15. Software Defined Intelligence (SDI)
SDN + Machine Learning
• SDI foundations: Data Science and
Machine Learning
• First applications will be in “Network
Learning”
– More generally: “Predictive” Security
– Predict eminent DDOS rather than
reacting to an existing DDOS
• “The probability you will experience
a DDOS is 0.05”
– Detecting spam prefixes in the
Internet routing table based on
various data sources
• Larger goal: Uncover new relationships
and structure in network data
• Trivial example: “Better Data Centers
Through Machine Learning”
– Google PUE example
The shift to The New IP will also impact and create business opportunities through a set of enabling technologies that will be required at the architectural levels.
We believe it begins with a move to a software-defined network (SDN) architecture that decouples the control and data elements of a network in favor of an open, centralized management model.
We also believe that The New IP should embrace a flexible choice of physical underlays that underpin the architecture. Specifically, Brocade will support a wide variety of storage and data center fabrics, server hardware, and even commodity off-the-shelf platforms This gives customers the benefit of architectural choice.
The New IP must also support new classes of network visibility and analytics tools to tap into big data applications and other use cases. Jason will follow me and provide more details and updates on some important advancements we’re delivering in the area of storage networking, fabrics, and network visibility and analytics.
The New IP will also enable a variety of network functions delivered virtually through software that supplements single-function hardware appliances. Brocade is already a major player in the NFV space with more than a million downloads of our software. We also recently introduced an open virtual platform called the Vyatta Services Platform that will enable (Vyatta means “open”)
The New IP also supports open approaches to network control through SDN technologies. In fact, we introduced the Brocade Vyatta Controller that is built on the latest OpenDaylight Project software code. Kelly will follow Jason and give details on the advancements we’re making in both SDN and NFV.
Full support for open control and orchestration systems that are available today and will be developed in the future. Therefore, it is critical that the New IP architecture has to open by design for investment protection and for seamless upgradeability.
The adoption of these New IP technologies will shift spending power to organizations who will deliver capacity and resources at scale. This includes large enterprises and SPs as I explained earlier. Jeff Lindholm, our SVP of Worldwide Sales will follow Kelly to explain how Brocade has evolved our sales strategy and organization to take advantages of the business opportunities in The New IP.
Finally, Dan will follow Jeff to provide an update on the financial model and outlook.
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As the name implies, Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) takes networking functions, such as routing and load balancing, and puts them in software that runs on general-purpose x86 based machines. At Brocade we call this software networking.
This movement towards software is largely being driven by the improvements in packet processing capability in Intel processors.
In late 2012, over twenty of the world’s largest telecommunications service providers formed an Industry Specification Group (ISG) within the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to define Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)
This group included companies like, AT&T, Verizon, Deutsche Telekom, NTT, and Telecom Italia
And again, this initiative was also not initially led by networking equipment companies
I’ve pointed this out a few times now to emphasize the momentum behind these trends.
These are not new features being pushed by the network industry to sell more boxes,
but are developing solutions to meet real business challenges being pushed by the organizations facing those challenges.
The motivation behind NFV is that network operators and service providers are facing serious challenges with the variety of hardware-based appliances they have to maintain
Launching new network services often requires yet another hardware appliance and finding space and power to accommodate such boxes is becoming increasingly difficult, not to mention the additional operational complexity of integrating and deploying these physical devices in a network.
These challenges restrict the speed at which innovative new application services can be offered and the ROI of the service infrastructure. This can make it inherently harder to deploy new services. The goal of NFV is to help address and solve such issues and ultimately reduce the costs of doing this significantly.
Of additional benefit to Federal Government operators is the value of reduced Size, Weight, and Power in emergency (1st responder) and tactical networks. Where as previously multiple separate appliances were required at a remote terminal or communications node, to preform functions such as routing, WAN acceleration, and encryption; these services can now be performed on a few ruggedized, compact, virtualized server systems.
We are actively working with the OpenStack community to ensure all Brocade data center technologies, including VCS fabrics, fibre channel fabrics and our NFV portfolio which are fully provisionable by OpenStack.
The industry-leading level of automation native to a VCS Fabric, combined with the abstraction and ease of provisioning provided by OpenStack, will allow customers to deploy network capacity in their cloud-based data centers far more quickly than is possible with legacy network architectures and provisioning tools.
We have contributed a VCS plugin to the OpenStack repository and it is included in the “Grizzly” release of OpenStack.
We’re now working with several leading distribution vendors, such as Red Hat, who are delivering to the market commercial-grade versions of OpenStack with full support and services.
Brocade is also taking a leadership role and working with key partners and customers to drive the addition of fibre channel SAN provisioning into OpenStack.
Our goal is to ensure that fibre channel customers who choose to adopt OpenStack for their cloud architecture can easily move their mission-critical SANs into the orchestration environment provided by OpenStack.
The NOVA solution as you can see will connect to the network operators EPC or Mobile Data center network through the various gateways.
Now that we have looked at the architectural framework and the types of analytics that the solution supports lets look a the use cases we have targeted which are based on customer requirements as well as where this solution best fits.
RAN: Radio Access Network
RNC: Radio Network Controller
MME: Mobile Management Entity
SGSN: Serving GPRS Support Node
GGSN: Gateway GPRS Support Node
P-GW: Packet Gateway