1. CloudEthernet Forum

2. 2 Cloud Services Market MEF drove $50B Carrier Ethernet market CEF has similar ambitions for CloudEthernet CEF wants open standards CloudEthernet CloudEthernet will help grow Cloud Services market to $200B by 2016

3. 3 Cloud Ethernet Forum Members

4. 4 Obstacles for Cloud Services Growth Technology Barriers Limits to VLANs and WAN scalability Lack of Visibility Using Tunnels & Overlays Network Bottlenecks Network set-up is a manual process Faster service creation required Virtualization Limits Creation of VMs not aligned with VNs No clear migration paths to SDN and NFV

5. 5 Why Ethernet for Cloud? Ethernet Is Multi-Tenant EfficientCAPEX/OPEX savings Ethernet is Self Provisioning Automated Time to market + OPEX savings Ethernet Is Programmable Orchestration Customer flexibility + OPEX savings Ethernet is Low Cost & Elastic Virtualization Scalability + OPEX Savings Ethernet is # 1 OEM Choice Lower CostsReduce TCO

9. 9 CEF Fundamentals Align server virtualization with network virtualization Virtualize what you can & centralize what you must V irtualization Align server automation with network automation Extend use of Ethernet for automating cloud services A utomation Create new standards for data collection & data privacy Unify regulatory best practices across key geographies S ecurity Create common APIs for multi-vendor network mgmt Accelerate network management on top of OpenStack P rogrammability Monitor application and device usage Optimize application performance and delivery A nalytics

10. 10 Tester AC App / VM VM Access network Intra-DC network SDN NFV Data Center Tester C VM Intra-DC network SDN NFV Data Center Carrier Ethernet VM … … B B Cloud Network Service NFV D Enterprise 10 OpenCloud Reference Architecture

12. 12 Open Standards & Use Cases CloudEthernet Structure President James Walker Chairman Jeffrey Schmitz Technical Co-Chairs Marketing Co-Chairs Founding Board Technical Working Groups VirtualizationAutomationSecurityProgrammabilityAnalytics

13. 13 Why Join The CloudEthernet Forum? Drive CloudEthernet Standards Introduce CloudEthernet Services Win Thought Leadership With Customers Accelerate Future of Cloud Networking