Introduction to SD-WAN
Presented By:
Jason Bomar, CCIE #9316
[email protected]
Limitations in Current Design
Insufficient
BW
Operationally Fragmented
difficult security
There are a number of limitations
that have arisen in traditional WAN
Traditional – some have been with us for a long
time, some are more recent. These
WAN limitations are a large part of what
drove SD-WAN Architecture.
Not cloud High cost
ready BW
Limited app
awareness
Forces Internal and External
More Users More Apps More Threats More Demands
We are seeing the work Applications dominate We are seeing more Because of all of
force expand, but in the business landscape, advanced attacks, and these shifts in the
new and innovative and the ability to with the expansion of speed of business,
ways: expanding support them and the branch, diversity of the demands and
branch offices, allow for an optimal the applications, expectations have
contractors, IoT experience is now security now needs to skyrocketed
devices, etc. paramount. be pervasive.
Welcome to the digital revolution! Make yourself at home, it might be a while!
Key Factors to Align To
•Web and cloud app (O365 etc.) is new norm
User •Delays in bring up circuits/deploying sites
Experience
•Box-by-box management
Operational •Expensive bandwidth in MPLS
Costs
•SaaS drives “Internet everywhere”
Security •Increasing count of non-traditional devices
Challenges
Is SD-WAN Real?
By the end of 2019, 30% of
enterprises will have deployed
Increase SD-WAN technology in their
Bandwidth
branches, up from less than 1%
Security today*
where and Reduce
how you Circuit Cost
need it SD-
WAN * Source: Gartner Predicts 2016: Enterprise Networks and
Network Services, December 2015
Improve
Simplify
Application
Management
Experience
How SD-WAN Addresses These
Areas
Improve Application Reduce Complexity
Performance • Simplify deployment
with no/low touch
• Provide better application
• One portal to
experience regardless of where
manage/operate all
the application resides
sites
• Simplify QoS/QoE
More Bandwidth for Security Where You
Lower Cost Need It
• Whether this is hybrid WAN • Local Branch Security
or all Internet • Service Chaining
• Provide users and apps with • Enable SaaS access in a
the bandwidth they need safe and secure manner
SD-WAN Definitions
What is SD-WAN:
SD-WAN is the approach to building and
designing a WAN utilizing SDN techniques to Orchestration Plane
optimize and automate, as well as protect,
traffic between diverse locations. Management Plane
How SD-WAN does it:
Using a cloud based controller, you create an Control Plane
overlay network for building the encrypted
tunnels, define your applications, how to treat
them, where your sites are, etc. This Data Plane
portal/controller because the critical lynchpin as
you now manage and operate the WAN from
there.
SD-WAN Benefits
Operational WAN Flexibility Cloud and Secure and
Simplicity Application Routed
Awareness Infrastructure
Application
Low/No Touch Carrier Centralized
Based Traffic
Provisioning Agnostic Control
Steering
Centralized Transport Secure
IaaS and SaaS
Monitoring Flexible (MPLS, Connectivity
Support
and Visibility Cable, etc.) Between Sites
Ineroperates
Intelligent Link Analytics and Distributed
With Legacy
Utilization Reporting Forwarding
Environment
SD-WAN Simple Architecture
Orchestration Plane
Management Plane
Control Plane
Data Plane
SD-WAN Detailed Architecture
Management Plane API
Orchestrator
Orchestration Plane
Control Plane
Internet MPLS
Data Plane
Campus Branch IaaS
Integrate with the ‘Cloud’
AWS
IaaS Azure
SaaS
CSR CSR CSR CSR
ServiceNow
SalesForce Office365
Campus Data Center Campus Branch
Migration Thoughts
Phase 0
Existing
WAN Cloud
Migration Thoughts
Phase 1
Existing
WAN Cloud
SD-WAN
Cloud
Migration Thoughts
Phase 2
Existing
WAN Cloud
SD-WAN
Cloud
Migration Thoughts
Phase 3
Existing
WAN Cloud
SD-WAN
Cloud
Migration Thoughts
Phase 4
SD-WAN
Cloud
Key Considerations and Questions
Topology and Segmentation Support
IaaS and SaaS Support/Integration
Routing Protocol Support
Application Awareness
Service Insertion Support
Supports Transport Independence
Management and Orchestration Support
Key Management Between Endpoints
Helpful Links
• https://www.sdxcentral.com/sd-wan/definitions/software-defined-sdn-wan/
• https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/enterprise-networks/sd-wan/index.html
• http://www.esharp.net/introduction-to-sd-wan/
