Flow-based…

Full Network context

High fidelity (NetFlow)

Dynamic Provisioning

Flow-based Switching

Why

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hy?

How

?

Performance without Flow and Control…

Look to your network for both Flow and Control…

Constraints Experienced By IT53% Receive complaints

about performance

85% Without user and application correlation

80% Lack usage details

44% Poor performance results in revenue loss

Do more with less

Shouldn’t call it just a switch! What does a switch

do?

Isolates traffic (collisions)

Extending segments(Reach)

Diagnostics (Structure)

Caution: Extreme Metaphor

Slow-path

Fast-path

Thinking inside the

box

Before (Line-rate w features turned on)

Now (Lossless data transmission)

Fast Path

TCAM

CPU & Memory

Slow Path

Fast path

Slow path

Flows

Experiences

Big Switch Flow Control

Network in full context (What if?)

AppAP Edge Dist/Core DC FW/WAN

Context BW IP HTTP:// Apps

Access ControlMobility

RMON Wire Shark TAPsmirrors

GigaMon

RiverBedNGFW

Flow-based

networking

Context

Network OS To Bare Metal

1997-2004Pioneering L3 Switching

2004-2010merchant

silicon

2011-2015

Automation

Extreme Ware XoS

Enterprise

Metro

Utility/ White Box

Data Center

Competitive Pressures

OpExCapEx

ManagementFlow-based AP Technology

1st with a Wireless Flow-based AP, embedded not just bolted on

3 ways

Visibility in the Edge

Wifi Spectrum

Control for context driven

mobility

Application Awareness with Zero impact to Wifi performance, Delivering Great

user Experiences

Flow-based

Hotspot 2.0

Flow Based Wifi (not just bolted-on)

AppliancesC5210 212,992C35 24,576V2110 (VMWare)

Small 8,192Medium 49152Large 196,608

V2110-HyperV 49,152C25 12,288

Access PointsNumber of Flow

Supported

AP 38xx 8,192

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Analytics Built-in

Flow-based Solutions Cloud Control Security Analytics

Wireless Switching