COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT,NITK

Cloud based WAN Optimization Papers Summery Report Submitted to: Dr K. Chandrasekaran

Submitted ByGovind Singh Yadav(08co26)

Prateek Rao(08co78)

Table Of Contents Paper 1 ...3 Paper 2.4 Paper 3..6 Paper 4....7 References8

Paper 1: Rethinking The WAN Optimization

First paper states that companies with a global perspectve and a distributed workforce need to find a new way to improve their WAN performance in a timely, low-cost, low-impact and seamless manner. At the same tiime, they need to ensure a sustainable strategy for future growth initiatives that allows for economical and non-disruptive growth. Aryakas revolutionary cloud-enabled Application Acceleraton and WAN Optimization technology offers global enterprises LAN-like performance on their WAN, along with enhanced visibility and scalability across locations and across applications. And our subscription model ensures that enterprises pay as they go, lowering the total cost of ownership. Aryaka is a revolutionary approach to cloud-enabled Application Acceleration and WAN Optimization, and a fundamental architectural shift in the delivery of these functonalities. Instead of a WAN Optmization Controller (WOC) or managed appliance model per customer, the Aryaka Network is designed for cloud-based WAN Optimization, offering customers cost effective, scalable and reliable connectivity between enterprise locations. The software and technology used in the Aryaka solution is proprietary, purpose-built from the ground up, and patent pending. Enterprise intelligence is moved from the box into the Aryaka Network. Papers tells two solution of current problems: 1. In-house hardware solutions 2. Managed Services solutions And it tells a new approach to proposed problem: Aryakas Approach to redefining the WAN Aryaka has rethought the traditional WAN and created an entirely new application delivery network that provides: 1. Simple, powerful cloud-based overlay architecture 2. Superior network and application delivery performance: a. Dramatically lowering the cost and complexity threshold for the market to use Application Acceleration and WAN Optmization b. Application Acceleration, WAN Optmization and the network in a single solution
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c. The entre solution as SaaS d. WAN Optmization technology is built in-house and the intelligence moves beyond appliances into the network. e. Mid-mile optimization increases link utilization and allows the network to peak well beyond the provisioned bandwidth f. Branch-to-cloud traffic acceleration

3. Simplicity in purchase, installaton, scalability and maintenance 4. Pay-per-use, contnuously scalable OPEX economics 5. Single vendor soluton, end to end visibility and unifed network monitoring and management

Paper 2: Cisco Virtual Wide Area Application Services: Cloud-Ready WAN Optimization Solution Role of WAN Optimization in Cloud WAN optimization solutions such as Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) have increasingly emerged as primary IT tools that organizations use to provide application acceleration, WAN bandwidth compression, and local hosting of branch-office IT services. Benefits of WAN optimization include increased user productivity while accessing centralized applications, consolidation of branch-office servers and storage, deferral of WAN bandwidth upgrade costs, and a reduced branch-office hardware footprint. Network latency over the WAN is the fundamental reason why applications perform poorly when delivered from the data center to the branch office. As applications migrate from the data center to the cloud to generate cost savings, organizations are asking the question: Is WAN optimization required? Main Requirements for a WAN Optimization Service in the Cloud To offer WAN optimization as a service in a cloud environment, several requirements must be met:

