The Vyatta Empowering SDN program enables companies to take steps now, using established protocols like OSPF and BGP, to create agile, capacity-on-demand networks for the future. With Vyatta Network OS, network engineers and architects can: - Utilize the Vyatta API to start today, by integrating software-based routers and firewalls into their management tools and server deployment infrastructure - Adopt a consistent routing and security approach to span existing production server farms and emerging, trial SDN-enabled server farms - Build toward, rather than catch-up to, the new SDN enabled operating environment This presentation, originally given at VMWorld 2012, outlines how Vyatta enables enterprises and service providers to build toward the software-defined networks of the future.

1. EMPOWERING SDN
SOFTWARE-BASED NETWORKING & SECURITY FROM VYATTA
VMWorld 2012 – Booth #401

2. What is SDN?
“…programmable networks (or more precisely,
network elements that can be configured through
a reasonable and documented API)…”
– Ivan Pepelnjak, ipSpace.net
“Software Defined Networking (SDN) is an
emerging network architecture where network
control is decoupled from forwarding and is
directly programmable…”
– Open Networking Foundation

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7. Why are SDNs important?
• “It’s about the apps, stupid”
– Development velocity
– Growth of test/dev environments
• Datacenter growth is placing pressure on
networks
– Density of servers is changing network
topology, but not removing need for
segmentation & security
– Operational simplicity
– Capital cost of infrastructure needs to decrease

8. How is SDN used today?
• Datacenter Network Virtualization
– Overlay networks
• Tunnels – VXLAN, STT, GRE
• Solves VLAN exhaustion & L2 extensibility
– Programmability of L2 segments – OpenFlow
– Cloud infrastructure
• Per-tenant network segments & security
• Carrier-grade OpenFlow
– WAN Programmability

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15. Who is Vyatta?
Leader in software-based networking
Founded in 2006 on the belief that the
future of networking will be in software

16. What is Vyatta?
• Vyatta provides software-based
INDUSTRY RECOGNITION
virtual routers, firewalls and VPNs
• Vyatta Network OS
– Hypervisor Agnostic (optimized
for ESXi 5)
Virtual
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– OSPF, BGP, FW & NAT, IPSec, Six
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SSL-VPN Watch
– REST API
• Over 1 million downloads &
counting

17. Why Vyatta?
• Routing & security to connect Layer 2
islands
– Software for flexibility
– REST API for programmability
– Much more to come…

18. Remember When You Used
to Get Excited about Networking?
It’s that time again