Are you reaching your Digital Potential?

As we like to do on TechWiseTV we got a chance to pick and choose among our favorite technologies being featured in this launch focus on the Digital Network Architecture. So as to avoid burying the lead, you will get a chance to experience Enterprise Network Function Virtualization (E-NFV), APIC-EM updates and demonstration, the network as a security sensor with a little Lancope update, changes to CMX now in a ‘cloud’ version, and end to end quality control for applications like Jabber…end to end QoS.

Coverage for all the recent Digital Network Architecture announcements could only be covered in two shows.

Quick hits:

Part 1 focused on the DESIGN:

Part 2 focused on the Security and Application SERVICES:

In a broader sense, our original focus was to illustrate a service-centric approach that enabled IT to focus on outcomes.

This approach would be accomplished through 3 areas you should see represented:

• Insights that leverage network data and analytics for new business innovation and improved user experience.
• Automation that simplified the network and sped up IT operations. Real-time network events that would drive changes to meet service level expectations
• Security embedded everywhere with real-time threat detection and quick remediation to reduce risks.

Part 1, with a running time of 22:42 covered the benefits of a comprehensive design:

• Sachin Gupta provides an overview of the Digital Network Architecture.
• Liad Ofek explains Enterprise Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
• Ronnie Ray covers the (APIC-EM) Application Programmability Infrastructure Controller

Part 2 was a little shorter at 17:02. We explore the flexibility offered by virtualized network services:

• Kinshuk Pahare covering Network as an end to end security sensor including Lancope integration
• Darryl Sladden showcased resource optimization with CMX Cloud
• Ramit Kanda demonstrates the improved user experience now possible with Easy QoS.
  • Ramit Kanda is an Engineering Product Manager for Network Transformation Enterprise Management and Controller group

For more information:
We did two shows but we could not include everything…I cherry-picked what I wanted us to cover. To make sure you did not miss anything, your best bet is the overall architecture page.

• APIC-EM Controller, along with a couple of downloadable white-papers:
  • Zeus over at ZK Research covered APIC-EM and how it targets simplified network operations.
  • Enterprise Strategy Group wrote a brief on the APIC-EM
  • Enterprise Management Associates wrote an ‘impact brief’ on the APIC-EM
• CMX Cloud
• Enterprise NFV
• Network as a Sensor/Enforcer

Thank you to our guest experts and their knowledge:

• Sachin Gupta, Understanding the Digital Network Architecture
• Liad Ofek, Enterprise NFV
• Ronnie Ray, APIC-EM Controller
• Ramit Kanda, Easy QoS
• Kinshuk Pahare, Security
• Darryl Sladden, CMX