Connect, Optimize, Accelerate. Enterprise Application Delivery Platform (Cisco WAAS)

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1 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia February 2013 Connect, Optimize, Accelerate. Enterprise Application Delivery Platform (Cisco WAAS) Mahmoud Ahmed Consulting Systems Engineer Emerging markets

2 Comparison of WAN Costs Europe vs Emerging Markets Average X Greater than Europe Averag E1 E3 DS3 Minimum aximum Circuit Size (2Mbit) (34Mbit) (45Mbit) 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 2

3 Why do you need WAAS? Improve Application Performance Reduce Cost through consolidation Cut costs on Bandwidth savings 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 3

4 Change is Happening Datacenter Transformation Virtualization Private/Public Clouds Consolidation New Applications/Services Rich Media, Video Virtual Desktops Any-any collaboration Remote Access Evolution Increased mobile users Low-footprint branches Partner access 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 4

5 Challenges Latency Inefficient Bandwidth Utilization Poor Applications Performance 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 5

6 Latency Applications perform well in LAN Round Trip Time ~ 0 ms Client LAN Switch Server Applications Perform poorly in WAN Round Trip Time ~ 200ms Client LAN Switch WAN LAN switch Server 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 6

7 Inefficient bandwidth utilization Bandwidth Standard TCP Slow Start Congestion Avoidance Time (RTT) 1. TCP/IP Protocol developed in Inefficient Response to Packet Loss and Congestion 3. Inefficient Bandwidth Usage 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 7

8 Poor Applications Performance Any web page request results in many protocol requests (round trips) between client and server, amplifying the end-user experience 3-way handshake CNN.com Ack More Objects Sidebars, Ads, Links and more Ack Ack Final Teardown (FIN) More Objects Ack 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 8

9 Introducing Cisco WAAS

10 Most Comprehensive vwaas Branch Config DC/Cloud Configs WAAS Appliances WAVE-294 WAVE-594 WAVE-694 WAVE-7541 WAVE-7571 WAVE-8541 WAAS ISR Modules SM-SRE-700 SM-SRE-900 WAAS Express / xx 39xx WAAS Mobile WAAS Mobile Tele Worker Low Density Branch Retail Office Large Branch, Regional Office Regional Office, Commercial Head End Data Center Head End, Regional Hub Large Enterprise /SP DC & High Performance DC-DC 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 10

11 How do we Accelerate? Advanced LZ Compression And DRE TFO Transport Flow Optimization Application Acceleration 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 11

12 User Experience Fixed! 5 MB Attachment Send and Receive over native WAN First Optimized with WAAS Second Pass Optimized with WAAS Time in Seconds T1 (1.54Mbps) 80 ms latency Time in Seconds Launch Citrix XenDesktop Over Native Citrix ICA/SSL Launch Citrix XenDesktop with WAAS Site Navigation Over Native Citrix ICA/SSL Site Navigation with WAAS 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 12

13 Cisco WAAS Virtual Blade Centralize what you can with WAAS Locally host services (e.g. Windows Servers) on same WAAS device Flexible, Optimized Branch IT Data Center Backup Users Cisco WAAS Local Storage WAN Servers Business and Communication Applications Cisco WAAS Router Windows Server 2008 R2 V B Microsoft System Center Storage Backup Cisco WAAS Virtual Blade technology Validated by Microsoft for Windows Services 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 13

14 Cisco WAAS - NAM VB integeration NAM software - virtual environment within WAAS Network/application visibility to optimize resources troubleshoot performance issues Consistent/relevant information available to users Client Server Cisco NAM VB in DC WAAS Central Manager 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 14

15 Cisco WAAS Natively Accelerates Citrix Citrix and Cisco will enable customers to scale their virtual desktop deployments with increased confidence and security, while also ensuring a high-quality desktop, voice and video experience for their users. Cisco WAAS is jointly tested, validated, supported and verified as a Citrix Ready Sumit Dhawan, Group VP/GM, Citrix 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 15

