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Architect Cloud with Confidence 

Results from Independent Validation of Cisco CloudVerse 

Satish Iyer, Products & Solns Marketing 

Campaign Lead, Cloud MegaTest 

Sunil Cherukuri, Systems Development Unit 

Lead Architect, Cloud MegaTest 

June 7, 2012 

© 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 

Cisco Confidential 1

Cloud 

Applications 

Cisco ® 

Unified 

Data 

Center 

Cisco 

Cloud 

Intelligent 

Network 

Cisco Cloud 

Enablement 

Services 

Enabling Cloud Applications and Services by Uniquely Combining 

the Cisco Unified Data Center and Cisco Cloud Intelligent Network 

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Comprehensive 

World’s first comprehensive public cloud 

test including data center, network and 

cloud business and consumer 

applications 

Independent 

Independent testing by Light Reading 

and EANTC 

Testing not funded by Cisco 

Realistic 

Tests were developed by EANTC and 

Light Reading based on customer’s top 

concerns 


6 

Months of planning 

8 

Weeks of on-site testing 

25 

Test suites across data center, network and 

applications 

$75 

Million equipment involved in test 

80 

Engineers supporting testing 


Video 

Cloud 

Applications 

CRM 

Collaboration 

Unified 

Data 

Center 

Cloud 

Intelligent 


IaaS 

Using Comprehensive End to End Infrastructure 


• Unified Computing 

- Cisco Unified Computing 

System 

• Unified Network 

- Cisco Nexus ® 7000 Series 

- Cisco Nexus 5000 Series 



- Cisco Virtual Services 

Gateway (VSG) 

- Cisco Catalyst ® 6500 Series 

- Cisco ASA 55585-X60 

- Cisco ACE30 

- Cisco MDS 9000 Family 

• Unified Management 

- Cisco UCS Manager 

- BMC Cloud Lifecycle 

Manager 

- Cisco Network Service 

Manager 

Video: Cisco Videoscape Media Suite; 

Cisco Transcode Manager, Content Delivery 

System (CDS), and Media Processors; and Policy 

and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) 

Collaboration: Cisco Hosted Collaboration 

Solution (HCS) and Cisco Jabber 


Unified 

Data 

Center 

CRM: Siebel 

Cloud 

Applications 


Cloud 

Intelligent 


Optical Transport: 

Cisco ONS 15454 and CRS-3 

• Core 

– Cisco CRS-3 

• Mobile 

– Cisco ASR 5000 Series 

• Edge 


– Cisco CDS Internet 

Streaming 

• Branch Router 


• Management 

– Cisco Prime Network 

Registrar 


Cisco Videoscape 

and Mobile 

Videoscape 

NAT64, 6RD, Dual 

Stack, Cisco Prime 

Network Registrar, 

Cisco Network 

Positioning System 

(NPS), and Mobile 

PCRF 

Cloud 

Applications 

BMC CLM, QoS, Isolation, Cisco 

FabricPath (and Cisco Fabric Extender 

Technology [FEX Technology]), LISP, Cisco 

Data Center Virtual Machine FEX (VM-FEX), 

Cisco VSG, Cisco Network Services Manager 

(Overdrive), Cisco UCS, Cisco HCS, and 

Siebel 


Unified 

Data 

Center 


Enablement 

Services 


Cloud 

Intelligent 


Cisco Cisco ONS 100 

GE at 3000 km 



• VMDC 2.2 based architecture – each test overlaid as tenant in 

multi-tenant cloud 

• 70+ 10G IXIA ports, 75+ VRFs/tenants, 600+ VLANs, 1500+ VMs 

• 80 Gbps of north-to-south (next-generation network [NGN] 

to cloud) traffic: 1 million clients to 50,000 servers 

• 300 Gbps of east to west (within data center ) traffic: switched & 

routed - with Cisco ® FabricPath 2-tier design – showing 15,000 

MAC addresses and 256 VLANs 

• 67 million NAT64 sessions simulated, at 80Gbps, 4 million/sec 

• 1 million residential gateways shown for 6rd, at 80Gbps 

• 40Gbps of video streaming – using Cisco CDS Internet 

streaming appliance, and on a Cisco ASR 9000 Series Cisco 

Integrated Services Module (ISM) 

• PCRF for throttling mobile subscribers in real time 

• Any video format, any device, any where: iPad, Android, PC, etc. 

