1. Copyright © Ciena Corporation 2015. All rights reserved. Confidential & Proprietary. Agility for App centric networks Rodney Wilson Senior Director, Ciena CTO Group Ottawa Research Labs June 2015 SDN Applications Panel TNC15

2. 2 Copyright © Ciena Corporation 2015. All rights reserved. Confidential & Proprietary. Technology trends programmability network virtualization SDN Open Flow cloud network-level apps hypervisor orchestration convergence VNF fabric performance-on-demand platform infrastructure 400G terabit 100G software access applications storage resources computing resources open interfaces content 4G global scale specialist Web-Scale NFV 4K Video 8K Video 5G LTE

3. 3 Copyright © Ciena Corporation 2015. All rights reserved. Confidential & Proprietary. SUBMARINE BACKHAUL METRO LONG- HAUL REGIONAL Premise Switch BRAS WAN Acceleration Session Border Controller Carrier NAT INTERCITY P Router PE Router DPI EDGE Session Border Controller Carrier NAT PE Router DPI P Router FireWall WAN Acceleration Premise Switch BRAS How We Used to Build Networks

4. 4 Copyright © Ciena Corporation 2015. All rights reserved. Confidential & Proprietary. Packet-Optical Common Platform Packet-Optical Common Platform BRAS DPI PE NAT Border Ctrl Routing Accelerate BRAS DPI PE NAT Border Ctrl Routing Accelerate central offices become “content centers” expensive network functions are centralized and virtualized Becoming agile BRAS DPI PE NAT Border Ctrl Routing Accelerate

5. 5 Copyright © Ciena Corporation 2015. All rights reserved. Confidential & Proprietary. Leverage SDN Principles to Increase flexibility Local knowledge & decisions Proprietary HW, SW & Control Interfaces Control Plane & Forwarding Protocols OSS/NMS/EMS Provision Traditional Model: Provisioned Hardware Control Plane with Global Knowledge Orchestrate & Control “Real-Time” On-demand Control Web-Scale Model: Software Defined Network (SDN) Open, API Based, Interfaces Monitor

6. 6 Copyright © Ciena Corporation 2015. All rights reserved. Confidential & Proprietary. Control Layer Orchestration & Business Application Layer API (Network Service Abstraction) API-N (Network / service level) “Move 100Gbytes from A to C for MY application” API-E (Equipment level) Only packets marked “MY” allowed Enter @A via Port 3 with 100GbE Route 1 A,B,C,D, using Channel 2, fiber 1 Route 2 A,F,E,D, using Channel 3, fiber 7 Exit @D via Port 5 with 100GbE Move Data Set MY Report When Complete SDN is Changing Network Behavior (Network Equipment Abstraction) A B C D E F

7. 7 Copyright © Ciena Corporation 2015. All rights reserved. Confidential & Proprietary. Ciena change: DevOPs Strategic shift, Open APIs DevOPs … clear partner STRATEGY Collaborator Led Innovation Platform Re-Use 3 rd Party Integration Power consumption Traffic optimization Network Monitoring … powerful INTEGRATION points Offer Apps, APIs Developer Conferences Certification Services Conference … well defined INTERFACES OP n for development OP n for partnership

8. 8 Copyright © Ciena Corporation 2015. All rights reserved. Confidential & Proprietary. DWDM App Suite Coherent Modem Internal modem parameters measured to assist in design, development and debugging of modem hardware/ Examples: pre-FEC BER, OSNR, CD, PMD Photonic Line Line Parameters measured by the modem, especially to assist in deploying over foreign line systems. Examples: SOP, multi-channel optical power Application View Mash-up of optical line data with non-technical externally derived data to isolate macro-level issues Examples: Submarine cable breaks correlated with ship movements near the break. DWDM Applications Internal and Customer Apps in Development

9. 9 Copyright © Ciena Corporation 2015. All rights reserved. Confidential & Proprietary. Built-in REST APIs in Ciena’s platforms Virtual Lab is in the cloud and can be accessed from anywhere End-users can create, test and fine-tune apps based on their own needs An open and new application development environment designed to help customers and 3 rd party developers create, test and fine-tune customized applications Virtual Lab … WaveServer 6500 5400 8700 5100 3900 OnePlanner OnePlanner Capture One Control Agility Suite Ciena Platforms

10. 10 Copyright © Ciena Corporation 2015. All rights reserved. Confidential & Proprietary. Waveserver Chassis Details Out Of Band Management Interfaces 1x RJ45/1000BASE-T external LAN 2x RJ45/1000BASE-T internal LAN 1x serial console 1x USB (host mode) Front View 400Gb/s DWDM / WAN Interfaces 2x 200Gb/s coherent waves Full C-Band tunable Flexible grid ready 10x QSFP* pluggable client interfaces 4x QSFP28 (4x 100GBASE-R4) 100G-SR4, LR4 10x QSFP+ (10x 40GBASE-R4, 40x 10GBASE-R) 40G-SR4, LR4 4x10G-SR, 4x10G-LR QSFP+ QSFP+/QSFP28 Rear View Power supplies (AC shown) Redundant & field replaceable Cooling units (6 fans per unit) Field replaceable

11. 11 Copyright © Ciena Corporation 2015. All rights reserved. Confidential & Proprietary. Private Line App Cloud Sync App VM Migration App Optical VPN App Recovery App Availability App Encryption App Net Partition App APP CONNECT USERS TO CONTENT CONNECT CONTENT TO CONTENT The Network Becomes a Programmable Platform NE

12. 12 Copyright © Ciena Corporation 2015. All rights reserved. Confidential & Proprietary. Programmable Platform Infrastructure Enabling Network Specific Apps Physical Network Virtual Slice A Virtual Slice B Virtual Slice C Network Driven – Reconfigurable SDN Applications Enterprise C Enterprise B Enterprise A app 7 app 1app 2 app 4 app 6app 7 app 2app 3 app 5app 6app 8 app 1 app 3 Programmable OP n Infrastructure Enterprises User-Specific Apps Dedicated Virtual Switches Controller Enterprises Manage their own Services

13. 13 Copyright © Ciena Corporation 2015. All rights reserved. Confidential & Proprietary. Summary: There’s a network for that… Software Defined Networks Increase Service deployment Velocity Reduce complexity, Regain Control Real-Time Consumption demand Cloud Content Centers Transcend Distance At massive Scale Network Function Virtualization

14. Copyright © Ciena Corporation 2015. All rights reserved. Confidential & Proprietary. Thank You For additional exploration, contact rwilson@ciena.com