Introducing Avaya SDN Fx with FatPipe Networks Next Generation SD-WAN

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1 Avaya-FatPipe Solution Overview Introducing Avaya SDN Fx with FatPipe Networks Next Generation SD-WAN The Avaya SDN-Fx and FatPipe Networks solution provides a fabric-based SDN architecture for simplicity everywhere from Avaya with a next generation hybrid, software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) solution from FatPipe that takes a 7 layered approach to achieve true WAN performance optimization. An encrypted FatPipe overlay with an Avaya SPB network fabric creates an end-to-end unified fabric with the following benefits: - Delivers a simplified, agile and resilient end-to-end infrastructure that makes network configuration and deployment of new services faster and easier - Successful and rapid delivery of new applications - Enables hybrid WAN for connectivity over a combination of MPLS, broadband, 3G/4G/LTE or wireless access methodologies - WAN application awareness and analytics to allow customers to respond to changing traffic conditions within the unified fabric to meet application requirements - Provides reliability, redundancy and seamless failover for application sessions - Real time and historical performance data to help customers manage the WAN, identify and service issues and meet business demands. Intention of this Paper The intention of this paper is to outline the benefits of a combined Avaya-FatPipe offering. The target market and customer end solutions are described as well as the benefits that can be realized by the customer. In particular the combined benefits and interworking advantages are outlined. Target Market and Target Customers The key target market is the enterprise that manages its WAN in-house and seeking branch office WAN solutions that can lower capital investments as well as simplify operations. In addition, target market segments would also include enterprises with new application requirements that rely on increased use of Internet and the adoption of public cloud services as well as requirements to fully utilize Internet and MPLS connections simultaneously as one integrated WAN. Avaya-FatPipe Partnership Overview Every IT department is being asked to do more, do it faster and at lower costs. They require new ways to rapidly deliver business applications and IT services while driving down overall TCO. IT needs nextgeneration datacenter, campus and branch infrastructures that deliver cloud-like economics and agility, but with the greater security and reliability of on-premise solutions. Introducing Avaya SDN Fx, a Fabric-based SDN architecture for Simplicity Everywhere. The Avaya SDN Fx architecture is simple. We start with a virtualized data center core provided by Avaya SDN Fx Fabric Connect Technology that invisibly and securely extends network-wide within the datacenter and 1

2 Avaya-FatPipe Solution Overview between datacenters, across the campus and over the IP WAN to the branches with Avaya SDN Fx Fabric Extend Technology and we end with a fully enabled edge for users and their applications using Avaya SDN Fx Fabric Attach Technology. Devices, users and applications view the network as a simple connectivity utility, one that automatically reconfigures itself when changes occur. A completely new way to build networks, Avaya Fabric Connect delivers a simplified, agile and resilient infrastructure that makes network configuration and deployment of new services faster and easier. A standards-based network virtualization technology based on an enhanced implementation of IEEE 802.1aq Shortest Path Bridging and IETF RFC 6329, Avaya SDN Fx Fabric Connect combines decades of experience to deliver a next-generation technology that combines the best of Ethernet with the best of IP. In addition, Avaya SDN Fx Auto Attach, based on the IEEE Qcj (auto attach standard), under final standards development, is a feature that allows automatic attachment of devices, servers, and users to the network. Modern networks are also being pushed to their limits. Network Managers are managing a greater number of applications in the wide area network than ever before. Increased business usage of network-heavy applications is saturating WAN bandwidth. Introducing FatPipe's software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) and hybrid networking products that provide solutions to these new network needs. Companies use FatPipe SD-WAN to create a software-defined overlay network that is independent from the carrier or physical underlying network. FatPipe's advanced policy management allows cloud destined applications to be routed directly out of the local Internet connection while maintaining corporate security policies. FatPipe Orchestrator is a single point of management that allows for rapid, zero-touch provisioning of branches. Orchestrator enhances FatPipe s patented MPSec technology with open APIs for network integration and central policy management. FatPipe s hybrid, software-defined WAN takes a 7 layered approach to achieve true WAN performance optimization that addresses each of the following: connectivity, data compression, data caching, protocol spoofing / optimization, multipath traffic shaping, security, application path optimization, and application portability. Together FatPipe SD-WAN and Avaya SDN Fx help drive simplicity and agility across the entire infrastructure with a true end-to-end application-aware unified fabric. 2

