Software-Defined WAN: A Real World Success Story

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Software-Defined WAN: A Real-World Success Story

Featured Speakers: Robb Boyd (Host) – TechWise TV, Cisco

Claire Rutkowski, CIO, MWH Global

Andy Kimura, Global Director of Technical Innovation, MWH Global

Jeff Gray, CEO, Glue Networks

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Andy Kimura

Global Director of Technical Innovation

MWH Global

Robb Boyd

Host, TechWiseTV

Cisco

Claire Rutkowski

CIO

MWH Global

Jeff Gray

CEO

Glue Networks


• Overview and Trends in the SD-WAN Market

• Case Study: MWH Global

– Overview and Initiatives

– Business Challenges

– Solution: Glue Networks and Cisco

– Lessons Learned and Results

• Summary and Key Takeaways


Industry Recognition

#1 Use Case – SD WAN

SD WAN Orchestration Platform

Customer Reference

• Network-Aware Provisioning and Life-cycle Mgmt w/ Customizable Architectures

Simplify Network Complexity Reduce Network Life-cycle Costs Boost Network Agility

Global Engineering Company:

• 7,000 employees, 150 offices

• Faster rollout

• Cost avoidance

• Increased Performance

Cisco Designations


1. Significant delays and cost in provisioning of remote sites

2. Operational complexities resulting in provisioning and remediation inefficiencies

3. Network & security services has resulted in a 1:1 mapping of multi-vendor network & security appliances

4. Complexity and inefficiency for managing security and compliance controls

5. High cost and low control of the wide area network

ONUG Top 5 Challenges


1. Remote site to leverage public/private WANs in active-active mode

2. CPE in a p or v form factors on commodity h/w

3. Secure hybrid WAN architecture allowing dynamic traffic eng specified by app policy, availability, etc.

4. Visibility, prioritization & steering of biz critical and RT apps, per security, corp governance & compliance policies

5. A highly available and resilient hybrid WAN

6. L2/L3 interoperability with directly connected switch and/or router

7. Site, application, & VPN performance level dashboard reporting

8. Open North bound API for controller access and management. Log events to net event co-relation manager, SIEM

9. Zero touch deploy at branch site with min. to no configuration changes on directly connected infrastructure

10. FIPS-140-2 validation certification for cryptography

System Under Test – Gluware® Pre-Release and Cisco IWAN (ASR/ISR/CSR) Pass Fail Omit


• High Customization

• Manual Build, Error Prone

• Flexibile

• Automate with Assurance

• Agile and Simple

• Centralized

Traditional Networking “PAIN” “Gain” Orchestrate

Transitioning Enterprise Networking to Desired State is Difficult

• Distributed

• Difficult to Change

• Network Evolution • Static




Cloud First Mobile Enabled

Relevant Actionable Knowledge

Simplified Collaboration

Technical Innovation


• Bandwidth cost/performance

• Remote office deployment and management

• Increasing file sizes being driven by 3D, 4D and 5D modeling

• Increase in number of cloud applications

• Rapid growth of mobile and personal devices traversing the WAN

• Increasing desire to work globally


Flexibility and Resiliency

Cisco IWAN advanced features and DMVPN architecture

Cisco IWAN provides alternate path capabilities to dual homed branches

Glue Network’s Gluware® WAN orchestration

Migrate off MPLS networks to broadband

Automation and Agility

Cost Reduction

Regional Points of Presence act as a universal connector

Integration


EMEA SDWAN 52 Sites

INDIA SDWAN 3 Sites

APAC SDWAN 29 Sites

AMERICA SDWAN 62 Sites


10 to 15 Times the

Bandwidth

Significant Cost

Avoidance

Faster Deployment of Remote

Sites

Branch Site

Redundancy

Perception as ‘Leading the Pack’


DevOps Functionality for Network Engineers

• Network Engineer Centric vs. Programmer Centric

• Gluware Lab—Rapid Development Environment, NDK, & FLOW (Flexible Language Object Workstream)

• Gluware Control—Network-aware and Customizable Life-Cycle Mgmt

• Integrated with leading architectures (IWAN)

• Rest API third party Monitoring, Visualization, Controllers



Transport Independence

Intelligent Path Control

Application Optimization

Secure Connectivity

Cisco Prime Infrastructure

Glue Networks Gluware

Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller

Hybrid WAN Transport

Branch

MPLS

Internet

Direct Internet Access

Private Cloud

Virtual Private Cloud

Public Cloud

Management & Orchestration


• Planning

• Execution

– Core

– 4 POPs

– Branches

– Shut-down

Denver Datacenter

Christchurch Datacenter

Chicago Datacenter

Runcorn Datacenter

SIP Trunk

Mumbai Datacenter

Cloud Provider

Cloud Provider

Cloud Provider

SIP Trunk




• Secured multi-context firewalls • Radius

• HA design for critical sites • Front-door VRF • QoS

• Fully meshed DMVPN Phase 3 • PKI: Fully automated public key infrastructure


• SDN capable WAN

• Enable advanced WAN features

• Dynamically re-shape network using Gluware®

Reduced cost per Mbps 1. Reduced support burden

Increased bandwidth

Increased flexibility

2. 3.

4.


• Setting expectations • Selling this to the company • Dealing with dual running costs • Resource commitment

Key Project Challenges

• Detailed project plan • Combined team effort – all in it

together • Branch migration kit

Best Practices


Summary and Key Takeaways

• More bandwidth, less cost

• Application performance and user experience

• Business continuity

• Transport agnostic connectivity

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Software-Defined WAN: A Real World Success Story