Evolution and Future of Networking on Reliant Platform

October 2018

Agenda

• A Brief History of Reliant Platform Network Services

• Evolution to Current Reliant Networking Solutions

• What’s Coming Next? Networks as Software.

Early Platform Services

Early Reliant Platform provided basic common LAN and WAN services.

I. LAN Side Services:

• Bridging – Grouping multiple physical and logical ports into a common layer 2 network segment.

• Physical Segmentation – Layer 3 segmentation by physical port.

• VLANs – logical layer 3 segmentation by virtual interfaces and VLAN tagging.

Early Platform Services

(Cont.)

II. WAN Side Services:

• Ethernet uplink to broadband Internet (Cable, DSL, etc.) or Private network (T1, MPLS, VPN, etc.)

• SSL/TLS based VPN over Internet service

• Standby backup WAN failover

Early Platform Network Services

(Cont.)

III. Firewall –Layer 3 stateful firewall

IV. Content Filtering

• HTTP content filtering

– Whitelist

– Blacklist

– Category

Early Platform Network Services

(Cont.)

V. Configuration As Code

• Common configuration across groups of devices.

• Network configuration updates delivered by Puppet infrastructure.

• Configuration updates required code release.

Early Platform Network Services

• Simple store configurations like this no longer meet the challenges of retail and hospitality.

• Current and future networks must meet the demands of omnichannel, multimedia, high availability, speed, and service quality.

Current Platform Network Services The current Reliant Platform system adds a host of enhanced services and management agility through Reliant Platform Manager (RPM).

I. Rapid central network reconfiguration without code updates.

• Ability to update network configuration centrally for one or many locations.

• Centrally managed and rapidly applied firewall changes.

Current Platform Network Services

(cont.)

II. Load balanced and multi-point TLS VPN.

• Connect sites to multiple datacenters or cloud services.

• Build concentrators with redundant VPN instances.

III. Robust Routing Protocol Support.

• OSPF and BGP supported to share route information dynamically across platforms.

Current Platform Network Services

(cont.)

IV. Application and Micro Segmentation

• Use of virtual containers and virtual machines to isolate applications.

• Containers and VMs can be logically attached to any VLAN.

V. High Availability on the LAN

• Use of network clustering to create Active/Standby hardware pair.

So, where are we going?

Enhanced Management and SDN

Enhanced Management

Enhanced Network Configuration Management in RPM

• Enhanced Firewall Rule Management

• Transparent HTTPS Proxy

• Extended DHCP Configuration Management

SDN, SD-WAN, and SD-Security

• Robust and Feature Rich Networking

What is it and what are the key advantages?

• Hardware Agnostic Solution

• Intelligent Traffic Flow and Route Management

• Bandwidth Aggregation

• Advanced Firewall and Security

• Scalability

SDN Features and Benefits• Seamless Networking Between Cloud, HQ, Stores, Etc.

• Scalable Based on Licensing and Resource Provisioning.

• Agility – Rapid Upgrade and Feature Roll Out.

• Central Orchestration.

• Vendor Independence.

• Manage Traffic Flows Across Different Networks

• Widely Adopted as “Network as a Service” Solution

SDN Key Terms

• SDN – Software Defined Networking

What Does it All Mean?

• NFV – Network Function Virtualization

• VNF – Virtual Network Function

• Control Plane vs. Data Plane

Reliant Platform and SDN

Integrated Approach to SD-WAN

• SD-WAN VNFs Delivered as VMs

• Reliant Platform Hosts VMs with Tight Integration

• Ability to Deliver, Host and Manage the VNF

• Simplify Infrastructure

SD-Security

Advanced Security Delivered as a VNF

• Stateful Next Gen Firewall

• Malware Protection

• URL and Content Filtering

• IPS and AV

• DDoS Detection

SummaryReliant Platform Networking Is:

– Industry Standard Routing and Firewall Features

– VPN Fault Tolerance

– Network and Application Segmentation and Isolation

– Central Network Configuration Management

– High Availability Capable

Reliant Is Planning:

– Greater Management Control in Platform Manager

– Advanced Firewall/URL Proxy

– Integrated SD-WAN and SD-Security