SDN: Where are we?Where are we going?

John Giacomoni, Senior Architect PD

August 2014

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Advancedthreats

Mobility

Technology Shifts Center on Applications…

Internet ofthings

SDA/Cloud

Quality ofexperience

Time to Market

Application Availability

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Challenges in Scaling Modern Datacenters

Clients

ApplicationData Plane

Architect

VEsRouter Switch LB Firewall

Net Engineers & Admins

Time Consuming

Error Prone Process

Difficult to Debug

Manual & Scripted Configuration

SDN is the Answer…

Right?!?

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What is SDN?

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

OpenFlow VirtualNetworking

ServiceChaining

Slope ofEnlightenment???

SDN Definition v1:a) Separation of Control and Data Planeb) General Forward Hardware

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“SDN Slope of Enlightenment” Informed by Developers

Agile Dev

Rapid deployment &network operations.

Rapid development of customer desired applications.

DevOps

Network operations.

Rapid deployment. Accelerate time to market.

SDN

Operationalize the Network. Accelerate time to market.

✓

SDN is about

Operationalizing

Networks

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F5 Definition of SDN:

“SDN is a family of architectures (not technologies) for operationalizing networks with improved time to market, reduced risks, and reduced operating expenses

by centralizing control into a control plane that programmatically controls and extends all network data path elements and services via open APIs.”

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Applications need both Stateless and Stateful Services

Router Switch

LAYER 2-4STATELESSSERVICES

LAYER 4-7STATEFULSERVICES

FirewallIdentity and Access

DDoSProtection

Global Load Balancing

Malware

Detection

ADC Application Security

Local LoadBalancing

Application Performance

Secure Web

Gateway

VIRTUAL AND OVERLAY NETWORKING

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Net Engineers & Admins

Operationalized Network with SDN

Control Plane

Clients

ApplicationData Plane

Architect’s Intent

Architect

VEsRouter Switch LB Firewall

Centralized Knowledge

Repeatable Config.

Manual & Scripted ConfigurationProgrammatic Configuration via Open APIs

Utility Computing