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Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) v4.1 Overview & Demo. Agenda. Enterprise Application Delivery Challenges Introducing Cisco Wide Area Application Services Summary DEMO Q&A. The WAN Is A Barrier To Consolidation. Applications perform well in LAN: High bandwidth Low latency
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Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) v4.1Overview & Demo
Agenda • Enterprise Application Delivery Challenges • Introducing Cisco Wide Area Application Services • Summary • DEMO • Q&A
The WAN Is A Barrier To Consolidation • Applications perform well in LAN: • High bandwidth • Low latency • Reliability • Applications perform poorly in WAN: • Already congested • Low bandwidth • Latency • Packet Loss Round Trip Time (RTT) ~ 0mS Client LAN Switch Server Round Trip Time (RTT) ~ many many milliseconds WAN LAN Switch Client Server LAN Switch
Cisco Application Delivery Networks Network Classification • Quality of service • Network-based app recognition • Queuing, policing, shaping • Visibility, monitoring, control Application Scalability • Server load-balancing • Site selection • SSL termination and offload • Video delivery Application Networking • Message transformation • Protocol transformation • Message-based security • Application visibility WAN Application Acceleration • Latency mitigation • Application data cache • Meta data cache • Local services WAN Acceleration • Data redundancy elimination • Window scaling • LZ compression • Adaptive congestion avoidance Application Optimization • Delta encoding • FlashForward optimization • Application security • Server offload
Agenda • Enterprise Application Delivery Challenges • Introducing Cisco Wide Area Application Services • Summary • DEMO • Q&A
Internet WAN V B 1 V B 2 V B 3 Cisco WAASComprehensive WAN Optimization Solution • Accelerates applications over the WAN • Delivers video to the branch • Provides local hosting of branch IT services Data Center Mobile Remote Office Optimized Connections VPN Optimized Connections Remote Office Optimized Connections Optimized Connection Remote Office Optimized Connections Backup Data Center
WAN Seamless and Transparent Integration Cisco Integrated Services Router • Compliance with critical network services • Industry’s only holistic and secure optimization, visibility, and control solution • Quality of Service (QoS) • Classification, NBAR, marking • Policing, shaping, queuing, WRED • LFI, header compression • Network Management • NAM, PVM, NetFlow • NetQoS, IP SLA • Security • IOS Firewall, IDS, IPS, ACL, VPN • Optimized Routing • Network Path Affinity (NPA) • Optimized Edge Routing, PBR • Quality of Service (QoS) • Network Analysis/NetFlow • IOS Firewall • Intrusion Prevention • Optimized Edge Routing • Policy Based Routing • IP Service Level Agreements • VPN Cisco Wide Area Application Services • Application Optimizers • Advanced Compression • Transport Optimization SrcIP 1.1.1.1DstIP 2.2.2.2 SrcPrt 1434DstPort 80 optimized SrcPrt 1434DstPort 80 SrcIP 1.1.1.1DstIP 2.2.2.2 APP DATA
WAAS Product Line Overview Location & Size* Data Center & Campus Platforms Data Center & Campus WAE-7371 Branch up to 400 users* WAE-674 Branch Office & Mobile User Platforms WAE-7341 WAVE-574 Branch: Up to 150 users* WAE-612 NME-522 NME-502 Branch: Up to 50 users* WAE-512 WANopt + Video Platform WAVE-274 Branch: Up to 20 users* WAVE-474 WANopt + Video + Virtual Blade Platform NME-302 WAAS Mobile Mobile User(Branch of 1) * Indicative sizing only. Please refer to WAAS sizing guidelines specific sizing, which often varies by customers
WAN and Application Optimization WAN Bandwidth Savings Fewer Roundtrips LAN-LikeThroughput 60Mbps 3 Mbps 50 Mbps 2.5 Mbps 40 Mbps WAN Consumption Drops 67% 2 Mbps 30 Mbps Throughput 1.5 Mbps 20 Mbps Throughput 1 Mbps 10 Mbps .5 Mbps 01:20 01:21 01:22 01:23 01:24 01:25 Throughput 01:26 01:20 01:21 01:22 01:23 01:24 01:25 01:26 Throughput Optimization Enabled End User Throughput Goes up 5x TCP Flow Optimization (TFO) Advanced Compression/Cache Application SpecificAcceleration • Data redundancy elimination(Up to 100:1 compression) • Persistent LZ compression (additional 10:1 compression) • Application protocol aware • Windows file services (CIFS) • Windows print services • Server offload technology • LAN-like TCP behavior • Loss mitigation • Slow-start mitigation
Cisco WAAS Product Architecture Platform Management and Services CIFS AO MAPI AO HTTP AO SSL AO Video AO NFS AO WoW Virtual Blade # 2 Virtual Blade # 3 Configuration Management System (CMS) Embedded virtualization TCP Proxy with Scheduler Optimizer (SO) DRE, LZ, TFO Cisco WAAS Operating System Policy Engine, Filter-Bypass, Egress Method, Directed Mode, Auto-Discovery Disk Storage (Cache, VB storage etc.) Ethernet Network I/O
