At-A-GlanceCisco Unified Service Delivery (USD) Enables Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

Infrastructure-as-a-Service Cisco has developed guidelines for Compute-as-a-Service, one of the many types of services under IaaS. laaS enabled by Cisco technology comprises the following product set:

1. Computing: Cisco Unified Computing System, third-party servers, VMware ESX Vi4 Hypervisor

2. Virtual Access: Cisco Nexus™ 1000V

3. Access and Aggregation: Redundant Cisco Nexus 5020 Series Switches, 10G network supporting Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) to servers

4. Storage Array: Third-party storage

5. Core Switching: Redundant Cisco Nexus 7010 Series Switches, Layer 2 multipathing

6. Services Core: Redundant Cisco Catalyst® 6500-VSS, Cisco Application Control Engine, and Cisco Firewall Service Modules

7. Peering Router: Redundant Cisco 7600 Series Routers; Carrier Ethernet with L2VPN and L3VPN

What Is the Value of Cisco Technology in Enabling Infrastructure-as-a-Service?Cisco provides products, technologies, and designs that form the foundation for service providers (SP) worldwide to offer new, higher value services such as Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). These products and technologies can facilitate service providers in delivering business-class IT services that capitalize on their IP Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) and data center assets.

IaaS enabled by Cisco® technology helps service pro-viders to offer their customers the flexibility of capacity-on-demand, at scale with multitenancy capabilities to amortize their infrastructure across multiple customers. IaaS also helps accelerate the service provider cloud computing operational model and establish a competi-tive position for future cloud services.

What Problems Does laaS Help Solve?Worldwide service providers face the common business challenges of:

Low and declining margins on hosted, colocation, •and similar services

Increasing operating expenses • Need to support growth while addressing •competitive pressures

Complexity in existing data center setups• Inability to quickly provision new services to •their customers

IaaS enabled by Cisco technology can help service providers address these challenges by:

Providing the foundation for higher value IT service •offerings (for example, on-demand computing and storage services)

Significantly cutting power, cooling, and manage-•ment costs compared to traditional data center designs

Helping service providers offer effective solutions •that provide new revenue opportunities while addressing business IT challenges

Baseline – Network Only

FC Partners

IP-NGN

Internet

VSwitch Storageand SAN

Compute Access Aggregation Core Peering IP-NGNBackbone

Nexus1000v

MDS 9000 +Consolidated

Storage Arrays(EMC, etc.)

UCS orWhite-Box

Servers

Nexus 5000 Nexus 7000(w/Cisco

Catalyst 6500 asServices Chassis)

Nexus7000

7600 CRS-1ASR 9000ASR 1000

7600

GSSGSLB

Cluster

WAAS

AXG

AVS

EmbeddedServices

SSL

FWDDoS

IDS

ACE

10G Ethernet10G FCoE4G FC1G EthernetVM to VSwitchVSwitch to HWApp to HW/VM

ApplicationSoftware

VirtualMachine

Cisco andThird-Party

Applications

VMWarevSphere 4

ESX 4

OSApp

OSApp

OSApp

OSApp

OSApp

OSApp

OSApp

OSApp

OSApp

OSApp

OSApp

OSApp

OSApp

OSApp

OSApp

Baseline – Network with Application PlaceholdersBaseline – Functional ViewApplicationSoftware

VirtualMachine

VSwitch Storageand SAN

Compute Access Aggregation Core Peering IP-NGNBackbone

ApplicationSoftware

VirtualMachine

Baseline + Video OverlayVSwitch Storage

and SANCompute Access Aggregation Core Peering IP-NGN

Backbone

Subscriber “C”Application 2

Subscriber “A”Application 1

Subscriber “B”Application 1

Subscriber “A”Application 2

Subscriber “B”Application 2

ApplicationSoftware

VirtualMachine

Baseline + Cloud Computing OverlayVSwitch Storage

and SANCompute Access Aggregation Core Peering IP-NGN

Backbone

App 1

App 1

App 2

App 2

Subscriber “C”Application 1 App 1

App 2

ApplicationSoftware

VirtualMachine

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS):VSwitch Storage

and SANCompute Access Aggregation Core Peering IP-NGN

Backbone

The system simplified network diagram is as follows:

At-A-Glance

Cisco has developed detailed laaS product configuration and deployment guides, thereby greatly reducing both the risk and time to deploy services.

Cisco Advanced Services and other technical teams are also available when service providers need professional services assistance to further reduce both risk and time to revenue for new services.

What Are the Benefits of Infrastructure-as-a-Service?The benefits of Infrastructure-as-a-Service to the service provider include:

Potential for increased revenue and higher margin services• Increased productivity in IT, and network engineering and operations•Reduced operating costs within the data center•Ability to reach or expand into new markets•Ability to introduce new services more quickly• Improved competitiveness with security and application performance capabilities•

Why Cisco?Cisco addresses the business problems in a holistic manner, from the applications to the end customers. The Cisco solution can help service providers deploy new higher-margin IT services more quickly and with lower capital and operations costs. Superior features include:

Security and application performance•Service provider class scaling• Ease of migration of existing data centers and their evolution to support •future services

Low initial investment for service trialing and introduction• Designs validated by Cisco, including third-party technology•Risk reduction to deploy new services•Rapid introduction of new services•

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Cisco Unified Service Delivery (USD) Enables Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)