Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure Roadshow

Wednesday, 2. April 14

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§  IT Trends and Cisco Strategy §  Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Data Center)

§  Lunch

§  Cisco APIC Enterprise Module (WAN & Access)

§  Use Cases

Cisco ACI Roadshow - Agenda

Use Cases

February 11, 2014

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§  Recently upgraded DC network to N7K/N5K/N1Kv, VMW as hypervisor

§  Automated port configuration required in order to decrease time-to-market of new services, plus reduce the OPEX of managing the network

§  VM-visibility desired to provide more troubleshooting visibility, and better availability

§  Selected technology: addition of automation with software-only upgrade (DCNM7.0), plus later optimized forwarding (after testing)

Use Case #1: Enterprise customer in Europe

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Use Case #1: DFA gradual implementation

Fabric Management

Workload Automation

Virtual Fabrics Optimized Networking

Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Out of Scope

DCNM 7.0 as add-on to existing

network

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§  Big growth opportunity in the IaaS / PaaS space

§  Network seen as an obstacle to the agility required for taking advantage of the mid-term business opportunity

§  High-speed (40 GbE) backbone required to deliver enough performance and bandwidth

§  Network CAPEX very important too (surprise surprise)

§  Today: Nexus infrastructure, FEX-based design, multi-hypervisor

§  Selected technology: gradual upgrade with N9K hardware in standalone mode, with eventual upgrade to ACI (fabric mode)

Use Case #2: Service Provider in France

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L3 L2

Spine

Leaf

Use Case #2: Nexus 9300 as access layer

N7K N7K N9K N9K

N9300 N9300 N9300 N9300 N9300 N9300 N9300 N9300

Integrated L4-L7 Services Physical & Virtual

V

Internet WAN / DCI

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§  Today offering network services to external customers §  Business opportunity to offer rich network services

§  Intelligent and dynamic network service chaining required

§  Technology selected: ACI as a “services pod”, eventually scaled to server connectivity

Use Case #3: telco in Asia

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L3 L2

10GE to ACI Fabric

ACI insertion as L2/L3 boundary and transit fabric with overtime migration of access layer (cont.)

Forwarding Flow

Migration Path

•  Default Gateway moves to ACI Leaf layer •  EPG = VLAN / Subnet (initial step) •  Host / FEX can migrate to Leaf (overtime)

Use Case #3: ACI for service insertion FW

ADC

IPS

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§  2 DCs, around 200 ports each, soon to be refreshed

§  One team managing complete network (DC, firewalls, WLAN, WAN)

§  Absolute need to reduce network complexity, less hands-on configuration, more time for other tasks

§  Requirement for additional security in the network and separating applications from each other

§  Application-specific performance dashboard

§  Technology selected: greenfield ACI implementation

Use Case #4: commercial customer in Netherlands

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WAN

§  Small scale fabric in each DC §  Interconnect technology planned with L3 routers (ASR 1002)

Use Case #4

DC 1 DC 2

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§  Situation: Many stores attached to two central DCs in Germany §  Objective: reduce costs in the WAN through the use of DSL lines

instead of MPLS connections

§  PfR tested, deemed as complex to implement

§  Solution: APIC EM as middleware to configure QoS and PfR in the WAN

Use Case #5: Retailer customer in Germany

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§  Evaluate your goals and constraints, decide the best solution satisfying your goals, and the best strategy to go from A to B, depending on your constraints

§  Cisco offers different roadmaps for different needs and constraints, from evolution of existing networks with software add-ons (DFA, APIC-EM), to the next networking revolution of Application Centric Infrastructure

§  Cisco offers end-to-end solutions covering DC, WAN and access, with the goal of application-centricity and the openness of the Open Daylight architecture.

Summary

Thank you.

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Nexus 9000: a comprehensive portfolio One platform: Two operation modes (standalone / fabric modes)

Switch/Module Description Modes supported Available

9396 2RU switch (48x10GE, 12x40GE)

Standalone / Fabric leaf Yes (PX)

93128 3 RU switch (96x10GE, 8x40GE)

Standalone / Fabric leaf Yes (TX)

9336 2 RU switch (36x40GE)

Fabric spine Roadmap

9500 Modular chassis (4, 8 and 16 line cards

Depends on line cards Yes (9508)

9400/9600 Line cards for N9500 (40GE & 100GE)

Standalone Yes (9636)

9500 Line cards for N9500 (10GE & 40GE)

Standalone / Fabric leaf Yes (9564)

9700 Line cards for N9500 (40GE)

Fabric spine Roadmap

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Nexus 9000: use the chance!! Attractive bundles today for Nexus 9300 and 9500

Commercial 1

(2xN9396) Commercial 2

(2xN93128) EoR (9508, 2x9564)

Mini Fabric

(9508, 2x9636, 2xN9396)

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