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Key questions
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What is “Hybrid Networking” all about?
How can I use Riverbed and Hybrid Networking to my advantage?
Does Hybrid Networking help get me to Location Independent
Computing?
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Application Growth Challenges the Network
Changing Apps
Environment
Growing Visibility
Challenge
50%
80%
70%
Non “Windows” Apps
Traffic moves to WAN
Can’t diagnose
problems
SaaS
cloud
consumer
web
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Changing Network
Environment
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collaboration
rich media
outages
app issues
link failures
video conferencing
slow downs
Today’s complexity
How do you guarantee
performance across multiple
networks?
Branch
Branch
Branch
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Reduce costs
How do you increase productivity for remote
users using diverse apps across WAN?
Internet
MPLS
Data Centre
How do you gain better visibility and
control of
branch locations?
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The Solution: Hybrid Networks
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Diversity in WAN circuits and
transports – Internet, MPLS, 4G
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Application visibility and policies
Real-time WAN monitoring and
response
Internet
Branch Office
Cloud
MPLS
Data Center
Analyst Guidance
Network architects should revise WAN architectures to improve performance for
external cloud applications and resources. In most cases, hybrid WAN
architectures will provide the best blend of performance and availability.
Is MPLS Dead?, Andrew Lerner, Neil Rickard, Gartner, 2013
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The most complete platform for location-independent computing,
ensuring business objectives, not technical constraints, drive
how applications and data are delivered for the best user
experience and ROI
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SteelHead
The #1 WAN optimisation for up to 100x
faster applications, with up to 95% less
traffic over hybrid networks
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• Applications perform as expected
• Data is always available when
needed
• Performance issues are detected
and fixed before end users even
notice
Architecture
Cloud
SaaS
Application
Detection
QoS
IaaS
Path
Proxy
Secure
Selection Transport Caching
WAN
Optimisation
Internet
Internet
Branch
MPLS
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Data Centre
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Changing Application Control
Path Selection
 Steer appsVideo
to the right path
Voice
 Use Internet
links better
iTunes
P2P
Citrix
Scale
Business
Web
 Higher
throughput
Email
 More sites/rules/classes
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Identify all applications
App-level SH Reporting
– Protect what’s important
 Discover WAN applications
– Contain what’s not
 Monitor recent usage
Optimise intelligently
 SteelCentral QoS monitoring
 Visualise effects of QoS
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WAN
Increasing need for Hybrid Networks and Path Selection
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Private Networks
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Internet VPNs
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Cloud
SaaS
Internet
Local Internet access
IaaS
Internet
Branch
MPLS
Data Centre
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Path Selection benefits
Lower
Costs
● Decrease monthly
spend
● Increase available
WAN bandwidth
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Increase
Performance
● Smart mapping
between private
and Internet links
● Align service level
with application
need
Increase
Reliability
● End to end
monitoring
● Ensure availability
of priority
applications
Internet
Cloud
MPLS
Data Center
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What is Path Selection?
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Dynamic WAN switching
Maximizing bandwidth utilization
Increases the WAN efficiency
Increasing the WAN reliability
SLA for applications
Process is automatic, seamless and intuitive
to setup
MPLS WAN
data
data
Internet/VPN
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Why do we need Path Selection?
Because Path Selection is both Visibility and Control
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Path Selection Benefits
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Protection against network outages
– Detect outage and shift applications
– Ensure availability of priority applications
Cost savings
– Efficient use of non-utilized WAN
– Switching to a low cost bandwidth for low priority traffic
– Increase available WAN bandwidth
Application performance optimization
– Directly access Internet & Cloud resources
– Align service level with application need
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Path Selection: Two simple concepts
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Path definition
– Ability to identify and logically configure a WAN path. It also includes
additional parameters to ensure the viability of the path (availability)
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Application steering
– An operation that combines the QoS packet-flow classification with
path control. Path selection can steer different classes of traffic
through the different primary, secondary, tertiary, or site default paths
that you have configured in path availability
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Topology / deployment options*
10.1.1.1
Inpath 0.0
10.1.1.3
MPLS
VRRP
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10.1.1.2
Internet/VPN
10.1.1.1
Inpath 0.0
MPLS
Inpath 1.0
10.2.2.1
Inpath 0.0
10.1.1.1
Inpath 0.1
10.1.1.2
Inpath 0.0
VRRP
10.1.1.25
10.1.1.3 4
Inpath 0.1
10.1.1.4
Internet/VPN
MPLS
Internet/
VPN
* Not a complete list, many other options are available
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Strategies to Build the Solution
Visibility
• Understand your
application traffic
• Develop your
capacity and traffic
engineering plan
• Measure
effectiveness postdeployment
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Control
• Align applications
with optimum links
via Path Selection
• Ensure application
performance with
QoS
Acceleration
• Maximize
throughput on high
SLA links
• Increase end-user
performance with
application
optimizations
Proof: Expected Business Impact
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Cost Efficiency
– Use all the bandwidth you’re paying for: “No
more standby backup links”
– Reduce monthly reoccurring WAN costs by
50% or more using public Internet with
existing MPLS
Increased Resiliency
– “You’ll start looking at it for cost reasons, but
the real value is a resiliency play”
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Improve Application Performance
– “With path selection, we can afford to give
critical applications the performance they
need”
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