3 Avaya-FatPipe Solution Overview The Solution Overview & Target Use Cases Avaya SDN Fx Solution Overview 3

4 Avaya-FatPipe Solution Overview FatPipe SD-WAN Solution Overview 4

5 Avaya-FatPipe Use Cases Smart Site-to-Site Security Use Case Avaya-FatPipe Solution Overview Customers require security encryption across the WAN/hybrid WAN. FatPipe provides IPSec security with FIPS compatible 128/256-bit encryption. FatPipe can session-multiplex across multiple paths to increase security by several orders of magnitude, and performs smart-selective encryption without adding any additional load to a path. Security on public and lower security threshold paths can be raised easily to the level of private paths benefitting any organization requiring compliance with government regulations like HIPAA, PCI, SOX, etc. FatPipe s Smart Security effectively extends the security of the Avaya Fabric platform across the WAN. Data Compression / Application Optimization Use Case Customers require Avaya Fabric to extend across the WAN and optimization for SDN Fx MAC-in-MAC traffic. FatPipe provides WAN optimization and multi-line compression that reduces Fabric traffic by approximately 70%, thereby increasing available bandwidth. By parsing down to the payload, FatPipe can optimize packet traffic. Multi-line policy-based routing and monitoring of jitter, latency and packet loss determine the best path for VoIP, video and other mission-critical traffic. FP + Avaya offers a competitive, simple, comprehensive solution to compete effectively against vendors that present disparate products as a single solution yet are short in proven performance. 5

6 Avaya-FatPipe Solution Overview Hybrid WAN Load Balancing Use Case Customers require dynamic use of their multiple connections in an Active-Active or Active-Active-Active state. FatPipe provides connectivity using any combination of MPLS, broadband, wireless or satellite connections. FatPipe load balances across these multiple paths and split-tunnels the internet traffic to the public cloud for access to public servers. With burstability of traffic to any additional bandwidth that may be on a backup path, FatPipe augments the bandwidth on the primary path. This benefits companies with an MPLS network or multiple dedicated internet connections by allowing the use of all available bandwidth. For manufacturing, SOHO and retail companies, as well as branch offices where having a large pipe may not make operational or financial sense, FatPipe offers the option to utilize backup paths actively rather than just standing by passively. Sub-Second WAN Failover Use Case Customers require continuity of their connections so that critical transactions are completed and do not have to be repeated. FatPipe provides sub-second failover in the WAN that complements Avaya SDN Fx s sub-second failover in the LAN. Traffic-steering and failover are reduced to 200 ms or less. MPSec performs deep packet inspection and parses packets to find the optimal path; and sub-second failover provides session-connectivity without having to restart the session in the case of line failure, thereby reducing potential traffic security concerns. Critical transactions credit card, patient information, and other continuity-required transactions remain up and stateful without the need for resending, which benefits retail, health care, financial, and any institution that uses electronic payment exchanges. 6

7 Avaya-Fatpipe Solution Overview Unified Communication Enhancement Use Case Customers require transparent VoIP or video unified communications failover to improve the user experience. FatPipe provides seamless failover for voice and video sessions without dropping a call. Sub-second failover across a hybrid multi-link WAN means most users will not experience any usage degradation resulting from a line failure. This is not just simple failover: FatPipe can detect path degradation or brownouts by monitoring jitter, latency, and packet loss of a path, and adjusts application flows dynamically. This benefits any organization with mission-critical traffic demanding session continuity, whether a call center that depends on continuously available unified communications or VoIP traffic, a 911 center, or any organization that relies on stateful continuity across sessions. 7