• Cisco VM-FEX in VMDirectPath performance demonstrated: 

– VM-FEX compared to software DVS in 4 ways: 

iSCSI read-write, L3 IMIX traffic, HTTP traffic, and video encoding 

– 20 to 30% performance improvement in throughput, CPU, and 

IOPS with Cisco Data Center VM-FEX DirectPath I/O 


• Cisco ® VMDC: A validated reference architecture 

– CVD Design & Implementation Guides 

– Validated Orchestration tools 

– Reducing time to deployment 

– Reducing risk 

– Increasing flexibility 

– Improving operational efficiency 

• A flexible, modular and scalable architecture that 

combines integrated computing stacks, unified data 

center, and data center interconnects into an endto-end 

architecture – Blueprint for Cloud 

• One-cloud solution for any layer infrastructure, 

platform, and software as a service [IaaS, PaaS, 

and SaaS]) and any deployment 

(Private, Public, or Hybrid Cloud) 

Design the Cloud with Confidence 




Cloud 

Applications 

Orchestration 

BMC CLM 

NW Abstraction 

Cisco NSM 


Unified 

Data 

Center 


Cloud 

Intelligent 


Manageability 

Unified Management 

Cisco UCS Manager 

WorkLoad Mobility 

LISP 

Unified Data Center 

Performance 

Data Center Bandwidth 

Cisco Fabric Path 

App Performance 

Cisco VM-FEX 

Security 

Multi-Tenancy 

Tenant Isolation 

Virtual Machine 

Security 

Cisco VSG 

Tiered Services 

QoS and SLA’s 


Demonstrate criticality of orchestration in complex 

multi-tenant Cloud environments 

Tenant & VM Orchestr. 

• Provision one tenant 

(VDC) 

• Provision one VM 

• Provision five tenants, 

simultaneously - 1 Gold, 

1 Silver , 3 Bronze 

• Provision 50 Win2008 

VMs simultaneously - 

10 VMs per tenant 



Tenants and VMs provisioned through a single portal, 

within 1 hr. 

Results: 

• 5 simultaneous tenants provisioned end-end within 60 min 

• Orch touch points: VLANs, VRFs, BGP on ASR9k, N7k, C6500 

vFW on ASA, vSLB on ACE, VLANs on N1k 

• 50 simultaneous VMs (across 5 tenants) provisioned and functional in 60 min 

Benefits: 

• Single Cloud Orchestration suite for Network container and VM provisioning 

• Secure Network Containers for abstracting physical and virtual network 

infrastructure and network services through blueprints and templates 

• True E-E cloud service provisioning 

• Faster on-boarding of tenants and VMs (Days vs minutes) 

• Service Velocity & OpEx savings with Portal based automated Provisioning 

• Orchestration enables selling Cloud infrastructure. 


Unified management enables Stateless Computing 

Service Profile Tests 

• Preconfigure service 

templates and profiles 

• Measure: 

- Blade failure and 

restoration with 

stateless computing 

- New installation of 8 

blades 


Configuration Methods Service Profile Physical Blade 

• Manual 

• Automatic 

• Default 

Identity 

(MAC Address, 

WWN, Etc.) 

Behavior 

(Firmware, QoS, 

Etc.) 

Other 

(vNICs, vHBAs, 

Etc.) 


Simplified management and stateless computing benefits 

Virtualization 

Results: 

• 595 seconds to replace and restore a failed Cisco UCS blade 

• 704 seconds to insert a new Cisco UCS chassis with 8 Cisco UCS blades 

provisioned, SAN-booted, connected into the core SAN and LAN networks, 

and associated with a service profile through Cisco UCS Manager 

Benefits: 

• Unified management solution compared to 6 or 7 products for 

competition 

• Single pane for LAN and SAN management 

• UCSM programs more details into SP, less tasks after blade is booted 

• Stateless computing for reduced service downtime 

• Stateless computing allows blades to be added with no recabling or reconfig. 

