The Next Opportunity in the Data Centre Application Centric Infrastructure

Soni Jiandani

Senior Vice President, Cisco

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Type

Consumption

Delivery

78% Network is even more critical to

delivering applications than a

year ago*

* Cisco Global IT Impact Survey

Applications

Are Changing

Big Data, Distributed, Mobile

Cloud – Public, Private, Hybrid

Any where, Any Time, Any Device

THE NETWORK IS THE INFORMATION BROKER FOR ALL APPLICATIONS

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APPLICATION CENTRIC INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRESS AND MOMENTUM

Application Centric Infrastructure

New Nexus 9000 Platforms Nexus 9000 Momentum

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

15%

7%

26%

19%

13%

20% Other

APJC

EMEAR

US Commercial

US SP

US Enterprise

PIPELINE >800 CUSTOMERS

CUSTOMERS ACROSS DIFFERENT

SEGMENTS

RAPID CHANNEL PARTNER SCALE

ACI Ecosystem Update

NEW PARTNERS

Early Design Wins in all Major Geographies and Segments:

Enterprise, Cloud, Service Providers, Public Sectors, Commercial

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NETWORK VS. APPLICATIONS TWO TYPES OF LANGUAGE

APPLICATION LANGUAGE

?

NETWORK LANGUAGE

• VLAN

• IP Address

• Subnets

• Firewalls

• Quality of Service

• Load Balancer

• Access Lists

• Application Tier Policy and

Dependencies

• Security Requirements

• Service Level Agreement

• Application Performance

• Compliance

• Geo Dependencies

• Etc.

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WAN

Firewall

LB to App

Connect to DB

Connect to App

High Priority

APPLICATION

REQUIREMENTS

WEB APP DB

DB WEB APP F/W

ADC ADC

ACI UNDERSTANDS AND SPEAKS APPLICATION NEEDS

DIRECTLY MAP TO ACI NETWORK PROFILES

NETWORK

REQUIREMENTS

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OPEN RESTFUL APIS

CENTRALIZED POLICY MODEL

OPEN SOURCE

CONTROLLER

APIC

ACI BUILDING BLOCKS NEXT GENERATION NEXUS—TRADITIONAL NETWORKS

POLICY MODEL

ACI >_ >_

50% SIMPLER CODE BASE

FUTURE PROOF UPGRADABLE

TO ACI

PROGRAMMABILITY AND AUTOMATION

NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION

SUPPORT

RESILIENCY: IN SERVICE PATCHING,

UPGRADE, FAST RESTART

ACI BUILDING BLOCKS FUTURE PROOF—SOFTWARE UPGRADABLE TO ACI

NEXUS 9500 and 9300 INNOVATIONS IN SOFTWARE HARDWARE AND SYSTEM DESIGN

PRICE POWER EFFICIENCY PROGRAMMABILITY PORT DENSITY PERFORMANCE

OPTIMIZED NX-OS

NEXUS 9508

SHIPPING NOW

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APPLICATION POLICY INFRASTRUCTURE CONTROLLER (APIC)

Single API that

Allows for

Centralized

Comprehensive

Network Policy

Management

Visibility Into

All Network / Policy

Reliability

Scalable

APIC

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CISCO ACI, NEXUS PHYSICAL AND VIRTUAL ENTERPRISE & SERVICE PROVIDER

DC

PODs

DC Core

Existing 3-TIER DESIGNS PROGRAMMABLE SDN OVERLAY MODEL APPLICATION CENTRIC INFRASTRUCTURE

Open API - Programmability

Modernized Operating System

Nexus OS

Overlay Networks

(Full Bridging and Routing) Application Centric Infrastructure

Integrated Network Virtualization

OpenFlow Support

No VM Tax – Any

Hypervisor

Physical & Virtual

Open API’s & Controller

Existing 2-Tier & 3-Tier Designs

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APPLICATION AND TENANT BEST PRACTICES PRIVATE AND HYBRID CLOUD

APP MOBILITY APP VISIBILITY

Latency

Health

Score 82%

Isolation

Systems

Telemetry 25 Packets

dropped

BOTH Physical and Virtual

Applications

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INDUSTRIES FASTEST 10/40G ROUTER IN THE INDUSTRY

INCREASED

RELIABILITY

2.8X BETTER Mean Time Between Failures

COMPONENTS

30% OF TRADITIONAL MERCHANT DESIGN

SAME HARDWARE – UPDATED SOFTWARE FOR ACI CAPABILITY

POWER EFFICIENCY

15% GREATER power and

cooling efficiency

40G LINE RATE

288 x 40G ports 100% throughput

ASIC APPROACH Innovation in Cisco ASICs

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NEXUS 9500: BREAKING PERFORMANCE RECORDS

