in 2.4GHz


Advanced RF Management for “wired-like” performance

Maximize use of RF resources to improve the user experience Automatic radio control

Load balancing across radios

Roaming assistance for sticky clients

Bonjour optimization

HoneyPot

Increased availability, resiliency and application performance 802.11ac, MIMO, etc. Roaming Assist

Auto Channel & Cell

ALB (Auto-Load Balancing)


Avaya Virtual Services Platform 8284XSQ

Uncomplicated, compact format & high-performance platform

Non-blocking, wire-speed, & latency-optimized

Mature, feature-rich, & robust architecture

Virtualize just the Core, or go to Fabric Connect for end-to-end virtualization

Unique combination of port speeds/density & features/functionality

Simple to deploy & operate

Future-proof performance

Proven & feature-rich OS

Versatile virtualization capabilities

Reduces TCO & drives faster ROI

Highlights


What’s Special..?

The VSP 8284XSQ brings Modular-class performance and functionality to the mid-size Core, with fixed-format levels of price, simplicity, and operational efficiency Costs less to acquire, dramatically lower Price/Port High-density, 80 x 10 Gigabit, plus 40 Gigabit, all in 2RU..! Unique packaging of the Industry’s most advanced chipset Easier to install and operationalize Delivers high-end, feature-rich functionality Versatile conventional or Fabric-enabled networking More cost-effective to support and maintain

Set-and-forget solution for resource-constrained IT departments

Ushering in a new era of simplification & efficiency


What’s New..?Rear of the new VSP 8284XSQ platform

High-Availability Dual Power

Supplies

High-AvailabilityQuad Fan Trays

Dimensions: 440mm wide x 500mm deep x 88.9mm tall (2U)

Weight: 14.6-16.3kg (32.1-35.9lbs)


What are the Numbers..?

Switch Fabric: 2.56Tbps

Frame forwarding: 1,428Mpps

Nominal Latency: <480nsec

Switch Cluster/LAG: up to 96 Groups of up to 8 Links

VLANs: up to 4k

Spanning Tree Groups: 64

MAC Address: up to 224k

ARP Entries: 32k

Jumbo Frames: up to 9,600 Bytes

Specifications & scale

IP Interfaces: up to 256

IPv4 Routes: 16,000 (128k*)

OSPF Areas: up to 80

OSPF Neighbors: up to 500

ECMP Paths: up to 8

VRRP Instances: up to 512

VRFs: up to 24

IS-IS Neighbors: 64

SPB Nodes: 500

L2 VSN IDs: 4k

SPB IP Shortcut Routes: 16k* Hardware-ready for future field-configurable options leveraging the UFT capability


What’s the Positioning..?

Ideal positioning for the VSP 8284XSQ:– Core Switch (typically deployed as a high-availability pair) for small-to-

medium Campus networks– Interconnecting multiple 10GbE-attached Wiring Closets

– Distribution/Aggregation Switch– 40GbE downlinks and 10GbE uplinks

Deployable in a number of Enterprise networking environments:– Conventional, multi-tier IP Routed Campus networks

– Fabric-based Campus networks

Additionally, the high-performance architecture means that it can be positioned as:– Data Center End-of-Row Switch

– Tier 3/4 Service Provider & Smaller Hosting Provider networks

Verticals: All – very broad appeal, everywhere that values simplicity

Versatile capabilities make for a flexible offering


What’s New..?

Mid-sized Core solution that focuses on delivering revolutionary agility, simplicity, and operational efficiency

Dramatically reduces the operational burden and delivers an accelerated return on investment

Series highlights:– tightly integrated hardware and software architecture

– versatile virtualization capabilities

– future-ready performance

Delivering ‘Networking 2.0’, and do it today


Automating network access has direct impact on reducing cost of change

Each access port is not assigned until a user/device attempts access. Once authenticated & authorized, user/device is granted appropriate access level. MAC address lookup:

– Ignition Server local store

– Manual input

– Wildcards (e.g. Avaya IP Phones 00:04:0d* and Cisco IP Phones 00:15:62*)

– Import CSV file with list of MAC address and other device attributes

– Access Portal auto-populate

– NOTE: Planned to extended lookup to allow interfacing a LDAP data store

IP PhoneVisitor or Business Partner

Personal Machine

Corporate Desktop

Network Printer

Network Device

Wireless Access Point

Surveillance Camera

Fax Machine

Medical Device

Local Server/A

pp

Guests & Guest Devices

EnterpriseNetwork


Real life proof point …

The largest temporary network in the world!

• Interop 2011- Cisco sent 20 network engineers to hot stage

• Interop 2012- Huawei sent 25 network engineers to hot stage

• Interop 2013- Avaya sent 3 network engineers to hot stage

“Four system engineers completed the network installation in three days - 1/10 the resources of previous events. Then, for the next five days, the show tested the mettle of Shortest Path Bridging …Avaya Fabric Connect met the challenge without a single incident related to the Avaya solution. Layer 2, Layer 3, Unicast and Multicast services ran flawlessly over Avaya Fabric Connect the entire event. Mission accomplished.”

“This year's InteropNet demonstrated that, ideologically motivated debating points aside, SPB just works.”

