CA Virtual Network Assurance for SDN/NFV

CA Virtual Network AssuranceAccelerate the conversion to the software-defined world

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90%By 2019, video will make up 90% of all

internet traffic1

213M213 million packets per second achieved

in recent NFV performance tests3

26BBy 2020, there will be 26 billion internet

connected devices2

1 Cisco Visual Network Index: Forecast and Methodology, 2014-2019 White Paper, 27 May 2015, http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collateral/service-provider/ip-ngn-ip-next-generation-network/white_paper_c11-481360.html2 Gartner: IoT and SDN Spark the Network Transformation Into a Universal Utility, 06 March 2015, http://www.gartner.com/document/30009173 Red Hat Satack: Scaling NFV to 213 Million Packets per Second with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Open Stack, and DPDK, 19 Aug 2015, http://redhatstackblog.redhat.com/2015/08/19/scaling-nfv-to-213-million-packets-per-second-with-red-hat-enterprise-linux-openstack-and-dpdk/

welcome to the

Application Economy


who is leading the

Transformation?

Senior executive vice president of AT&T Technology and Operations

“We are currently running traffic from millions of wireless customers over our software defined network.”

- John Donovan

http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/atts-donovan-traffic-millions-wireless-customers-now-running-sdn-architectu/2015-10-08

Telefonica to have 30% of its network virtualized by

2016.

http://saladeprensa.telefonica.com/jsp/base.jsp?contenido=/jsp/notasdeprensa/notadetalle.jsp&id=0&origen=portada&idm=eng&pais=1&elem=20598

CenturyLink offers NFV-enhanced services to enterprise and SMB

customers.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/03/12/ca-cyan-idUKnBw125182a+100+BSW20150312


SO WHAT’S THE PROBLEM?

We’re at the Beginning of a Revolution…Are you Ready?SDN/NFV will fuel the Application Economy


SDN Requires Your Immediate AttentionCan you afford to lose control of your network?

NO

SELF HEALING

REDUCED

FLEXIBILITY

IMPAIRED

TROUBLESHOOTING

LIMITED

VISIBILITY

What, when, where and why did something happen?


Today’s Infrastructure Management solutions will not work for SDN/NFV

Today’s Infrastructure ManagementThe complexity & static nature of traditional networks creates a siloed infrastructure management approach based on manual consumption.

Support Service Operation NOC Engineer Lab

Complex, Disparate Steps

Service Provisioning

Manual Processes

Polled Data Collection

Infrastructure Management

Traditional NetworksOver-provisioned, Static, Long Service Up-Time


Operational Challenges

Customers, users

WAN/WWW

LEGACY NETWORK

SDN/NFV ecosystem

WAN/WWW

Difficult to pinpoint root cause of issues,

performance suffers, slow MTTR

Inability to trace performance issues in highly complex

multi-layered stack

Complexity of service chain breeds

performance bottlenecks

No visibility into physical/virtual

network relationships and dependencies

Hosted Online Store

WAN/WWW

LEGACY NETWORK

Service Orchestrator

Controller OpenStack

Service Chain

Virtual Machines

L2 Tunnels/vNet

vRouters vSwitches

Hypervisors Host OS

Physical Hosts

FW LB Cache Opt


SELF SERVICE CUSTOMIZED INSTANT FULLFILLMENT

OPTIMIZED

Business Expectations of SDNHow do you ensure success?

Faster time to market – Faster time to revenue – Faster pace of innovation


toDYNAMIC

Move fromSTATIC


CA’s Solution to the SDN/NFV Assurance Challenges

CA Performance Management

CA Spectrum®

CA Unified Infrastructure Management(Future)

MULTI-VENDOR SESSION BROKER

Normalizes data from Collector and multi-vendor variants and applies relationship map to track correlation

MULTI-PURPOSE OPEN COLLECTOR

Provides multiple means of collecting real-time, high volume inventory and performance data from SDN-NFV environments

CA Virtual Network Assurance

Service Chain

Service Chain

Service Chain

Integrated Hybrid Monitoring

Self-Healing (Future)Network Service & Multi-

tenant AwarenessMulti-Layer Inventory

Tracking and PerformanceAuthority (Future)

SDN/NFV stack



Service Chain

Virtual Machines

L2 Tunnels/vNet

vRouters vSwitches

Hypervisors Host OS

Physical Hosts

FW LB Cache Opt

CA Virtual Network Assurance is a flexible and scalable solution providing extended visibility into the multi-layered SDN/NFV stack and its physical network relationships for improved orchestration and agility.


