Agility for App centric networks SDN Applications Panel

Agility for App centric networks SDN Applications Panel TNC 15 Rodney Wilson Senior Director, Ciena CTO Group Ottawa Research Labs June 2015 Copyright © Ciena Corporation 2015. All rights reserved. Confidential & Proprietary.

Technology trends access hypervisor network-level apps network 100 G open interfaces NFV 400 G LTE global Open Flow VNF SDN 4 G scale specialist applications terabit software orchestration fabric 5 G virtualization 4 K Video Copyright © Ciena Corporation 2015. All rights reserved. Confidential & Proprietary. 8 K Video resources convergence cloud programmability platform infrastructure storage resources content Web-Scale performance-on-demand 2 computing

How We Used to Build Networks SUBMARINE BACKHAUL METRO BRAS P Router Premise Switch Carrier NAT P Router Fire. Wall Session Border Controller Carrier NAT WAN Acceleration Fire. Wall PE Router BRAS 3 INTERCITY DPI EDGE LONGHAUL Copyright © Ciena Corporation 2015. All rights reserved. Confidential & Proprietary. PE Router DPI Premise Switch WAN Acceleration Session Border Controller REGIONAL

Becoming agile expensive network functions are centralized and virtualized Routing PE BRAS DPI NAT Border Ctrl Accelerate Packet-Optical Common Platform central offices become “content centers” 4 Copyright © Ciena Corporation 2015. All rights reserved. Confidential & Proprietary. Routing PE BRAS DPI NAT Border Ctrl Accelerate Packet-Optical Common Platform

Leverage SDN Principles to Increase flexibility Traditional Model: Provisioned Hardware OSS/NMS/EMS Provision Monitor Web-Scale Model: Software Defined Network (SDN) Orchestrate & Control “Real-Time” On-demand Control Plane with Global Knowledge Control Plane & Forwarding Protocols Local knowledge & decisions Proprietary HW, SW & Control Interfaces 5 Copyright © Ciena Corporation 2015. All rights reserved. Confidential & Proprietary. Open, API Based, Interfaces

SDN is Changing Network Behavior Orchestration & Business Application Layer API-N (Network / service level) API (Network Service Abstraction) “Move 100 Gbytes from A to C for MY application” Control Layer API-E (Equipment level) Only packets marked “MY” allowed F Enter @A via Port 3 with 100 Gb. E API (Network Equipment Abstraction) Route 1 A, B, C, D, using Channel 2, fiber 1 Route 2 A, F, E, D, using Channel 3, fiber 7 Exit @D via Port 5 with 100 Gb. E E Move Data Set MY A D B 6 C Copyright © Ciena Corporation 2015. All rights reserved. Confidential & Proprietary. Report When Complete

Ciena change: Dev. OPs Strategic shift, Open APIs … well defined INTERFACES OPn for development OPn for partnership Dev. OPs … powerful INTEGRATION points Offer Apps, APIs Developer Conferences Certification Services … clear partner STRATEGY Collaborator Led Innovation Conference Power consumption Traffic optimization Platform Re-Use 3 rd Party Integration 7 Copyright © Ciena Corporation 2015. All rights reserved. Confidential & Proprietary. Network Monitoring

DWDM Applications Internal and Customer Apps in Development DWDM App Suite Coherent Modem • Internal modem parameters measured to assist in design, development and debugging of modem hardware/ • Examples: pre-FEC BER, OSNR, CD, PMD Photonic Line • Line Parameters measured by the modem, especially to assist in deploying over foreign line systems. • Examples: SOP, multi-channel optical power Application View • Mash-up of optical line data with non-technical externally derived data to isolate macro-level issues • Examples: Submarine cable breaks correlated with ship movements near the break. 8 Copyright © Ciena Corporation 2015. All rights reserved. Confidential & Proprietary.

An open and new application development environment designed to help customers and 3 rd party developers create, test and fine-tune customized applications Ciena Platforms • • • Wave. Server 6500 5400 8700 5100 3900 • • One. Planner Capture One Control Agility Suite Built-in REST APIs in Ciena’s platforms Virtual Lab is in the cloud and can be accessed from anywhere 9 Copyright © Ciena Corporation 2015. All rights reserved. Confidential & Proprietary. … End-users can create, test and fine-tune apps based on their own needs

Waveserver Chassis Details 400 Gb/s DWDM / WAN Interfaces • 2 x 200 Gb/s coherent waves • Full C-Band tunable • Flexible grid ready QSFP+/QSFP 28 Front View QSFP+ 10 x QSFP* pluggable client interfaces • 4 x QSFP 28 (4 x 100 GBASE-R 4) Power supplies (AC • shown) 100 G-SR 4, LR 4 Redundant & • field replaceable 10 x QSFP+ (10 x 40 GBASE-R 4, 40 x 10 GBASE -R) • 40 G-SR 4, LR 4 • 4 x 10 G-SR, 4 x 10 G-LR Out Of Band Management Interfaces • 1 x RJ 45/1000 BASE-T external LAN • 2 x RJ 45/1000 BASE-T internal LAN • 1 x serial console • 1 x USB (host mode) Rear View Cooling units (6 fans per unit) Field replaceable 10 Copyright © Ciena Corporation 2015. All rights reserved. Confidential & Proprietary.

The Network Becomes a Programmable Platform APP APP Recovery App Availability App Encryption App Net Partition App APP APP Private Line App Cloud Sync App VM Migration App Optical VPN App NE NE NE CONNECT USERS TO CONTENT 11 Copyright © Ciena Corporation 2015. All rights reserved. Confidential & Proprietary. NE NE CONNECT CONTENT TO CONTENT

Enabling Network Specific Apps app 1 app 2 app 4 app 7 Controller Programmable OPn Infrastructure User-Specific Apps Enterprise C Virtual Slice C app 1 app 3 app 5 app 6 Controller Virtual Slice B app 8 User-Specific Apps Enterprise B Virtual Slice A app 2 app 3 app 6 app 7 Controller Physical Network Enterprise A Dedicated Virtual Switches Programmable Platform Infrastructure Enterprises Manage their own Services Enterprises Network Driven – Reconfigurable SDN Applications 12 Copyright © Ciena Corporation 2015. All rights reserved. Confidential & Proprietary. User-Specific Apps

Summary: There’s a network for that… Regain Control Real-Time Consumption demand Software Defined Networks Network Function Virtualization Increase Service deployment Velocity Reduce complexity, 13 Copyright © Ciena Corporation 2015. All rights reserved. Confidential & Proprietary. Cloud Content Centers Transcend Distance At massive Scale

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