16 Cisco WAAS Enables Transformation Accelerate Applications Optimize Bandwidth Accelerate Performance for All Centralized Applications: , Web, Voice, Multimedia Achieve Cost Savings by Increasing Your Bandwidth Capacity Up to 4x Consolidate Branch IT Services Evolve to the Cloud Host Services Such as Windows Server, DHCP, DNS Using the Virtual Blade Technology Offer Value-Added, Cloud-Optimized Application Services 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 16

17 Why Cisco WAAS? Most Comprehensive & Most scalable : Only portfolio that fits every site Router Integrated, Physical and Virtual appliance, Mobile Client Accelerate Cloud and Virtualization Deployments: Transparently scaling to cloud,virtual blades support and Virtual Desktops Cost Effective: Up to 30% over comparable solutions, fewer elements in the branch and DC, simpler to integrate Transparent solution : interoperates with existing network services without compromising performance 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 17

18 What s new : WAAS 5.0

19 WAAS 5.0 New Features Enhanced Central Manager New Look and Feel ipad Ready Application Visibility without Agents Immersive User Experience Secure Application Delivery Encrypted Exchange Enhanced SSL WAN Secure SMB v2.x Native Support Signing Support WAAS Express 2.0 Application Support WAN Failover Upstream DRE AppNav Cluster Virtualization On-Demand Scaling Elastic Provisioning Simple Management 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 19

20 WAAS 5.0: Enhanced Central manager

21 New Enhanced WAAS Central Manager The WAAS Central Manager Interface in WAAS has an updated look and feel. New features in the Central Manager include: HTML5 interface and charts Simple, large charts that are easy to customize Data-driven Tooltips that allow for easy access to additional information Support for AppNav Clusters Support for WAAS Express 2.0 Increased number of Apps that collect stats Collect statistics for individual classifiers 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 21

22 Central Manager: It s ipad Ready HTML5 means No App Required. Simply log in and immediately start browsing statistics and reports Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 22

23 Designed for Intuitive Access to Thousands of Devices Move over menu. One click to select device. Powerful, yet simple Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 23

24 Immediate Access to Alarms and Alerts From Any Page Click to view when you want. No interruptions Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 24

25 Application Monitoring: No Agents Required WAAS Central Manager can provide a wealth of application information and statistics. Comprehensive statistics right in the WAAS Central manager: LAN / WAN throughput, Application level throughput, etc. Detailed Application Information No Agents or Probes needed Long-term aggregated data reports WAAS can export Application Response Time data via Flow Monitor to Cisco collectors, as well as other 3 rd party collectors 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 25

26 WAAS 5.0: Encrypted Exchange (E-MAPI)

27 WAAS Enables Exchange Over the WAN Default Encryption Policies Chatty RPC Messages Bloated Protocol Random Data Ports Slow Performance Licensed Protocol Knowledge Native Kerberos Encryption Support Dynamic Traffic Matching Fast, Simple User Experience Customer Challenges WAAS Solution Results 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 27

28 How WAAS obtains permission to accelerate Exchange Temporary keys allow access to Encrypt/Read/Sign Data Branch WAAS Securely transfer key to remote branch. Core WAAS Active Directory Controller (Kerberos KDC) Encrypted MAPI Request WAN WAN-Secure Outlook Client Application Data: Encrypted Authentication: Kerberos Application Data: Optimized, Encrypted Authentication: Kerberos Application Data: Encrypted Authentication: Kerberos Exchange Server 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 28

29 WAAS 5.0: Native SMBv2.x Support

30 The Changing Landscape of Microsoft File Sharing Rapid Windows 7 Adoption Pervasive 20Mbps+ Connectivity New Highperformance SMBv2.x Optimization Requirements Growth of Windows Server 2008 R2 Market Share MS File Sharing in Low Latency Networks 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 30

31 SMB Optimization Application Overview Addresses optimizations for deployments which require higher performance, client scaling, and optimization support for new variants of SMB protocol (v2.x) including SMBv2 Signing! Enhanced to support high performance on low latency connection uses cases: Increase in memory storage vs. disk Latency: As low as 10ms and up WAN Throughput: Scale to 2.0 Gbps SMB / CIFS 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 31

