Huawei Agile Campus Network Solution Brochure
Transcript of Huawei Agile Campus Network Solution Brochure
HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Bantian, Longgang District
Shenzhen518129, P. R. China
Tel:+86-755-28780808
2014
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To quickly adapt to the challenges created by new services and address problems on existing networks, today's network
architecture must be transformed. Rapid developments of such new services as mobile applications, cloud computing, Big Data,
social networking, and the Internet of Things (IoT) are driving network administrators to impose ever-higher requirements on
real-time performance, mobility, scalability, and high-quality experience guarantees.
Huawei Agile Campus Network Solution is a next-generation network solution available now for all enterprise customers. The
agile network makes use of the latest ideas and research into Software-Defined Networking (SDN). By providing features such
as a fully programmable architecture, quality awareness, and smooth evolution, the Huawei Agile Campus Network Solution
enables networks to provide responsive and flexible services.
Traditional networks are no longer able to accommodate these requirements because they focus on technologies, devices, and
connectivity. Today, that is not enough.
Network Service Development Trends and Challenges
Mobility
Cloud Computing
Big Data
Social Networking
IoT
1. Shift the focus from technology, device, and connectivity to services and user experience.
2. Shift from single-point security protection to united security.
3. Shift from “Best Effort” of the IP network to real-time quality detection.
4. Shift from static configuration to dynamic, automatic configuration deployment.
5. Shift from hardware-defined to software-defined.
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The Huawei solution accommodates requirements for the network of the future. It concentrates on users, automatic network
resource deployment and fault location, and fine-grained network management. An Agile Controller, agile switches, and security
resource center eliminate many tricky problems of traditional networks, including a lack of experience guarantees, low-efficiency
deployment, single-point security protection, and slow response to threats and attacks.
Huawei Agile Campus Network Solution architecture
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Huawei Agile Campus Network Solution features three architectural innovations specifically for enterprise campus
networks:
1.Huawei is the first company to apply SDN architecture to enterprise campuses and provide them a "smart brain" — the Agile
Controller — that centralizes control of the agile network, including the egress router and SSL VPN (SVN). The Agile Controller
also dynamically allocates network resources, enabling the resources to flexibly move based on user location. In this manner,
a high-quality service experience can be guaranteed for each user in a mobile environment. In addition, the Agile Controller
allocates security resources over the entire network, creating a collaborative protective shield.
2.Huawei replaces traditional switches with agile switches that create an "agile body" for the campus network. With these agile
switches, the Huawei solution provides automatic fault detection and improved performance. This solution can detect users
and applications, network quality and faults, and security events.
3.Huawei's security resource pooling turns individual security resources such as firewalls into a resource pool shared network-
wide.
L2 SW
AR AR
Branch network
Branch network
L2 SW
Internet access
eSight
Campus network egress
Agile core
Agile aggregation
Converged access
NE/AR/SVN
Agile switch
Agile switch
Agile switchSwitch AP AP
Security Resource Center
NGFW
Agile Controller
WAN/Internet
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The solution is user-centric; its service-friendly architecture enables networks
to proactively adopt new services. It automatically deploys network
resources, locates faults, and provides fine-grained network management.
• Free Mobility: New Experience of Mobility
The Huawei Agile Campus Network Solution is the first network to
associate user rights, bandwidth, and priorities with persons, and
providing users a consistent mobile office experience. The Agile
Controller, based on SDN technology, enables centralized user
policy definitions. These range from one-stop network Operation
and Maintenance (O&M) to access policy planning, to network
deployment. The access policies encompass headquarters campus
and branch access, and remote and mobile office access policies.
The Agile Controller also controls user group-based policies,
including policies from a user group to a resource group, from
a resource group to a user group, and across user groups. In
addition, policy deployment no longer requires tedious machine
language but, rather, employs easy-to-understand, natural
language-based coding.
• United Security: From Single-Point Security Protection to
Comprehensive Network Protection
To help enterprise administrators secure their entire campus
network, including remote branches, Huawei Agile Campus
Network Solution leverages Big Data analytics and SDN ideas to
integrate and schedule security capabilities that implement united
security. Security devices are virtualized into a security resource
center, which means that deployment and use of these devices
are not subject to the constraints of physical locations. As a result,
security intrusions can be detected at any location. The solution fully
addresses issues such as the large number of security threats that exist
in a mobile environment and single-point firewalls that cannot protect
the network.
• Wired and Wireless Convergence: Simplifying Network O&M
Management
By converging user authentication and management functions, Huawei
Agile Campus Network Solution provides unified authentication and access
policy control for wired and wireless users. This provides a consistent user
management experience for network administrators. For example, a converged
Access Controller (AC) enables unified wired and wireless traffic forwarding,
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completely eliminating the traffic bottlenecks caused by the traditional
centralized forwarding function of AC devices and cards. As a result, an
agile switch can attain Terabit-level forwarding.
Huawei's innovative Super Virtual Fabric (SVF) technology
virtualizes box access switches into cards and Access Points (APs)
into ports on a core or aggregation chassis switch. In this way,
the entire campus network can be easily managed like a
switch.
Huawei's unique Packet Conservation Algorithm for
Internet (iPCA) technology enables the IP network
itself to detect service quality. If a user's experience
becomes degraded, the network can quickly detect
the poor experience, precisely locate the fault, and
provide detailed quality records, helping network
administrators determine what has affected the user's
service experience.
• Fully Programmable & Smooth Evolution:
First to Apply SDN Architecture to Campus
Networks
Huawei-developed Enterprise Network Programmable
(ENP) chips enable devices' forwarding functions to
evolve to future standards. When a new function is
added to switches using Application-Specific Integrated
Circuit (ASIC) chips, customers have to replace the old
devices because the ASIC chips are unprogrammable.
Additionally, to implement a new function, customers have
to wait for a long time period (standards -> chips -> devices).
After deploying agile switches using Huawei's ENP chips,
customers can self-define devices' forwarding behaviors on
the Agile Controller, greatly reducing time for provisioning new
functions and services and enabling networks to be SDN-ready.Each
of Huawei's agile devices is configured with dual control planes:
the traditional network plane and the enhanced control plane (the
Controller). Huawei's agile devices can seamlessly converge with users'
live networks, implementing an easy evolution from a traditional network to
an agile network and maximizing users' Return on Investment (ROI).
• Quality Awareness: First to Allow the IP Network
Itself to Be Aware of Service Quality
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Huawei Agile Campus Network Solution is applicable to campuses used by a broad variety of enterprises: schools, hospitals,
governmental office buildings, public utilities, energy resource industries, and many more.
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Huawei is backed by 20 years of accumulated experience in the IP field and a full series of network products and solutions.
Recognized as a leading global network solutions provider, Huawei's long-term plan for network development includes
expanding its world-leading research and development into future network architectures. Huawei has global facilities with
world-class experts plus extensive experience in pre-research into network standards and chip development.
As a member of ONF, IETF, and IEEE, and other standards organizations, Huawei participates in SDN standards research. Huawei
has contributed to areas of network migration to SDN, including product development and improvement in customization.
Huawei also plans to provide more intelligent, programmable, and open networks through its respected carrier-grade network
experience and innovative products and solutions.
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HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Bantian, Longgang District
Shenzhen518129, P. R. China
Tel:+86-755-28780808
2014