Introducing ADVA Optical Networking's Ensemble SmartWAN, the open NFV platform that enables service providers to deploy virtual SD-WANs and best-of-breed VNFs without limitations.

1. Ensemble SmartWAN:
NFV Platform for SD-WAN
Unleashing the Benefits of SD-WAN

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What Is Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN)?
SD-WAN is an integrated solution to enable the augmentation or
replacement of MPLS VPNs with an overlay network using lower-
cost broadband connections
SD-WAN solutions typically provide embedded
routing and firewall capabilities, policy-based
flow routing and in some cases, WAN
optimization
SD-WAN today consists of two parts:
• A central controller, often hosted in cloud
• Access nodes deployed at user sites

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Q: Why Is SD-WAN Hot?
A: MONEY!
SD-WAN can provide enterprise VPNs at a lower cost point
than today’s provider MPLS VPNs
$

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MPLS VPN Versus Broadband Pricing
Source: Why Does MPLS
Cost So Much More Than
Internet Connectivity?
As we saw when covering why
the NEW architecture will
happen MPLS is typically
priced at $300 - $600 per
Mbps per month for the
copper connectivity typically
deployed at all but the very
largest enterprise locations,
while the monthly price of
broadband connectivity is
now $1.50 - $15 per Mbps
per month.

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It’s Not Just Pricing!
Other issues with today’s MPLS VPNs:
• Slow to install and provision
• Slow adds/moves/changes
• Lack of application-level visibility and control

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Why Not Use Broadband for VPNs?
• Higher loss
• Lower reliability
• Lack of security
• Shared, best-effort bandwidth
• Requires management of
routing for VPNs

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SD-WAN Benefits
• Lower cost for VPNs
• Access flexibility and redundancy
• All-in-one solution
• Policy-based control
• Works over a variety of media

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Current SD-WAN Limitations
• SD-WAN is stand-alone
• SD-WAN is monolithic
• SD-WAN couples service and technology
• SD-WAN implementations are large
• SD-WAN is a pure overlay technology
• SD-WAN is user-managed

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Overview of Ensemble SmartWAN
• Virtual networking platform
• Vendor neutral
• Deployability and scale
• Carrier-class OpenStack
• Native VPNs without requiring a
customer edge (CE) router
Key Points:
Ensemble SmartWAN doesn’t replace SD-WAN – It evolves it by
leveraging a foundation of virtualization, NFV and SDN

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Ensemble SmartWAN transforms SD-WAN from a monolithic application
to part of a disaggregated service offering that enables other VNFs to also
access SD-WAN features such as hybrid WAN
Ensemble SmartWAN and Solution Architecture

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MPLS
VPN
Internet
Headquarters
Branch 2
Branch 1
Branch 3
Gateway
Branch 4
PE
PE
L3VPN
L3VPN
Broadband
SmartWAN
Orchestration and Control
Customer
Portal
PE VNF
SmartWAN Architecture
Maps between IP-VPN and tunnels
Gateway into cloud services
(IP-VPN and IPSec tunnels)
NFVI – Data Center
VNF
VNF
VNF
VNF
Centralized
network
functions
Distributed
network
functions
Application aware
flow steering
• Virtualization and SD-WAN
• Network and overlay protocols
• Single service order integration
• Pure-play software
Ensemble Connector
Ensemble Connector
Ensemble Connector

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Vendor Neutral
Ensemble SmartWAN provides the virtual infrastructure for hosting virtual
SD-WAN deployments and other best-of-breed VNFs

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Deployability
Ensemble SmartWAN:
• Simplifies deploying SD-WAN with
zero-touch provisioning on a
single management LAN
• Enables use of white box / COTS
servers
• Provides secure method for
installation and turn-up

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SmartWAN Out-of-Box Experience
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1. CSP assigns policies and templates
2. CSP sends user access code
3. Connector shipped to user
4. User applies power and internet
5. Appliance authenticates via X.509/SSL
6. User enters access code at Connector
7. Controller provides Connector commissioning
8. Connector builds management tunnel
9. Connector calls home to Controller
10. Director/Orchestrator discover Connector
through Ensemble Controller
11. Controller/Orchestrator download
provisioning and policies
Call
Home
IPsec
Ensemble
Director
Ensemble
Orchestrator
Ensemble Controller
MAC
Verify
SSL
Auth
Server
BGP
Control
Topology
Management
Gateway
Access
Code
Access
Code
Commissioning
Appliances are bulk
staged outside of
order fulfilment flow
• Operating system
• Connector image
• CSP-specific
parameters
Authentication Tunnel
Management Tunnel
NB APIs NB APIs
2
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 1110 11
Ensemble
Connector User
Predefined
policies
1
Carrier
Appliance Shipped3

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Carrier-Class OpenStack
Ensemble SmartWAN leverages embedded cloud, which places the
OpenStack controller on each compute node to realize the benefits
of OpenStack while removing issues related to scale, security and
upgrades

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Ensemble Embedded Cloud
• Provides a distributed, wholly contained uCPE cloud deployment
by equipping remote compute nodes with a colocated cloud
controller
• Addresses security concerns by not exposing OpenStack
management and control plane across the open network
• Addresses scaling concerns by limiting the number of compute
nodes to be managed by the cloud controller
• Presents a consistent virtualization API
at the customer site and the data center,
thereby allowing developers to write
applications that work with both the
distributed and centralized models

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Ensemble SmartWAN: Overlay and Underlay Networking
• End-nodes construct tunnels
over existing network
• In some cases: colocated
CE router
Legacy Overlay Model:
• Simplification by collapsing
CE with SD-WAN
• VNFs can directly interact
with underlying MPLS VPN
Ensemble SmartWAN:
Ensemble SmartWAN interfaces directly with today’s MPLS VPNs,
providing an underlay networking option in addition to traditional SD-
WAN overlays
MPLS
VPN
PE
CE
SD-WAN
VPN Tunnel
PE
CE
SD-
WAN
SD-
WAN
MPLS
VPN
CE
PE
CE
PE SD-
WAN
SD-
WAN
SD-WAN
VPN Tunnel

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Partner Support for Ensemble SmartWAN
“This is a platform that will help service providers evolve their
managed services portfolio to offer virtual SD-WANs and best-of-
breed VNFs from leading VNF suppliers and this is an enormous
leap.” - Nav Chander, senior director, service provider
marketing, Silver Peak
“What they’re developing here is a platform that will help service
providers meet their business and end customer needs, and align
well with their long-term goals of delivering more high-value
services. That’s why we’re strong advocates of Ensemble
SmartWAN.” - Kumar Mehta, founder and CDO, Versa
Networks

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Summary
Ensemble SmartWAN Transforms SD-WAN
From a stand-alone
enterprise-managed
monolith
To a componentized NFV-based solution
that embraces APIs and automation for
service provider deployments
• Makes deployment on white box servers fast and secure
• Couples SD-WAN features like hybrid WAN and policy management into a
broader service portfolio for managed deployments by service providers
Ensemble SmartWAN Enhances SD-WAN

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