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Evolution and Future of Networking on Reliant Platform
October 2018
Agenda
• A Brief History of Reliant Platform Network Services
• Evolution to Current Reliant Networking Solutions
• What’s Coming Next? Networks as Software.
Early Platform Services
Early Reliant Platform provided basic common LAN and WAN services.
I. LAN Side Services:
• Bridging – Grouping multiple physical and logical ports into a common layer 2 network segment.
• Physical Segmentation – Layer 3 segmentation by physical port.
• VLANs – logical layer 3 segmentation by virtual interfaces and VLAN tagging.
Early Platform Services
(Cont.)
II. WAN Side Services:
• Ethernet uplink to broadband Internet (Cable, DSL, etc.) or Private network (T1, MPLS, VPN, etc.)
• SSL/TLS based VPN over Internet service
• Standby backup WAN failover
Early Platform Network Services
(Cont.)
III. Firewall –Layer 3 stateful firewall
IV. Content Filtering
• HTTP content filtering
– Whitelist
– Blacklist
– Category
Early Platform Network Services
(Cont.)
V. Configuration As Code
• Common configuration across groups of devices.
• Network configuration updates delivered by Puppet infrastructure.
• Configuration updates required code release.
Early Platform Network Services
• Simple store configurations like this no longer meet the challenges of retail and hospitality.
• Current and future networks must meet the demands of omnichannel, multimedia, high availability, speed, and service quality.
Current Platform Network Services The current Reliant Platform system adds a host of enhanced services and management agility through Reliant Platform Manager (RPM).
I. Rapid central network reconfiguration without code updates.
• Ability to update network configuration centrally for one or many locations.
• Centrally managed and rapidly applied firewall changes.
Current Platform Network Services
(cont.)
II. Load balanced and multi-point TLS VPN.
• Connect sites to multiple datacenters or cloud services.
• Build concentrators with redundant VPN instances.
III. Robust Routing Protocol Support.
• OSPF and BGP supported to share route information dynamically across platforms.
Current Platform Network Services
(cont.)
IV. Application and Micro Segmentation
• Use of virtual containers and virtual machines to isolate applications.
• Containers and VMs can be logically attached to any VLAN.
V. High Availability on the LAN
• Use of network clustering to create Active/Standby hardware pair.
So, where are we going?
Enhanced Management and SDN
Enhanced Management
Enhanced Network Configuration Management in RPM
• Enhanced Firewall Rule Management
• Transparent HTTPS Proxy
• Extended DHCP Configuration Management
SDN, SD-WAN, and SD-Security
• Robust and Feature Rich Networking
What is it and what are the key advantages?
• Hardware Agnostic Solution
• Intelligent Traffic Flow and Route Management
• Bandwidth Aggregation
• Advanced Firewall and Security
• Scalability
SDN Features and Benefits• Seamless Networking Between Cloud, HQ, Stores, Etc.
• Scalable Based on Licensing and Resource Provisioning.
• Agility – Rapid Upgrade and Feature Roll Out.
• Central Orchestration.
• Vendor Independence.
• Manage Traffic Flows Across Different Networks
• Widely Adopted as “Network as a Service” Solution
SDN Key Terms
• SDN – Software Defined Networking
What Does it All Mean?
• NFV – Network Function Virtualization
• VNF – Virtual Network Function
• Control Plane vs. Data Plane
Reliant Platform and SDN
Integrated Approach to SD-WAN
• SD-WAN VNFs Delivered as VMs
• Reliant Platform Hosts VMs with Tight Integration
• Ability to Deliver, Host and Manage the VNF
• Simplify Infrastructure
SD-Security
Advanced Security Delivered as a VNF
• Stateful Next Gen Firewall
• Malware Protection
• URL and Content Filtering
• IPS and AV
• DDoS Detection
SummaryReliant Platform Networking Is:
– Industry Standard Routing and Firewall Features
– VPN Fault Tolerance
– Network and Application Segmentation and Isolation
– Central Network Configuration Management
– High Availability Capable
Reliant Is Planning:
– Greater Management Control in Platform Manager
– Advanced Firewall/URL Proxy
– Integrated SD-WAN and SD-Security
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