1. On-demand deployment model: Associate the WAN optimization service with specific application server virtual machines, giving the cloud provider the agility and capability to offer a differentiated optimized-application service in contrast to basic computing service. 2. Minimal network configuration with increasing scale: As new server virtual machines are instantiated to accommodate increasing application load, the network configuration needed to optimize these new virtual machine instances should be minimal; ideally, no work should be required at all. 3. Virtual machine-mobility awareness: Given the dynamic nature of cloud resource pools, the WAN optimization service provided to a set of application servers needs to be continually available regardless of the physical location of the application server virtual machines. 4. Support for multi-tenant deployments: A multi-tenant deployment model must be supported, to reduce the amount of hardware required and to lower the fixed hardware costs for the cloud service provider. 5. Elastic scale-out deployment: The WAN optimization service will need to scale in different ways simultaneously for different tenants as demand grows or diminishes. This process requires an elastic scale-out deployment architecture. Cisco Virtual WAAS: The First Cloud-Ready WAN Optimization Solution Cisco Virtual WAAS (vWAAS) is the industrys first cloud-ready WAN optimization solution. Cisco vWAAS is a virtul appliance that accelerates business applications delivered from private and virtual private cloud infrastructures, helping ensure an optimal user experience. Cisco vWAAS runs on the VMware ESXi hypervisor and Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) x86 servers, providing an agile, elastic, and multi-tenant deployment .

Paper 3: Cloud-enabled Application Acceleration and WAN Optimization WHITE PAPER

Aryakas technology offers global enterprises LAN-like performance on their WAN, along with enhanced visibility and scalability across locations and across applications. In addition, our cloud platform ensures that enterprises pay only for what they use, thereby dramatically lowering the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). what the Aryaka Network offers: Reduction in complexity: Aryaka helps with the elimination of multiple appliances for various Application Acceleration and WAN Optimization functions and high availability as well as high-end connectivity. A simpler single-vendor solution, faster access to critical applications such as email and SharePoint, no product obsolescence, no end-of-sales or support, and no release compatibility issues enables firms to focus resources on core business requirements. Security: Aryakas cloud-enabled Application Acceleration and WAN Optimization technology is designed to provide customers end-to-end communication security, using IPSec VPN connectivity. Scalability: Customers can enable acceleration one branch at a time, without requiring changes to equipment and without the associated downtime. In addition, the model
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provides a network with elastc capacity to add or remove branches and hubs, and with immediate turnaround. Guaranteed performance: The redundancy built into the Point-of-Presence (POP) topology ensures seamless performance, resulting in 99.999% network uptime. Each POP has Aryaka proprietary software that performs acceleration functions such as stream data compression, protocol optimization and TCP optimization, allowing users to experience LAN-like performance on their WAN. Pay-as-you-use pricing: Aryakas unique pay-as-you-go pricing is unlike a managed appliance model, or an equipment lease model, where users are forcefully locked into longterm contracts with huge upfront investments. Users can now pay on a monthly basis, only for the capacity they need to achieve their acceleration and networking functions. This results in significant cost savings. Increased visibility: Customers can use the MyAryaka customer portal for account setup, role management, provisioning, configuring, monitoring, support, and billing. The user interface offers end-to-end, network-wide visibility, thereby providing network managers with complete control of and visibility into their network!

Paper 4 : Keys to Unlocking IT Value through WAN Optimization The Paper concentrates on the WAN delivery challenge . Driven by the need to reduce cost, increase security and ease their ability to comply with industry and governmen-tal regulations, most IT organizations either already have completed the process, or are currently in the process of consolidating servers out of branch offces and into centralized data centers. The Survey Respondents were asked to indicate their organizations plans for server centralization. Their responses are shown

Paper basically concentrates on branch office . Given that the majority of employees work in branch offces, the effcient and effective operation of branch offces is central to the success of any enterprise. IT organizations, however, face a number of challenges relative to ensuring acceptable application delivery to branch offce employees. One component of this challenge is to determine which servers should be left in branch offces and which servers should be consolidated into centralized data centers. Central-izing servers can result in lower cost, more control and easier compliance with industry and governmental regulations.Centralizing servers can also result in unacceptable performance and increased downtime.

References: [1.] Rethinking the WAN (WHITE PAPER) [2.] Cisco Virtual Wide Area Application Services: Cloud-Ready WAN Optimization Solution [3.] Cloud-enabled Application Acceleration and WAN Optimization (WHITE PAPER) [4.]The role of WAN optimization in Cloud infrastructure by Josh Tseng *5.+ WAN Optimization with Ciscos WAAS
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