8 Avaya-Fatpipe Solution Overview The Avaya-FatPipe Joint Solution Benefits Avaya SDN Fx Solution Benefits More than just a Spanning Tree Replacement - Avaya SDN Fx Fabric Connect delivers the full breadth of desired integrated services including Layer 2 virtualized services, Layer 3 virtualized services (with multiple Virtual Routing and Forwarding instances), and fully optimized IP Routing and IP Multicast services. More than just the Data Center - Avaya SDN Fx Fabric Connect extends network-wide, providing a single service end-to-end delivery model; with Fabric Connect you can extend the power of virtualization into the Campus and into geographically dispersed Branch Offices. Accelerates time-to-service through edge-only provisioning - Avaya SDN Fx Fabric Connect requires new services or service changes to be configured at the edge of the network only, eliminating error-prone and timeconsuming network-wide configuration practices - It allows any logical topology to be built, whether it is Layer 2, Layer 3, or a combination of the two anywhere where there is Ethernet connectivity. Natively supports Data Center Interconnect - Avaya SDN Fx Fabric Connect offers a single end-to-end service construct that can extend between multiple geographically dispersed Data Centers without requiring any overlay protocols or complex protocol stitching. Inherent multi-tenant capabilities - Avaya SDN Fx Fabric Connect offers integrated Virtual Routing and Forwarding Instances. This allows for private IP networks to be set up quickly and easily across the Fabric-enabled network in a multi-tenant environment, separating different types of users (wireless guests, executive access), and even isolating traffic types for enhanced security and/or support for regulatory compliance (i.e. banking transactions in a PCI DSS environment, medical imaging devices in a hospital). Scalability to 16 million unique services - Avaya Fabric Connect, based on the Shortest Path Bridging standard, supports a 24-bit header that allows it to scale up to 16 million unique services. An important foundation for an agile SDN strategy - When it comes to Software-Defined Networking, Avaya SDN Fx s strategy is primarily to eliminate network complexity in order to provide a simple and flexible network foundation - It provides a simplified and proven way to automate the service delivery process and evolve to the Software- Defined Network of the future. FatPipe SD-WAN 7 Layer Solution Benefits Connectivity - Provides maximum flexibility in connectivity with support for hybrid WAN connections - Provides the ability to add any combination of access into the WAN - Provides scalability beyond current needs in the number of nodes and bandwidth throughput. Application Path Optimization - Application flows can be optimized across the best paths to meet business requirements - Specific thresholds and algorithms can be used to optimize path selection for each application based on real time WAN metrics like latency, packet loss, jitter, and bandwidth - The application session state can remain persistent in the event of a path change. Application Portability - Easy deployment of an application in the data center, remote premise, the cloud, or a disaster recovery site - The solution can be configured with centralized management and can allow policies to flow to multiple sites from a single pane of glass. Application Layer Quality of Service - QoS can take into account multiple potential connections of different types at a location. This means QoS can react to circuit failures, and business priorities can be preserved in a partial outage. Security capabilities include: - Firewall - Encryption - Selective Encryption - MPSec Multi-Path Security - Web Filtering - Cloud-Hosted Security. Application Protocol Optimization - FatPipe considers application protocols with optimizations when possible. Data Caching and Compression - FatPipe easily integrates data caching and compression; data caching and compression can be policy and location driven so that they can be turned on easily for specific applications, locations, or combination of the two. 8

9 Avaya-Fatpipe Solution Overview Summary "As organizations adapt to customer and user expectations through digital transformation, hybrid cloud has become the preferred deployment model. Avaya's SDN Fx enables geo-dispersed sites to inter-connect, but it needs to interoperate with SD-WAN solutions to realize maximum efficiencies. FatPipe and Avaya are delivering the first fabric-enabled SD-WAN solution in the industry. Automatically detecting and re-routing a degrading WAN connection provides seamless failover of VoIP, video and data sessions, ensuring the reliable quality communications and uptime our customers require." Jean Turgeon Vice President & Chief Technologist, Avaya From the Datacenter-to-Desktop, the FatPipe + Avaya Fabric-enabled SD-WAN solution combines the patented technology and decades of experience of two networking innovators to uniquely Unleash the Power of Network. Customers can now enjoy the simplicity and security of their Avaya SDN Fx fabricenabled LANs reach seamlessly across their SD-WANs, while increasing the performance and resilience of the entire network. By maximizing the utilization of available bandwidths, optimizing WAN performance and dynamically providing lower cost options that augment dedicated paths, the FatPipe + Avaya solution offers customers a next-generation hybrid software-defined WAN that is not only ready to deploy today but also anticipates the converged networking needs of the future. Avaya and FatPipe are registered trademarks of Avaya and FatPipe, Inc. Other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their registered owners. FatPipe Networks