• Time to insert 1 blade compared to 8 blades: no significant difference; scalable 

• Enables automation through service-profile-based provisioning 

• OpEx savings and reduced time to repair - greatly reduced MTTR 


Workload mobility across geographic data centers with no changes 

to virtual machines 

Path optimization 

across data centers 

• Move virtual machine 

from DC-1 to DC-2 and 

check client’s session 

• No need for client or 

web server IP address 

reconfiguration. 

• Locator ID Separation 

Protocol (LISP) sends 

client traffic directly to 

DC-2 


Moves Without LAN Extension 

Moves With LAN Extension 

LISP Site 

xTR 

Non-LISP 

Site 

LISP Site 

xTR 

Mapping DB 

Internet or 

Shared WAN 

DR Location 

or Cloud 

Provider DC 

IP Network 

Mapping DB 

LAN Extension 

LISP-VM (xTR) 

West-DC 

East-DC 

LISP-VM (xTR) 

West-DC 

East-DC 

IP Mobility Across Subnets 

Routing for Extended Subnets 

• Disaster Recovery (DR) 

• Active-Active Data Centers (DCs) 

• Cloud Bursting 

• Distributed Clusters 

Application Members in One Location 

Application Members Distributed 

(Broadcasts across sites) 


Automatic service restoration and path optimization during 

workload mobility across cloud 

Results: 

• This was a demonstration; no performance or scale metrics 

• Used VMware vCloud Director for offline migration of virtual machines 

across data centers 

• After virtual machine was moved to DC-2, it kept original IP addressing 

• Client was able to access virtual machine with no changes or disruption 

• LISP sent traffic directly to DC-2 

Benefits: 

• Enables building geographically distributed data centers 

• More Agile work-load portability while preserving IP address 

• No changes in routing or IP addressing - overlay technology 

• Direct Path - path optimization across NGN core 

• Established connections maintained across move (VMware vMotion) 

• No routing reconvergence, no DNS updates and transparent to the hosts 

• Global Scalability - enables cloud bursting 

• IPv4 and IPv6 Support 


Scale the data center infrastructure, while providing any-to-any 

connectivity 

Cisco ® FabricPath 

performance 

• 16x ECMP 

• High throughput 

• Convergence 

time 

• Latency 

• MAC address 

scalability 


Multi-Domain – Silos 

Cisco ® FabricPath: Any Application Anywhere! 

Fabric 

Subnet X Subnet Y Subnet Z 

Silo 1 Silo 2 Silo 3 

Subnet X 

Subnet Y 

Subnet Z 

• Cisco FabricPath provides a fabric that looks like a switch => 

No silos, workload mobility and maximum flexibility 

• Any VLAN anywhere 

• Eliminates Spanning Tree, and is loop free 

• IS-IS control plane supports up to 16x multipathing 

• Forwarding based on Cisco FabricPath header 

• Conversational MAC address learning 


High scalability within data center pod’s, with 16x multi-pathing 

Results: 

• 16x multipathing between source and destination – 160 Gbps each way 

• 292 Gbps of N-S and E-W traffic 

• 256 VLANs and 15,000 MAC addresses in topology 

• Efficient hashing between available links 

•

How to provide better performance to virtual machine workloads 

Compare Cisco ® 

VM-FEX 

performance with 

DVS performance 

• Cisco virtual interface 

card (VIC): Cisco 

UCS ® M81KR VIC 

• SAN I/O operations 

per second (IOPS) 

• CPU 

• Throughput 


Features on N1000: 

L2 Sec, QoS, NetFlow, 

vPath etc. 