32 WAAS 5.0: WAAS Express 2.0

33 What is WAAS Express 1.0? Native, IOS-Based optimization embedded in the ISR G2 platform Introduced in 15.1(3)T IOS feature - No Service Module Slot required! Cisco WAAS proven WAN optimization features: TCP Flow Optimization (TFO) Data Redundancy Elimination (DRE) Bulk Data Compression (LZ) Natively compatible with WAAS appliances and WAAS Central Management 88x/89x 19xx 29xx 39xx 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 33

34 What s new in WAAS Express 2.0 IOS 15.2(3)T Available Now Encrypted Application Support Superior Bandwidth Optimization Embedded Performance Visibility Optimization of Web Applications Requiring SSL/HTTPS: Oracle SAP MS SharePoint Office 365 SalesForce.com Many Others Reduce Bandwidth Usage: Upload Compression Multiple WAN Link support Extended Optimization: Microsoft File Services Web Apps Branch Performance Monitoring & Analytics: No Agents Required No Probes Required Extended MIBs: Simplified, Powerful WAN Optimization statistics 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 34

35 WAAS 5.0: AppNav Cluster Virtualization

36 What is Cisco AppNav? AppNav gives the ability to Virtualize WAN optimization resources into pools of elastic resources with business driven bindings WAN WAN optimization Pools WEB Apps WAVE WAE Exchange vwaas Business Unit1 Business Unit2 vwaas 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 36

37 What is Cisco AppNav? (cont.) AppNav is a next generation physical Input / Output Module (IOM) for the latest generation of Cisco WAVE Appliances. The AppNav IOM contains its own network hardware, processing data independent of the WAVE Appliance. The host appliance for a AppNav module can still be used to optimize traffic. AppNav can scale up to 8 AppNav modules, along with 32 WAAS or vwaas Appliances. AppNav can be deployed In-Path and Out-of-Path 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 37

38 AppNav Has a Complete Understanding of The Network Application Persistence Previous Path Affinity Custom Affinity Rules WAAS I/O Load WAAS Device Status WAAS Traffic Load AppNav High Availability AppNav Dynamic Load-Aware Distribution WAAS Optimization Load WAAS High Availability 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 38

39 AppNav Branch-Based Clustering and Affinity Branch Office_1 Cisco AppNav Br3_WAAS Branch Office_2 WAN Br2_WAAS Branch Office_3 Branch1 Traffic Branch2 Traffic Branch3 Traffic Br1_WAAS Data Center AppNav s powerful policy engine allows for easy separation of branch traffic at the Data Center. No knowledge of IP addresses or ACLs required Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 39

40 AppNav Enables Application-Aware Affinity Branch Office Branch Office WAN Cisco AppNav HTTP Cluster SSL Cluster HTTP Traffic SSL Traffic Other Cluster Branch Office Other Traffic Data Center AppNav can simply split traffic into separate application clusters. This flexible deployment allows WAAS to easily adapt to application traffic increases and changes Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 40

41 AppNav Dynamic Status Reporting Branch Office Branch Office WAN Cisco AppNav STOP? WAAS1 GO WAAS2 Branch Office WAAS cannot accept connections WAAS can only accept pre-existing connections WAAS is optimizing normally AppNav and WAAS communicate capacity and status for every optimization process per flow. This allows AppNav to easily route around failures and/or capacity problems Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 41

42 WAAS High Availability Cisco WAAS device failure Data Center Branch Office Branch Office WAN WAAS_3 WAAS_2 WAAS_1 AppNav provides intelligent WAAS failure mitigation. On WAAS failure, AppNav maintain pre- existing TCP connections to other WAAS units AppNav Can also be configured with explicit backup HA units for critical devices. AppNav can also intelligently pass-through traffic if a failure would result in an overload condition for remaining units 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Cisco Confidential Connect 42

43 AppNav High Availability AppNav performs a per-flow state update between all AppNav devices. These states keep all devices aware of each other with information on how connections that are being handled. In the event of a failure, the remaining AppNav units can immediately handle all connections that were utilizing the failed AppNav Branch Office WAN Data Center 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 43

44 Simple Status: AppNav 360 Device View Graphical overview of AppNav deployment and configuration Quick, at-a-glance statistics and load information Data-driven tooltips and status indicators that give quick access to device health. Support for viewing 8 AppNav Controllers and 32 WAAS Nodes 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 44

