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February 18,
February
18, 2011
2011
Concepts
4 Service Scenarios
External Redirection
g ((Policy
y Based))
External Mirroring
VIP
VIP
Srv 2
***
Load
Balancer
Load
Balancer
Srv N
Srv N
S
Srv 2
S
Srv 1
S
3
***
VIP
GGSN
BRAS
Value Proposition
Complete
p
Service configuration
g
management
g
including
g
monitoring and alerting
High service availability including service monitoring and
action on failure
Less boxes / Failing parts in the network
Optimization of the service cluster size.
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GGSN
BRAS
Allot
NE
Srv 1
Srv 2
***
Srv N
Transparency / Proxy
Transparency :
a VAS server is transparent at Layer n when the traffic flowing to it does not
modify its Layer n source addresse.
L3 Non-transparent services typically act as CS-NAT (Client Source NAT), i.e.
Replace the client IP address (usually private) with a public pool
Proxy :
A VAS server acts as proxy when it establishes a dedicated TCP connection with
each end (i.e. One TCP connection to the subscriber, one connection to the
internet server for example)
Network or Subscriber
Internal or External
Allot or 3rd Party
Part
Application/Subscriber B
SG-Sigma
Service 1
10
Service 2
S1
S2
S3
Gold Plan
Red Plan
Service 3
Concepts
4 Service Scenarios
External Redirection
11
Blade
SGSV-110
2
CC-220
SG-Sigma with
cache
h engine
i blades
bl d
4
CC-220
5
6
FB-200
SFC-200
SFC-200
FB-200
10
NSS-MS
10Gbps
10Gbps
Management
10Gbps
Data
Management
Switch
1Gbps
11
NSS-MS
12
NSS-MS
13
NSS-MS
NSS
MS
14
BP-240
12
Storage
Array
Blade
SGSV-110
SG-Sigma with
SP-Sensor blades
CC-220
3
4
CC-220
5
6
FB-200
SFC-200
SFC-200
FB-200
10Gbps
10Gbps
Switch
10
11
SP-Controller
12
NSS-SP
13
NSS-SP
NSS
SP
14
BP-240
13
Blade
SGSV-110
SG-Sigma without
NSS blades
CC-220
3
4
CC-220
5
6
FB-200
SFC-200
SFC-200
FB-200
10
CC-220
11
12
CC-220
13
14
BP-240
14
10Gbps
10Gbps
Switch
3rd Party
a ty
Server
Blade
SGSV-110
SG-Sigma without
cache engine blades
2
CC-220
10Gbps
10Gbps
4
CC-220
5
6
FB-200
SFC-200
SFC-200
FB-200
10
10Gbps
10Gbps
1Gbps
Data
Data Switch
Management
Server
Cache
Engines
g
CC-220
11
Mgmnt Switch
12
CC-220
13
14
Storage
Array
y
BP-240
15
Management
1Gbps
Data Switch
Concepts
4 Service Scenarios
External Redirection
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Load Balancing
17
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Service Monitoring
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Service Type:
Generic Redirection
Generic Mirroring
Media Swift
Service Protector
Service Availability
Options
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Load balancing
Active/In-Active (The Inactive
option is used for maintenance)
The Service Load balancing
method:
Cyclic
Hash by Internal IP
Hash by External IP
Server failure action:
Bypass
Re-dispatch
Re dispatch to other server
Block
No
o server
se e a
available
a ab e act
action:
o
Bypass
Block
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Concepts
4 Service Scenarios
External Redirection
27
Service Chaining
28
SG-Sigma
Service 1
29
Service 2
S1
S2
S3
Gold Plan
Red Plan
Service 3
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Concepts
4 Service Scenarios
External Redirection
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L1
L2
L3
L4
L5
L6
L7
L8
Network Traffic
External VAS
Internal
I t
l VAS resource use
SFC 200
SFC-200
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SFC_A
SFC_B
L1
FB
FB
L1
FB
FB
L1
FB
FB
L2
FB
FB
L2
FB
FB
L2
FB
FB
L3
ASY
L3
ASY
L3
ASY
L4
Storage
g
L4
SFC_A
SFC_B
SFC_A
L4
L5
L6
L7
L8
NET
NET
NET
NET
L5
L5
NET
NET
L6
EVAS/IVAS
L7
N/A
N/A
L7
EVAS
L8
N/A
N/A
L8
IVAS (MS)
L6
SFC_B
NET
NET
ASY
Asymmetry
FB
Flow-Balancer
EVAS
External-VAS
Storage
NET
Network
N/A
Not Available
IVAS
Internal-VAS
Reserved Resource
MS
Media Swift
Reserved Resource
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Concepts
4 Service Scenarios
I t
Internal
l Port
P t Based
B
d Mirroring
Mi
i (SP)
External Redirection
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Graphs
37
A
Apendix:
di Bytemobile
B t
bil
implementation
38
Solution Scope.
Allot SG will steer media traffic towards the Bytemobile Unison
product
Selective Redirection of traffic based on L3/L4 and L7 criteria
Load balancing between cluster nodes
Health checking of cluster nodes
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Possible Scenarios
1. Bytemobile solution with standard load-balancers (e.g. F5)
2. Bytemobile solution with Allots Layer 4 traffic steering
capabilities (i.e. the baseline solution)
Scenario 2 Benefits
Scenario 3 Benefits
Scenario 2 advantages +
Transparency
No additional devices
Centralized control
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1SG Sigma = 2 LB
Additional OPEX savings:
less hardware = less maintenance
Baseline Solution
z Allots SG-Sigma
g
works identically to a
load balancer
z Redirects traffic
selectively
z Load balance
between cluster
nodes
z Health check of
cluster nodes
41
z Supported configurations
z Monitoring
g 2x10G network lines with redirection on 4x10G
ports
42
Redirection Decision
z Traffic redirection based on p
policy
y configuration
g
criteria:
z Application
pp
z Service Layer3/Layer 4 (IP addresses/subnets, ports,
TCP/UDP, ToS bits)
z
z
z
z
z
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