Deploying Cisco ISR G2 and ASR 1000 in the Enterprise

Editor's Notes

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• #6: The diagram you see here outlines the main components of the borderless network architecture – it links applications, users, and end-point devices with operational processes and the network.It serves as both a framework for our system and architecture roadmap, as well as the deployment blueprint for Borderless Organizations. Let me briefly walk through its main elements. There are key pillars of functionality that Cisco Borderless Networks delivers on – primarily video, green, security, mobility, and application performance—on an end-to-end basis. For innovative organizations, these are key areas of investment and differentiation. The critical network services and proof-points of these pillars include Medianet, TrustSec and EnergyWise; they are delivered by the core infrastructure including routing, switching, mobility, security and WAN Optimization components. Equally important to the Borderless Network architecture is how the user experience is impacted by these network services—when mobile, when engaging with video, and in the workplace—however it’s defined. Network services integrate with endpoint technologies like AnyConnect, to deliver always-on, seamless, reliable, secure connectivity regardless of location or device.Meanwhile, Borderless Management and Policy are built into Network and User Services, offering a flexible and dynamic framework for policy definition and enforcement that spans across video, green, security, mobility, and application performance. The focus here is to connect the right user, the right device, the right application at the right place, at the right time, to the right network. It enables organizations to offer different levels of access privileges or performance characteristics to users, devices and applications.In this framework, policy definition and administration are centralized while control, visibility and enforcement are distributed via the application of dynamic policy assignments.Finally, we have the end-point devices that Cisco extends intelligence and awareness to, including cameras, video terminals, IP Phones, and mobile devices so that the experience is seamless and end to end. It is this blended approach of technologies and new capabilities that will enable new business models and allow your organization to go Borderless. Let’s take a look now at each of those critical network services I mentioned.services including mobile collaboration and secure mobility
• #8: Advanced WAN capabilities such as PfR, Medianet, SAF, IPv6, cloud accessSelf deployed MPLSvs Enterprise MPLS where you simply connect to the provider’s network
• #21: Cisco WAAS enables organizations to accomplish these primary IT objectives:Cisco WAAS enhances productivity by mitigating the effects of WAN latency. Applications perform better. Data is transferred faster.Cisco WAAS reduces bandwidth consumption, delaying or eliminating increased recurring bandwidth costs. Cisco WAAS enables IT consolidation, reducing both capital and recurring expenses for branch IT infrastructure.Cisco WAAS delivers increased business agility by enabling IT consolidation and enhanced application rollouts without the risk of degraded productivity or added complexity. Ultimate agility is available with Cisco ISRG2 and the Services-Ready Engine (SRE), offering WAN optimization “on demand” as business needs arise.Cisco WAAS is deployed on an appliance or router-integrated service module on each side of the WAN to provide application-specific acceleration and WAN optimization capabilities. Cisco WAAS appliances can be deployed out of the data path or physically in-path in the data center or in the remote branch office, and Cisco WAAS network modules can be deployed out-of-path in the branch office. Regardless of the deployment model, Cisco WAAS provides application performance improvements and enables centralization without compromising high availability and scalability by providing intelligent load-distribution and fail-through operation.
• #24: Application aware Data Redundancy Elimination (DRE) Improve application performance on traditional applications as well as emerging applications such as Video, Virtual Desktops and cloud-based applications Performance fairness across all branches Increased bandwidth savings through better compression Integrated Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Provide visibility to effectively optimize application performance and manage network utilization Improve operational efficiency with integrated management Provide rapid root-cause analysis of application performance issuesECDS allows for consistent and predictable WAN utilization for Video on Demand and Live Video for low and high demand video requests.Stream Splitting – Allows one stream to be sent over the WAN and split locally to multiple clients.Video on Demand – ECDS can dynamically or manually pre-position videos at the branch Service Engine for local client serving.Live Video – Through live video ingest, ECDS can multicast-to-unicast & unicast-to-multicast. This allows for multicast distribution over non-multicast WAN’s.Hierarchical CDN with Advanced prepositioning (manual and dynamic)Scheduled events (live and multicast)Native multiprotocol support (Flash, WM, QT)Flexible deployment and HA featuresHigh Availability enhancementsImproved WCCP timers for better fault toleranceMultiple WCCP service groups for higher optimization performance
• #25: This actually simplifies making a QoS recommendation. However if you are unfamiliar with all the QoS options available this may seem complicated, if so take a look at two of several QoS GuidesEnterprise QoS Solution Reference Network Design Guide (303 pages)http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/solutions/Enterprise/WAN_and_MAN/QoS_SRND/QoS-SRND-Book.htmlMedianet Campus QoS Design 4.0 (181 pages)http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/solutions/Enterprise/WAN_and_MAN/QoS_SRND_40/QoSCampus_40.html
• #26: This is for campus use, all references to traversing a WAN are in the following slides.This is an animated slide, the following hidden slide is not animated
• #27: The WAN router controls the percentage of bandwidth allocated to each class and proper classification before entering the SP network.You can set CS5 BW % before you remark and queue, thereby controlling ingress to SP cloudThis applies to all cases where multiple classification from the Enterprise WAN router are combined into a single SP Class of ServiceACL to fix CS5 to AF41 on other side since know sourceHow important is CS% to business….may decide not to remark and allow to enter the Service Provide COS1. These are representation of AT&T & Verizon offerings. These can vary around the world, however the represent the most common models to date.
• #28: This is an animated transition slide, the following hidden slides allow for the same discussion without animation.These are representation of AT&T & Verizon offerings. These can vary around the world, however the represent the most common models to date.
• #61: Objective - To shape the traffic for standard backup link to the headend and mobile branches primary link in this solutionLimitations - No per SA QOS policy support (roadmapped for Q4CY11)Workaround – Groups branches by type into groups per IP addresses, then apply QOS to those groups
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