Higher Performance 

with VMFex DirectPath 


More IOPS, higher throughput, and less CPU use with Cisco ® VIC 

hardware virtualization and Cisco VM-FEX VMDirectPath, while 

preserving VM Mobility 

Results: 

• Cisco VIC used for Cisco Nexus ® 1000V DVS and Cisco VM-FEX modes 

• UDP traffic: 9.78 Gbps throughput with Cisco Data Center VM-FEX compared to 

8.38 Gbps with DVS 

– 54% CPU use for Cisco VM-FEX compared to 92% CPU use for DVS 

• TCP traffic: 9.38 Gbps throughput with Cisco Data Center VM-FEX compared to 7.38 

Gbps with DVS 

– 36% CPU use for Cisco VM-FEX compared to 76% CPU use for DVS 

• iSCSI traffic: 70 Mbps, 140 IOPS and 30.7 ms response time with Cisco VM-FEX 

53.5 Mbps, 106 IOPS, 41 ms response time with DVS, 

– 36% CPU use for Cisco VM-FEX compared to 60% CPU for DVS 

Benefits: 

• Consolidates network management, collapses physical and virtual networks 

• Virtual machine networking managed through Cisco UCS Manager 

• Higher performance with virtual machine DirectPath 

• Industry’s first independently validated virtual switching options 

with performance characteristics 


How can firewall rules be enforced on virtual servers? 

How does virtual machine migration affect security? 

Cisco® VSG security 

through Cisco Nexus ® 

1000V Series port 

profiles 

• Policy based on 

network 

attributes 

• Policy based virtual 

machine attributes 

• VMware vMotion 


Cisco ® VNMC 

VM 

VM 

VM 

VM 

VM 

VM 

VM 

VM VM VM 

VM VM VM 

VM VM VM 

VM VM VM 

4 

Cisco Nexus ® 1000V 

Distributed Virtual Switch 

vPath 

Decision 

Caching 

3 


VSG 

1 Initial Packet 2 

Flow 

Flow Access Control 

(policy evaluation) 

Log and Audit 


Security in the virtual space, including during virtual 

machine mobility 

Results: 

• 100% security for north-south and east-west traffic flows for emulated 

three-tier web server (presentation, application, and database) 

• No loss for allowed traffic, and 100% loss for disallowed traffic 

• IP- and port-based and virtual machine-name-based security policies verified 

• No loss of security when VMware vMotion is implemented 

Benefits: 

• Transparent insertion of Cisco ® VSG into the virtual environment 

• Built into the Cisco Nexus ® 1000V vPath: fast path acceleration 

• Adoption of cloud services is not feasible without addressing security 

• Virtual machine-aware security policies; tie in with VMware vCenter 

• Inter-VLAN and intra-VLAN security (multitier and single-tier applications) 

• Policy follows virtual machine (port-profile) 

• Multitier security across physical and virtual layers using VLANs, VRF, Cisco VSG, and 

virtual firewall 

• Policy-based security for multi-tenancy and mobility 


• Please take a moment to answer the Poll questions in the 

Webex Poll window. 

Question-1: 

Are you interested in the Cisco VMDC reference 

architecture for your your Cloud deployments? 

a) As is, with minor changes 

b) With some customization 

c) Not at all 

Question-2: 

What orchestration tools are you planning to use? 

a) BMC CLM 

b) Cisco IAC / NSM 

c) Third Party 

d) Home-grown 

Question-3: 

Which of the following do you foresee as being useful for 

your Cloud deployments? (multiple choice) 

a) Fabric Path 

b) LISP 

c) Virtual Services (VSG, vASA, CSR) 



Cloud 

Applications 

Carrier-Grade 

NAT64 on 

Cisco CRS 

Carrier-Grade 

6rd on Cisco CRS 


Unified 

Data 

Center 


Cloud 

Intelligent 


IPv6 

Transition 

Dual Stack 

DHCPv6 with 

Cisco Prime 

Network Registrar 

Cloud Intelligent 


Cloud 

Networking 


Positioning 

System 

Mobility and 

Long-Haul 

Transport 

100 GE Optics 

over 3000 km with 

Cisco ONS 

Mobility PCRF with 

Cisco ASR5000 


How can IPv4 cloud support IPv6 users? 