NEXUS 9516

LOWEST LATENCY AMONG MODULAR DC SWITCHES

NO HEAD OF LINE BLOCKING

CONSISTENT UNICAST AND MULTICAST PERFORAMCE

HIGHEST POWER EFFICIENT MODULAR DC SWITCH

NON-BLOCKING MODULAR SWITCH ARCHITECTURE

576 x 40GBE - 100% THROUGHPUT – NOT A SINGLE DROP

HIGHEST 40GbE DENSITY WITH LINE RATE PERFORMACNE

PERFORMANCE VERIFIED

NEXUS 9508

10.9W per 40G Port (100% IMIX traffic load)

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ELASTICITY AT SCALE / PAY AS YOU GROW

BUILT FOR THE GROWING COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE TO THE LARGEST SERVICE PROVIDERS

STARTING AT

200 PORTS SCALING

TO

100K+ PORTS

64K TENANTS

576 40G PORTS WIRE-RATE (PER SPINE)

1M IPV4 / IPV6

END POINTS

60 TBPS CAPACITY

(PER SPINE)

8K MULTICAST

GROUPS (PER LEAF)

$100K STARTING

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Centralized Compliance

and Auditing

Import / Export Policy via API

(Support for External Policy Engines)

Automated Services

Chaining

Engineering Legal Sales HR Finance Marketing

ACI SECURITY WITH MULTITENANCY

Complete Isolation with

Full Scalability and

Security

Policy Separated from

Network Forwarding

Policy

Engine

ENABLING A DYNAMIC ENTERPRISE WITHOUT

COMPROMISE

APIC

Encrypted Controller

Communication

Advanced Role Based

Access Control

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Source: * Deutsche Bank 9/27/2013: “Whitebox Switches Are Not Exactly a Bargain”; ASP for 64 port 10GE switch ** Cisco IT

IMPLICATIONS: CAPEX AND OPEX CISCO DRIVING INDUSTRY LEADING TCO

CAPEX SWITCH

NO WHITEBOX ADVANTAGE

3 YEAR CAPEX

ToR EXAMPLE

$5,500*

$4,000*

Whitebox

$2,500

Cumulus

SW $1,000

per year

Branded

Switch w/

integrated

HW/SW

+37.5%

CAPEX OVERLAY

VM TAX FOR OVERLAY SIGNIFICANT HIGHER

THAN A WHOLE NEW NETWORK

10 VM/10G

SWITCH PORT

x

$10 PER VM

PER MONTHS

=

$100 PER VM

PER MONTH

NETWORK OPEX**

35% OPEX SAVINGS WITH ACI

CAPEX

27%

OPEX

73%

BEFORE ACI

TCO

75% TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP

SAVINGS

NETWORK

VIRTUALIZATION +

MERCHANT SWITCHES

$40 OPEX*

$100

VM TAX

$14 NETWORK

$25 OPEX

$15 NETWORK

$154

$40

APP

CENTRIC

CISCO

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NEW PARTNERS:

Published

Data Model

Open and

Standard APIs

Open Source Open Standards

APIC

WITH THE BROADEST ECOSYSTEM OF PARTNERS NEW PARTNERS EMBRACE POWER OF OPEN ECOSYSTEM

L4..7 Services, System Management,

Virtualisation, Orchestration and Application

Vendors

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APPLICATION CENTRIC INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT PROTECTION

APIC

Physical Networking Compute

Multi DC WAN and Cloud

L4–L7 Services Storage

Integrated

WAN Edge

Hypervisors and Virtual Networking

Nexus 2K

Nexus 7K

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Cisco Nexus 5000

Cisco Nexus 7000

Cisco Nexus 3000

Cisco Nexus 2000

CONTINUE TO INVEST IN DC & CLOUD NETWORKING PORTFOLIO

Cisco Nexus 5600

Application Centric

Infrastructure (ACI)

Cisco Nexus 9000

APIC* ACI

NEW!

Cisco Nexus 3100

Cisco Nexus 6000

Cisco Nexus 1000V

OPEN

APIs/ Open Source/ Application Policy Model

HIGH PERFORMANCE FABRIC

1/10/40/100 GE

SCALABLE SECURE SEGMENTATION

VXLAN

DELIVERING TO YOUR DATA CENTER NEEDS

Resilient, Scalable Fabric

Workload Mobility Within/Across DCs

LAN/SAN Convergence

Operational Efficiency – P-V-C

Architectural Flexibility

Cisco Nexus 7706

55K+ NX-OS customers 17K+ FEX customers 8.5K+ Nexus 1KV customers

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Next

Evolution ACI

THE FUTURE OF NETWORKING

Centralized Provisioning

Automation

Simplification

App Agility

‘Table Stakes’ SDN

‘Table Stakes’ Network

Virtualization

Business relevance through application centricity.

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THE FUTURE OF NETWORKING

Centralized Provisioning

Automation

Simplification

App Agility

Deliver new revenue streams

faster

Risk and OpEx Reduction

Lowered OpEx

Reduced Risk

Reduced CapEx

Thank you.