Object Cache Verification Security and ControlWAN Optimization Server Safely OffloadedFewer Servers NeededPower/Cooling Savings WAN LAN-like Performance WAN Bandwidth Savings Application-Specific Acceleration • Application and Protocol Awareness • Minimize chatter through protocol proxy-caching, read-ahead, write-behind, and other optimization • Safe caching preserves coherency, integrity while improving performance and saving WAN bandwidth • Scheduled File preposition enables intelligent distribution of large objects to improve performance • Intelligent Server Offload • Caching and optimizations minimize workload on accelerated servers enabling consolidation along with centralization • WAAS Application Accelerators • CIFS, NFS, MAPI, Video, HTTP, SSL • Windows printing • Licensed developed and validated with application vendors Remote Office Data Center
BRANCH OFFICE DATA CENTER User Desktop eLearning Web Portal 1 Open Web page *.ASX Windows Media file points to *.WMA video file Video.asx WAN <ASX Version = "3.0"> <Title>My Video</Title> <Entry> <Title>Video Title</Title> <Ref href = “file://\\ServerName\Path\Filename.wmv" /> </Entry> </ASX> 2 Click on VoD (Video.asx) 3 ... opens Windows Media Player Scheduled prepositioning WAAS WAAS CIFS Windows File server CIFS 4’ Play Video .wma file locally 4 Play Video .wma file Video.wma \\CIFS_server\Directory\Video.wmv VoD Streaming in a Microsoft Environment –
BRANCH OFFICE DATA CENTER 2 Click on published URL to get live stream Web Portal List of scheduled live streaming events Microsoft Windows Media Server (WMS) 3 Opens Windows Media Player Encoder 1 Uncompressed Video WAN WAAS WAAS WAAS WAAS BRANCH OFFICE BRANCH OFFICE Live Video Streaming with WAASEdge stream splitting Only one stream per remote site auto-detect RTSP connections (no configuration required) Note: Separate WAAS license for Windows Media Live Streaming required per contract w/Microsoft
Replication Acceleration Mode Overview • WAEs in Replication Accelerator mode have • TFO tuned to address TCP issues for high speed WAN links • DRE tuned for low latency processing requirements for DC to DC Replication • Default policy in Replication Accelerator mode is tuned for Replication Applications LocalDatacenter RemoteDatacenter WAN High Throughput SRDF/A Snap mirror
WAAS MobileOptimized Solution for Mobile Access • Purpose-built for the PC/Laptop • Results in better stability & reliability of on the Windows PC • Small PC footprint solution • Not an appliance software ported to Windows OS • Similar to Cisco’s approach with VPN client • Industry leading performance • Compression algorithms “ideal” to accelerate VPN connections • Special encoders to improve first time download • Link modeling for flow control • Persistence of byte cache across client reboots and different types of links • Significantly higher throughput better application performance across a wide range of links • Lowest TCO • Customized deployment and integration with software distribution systems • Centralized client policy and patch management • User accessible diagnostics and 1-click troubleshooting WAAS Mobile SW over VPN WAAS Mobile Server Results in the best mobile users’ experience
Branch optimized IT services Read-only Domain Controller Print services DNS/DHCP services Complete WAN optimization + application acceleration Ability to host Windows services locally Cisco WAAS with pre-packaged Windows Server 2008 services • Jointly developed architecture • Joint customer support Microsoft and Cisco Solution Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Server Core Cisco WAASwith Virtualization
Scalable, Secure Central Management • Centralized Management • Robust management, monitoring, and reporting for up to 2500 nodes • Device grouping for simplified rollout of configuration changes • Device and system alarms, as well as integration with SNMP and syslog • Secure Management Platform • SSL-encrypted HTTP GUI and intra-device communication • Roles-based Access Control (RBAC) to isolate users to specific capabilities and domains of management • Integrated IOS-like CLI accessible via SSH (also telnet, serial) • High Availability Configurations • Active/standby deployments with automatic failover, replication of Central Manager database, and encryption keys • SOA-ready Monitoring • Standard XML Web Service (SOAP) • Integration with external reporting and monitoring portals
Agenda • Enterprise Application Delivery Challenges • Introducing Cisco Wide Area Application Services • Summary • DEMO • Q&A
Before and After: Improvements in Response Time WAN Optimization On WAN Optimization On WAN Optimization On WAN Optimization On
Agenda • Enterprise Application Delivery Challenges • Introducing Cisco Wide Area Application Services • Summary • DEMO • Q&A
DEMO • The Power of DRE • CIFS Prepositioning • Video / Stream Splitting