NAT64 performance with 

4 Cisco ® Carrier-Grade 

Services Engine 

(CGSE) blades on Cisco 

Carrier Routing System 

(CRS) 

• 

Max throughput 

• Max number of 

concurrent translations 

• Max session setup rate 

IPv6 Clients 

(Cable and Access) 

IPv6 Servers 

(Cloud) 


DNS64 

IPv6 destination prefix 

(For Example: 3301:db8::/32) 

IPv6 

Subscribers 

Interface 

VLAN 

AppSVI 


CGSE 

AppSVI 

Interface 

VLAN 

VLAN 

IPv4 

Cloud 

IPv4 map pool 

52.52.52.0/24 

3001:DB8:E0E:E03:: 

3301:DB8:B0B:B02:: 

UDP port 3000, 3000 

Payload 

52.52.52.187 

11.11.11.2 

UDP port 10546, 3000 

Payload 


Enables IPv4 Cloud to support IPv6 users through 

translations, at Scale 

Results: 

• 67 million concurrent stateful IPv6-to-IPv4 translations 

• 67 million simulated users (1000 IPv6 clients using 65,000 ports each to 

access 1000 IPv6 servers) 

• 4 million simultaneous NAT64 translations per second 

• 78.4 Gbps throughput with no drops 

Benefits: 

• Access (cable and broadband network gateway [BNG]) subscriber networks that 

use IPv6 can access IPv4 Cloud 

• Enables millions of transactions at the right place in the network - at access 

edge or at cloud edge 

• Single platform (Cisco ® CRS) supports massive scalability (1.5 to 3 times 

competition’s) 

• No need to deploy new hardware in the Cloud for IPv6 translation 

• Evolutionary transition to IPv6 - simple and scalable 


How to handle traditional IPv4 transit networks 

IPv6 Rapid Deployment 

(6rd) performance with 

4 Cisco ® CGSE blades 

on Cisco CRS 

IPv6 Clients 

(Cable and Access) 

• High throughput 

• 1 million residential 

subscribers 

• No Drop Rate 

IPv6 Servers 

(Cloud) 


Destination (Border Relay [BR]) 100.1.1.1 -> AppSVI4 

Destination 6rd IPv6 Prefix -> AppSVI6 

RG/CPE 

IPv6 

Subscribers 6rd 

SP IPv4 

N/W 

Interface 

VLAN 

RG/CPE 

facing 

LC 

AppSVI 


CGSE 

6RD 

BR 

AppSVI 

Native 

IPv6 

facing 

LC 

Interface 

VLAN 

IPv6 

Cloud 

0/1/CPU0 

0/0/CPU0 

0/1/CPU0 

• Residential gateway (RG)- and native-facing interfaces can be on the same line card as shown 

• An IPv4 switch virtual interface (SVI) carries IPv4 packets to Cisco CGSE for decapsulation through a 

static route; they are then passed to native IPv6 through the IPv6 SVI 

• An IPv6 SVI carries IPv6 packets to Cisco CGSE for encapsulation through a static route; they are 

then passed to the IPv4 network through the IPv4 SVI 


Enables IPv6 Cloud to serve IPv6 users through IPv4 

transit networks, via tunneling at scale 

Results: 

• 20 million flows with 1 million 6rd tunnels (1 million residential gateways 

accessing 20,000 IPv6 servers in cloud) 

• 79.6 Gbps Internet mix (IMIX) throughput with no loss 

Benefits: 

• IPv6 users can access IPv6 cloud through IPv4 transit networks 

• Massive transaction scalability at the right place in the network using 

tunnel encapsulation across traditional networks 

• Single platform (Cisco ® CRS) can support massive scalability 

• No need to deploy new hardware in the cloud for IPv6 translation 

• Ease the transition to IPv6 for cloud applications and consumers with 

no disruption 


Can network help to locate the best cloud resources? 

