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    CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORY

    Top 3 US Cable Company Deploys Avi Networks


    Load Balancer for OpenStack Private Cloud

    100% REST API, Self-Service and Elastic ADC Accelerates App Development
    Industry: Media and Entertainment
    Business Drivers:
    Accelerate all aspects of
    application development and
    deployment
    Reduce IT costs, especially related
    to infrastructure provisioning
    Empower application developers
    to perform tasks previously
    requiring skilled IT personnel
    Eliminate downtime when scaling
    capacity to address business
    needs
    Solution:
    Multi-location, OpenStack-Kilobased private cloud
    Avi Networks: elastic load balancing,
    security, and application analytics
    solution
    Fully integrated with OpenStack
    and automation tools such as
    Puppet
    Enterprise-grade ADC features
    not offered by open source
    alternatives
    SDN design with centralized
    controller and distributed, elastic
    data plane

    Customer Background
    The customer is among the top three US cable companies in the US, with annual revenues in the
    tens of billions of dollars. It delivers digital cable, cable Internet, digital phone, home security,
    and cable advertising products and services. Their OpenStack-based multi-location private
    cloud must satisfy the needs of a large group of application developers, spread across many
    teams, who are collectively responsible for hundreds of internal and external applications. To
    meet evolving business requirements and continually improve their applications, developers
    must be able to deploy applications rapidly and efficiently. Working with the internal application
    developers, the central IT group implemented a multi-data center private cloud using
    OpenStack and goaled to significantly accelerate application development and deployments.

    Technical Requirements
    To boost application availability and security, as well as support their agile business, the IT team
    found it essential to incorporate Load-Balancing-as-a-Service (LBaaS) into their OpenStack
    cloud. Key requirements included:
    1. Fully automated, self-service ADC provisioning via the OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon).
    2. Enterprise-grade load balancing features, including the support for high availability (HA),
    SSL offload, and multi-tenancy with centralized identity management (Keystone).
    3. Each tenant (one for each of the application development teams, total apps numbering in
    the hundreds) needed to be able to deploy applications, complete with ADC functionality,
    on its own, isolated from other tenants, and governed by its own per-tenant SLA.
    4. To automate solution deployment, the central IT also required full integration with Puppet.

    Benefits:
    Provisioning time for ADCs
    with application performance
    monitoring features dramatically
    reduced from days (sometimes
    weeks) to minutes
    Application developers now
    empowered to identify and solve
    application performance issues in
    minutes from a single OpenStack
    dashboard
    Significant savings in OPEX are
    anticipated, compared to previous
    legacy ADC appliance model
    Figure 1: Avi Networks integrated with OpenStack Dashboard
    1

    Top 3 US Cable Company Deploys Avi Networks Load Balancer for OpenStack Private Cloud
    IT Team

    Lines of Business (LOB) /


    App Tenants

    Success Story

    Avi UI

    Private Cloud

    Application
    Developers

    Single, central
    point of policy
    definition and
    management,
    100% REST API

    Tenant #1

    Avi Service
    Engine

    Tenant #2
    Avi Controller
    Tenant #3

    OpenStack
    Dashboard

    Avi Service
    Engine

    Figure 2: Schematic of OpenStack-based private cloud with Avi Networks ADC

    ADC/Load Balancer Options Considered


    Open source LBaaS solutions such as HAProxy lacked enterprisegrade features such as high availability, tenant isolation, high
    performance, and advanced load balancing.
    Legacy hardware ADC appliances required app teams to open
    tickets with the IT team to set up or change a load balancing
    configuration, slowing down the app deployment process by days,
    sometimes weeks.
    Virtual ADC solutions were too complex for self-service.
    Integration with the customers preferred automation tools would
    take weeks of development and, despite the effort, would not
    deliver the full range of desired features. Moreover, automation
    would require a complex orchestration layer to map tenants and
    applications dynamically to potentially dozens of virtual ADCs
    required to meet performance requirements.

    Technical Reasons to Choose Avi Networks


    Avi Networks UI and CLI are implemented atop the native,
    100% REST API, which gives programmatic access to every
    object in the system.
    Unlike legacy offerings that run outside the cloud, the
    solution is integrated with OpenStack services such as
    Nova, Neutron, Keystone, and Glance.
    Implemented as a one-click drop-in replacement for
    HAProxy in OpenStack, the product includes enterprisegrade load balancing features. Full integration with Puppet
    streamlines and completely automates ADC deployment.
    The software-controller-based architecture embraces
    centralized policy definition. IT can define policies and SLAs
    for each app team, and they in turn can leverage self-service
    ADC provisioning for their apps via the Dashboard, without
    creating a ticket.
    The distributed data plane architecture delivers strong
    tenant isolation. The Avi Service Engine (SE) is a micro-load
    balancer which runs in the specific tenant context. To meet
    SLA guarantees, SE instantiations are automatically created
    to scale the configuration based on a tenants policies or as
    new apps are added. In sharp contrast, legacy options (both
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    physical and virtual) required multiple tenants to share ADCs.


    Avi Networks offers high-performance SSL offload, including
    the industrys first high-performance implementation of
    Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) and Perfect Forward
    Secrecy (PFS). App teams can manage SSL certificates
    directly in the Dashboard in self-service fashion.

    Benefits for the IT Team


    With fully automated deployment and centralized policy definition
    and enforcement, the Avi Networks solution has:
    Eliminated IT tickets for setting up load balancing for each
    newly added application or configuration change
    Enabled IT to offer different ADC-deployment SLAs to the
    various app development teams
    Introduced elastic ADC scaling to gracefully cope with peak
    demand, while eliminating the cost of over-provisioning
    traditional ADCs
    Avoided purchase of a separate app monitoring tool
    Accelerated OpenStack adoption within app dev teams

    Benefits for the App Teams


    Self-service provisioning of application load balancing and
    performance monitoring has:
    Slashed ADC deployment times from days to minutes
    Reduced troubleshooting times from hours to minutes
    Increased app performance monitoring and SLA visibility

    About Avi Networks


    Avi Networks is the next-gen ADC company, enabling automation,
    self-service and elastic scale. The Avi Networks solution combines
    the benefits of enterprise-grade ADC features with the ease and
    flexibility of elastic load balancing (ELB) for enterprises and cloud
    service providers. With a unique analytics-driven and distributed
    load-balancing architecture, the Avi Networks solution markedly
    improves the end-user application experience for on-premises
    and cloud-based applications, while reducing operational costs
    and complexity by 90%. Please visit us at avinetworks.com or
    follow us on Twitter @avinetworks.

    2015 Avi Networks. All rights reserved. Avi Networks, the Avi Networks logo, Distributed Microservices, Inline Analytics, Cloud
    Application Delivery Platform, and Hyperscale Distributed Resources Architecture are trademarks of Avi Networks in the United
    States and other countries. All other trademarks, service marks, registered marks, or registered service marks are the property
    of their respective owners. Avi Networks assumes no responsibility for any inaccuracies in this document. Avi Networks reserves
    the right to change, modify, transfer, or otherwise revise this publication without notice.
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