Webinar: The Software Matters in Open Networking

Join Storage Switzerland and Pluribus Networks where we will answer the following questions:
• What are the benefits of open networking and SDN in the data center?
• How can I safely migrate to a disaggregated white box architecture when I have incumbent vendors deployed throughout my network?
• How do I deploy SDN in my data center and do I need a full hardware refresh to do it?

1. The Software Matters in Open Networking For audio playback and Q&A go to: bit.ly/SWOpenNet

2. Our Speakers Mike Capuano, CMO George Crump, F ounder and Lead Analyst

3. The Open Networking Journey Network Disaggregation Software Defined Networking Intent Based Networking

4. Step 1: Understanding White Box Networking and Open Network Operating Systems

5. What is White Box and Open Networking? Network Disaggregation The Rise of Merchant Silicon Network Switch Operating Systems Proprietary Network Switch Operating Systems Open Network Switch Operating Systems Leads to White Box Networking

6. Selecting the Right Network Operating System Enterprise/Carrier Grade Resiliency Rich L2/L3 for Brownfield Insertion Network Slicing/Segmentation REST API parity with CLI Rich Network Statistics Evolve from NOS to SDN

7. Step 2: Understanding SDN in the Open Networking ERA

8. What is SDN? Goal is to separate control plane and data plane functions Single Point of Control Advanced SDN Creates a Fabric of Network Switches

9. Controller based vs. Controller-less SDN Controller-based Uses a dedicated set of hardware and software to manage control plane “ Brains” of the network Holds all state, point of programming and control Required for operation - must be highly available Very expensive Major problem if OOB management channel fails Limits Geographic distribution

10. Controller based vs. Controller-less SDN Controller-less SDN Next Generation SDN Switches federate together into a management fabric, act like one big switch Any switch can be the single point of control Multiple paths, no single point of failure Fast convergence Spans multiple geographies

11. Internet Based Networking What is IBN? State business intent Analytics + AI/ML + SDN configure network From reactive to proactive Very early days Network should be “Intent-ready” Rich telemetry Comprehensive API Single point of SDN control Open

12. Adaptive Cloud Fabric Automation | Segmentation | Security | VirtualWire Distributed Controller Fabric and Services Our Products & Software Stack 11 Pluribus UNUM Management, Automation and Insight Analytics Fabric Manager | Zero Touch Provisioning | Insight Analytics Fabric-Wide RESTful APIs and CLI Integrated Visibility and Telemetry Intelligence & Telemetry Pervasive visibility for every port, connection and flow Netvisor ONE Network OS High-Performance OS Mature Layer 2/3/VXLAN Stack REST API with CLI parity Adaptive Cloud Fabric Distributed Controllerless Overlay Fabric Next Generation SDN Open Networking Switches Dell, Edgecore, Ericsson Pluribus Freedom Series Open || Carrier-Grade || Disruptive Economics || Programmability || Multi-Tenancy

13. Adaptive Cloud Fabric Adaptive Cloud Fabric IP Network Border Leaf Cluster DC Gateways Third Party Spine Network Overlay VMs Services VMs Distributed VRF with Anycast Gateway Core Network VTEP VTEP VTEP Network Slicing/Segmentation Auto Provisioned VXLANs Orchestration

14. 15 km Adaptive Cloud Fabric Enterprise Private Cloud w/ VMware vCenter Integration Multi-site DC Geo-Distribution VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM DC2 (new) DC3 (next phase) 220 km Firewall Cluster ( Fortigate ) Internet End Customers HQ Users & DevOps API Distributed Network Services Single point of control for vCenter

15. Higher Education Traffic Segmentation Centralize Security Policies For Untrusted Wireless Traffic Firewall Cluster Untrusted wireless traffic Overlay Security Fabric Datacenter Filtering and steering of untrusted wireless traffic on the overlay Centralized policies to filter untrusted wireless users

16. Hybrid Cloud w/ VMware vCenter & Open Stack : Resilient Multi-DC Cloud Solution 250 km Adaptive Cloud Fabric Site 1 Site 4 Enterprise Customers Site 2 Site 3 WAN Firewall Cluster Internet active standby VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM API VM VM VM VM High-Scale Distributed Multi- Tenant Network Services Pluribus Leaf and Spine

17. Commercial Enterprise Traffic Segmentation IoT /Cloud Services Traffic Isolation 16 IoT traffic Overlay Security Fabric Datacenter 3 rd Party Cloud Tools For IoT IoT Headend (controller) IoT traffic IoT traffic IoT traffic

18. Faster to deploy, upgrade, troubleshoot & reduces human errors 17 Single Point Of Control Simple overlay with services Simple Geo-scale Fully Distributed Architecture 1 2 4 5 Standard Protocols, Interoperable 3 Easy insertion into brownfield networks & any L2/L3 topology - works w/existing spines Simple to scale to multiple sites – across campus, across world Highly-Available architecture with no single point of failures 30% - 50% TCO Reduction Comprehensive slicing/segmentation & automated deployment of overlay network services per tenant. Advantages and Benefits Of The Adaptive Cloud Fabric

19. Corporate Highlights Leader in Open Networking & SDN Corporate HQ in Silicon Valley, CA Award Winning Innovation Strategic partnerships: Ericsson, Tibco, Dell, Edgecore, D-Link Global 24x7 support, TAC personnel w/avg. 15 yrs. experience 150+ Global customer deployments across SP & Enterprise

20. Thank you! Storage Switzerland www.storageswiss.com [email protected] StorageSwiss on Twitter: twitter.com/storageswiss StorageSwiss on YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/storageswiss Pluribus Networks www.pluribusnetworks.com [email protected] Pluribus on Twitter: twitter.com/pluribusnet Pluribus on Facebook : www.facebook.com/pluribusnetworks/

21. The Software Matters in Open Networking For complete audio and Q&A please register for the On Demand Version: go to: bit.ly/SWOpenNet