Cisco ® NPS 

• Video servers in 2 data 

centers 

• Portal-based video client 

• Cisco NPS on Cisco CRS-3 

• Cisco NPS client and Cisco 

Performance Routing (PfR) 

on 

Cisco ASR 1000 Series 

• Client asks NPS to locate 

best service 

– Proximity based 

– Network-quality based 



NPS User 

Cisco NPS User 1 

Sends Service 

Request 

User Not Using 

Cisco NPS 

CPE 

Non NPS User accessing 

the video service 

Choppy video due to 

Impairments in path 

Based on Cisco NPS Algorithm, Ranked 

List Is Returned, and DC-1 Is First on 

the List 

Traffic 

Impairment 

IP NGN 

Good quality Video 

Cloud Cisco NPS 

Capability 

Published 

UCS 

Cisco CRS P2 

Cisco CRS P1 

IPSLA Probes 

DC1 

Capability 

Published 

UCS 

DC2 

Cisco ASR 1000 Series PE 

QFP Cisco PfR 


Adaptive cloud services: Served from the best location, based 

on programmable factors—innovate and accelerate cloud services 

Results: 

• This was a demonstration, so no performance or scaling results 

• Cisco ® NPS demonstrated to choose best data center location based on 

network quality 

– Latency and jitter measurements through IPSLA and Cisco PfR 

• Cisco NPS demonstrated to choose best location based on data center resources 

– CPU/Memory measurements on Video servers in the DCs 

Benefits: 

• Proximity-based service routing and placement in real time for cloud services 

• Cisco NPS exposes real-time network intelligence to facilitate optimal services 

• Auto-determination of best resource and path using Cisco NPS: proximity, 

performance, and cost 

• NGN and network still relevant for cloud: enables better, more optimized services 

• Enables service providers to differentiate from over-the-top cloud providers 

• Programmable API can tie into portals, orchestration, and applications 


• Please take a moment to answer the Poll questions in the 

Webex Poll window. 

Question-1: 

What are your plans to deploy IPv6 in the DC or for Cloud 

services? 

a) Immediately 

b) 1-2 years 

c) 3+ years 

Question-2: 

What IPv6 transition mechanisms are currently of most 

interest to you? 

a) Native IPv6 

b) IPv6 Rapid Deployment 

c) NAT64 

Question-3: 

Do you see value in Network Positioning System for Cloud 

services? 

a) Absolutely 

b) Somewhat 

c) No 



Cloud 

Applications 

Video Transcoding with 

Cisco Transcode 

Manager 

Multi-format 

Video Delivery with 


Manager 


Unified 

Data 

Center 


Intelligent 


Cloud 

Applications 


Videoscape 


Managemen witht 


Media Suite 

VoD Redundancy with 


Manager 

ABR Scalability with 

Cisco CDS 

Internet Streaming 

Live Streaming 

Redundancy with 

Cisco Media 

Processor 

Mobile Video with 

Cisco ASR 5000 

Series and Cisco Content 

Adaptation Engine 

Business 

Applications 

Collaboration with 

Cisco Hosted 

Collaboration System 

Siebel CRM 


Entitlement 

CDS Service/Proximity Routing 

Managed VOD 

Linear/Live TV 

MediaSuite 

Unified CMS 

Unified Content Workflow 


Media 

Processor 


Transcode 

Manager 

Workflow 

Control 

Origin 

Servers 

DRM 

Packaging 

Video 

Web 

Portal 

Core/Access 

Routing and 

Caching Tiers 

CDE 

Appliance 

Edge 

Routing & 

Caching 

Tier 

ASR9K 

with ISM 

Cable, 

xDSL, 

FTTH 

Ixia client 

simulator, 

PC/Mac, 

Gaming 

console, 

Smartphone, 

Tablet 

Videoscape Home 

On the Go 

Unmanaged/ 

OTT content 

Content 

Adaptation 

Engine 

CDS Tier 

Data Center 

ASR5K 

Mobile 

Video GW 

3G/4G 

/ WiFi 

Smartphone/ 

Tablet 


Any Content to Any Device, Anywhere, at Scale 

Simultaneous Multiple 

Streaming Formats. 

