asankya hi-level overview

8/8/2019 Asankya Hi-Level Overview

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Technical Overview

Randy Premont

President

310-993-5323

[email protected]

Presented by SpaceCycles


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Proprietary and ConfidentialDo Not Redistribute

The Dream Fast, secure, ubiquitous access to applications hosted in the cloud

The Reality Protocols inherent to Internet architecture limit data transfer speed

Users are widely/globally distributed Variety of connection types exist (cable, DSL, etc)

Traffic patterns are highly variable

The Result

Cloud services suffer poor Quality of Experience Upload experience particularly limited

Bandwidth is highly over-provisioned

Users often deterred from popular data (i.e. videos)

Network Issue for SaaS & Cloud Applications

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Reduced Revenue Opportunities Limited reach to a global market

Difficulty differentiating service

Suboptimal customer usagemetrics

Increased Operating Costs

More support calls / emails

Risky and costly bets on newdata center sites

Bandwidth at data centersheavily over-provisioned

Business Implications

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Business Issues Asankya Impact

Slow Data TransferEnd-users limited their usagebecause upload speed was tooslow to handle their movies

and pictures

Asankya improvesspeed by 10x with nosoftware integration.

Limited Revenue GenerationEnd-users needed a betterreason to convert from freetrials to a paid subscription

Asankya enables adifferentiated premiumtier of service.

Global ConsistencyGlobally distributed user basenecessitated many regional

data centers

Asankya decreases thedata centers needed byincreasing the reach of

each data center.


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Adding more bandwidth does not solve theproblem

That only increases the last mile

Customer does not control the middle mile

Bottlenecks Have Moved to the middle mile

ISP to ISP interconnects hot potato routing

Overloaded routers default route is not alwaysthe best route

Protocols Use the Network Inefficiently

Network congestion causes protocols to slow

Network delay causes protocols to use networkinefficiently

The Internet Problems

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ISP A

ISP B

Inefficiency


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New Layer 4 Algorithms: Uses Multiple Paths Simultaneously

Adjusts to Real-time Network Changes

Overcomes Issues of Congestion and Delay

ProtocolInefficiencies

Inter-ISP Handoffs,Network Congestion

Breakthrough Technology: RAPID Protocol

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Research Awards

MotorolaIEEE

RAPID Protocol

IntelligentTransport

Multipathing

10x Improvement in Throughput

IssueSolved

Characterization SchedulingDiscovery


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Solving Real Network Problems Today

40x

15x

10x

3x

10x

Cloud Storage

Customers Yielding Up to 40x Performance Improvements

Collaboration Government

6x20x

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Intelligent Transport Maximizes throughput per path

Multipathing Avoids middle mile congestion bottlenecks

Two Components of the RAPID Protocol

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The origin and destination nodes actas TCP proxies for data.

Asankya transport algorithmsoptimize the utilization of the

aggregate capacity between theorigin and the destination.

Algorithms include

Accelerated start-up, advancedcongestion reaction

Quick and reliable loss detection

Multi-state operations

Auto-tuning, multi-stage flow control

Intelligent Transport

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Intelligent Transport Detail

The TCP transport layer protocolhas severe deficiencies inachieving high utilization when theend-to-end bandwidth, delay orloss-rate is high

Traditional TCP optimization solutions can onlytweak TCP in two ways to improve utilization:(1) Increase advertised flow control window size

through window scaling; and(2) Selective acknowledgements in addition to the

default cumulative acknowledgements

Intelligent Transport is designed withoutTCPs limitations. Its elements include:

(1)Accelerated start-up, ratemaintenance,

(2)Super-linear increase andproportional decrease congestioncontrol

(3)Fast, robust loss detection and

recovery(4)Auto buffer management(5)Multi-state operations use RAPID

scheduling algorithm to split physicalflows into multiple virtual flows

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All overlay mesh nodes act as routereflection points on the AsankyaRAPIDnet network.

The origin node uses the reflection

nodes to create multiple overlaypaths to the destination node.

It then uses RAPID to successfullyharness and aggregate thethroughputs available along themultiple paths.

Multipathing

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Multipathing Detail

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RAPID moves the seatof intelligence to thesending side in usingmultiple paths

The RAPID protocol

(1) characterizes available paths interms of throughput, delay andloss performance, and

(2) stripes packets over the pathssuch that (with a high probability)they arrive at the receiving end in

the correct order

A safety net reassemblyprocess at the receivingend guarantees no out oforder delivery

RAPID scheduling algorithm decides(1) how much to send along a path(2) in what order to send them to

achieve in-order delivery


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Internet overlay network deployed

Presence on 8 Tier I/II Providers

Network nodes support up to 1 Gbps

Fully redundant systems

1 TB packet caches at each PoP

RAPIDnet Application Delivery for the Cloud

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RAPIDnet PoPs

Future PoPs


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RAPIDnode 1U rack-mountable, Linux OS

10Mbps, 100Mbps, 1Gbps licensing levels

Cisco-style CLI, Web GUI, SNMP, Front-panel

Fail to wire NIC, System level HA (optional)

Central management console (optional)

In development: VM, 10 Gbps

RAPIDnet Plug-in

5MB download

Windows XP, Vista, Server 2003

Linux and Mac OS

Components of RAPIDnet

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Data

Center

Data

Center

Connecting Remote PCs

RAPIDnet Connection Options

RAPIDnode installed at thecustomer application site

RAPIDnet plug-in loaded on PC

RAPIDnode installed at thecustomer application site

RAPIDnode installed on LAN -serves all local users

RAPIDnodes installed at eachcustomer data center

Applications can be hosted ateither location

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LAN

Connecting Office Users

Data

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Connecting Data Centers


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Asankyas solution accelerates datatransfers over IP networks.

Government and Commercial

Key Industry and standards bodyrecognition

Founded at Georgia Tech

Patents pending on key networking algorithms

Asankya Overview

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the biggest news to hit the SaaS and cloud-based services market since Marc Beniofflaunched Salesforce.com Computerworld

Asankyasolve[s] the biggest challenge that

hinders the growth and global scale of cloud- andSaaS-based services. CNet


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Asankya Unique Benefits

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Asankya Benefit Why? Who Cares?

Improves throughput 10x Best in class today is 1.5 to 2x. For manybuyers, performance is #1 criteria and 2x isnot enough.

Corporate IT, SaaS, dynamic web sites,commerce sites, cloud storage and compute

Accelerates all encryptedtraffic

WAN optimization techniques (CIFS, MAPIacceleration, compression) cannot be doneon encrypted traffic

Corporate traffic moving to the Internet needsencryptionTraffic also needs speed improvement to matchprivate network speeds.

Two-way Dynamic Increasingly applications are morecollaborative and more dynamic, whichmakes them two-way and non-cacheable.

Companies wanting to use Sharepoint,videoconferencing, storage (uploads), andcommerce (non-cacheable) apps.

Application Independent WAN Optimization improvements areprotocol and application specific.

Companies with more than one application orapplications that use unique protocols.

Improve throughput at 'in-country' distances

Existing WOC and Overlay Networkofferings do not improve in-country/in

continent traffic .

Half of application traffic typically happens in-country even small improvements have a big

effect.

Consistent performanceglobally

Traditional Network Overlay Services onlyimprove where their systems have beendeployed and may miss large portions ofthe global network.

Online services dont control where their uses

come from need best performance fromanywhere in the world.

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