Avaya - Confidential 2014

OlympicAthletes

6K

OlympicTeams

80

Reportersand Media

14K

Volunteers

25K

Thousands of Officials and Scorekeepers

Billions of Internet

Customers

Millions of Live

Spectators

3 BillionTV Viewers

Sochi - The Scale of an Olympic Games

Changing Social Media Landscape


NETWORK CORENetwork Virtualization

► Avaya Fabric Connect (based onIEEE Shortest Path Bridging)

► Builds a cloud based infrastructure

► High capacity / scaling

► 3rd party validated 20 ms recovery rates

VENUESIntelligent Edge

► Fabric Connect extended into each venue

► Any Port Any Service

► Scalable Wi-Fi

► Secure network access

DATA CENTERDynamic Data Center

► Geographically redundant virtualized Data Centers

► Distributed Top of Rack for low latency v-motion

► Avaya Aura for communications

Primary Data Center

Mountain Media Center

Krasnaya Polyana

Secondary Data Center

Switch Clustering

AvayaVENA

VirtualServicesFabric

AvayaVENASwitch

Clustering

AvayaVENA

First “Fabric Enabled” Games


Avaya Solutions Customers

World’s Top . . .

- 2013 -

97% 95% 90%

9 out of 10Airlines

9 out of 10Financial Institutions

8 out of 10Auto Manufactures

8 out of 10 Luxury Hotels

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A New Class of Access Point: High End Features in a Low Cost AP

INTEGRATED CONTROLLER

• No single point of failure or performance bottleneck

APPLICATION CONTROL

• Full DPI at the network edge – an industry first

SPECTRUM OPTIMIZED

• Dual 5GHz AP for future proof migration

• Enhanced high density support in 2.4GHz

Wireless LAN 9100


State of the art WLAN APs State of the art WLAN APs that address a broad range of use cases


802.11ac Simplified RF planning Application QoS control BYOD/Guest access 2-Tier architecture with

distributed controller Swap-less upgrades Cloud-based

management End to End Unified

Access Flexible deployment Low TCO Bonjour support

WAP 9122

WAP9123

WAP9132

WAP9133

WAO9122

WAP 9162/9173

802.11n 2x2 AP

802.11n 3x3 AP*

802.11ac 2x2 AP

802.11ac 3x3 AP

802.11n 2x2 AP

802.11ac2x2/3x3

2 Radios 2 Radios 2 Radios 2 Radios 2 Radios 4 Radios



Application Control




Avaya Virtual Services Platform 8284XSQ

Uncomplicated, compact format & high-performance platform

Non-blocking, wire-speed, & latency-optimized

Mature, feature-rich, & robust architecture

Virtualize just the Core, or go to Fabric Connect for end-to-end virtualization

Unique combination of port speeds/density & features/functionality


Future-proof performance

Proven & feature-rich OS

Versatile virtualization capabilities


Highlights


What’s Special..?

The VSP 8284XSQ brings Modular-class performance and functionality to the mid-size Core, with fixed-format levels of price, simplicity, and operational efficiency Costs less to acquire, dramatically lower Price/Port High-density, 80 x 10 Gigabit, plus 40 Gigabit, all in 2RU..! Unique packaging of the Industry’s most advanced chipset Easier to install and operationalize Delivers high-end, feature-rich functionality Versatile conventional or Fabric-enabled networking More cost-effective to support and maintain

Set-and-forget solution for resource-constrained IT departments

Ushering in a new era of simplification & efficiency


Avaya Virtual Services Platform 4450GSX

VSP 4000 is a series of fabric-based multi-service / multi-tenant Edge Switches

Used in Campus aggregation network or connecting remote sites over L2 Metro Ethernet/WAN services

New VSP 4450GSX-PWR+ delivers a fiber optimized version (complementing copper form-factor products)

Plays a key role in video surveillance, video distribution or digital signage.


Proven, carrier-grade OS

Best-in-class virtualization capabilities; full multi-service features


Highlights

36 x Gigabit SFP

2 x 10 Gigabit SFP+12 x 10/100/1000 Copperwith PoE+


Fit-for-Purpose for Today– Versatile support for 1/10 Gigabit

Ethernet, Copper or Transceiver

– Distributed Top-of-Rack delivers Industry’s fastest virtual backplane

– Fabric networking delivered directly to the Server

– Media Dependent Adaptor flexibility

– Lossless hardware & software architecture

– Front-back or back-to-front cooling

– Small form-factor & energy-efficient

Future-Ready for Tomorrow– Seamless integration of 40 and

(future) 100 Gigabit

– Data Centre Bridging-ready to Storage Networking convergence

Avaya Virtual Services Platform 7000 SeriesOverview & Highlights

Lightning-fast performance

Flexible connectivity options

Delivering mass 1/10 Gigabit, plus 40 Gigabit

Future-ready for 100 Gigabit

Highlights

VSP 7024XT Switch24-ports of 10GBASE-T RJ45 Sockets


Two new models that extend SME & mid-market positioning of ERS 3500 family – 48-port 10/100/1000 PoE+ and non-PoE

– 1x SFP+ (10 GB) uplink

– Resilient stacking of up to 8 units (up to 384 user / 392 total ports)

Easy to install – IP Office Quick start (run IP Office - autoscript)

– IP Phone plug and play

Lifetime Warranty

Competitively priced ($3,095 APL; PWR+ $3,660 APL)

ERS 3549GTSIntroducing 48-port models

ERS 3549GTS ERS 3549GTS-PWR+


Avaya Energy Saver – Automatic power dimming of ports

– Reduces power consumption by up to 25%

SLA Mon™ Phase 2 agent – Compatible with Avaya Diagnostic Server R2 (April GA)

– Also supports end-to-end QoS tests via CLI/EDM

Simple Loop Port Protection Guard (SLPP Guard)

Serviceability enhancements – Auto-restoration and back-up file configuration management

– Unified Password Security

– Static LACP Key to Trunk ID binding

– Flash History enhancements

ERS 3500 Release 5.2New Software Features

an introduction to avaya fabric alex williams network specialist – western region

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network quality

network constructs

overlay network

network entity services

unlimited network segmention

stack slide

byod access control

unlimited separated