• Cisco Transcode Manager 

ingested and transcoded 

content into Origin Server 

• ABR streams using HLS, SSF, 

Flash, WMV formats 

• Streaming from CDE 250 

appliance, and ISM module on 

ASR9000 

• 12,000 Video clients 

• Upshift, Downshift on the fly 


Single platform for caching and delivering content in 

different formats to various screens/devices 

Results: 

• Verified Cisco CDS-IS application can cache & deliver content in the ABR 

formats such as Apple HLS & Microsoft SSF, but also on prevalent Flash, 

Windows Media formats 

• Up/Down shifted video quality by varying bitrates and resolution 

• CDS-IS application verified on standalone CDS appliances, and also on the 

router blades (ISM module on ASR9k) 

Benefits: 

• Single platform that can support diverse content formats, enables 

delivery of content to a wide range of devices (Tablets, Smartphones, 

PC/Mac, etc) 

• Enables unified operations and easier troubleshooting/problem isolation 

• Conserves valuable network/bandwidth resources due to content 

caching 

• Capex/Opex savings due to unified hardware/software & caching, and 

additional savings when ISM module is used on ASR9k 


A single CDS-IS server can deliver 40 Gbps of Video content, 

that can be linearly scaled to millions of streams/subscribers 

Results: 

• 39.5 Gbps of Video content in ABR format (HLS) from a single CDE-250- 

2S6 (2RU) server running CDS-IS application 

• 12,000 simultaneous HLS VoD streams, avg 3 Mbps per stream 

• Half the 12000 streams cached on CDE, half fetched from Origin server 

Benefits: 

• Higher scalability enables fewer servers to provide Video services to a 

large number of subscribers 

• Linear scaling of delivery infrastructure – easily add servers if streaming 

requirements increase without requiring any changes to existing equipment 

• Significant Capex/Open savings due to fewer number of servers and rack 

space required 


Optimize video bit rates and pace the amount of video sent to mobile 

clients. 

Supporting Video for 

devices on the go 

• ASR5000 as S-GW, P-GW 

and MME 

• CAE running on UCS 

• Optimization for Mobile 

• Pacing of Video 


3G/4G 

Known, 

Managed 

Content 

MediaSuite 

Managed 

ABR Content 

ASR5K 

Unknown 

Video Sources 

(Internet OTT) 

Content 

Adaptation 

Engine 

DPI 

HTTP 

Optimization 

Mobile 

Client 

Multi-tier 

CDN 

Video 

Optimization 

Traffic 

Steering 

Mobile Video GW 

(GGSN or PDN-GW) 

- Video Traffic Steering (DPI) – Steer only video traffic into video solution to reduce load 

- Profile Mgt (Policy) – Select optimal video content based on device, user policy and 

network 

- Video Pacing – Reduce unwatched video downloads 

- Real-time Transrating – Reduce video bandwidth in real-time by removing frames on 

Cisco CAE 


Optimizations such as Video Pacing and Realtime Transrating 

enables better Video performance for mobile devices 

Results: 

• Rich DPI capabilities on ASR5k Mobile Video Gateway to identify Video flows 

• Verified Video Transrating capabilities on CAE that provides a 

better Quality of Experience for Mobile users – Optimizing Network BW 

• Verified ASR5000 support for Pacing of Video content for mobile devices – 

Saving Bandwidth 

Benefits: 

• Video Pacing conserves server and network resources leading to lower 

Capex/Opex expenses, while improving customer satisfaction 

• Transrating of Video content on Cisco CAE provides a better viewing 

experience based on device type and network congestion 


Cloud 

Applications 


Unified 

Data 

Center 


Cloud 

Intelligent 



Enablement 

Services 

Architect Cloud with Confidence 


• Independent Quantitative validation 

of Cisco ® cloud Infrastructure 

– Data center 

– NGN 

– Consumer and business applications 

• For more information and followups: 

– Reach out to your Cisco account 

managers, SE’s 

– Visit 

http://www.cisco.com/go/cloudmegatest 


Thank you.

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