Are you confused by the breadth of services offered by competing Service Providers? Can you decide whether to use layer-3 MPLS VPN services or layer-2 VPN services?

In this sequel to the highly successful Cloud Computing Networking: Under the Hood webinar, we’ll focus on a single most-important question: will it scale?

After attending this webinar, you'll understand the data center acronym soup and have a conceptual framework of the data center technologies and solutions.

Discover the true arhitectures (and their limitations) behind the data center fabric whitepapers published by numerous vendors including Alcatel Lucent, Arista Networks, Avaya, Brocade, Cisco, Force10 Networks, HP and Juniper.

Are you designing a network with multiple data centers? Are you familiar with modern Data Center Interconnect (DCI) technologies? Can you decide when to implement layer-2 DCI ... or defend your decision to stick with routing between data centers?

This webinar will show you how to build large, scalable DMVPN solutions.

This webinar will describe new DMVPN features introduced in IOS releases 15.0 and 15.1.

DMVPN is one of the most scalable technologies you can use when building large IPsec-based VPN networks with dynamic routing functionality. It seems simple, but you could get into interesting design challenges when your deployment has more than a few spoke routers.

Solve complex enterprise internetworking problems with MPLS/VPN technology

In early February 2011, we experienced the IPocalypse (defined as the exhaustion of global IPv4 address pool) and the IPv6 awareness has entered mainstream media, resulting in vast amounts of misinformation.

This webinar describes the basics of IPv6, deployment considerations in typical Service Provider networks, IPv4-to-IPv6 transition mechanisms, typical roadblocks, and practical first steps you have to take to start IPv6 deployment in test, pilot and production environments.

You're facing numerous design choices when building an IPv6-enabled Service Provider network: SLAAC or DHCPv6 in multi-access subnets, local or centralized addressing pools, RADIUS integration, dual-stack or MPLS-based (6PE) deployment, and IPv6 VPN (6VPE) considerations.

Can you describe the benefits of virtualization in two sentences? Can you explain to your boss or your customer the difference between Cloud Computing and Managed Services? Do you understand the benefits and risks of mashups? Do you know what Storage-as-a-Service means? Could you decide when using Security-as-a-Service makes sense?

You’ll get answers to all these (and numerous other) questions in the two hour Next-generation IP Services tutorial.

Target audience

Engineers who need a high-level understanding of virtualization, cloud computing and web 2.0 technologies presented in a concise technical format without marketing hype and vendor-specific views. Example: internetworking engineers who have to prepare their networks and security environment for the emerging IP services.

Contents

Data Center virtualization

The massive virtualization of data center infrastructure has enabled the deployment of new web-based services and the cloud computing paradigm. This section gives you an overview of server, network and storage virtualization technologies.

Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is a massively overhyped concept with numerous practical implications. It can be viewed as a natural continuation of the outsourcing trend, extension of your existing data center resources or as an infrastructure that can enable quick and affordable deployment of scalable startup projects.

This section describes the differences between managed services and cloud computing, gives you an overview of various cloud-based offerings and concludes with a few practical deployment examples.

The cloud services covered in this section include Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Storage-as-a-Service, Database-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service, Application/Software-as-a-Service and Network Management-as-a-Service.

Web-based applications

Software-as-a-Service (also known as Application-as-a-Service) is the best known example of cloud computing. Most SaaS models use web-based applications to deliver almost-desktop experience to the clients. This section describes recent enhancements in web technologies that have enabled the rich web-based applications, evolution of mobile platforms and mashups, an innovative way of combining multiple web services into a seamless user experience. The section concludes with an overview of benefits and drawbacks of modern web-based approaches.

Security-as-a-Service and IT virtualization

Information Technology (IT) is rapidly becoming an infrastructure, but lacks the inherent built-in security expected from an infrastructure offering. Various Security-as-a-Service offerings, ranging from managed firewalls to virtual desktops and full-blown IT virtualization, allow the end-users to start viewing IT as a reliable and secure infrastructure and focus on creating value in their daily jobs.

About the author

Ivan Pepelnjak (CCIE#1354) has been designing, deploying, operating and troubleshooting IP-based networks since 1990. He was an early adopter of web technologies, designing and developing web applications before Microsoft decided to enter the market with the first version of Internet Explorer. He wrote several highly successful books published by Cisco Press and numerous articles describing web-based application development and deployment and next-generation Service Provider networks.

More about Ivan Pepelnjak

You'll get

• Webinar materials in PDF format
• Webex recording of the live webinar

Webinar roadmaps

• Data Center webinars
• Virtualization webinars
• IPv6 webinars
• Virtual Private Networks (VPN) webinars

Custom webinars

To get more information about customized versions of this webinar, on-site workshops, pricing or scheduling details, please contact the author.

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Service Provider networks have experienced a turbulent transformation from legacy WAN technologies transported across ATM or SDH backbones to IP-only networks

This webinar covers the basics of server virtualization and related networking requirements and describes how various well-known and emerging technologies address four fundamental requirements: workload (VM) mobility, scalability, multi-tenant security and integration with physical networks.

Discover the details of VMware networking, the design and deployment principles and the benefits and drawbacks of advanced technologies like vShield products or VSG from Cisco.