45 AppNav Cluster Wizard: Simple, yet powerful deployment Step by step configuration of AppNav through the Cluster Wizard Validation and feedback for every step to prevent errors and misconfigurations 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 45

46 Complete AppNav Configuration Configure cluster settings Select cluster devices Validate cluster interfaces 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 46

47 WAAS + AppNav: Unmatched Performance and Scale AppNav Massive Virtual Clusters Deploy Anywhere Application Affinity Load-Aware Distribution Content-Aware Policies WAVE Appliances 150,000 Sessions 2Gbps Throughput Dynamic Status Reporting Context-Aware DRE Highest Throughput Eliminates Disk Latency Application Aware Unified Datastore 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 47

48 WAAS 5.0: Other Highlights

49 Citrix XenApp / XenDestop Support Certified Citrix Ready. Works Out of the Box. No Changes to Servers. Native Optimization for Citrix was originally introduced in WAAS 4.5 However, WAAS 5.0 adds new enhancements for Citrix: Context-Aware DRE and LZ optimizations are automatically applied by the optimizer. All-New reports and statistics give more detailed information on benefits and savings 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 49

50 Enhanced SSL in WAAS 5.0 WAVE 8541: 75,000 Concurrent SSL Connections The easiest, most secure, and most scalable SSL WAN Optimization system in the industry now also supports: Increased SSL scale at the highend of performance. SSL support for IOS-Based WAAS Express 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 50

51 Secure Optimized Applications Over the WAN Introducing WAN-Secure WAN-Secure Key Exchange WAAS WAAS Encrypted Application Traffic WAN-Secure is a WAAS enhancement specifically for customers that require secure, transparent end-to-end encryption. Applications that require WAAS to open the encryption to optimize can now guarantee encryption over the WAN. Built on the proven and scalable Central Manager based encryption infrastructure. WAN Secure requires no firewall configurations or tunnels to transparently encrypt/decrypt traffic between peers. Supported by SSL, Encrypted MAPI, and Citrix Accelerators today Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 51

52 Preserve Asymmetric flows with WCCP L2 Egress IP Default Routing Data Center WAAS With L2 Egress, WAAS remembers the source Router for every flow WCCP L2 Egress WAAS ensures as traffic leaves, it returns to the original router. Previously required WCCP GRE or Generic GRE tunnels No need for GRE tunnel overhead (Better Performance) Simplified configuration and troubleshooting! Data Center WAAS (L2 Egress) 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 52

53 Jumbo Frame Support Large More Ethernet efficient Frames use of are now supported bandwidth. in WAAS. Less headers, less More overhead. efficient use of bandwidth. Less headers, less overhead. Jumbo MTU WAAS Jumbo MTU Jumbo MTU Jumbo Devices Maximum MTU 294 / 594 / 694 Branch Platforms / 7571 / 8541 Data Center Platforms 9216 vwaas Platforms / 7341 / 7371 Data Center Platforms Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 53

54 WAAS FlowTrace:Troubleshoot WAAS Policy configuration Branch WAAS Data Center WAAS Quickly verify optimization policies for traffic. Detect extra WAAS devices in the path. Determine WAAS devices that are not intercepting or misconfigured Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 54

55 Context-Aware DRE Enhancements By default, all policies now apply Context-Aware DRE Data Center Branch New defaults provide enhanced efficiency and more performance with no extra configuration! CAPACITY Bi-Directional Cache Extra Free Space! Uni-Directional DRE Bi-Directional DRE Adaptive DRE Uni-Directional DRE Bi-Directional DRE Adaptive DRE CAPACITY Bi-Directional Cache + Uni-Directional Cache Free Space One-way Applications (Video streaming, VDI, others) Two-way Applications, Legacy Policies. Auto-sensing DRE policy. (All Unknown Applications) 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 55

56 Scale to Massive Clouds with Virtual WAAS Introducing vwaas-60k 60,000 TCP connections 1Gbps of WAN Throughput Largest Virtual WAN Accelerator available. Easy, seamless insertion with vpath. vwaas-60k vpath vwaas-60k vwaas-60k vwaas-60k WCCP or AppNav Supports traditional deployment with WCCP Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 56

57 Thank you.