APIC-EM Update: SDN Automation for the Enterprise Network

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APIC-EM Update: Configure and Provision Network Infrastructure in Minutes, Not MonthsPaul LiesenbergProduct and Solutions Mgr, Enterprise Networkspliesenb@cisco.comMarch 2016

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Digital Business Demands Operational Efficiency and Agility

Time IT spends on operations CEOs are worried about IT strategy not supporting business growth80% 57%

0

100%

Source: Forrester

CAPEX OPEX

33% 67%

0 10 100 1000

Computing Networking

Seconds

Source: Open Compute Project

“…While other components of the IT infrastructure have become more programmable and allow for faster, automated provisioning,

installing network circuits is still a painstakingly manual process...” —Andrew Lerner, Gartner Research

Network Expenses Deployment Speed

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Cisco Digital Network Architecturewww.cisco.com/go/dna

AutomationAbstraction & Policy Control

from Core to Edge

Open & Programmable | Standards-Based

Open APIs | Developers Environment

Cloud Service ManagementPolicy | Orchestration

VirtualizationPhysical & Virtual Infrastructure | App Hosting

AnalyticsNetwork Data,

Contextual Insights

Insights & Experiences

Automation& Assurance

Security & Compliance

Network-enabled Applications

Cloud-enabled | Software-delivered

Principles

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Applications

SDN Applications Abstract the Network to Business Intent Policy

SecurityOrchestration Automation Collaboration

SOUTHBOUND ABSTRACTION LAYER

CATALYST NEXUS ASRISR WIRELESSASA

REST API

OTHER

SDN Ideal:

Controller as the Application Platform

SDNController as

the Application Platform for

Policy Automation

Virtualization

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APIC-EM Application Overview & Use Cases

Public Cloud

Enterprise Network

Day 0Plug-and-Play AppZero touch deployment of routers / switches / APs

Accelerated roll-out: Eliminates tech visits and shrinks deployment from months to minutes

Day 1Cisco IWAN AppCisco Easy QoS AppCisco ESA AppGuided, fast auto-provisioning of IWAN solution with Cisco experts’ best practices

From 1000 CLI commands to 10 GUI clicks per branch

Day 2Path Trace AppDiscover path between two end points based on 5 tuple

Rapidly troubleshoot congestion and ACL issues and lower OPEX for trouble ticket processing by 98%

BRANCH

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What Cisco Enterprise SDN Delivers

SimplicityNetwork-wide abstraction supporting both Greenfield and Brownfield

AutomationOPEX reduction through adoption of Cisco best practices

Business OutcomesDynamic network that adapts to business intent policy

Open ProgrammabilityOpen NB REST API’s with agnostic SB interfacing

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