Operational Confidence

Quickly pinpoint root cause of issues

for improved performance and

faster MTTR

Accurate identification of

data plane performance issues

Remove management complexity with deep performance analysis of all layers in stack

Extended visibility and mapping of physical/virtual network worlds

Focus on the user experience, not technology complexity

Customers, users

WAN/WWW

LEGACY NETWORK

WAN/WWW

Hosted Online Store

WAN/WWW

LEGACY NETWORK

SDN/NFV ecosystem



Service Chain

L2 Tunnels/vNet

vRouters vSwitches

Hypervisors Host OS

Physical Hosts

Virtual Machines


Tomorrow’s Infrastructure Management SolutionsThe closed loop journey to agility without complexity



Service Chain

Virtual Machines

L2 Tunnels/vNet

vRouters vSwitches

Hypervisors Host OS

Physical Hosts

FW LB Cache OptSERVICE ASSURANCE

SDN

/NFV

Stack

Service Request

Assurance

Security

DevOps


Open Architecture for SDN/NFV Visibility, Versatility & Agility

Service Chaining

Utilization

Relationship/Dependency Mapping

Technical Specifications

Minimum Software Requirements

• RHEL 6.x and 7.x• Java 8 (1.8.0_45)

Supported SDN/NFV Environments

• Controllers: Open Contrail 2.20-2.21, OpenDaylight (Helium), VMware NSX 4.2.4, On-demand Plug-ins

• Cloud Orchestration: OpenStack (Juno, Kilo), On-demand Plug-ins• NFV Orchestration: On-demand Plug-ins

SDN/NFV Supported Use Cases

• Virtual Customer Premise Equipment (vCPE) • vGiLAN• Service Chaining • Underlay-Overlay Topology Mapping• SDN/NFV Health Dashboards

Management Capabilities

• Communication Protocols: REST API, Web sockets• Managed Entity Types: VNF, VM, vNet, Service Chains, vSwitch,

Hypervisor, Host• Data Type: Inventory, Performance • Data Transfer: Poll; Pub/Sub Notifications

Supported Clients • CA Performance Management 2.7• CA Spectrum 10.1• 3rd Party Infrastructure Management solutions


SDN/NFV Health

API/SNMP Metrics

Service ChainOptimization

Leading the Industry in SDN/NFV Assurance


Gain Operational Confidence

IDENTIFY

VULNERABILITIES

ENABLE

SELFHEALING

DELIVER

FLEXIBILITYEXTEND

VISIBILITY

Complete awareness into

overlay/underlay relationships and

dependencies

Single source of truth for multi-vendor,

multi-communication SDN/NFV and legacy

environments

High volume, real-time data collection tracks

changes in highly dynamic environment

while protecting existing investments

Accurate performance data becomes trusted

component in automation chain


Deliver Next Generation Services

COMPLETE

DEVOPS

MONETIZE

SERVICEOFFERINGS

REDUCE

CAPEX

RE-INVENT

SERVICEDELIVERY

Test and certify earlier on live networks to

safeguard releases

Maximize infrastructure spend

and avoid over-provisioning with

improved resource efficiency

Accelerate production

deployments and tailor services in

real time

Ensure next generation network reliability to support

new service identification &

offerings


SPEEDFaster, Agile Monitoring

SCALEFuture Proofing Business

QUALITYDifferentiate by Experience

70% 65%

30%

Increased visibility2 Productivity improvement3

70%

1 –BlueCross BlueShield Tennessee Customer Success Story2 - CA Technologies and Tech Validate survey of 81 current Infrastructure Management customers, 20133 – CA Technologies and Gateway Research survey of current Infrastructure Management customers, 20154 – CA Technologies case study on third largest US telecommunications provider

Extending Our Best of Breed Expertise

AGILITY WITHOUT COMPLEXITY

Improved MTTR2

80%

Components managed4

2M+

Management server reduction3

50%

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