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Karthikeyan Subramaniam / Chief Software Architect / ADARA Networks

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• Founded by the Pioneers of the Internet

• Experienced Management

• Financially Solid / Highly Capitalized / High Revenues

• Visionary Leadership

• Proven Product

• Complete Portfolio

• Physical + Virtual Networking and Computing

• Software Defined Networking

• Network Functions Virtualization

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Firewall IDS / IPS WAN Optimization QoS

(DPI)

Application Firewall

Load

Balancer

ERP

DATA CENTER

• Expensive

• Complex to manage

• Difficult to deliver Network Services

to specific applications

• Failure of single device cause service disruption

• Performance degradation because of the filtering

by multiple networking Hardware

Clients

Internet

FirewallIDS / IPSWAN Optimization

Campus

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• Network Functions/Services :

Firewall, WAN Optimization &

Load Balancers

• SDN – Abstracted forwarding

Layer (hardware) controlled by

Software

• “Software” is Meta-Controller,

Orchestration and Service

Choreography Manager

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Server 1

Server 2

Internet

vSwitch

Hypervisor

VM1

Apps

VM2

Apps

VM3

Apps

vSwitch

Hypervisor

VM1

Apps

VM2

Apps

VM3

Apps

vSwitch

Hypervisor

VNF 1 VNF 2 VNF 1VNF 1

Firewall

VNF 2

WAN Optimization

VNF 3

3rd Party

Load Balancer

VNF 4

QoS

COMET

Internet

SIRIUS

• OpenFlow as the Service Chaining

Protocol

• Enterprise Network Functions

such as Firewall, WAN Optimization,

Load Balancer and QoS

• Traffic Classification using OpenFlow

• Service Chain is a list of input and

output ports (Virtual & Physical)

connecting VNFs

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• Network Functions

– Firewall

– TCP Acceleration

– Virtual Routing

– WAN Optimization

• Products

– OpenFlow Switch

– Meta Controller

– Orchestration Engine

• Benefit

– 1500% increased Transactions

– 500% increase in WAN Link Utilization

– ROI = 90% / year & 300% / 3years

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• Network Functions

– TCP Acceleration

– Virtual Routing

– WAN Optimization

• Products

– OpenFlow Switch

– Meta Controller

– Orchestration Engine

• Benefit

– 350% increased Transactions

– 195% increase in WAN Link Utilization

– ROI = 75% / year

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Customers have realized significant benefits from SDN implementation

• Better QoS, low latency

• Ability to easily prioritize applications

• More efficient use of bandwidth

• Better DC-DC replication and DR

• Cost savings