Slide Intent = Set the stage for the new Extreme Data Center Solution by highlighting the importance of the data center to the business itself
-Virtualization can simplify compute, but can complicate the DC network. Most virtualized infrastructures still require manual network configurations. – Higher OPEX, typically not taken into account
-Next gen server architectures (Grantley) are driving massive upgrades in all data centers- Multiple 10G ports at no extra cost- 10GBase-T becoming mainstream
-Dense virtualization and 10G refresh may result in fewer physical ports, but significantly higher link utilization
-70% of the DC market is made up of traditional enterprises- 90% of this segment has not upgraded to 10G yet
Solutions that can help deliver and interpret the “data” in big data will be most successful – Think 40G and 100G links and Purview Application Analytics
Additional Extreme Networks differentiators:
SDA – an open and flexible architecture that allows new innovations to be leveraged within both greenfield and brownfield networks independent of network hardware
High Performance and low latency infrastructure
Visibility – all traffic, pervasive, from the physical and virtual network, resulting in powerful analytics for the business and insight to IT
Support and services – legendary reputation with a key role in helping customers bring the pieces together
The SDA extends beyond the data center – the tools and capabilities are ubiquitous throughout the network
Position S-Series for small/medium enterprises and BDX8 for large enterprises only.
Note: BDX latency is 2.3uSec across the fabric and <1.5 uSec within the IO module
EXOS
Modular Operating System
• High Availability Architecture
• Rich set of Layer-2 and Layer-3
protocols and features
• Secure Management
• Extensibility
Memory protection for processes
•
Architectural Highlights
• Memory protection for processes
• Self-healing process recovery via process restart or hitless failover
• Dynamic loading of new functionality
• Scriptable CLI for automation and event-triggered actions
• XML open APIs for integrating third-party applications
• Dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6 support
High Availability Architecture
• Reduce network downtime using hitless failover and module-level
software upgrade
• Prevent system corruption using memory protection for processes
• Avoid system reboots using self-healing process recovery
• Extend high availability across switches with Multi-Switch Link
Aggregation Groups
Extensibility
• Integrate best-of-breed applications to your network with
an open, yet secure XML-based Application Programming
Interface (API)
• Integrate Extreme Networks and third-party developed
software applications using open standards-based
POSIX interfaces
• Scripting-based device management for incremental
configuration deployment and ease of management
Integrated Security
• Guard access to the network through authentication,
Network Login/802.1x, host integrity checking, and
Identity Management
• Harden the network infrastructure with Denial of Service
(DoS) protection and IP Security against man-in-the-middle
and DoS attacks
• Secure management using authentication and encryption
Blowout into 4 slides
EXOS (pick 4):
Modular Operating System
• High Availability Architecture
• Rich set of Layer-2 and Layer-3
protocols and features
• Secure Management
• Extensibility
Memory protection for processes
•
Architectural Highlights
• Memory protection for processes
• Self-healing process recovery via process restart or hitless failover
• Dynamic loading of new functionality
• Scriptable CLI for automation and event-triggered actions
• XML open APIs for integrating third-party applications
• Dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6 support
High Availability Architecture
• Reduce network downtime using hitless failover and module-level
software upgrade
• Prevent system corruption using memory protection for processes
• Avoid system reboots using self-healing process recovery
• Extend high availability across switches with Multi-Switch Link
Aggregation Groups
Extensibility
• Integrate best-of-breed applications to your network with
an open, yet secure XML-based Application Programming
Interface (API)
• Integrate Extreme Networks and third-party developed
software applications using open standards-based
POSIX interfaces
• Scripting-based device management for incremental
configuration deployment and ease of management
Integrated Security
• Guard access to the network through authentication,
Network Login/802.1x, host integrity checking, and
Identity Management
• Harden the network infrastructure with Denial of Service
(DoS) protection and IP Security against man-in-the-middle
and DoS attacks
• Secure management using authentication and encryption
SDA/DC Software
EXOS 15.6
NetSight
Purview
SDN Platform (DCM, OneController/Ecosystem)
Slide Intent – outline our SDN approach. We can use this an introduction to a more data-center-specific SDN story or replace it with something similar
How do we make the network more programmable, simpler and dynamically optimized?
It starts by abstracting the lower level functionality from the brain, the control function. This means decoupling the system that makes traffic and flow decisions (the control) from the underlying systems that forward traffic to the selected destination (the data plane).
So if you look at the left, that is what most vendors are doing today. They followed the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) model which focused on the separation of the Control from the Data plane and defined OpenFlow as the protocol between the two. The problem is that this model didn’t worry about the application layer which is probably the most important. Because having a programmable network architecture that does not integrate with other applicatiuons is of little use. ONF left the northbound API from the equation. So many of our competitors decided to offer both a “open” platform on the left (ONF) but then decided to make it more robust by creating a second platform that is based on proprietary interface for the southboaund API between the control and the data planes and vendor-specific for the northbound. This is Cisco’s ACI model. Cisco will tell you that ACI is open because they allow anyone to use their API to write applications on top of ACI. The problem is that ACI required Cisco specific Nexus 9000. So even for Cisco customers that way to deploy ACI they must now buy a Nexus 9000. This is not an open and standard-based approach.. Instead it is hardware dependent.
On the right, our approach is different. We took ODL (which is open and standards-based), hardened it and added more functionality such as policy, 40+ integrated apps, wifi, analytics, security while preserving the integrity of both the northboaund and southbound APIs. Applications developed on top of our ODL-based API will run on any other ODL-based platform. Of course the additional functionality we added on ODL will only be present on the Extreme platform. This is SDN 2.0 – the right way to implement SDN by leveraging existing infrastucture to preserve invest, producing an open, standards-based and comprehensive solution that provides value-add without vendor lock-in
Bpps = Billions of packets per second
Why We Win
High performance, low latency
Port density, low power/port
100G Now GA
Common OS Edge-to-Core
Extensibility, Programmability
Up to 1668w of PoE+ power for up to 30w per port - for any customers requiring power
Modular fans with reversible airflow
Slide Intent – the new X670-G2 exemplifies how we’re improving our hardware solutions to meet the performance and scalability demands of today’s data centers
Why We Win
10G Density, Performance, Latency
Heterogeneous Stacking
Common OS Edge-to-Core
Extensibility, Programmability
Flexible Power Options
The versatile Summit X670-G2 product family enhances the Extreme Data Center Solution with both high performance and industry-leading density. With up to 72 ports of native 10GbE SFP+ connectivity in one rack unit, the X670-G2 brings a whole new level of scalability to Top-of-Rack data center and enterprise aggregation implementations. Some key benefits include:
• 30% larger buffers than previous versions for improved application performance and throughput
• More than 2x larger address tables than previous versions to support cloud-scale data centers
• Unified, Linux-based and adaptable ExtremeXOS for flexibility and programmability via XML and Python as well as for simplified stacking and MLAG deployments
• Integrated timing output ports for IEEE 1588 Precision Timing Protocol (PTP) allowing for synchronization within microseconds of accuracy over an Ethernet network (note: this is a service provider-oriented benefit that will NOT be emphasized as part of the data center launch)