MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apstra® Inc. announced today AOS® 2.1 with Intent-Based Analytics™ (IBA) with broad industry support. AOS IBA embeds automated big data analytics into its real-time continuous validation capability, providing the control that companies require as they upgrade their network infrastructures to address their digital transformation and IoT goals. Apstra AOS 2.1 allows network operators to simplify their network operations and realize log-scale improvements in the CapEx, OpEx and Capacity of their network infrastructure.
AOS 2.1 with IBA is generally available this month. You can see Apstra at #OCPSummit18 or #Cisco Live in Orlando.
Apstra IBA allows network operators to specify exactly how they expect their network to operate and continuously validates the network operators’ intent, generating anomalies when it detects a deviation. Apstra’s approach works across vendors and reduces the time, cost and risk of network operations by alerting the network operator of specific insights required to validate that the network is operating as intended. The status quo is to sift through mountains of raw telemetry and stare at network visualizations 24/7 to detect unusual patterns. Sasha Ratkovic, Apstra CTO and Founder detailed Intent-Based Analytics in a blog post in 2017.
“Intent-Based Analytics is Apstra’s latest innovation in a network operator’s journey to eliminate network outages and gray failures, reduce cost, and build a modern, agile, multi-vendor intent-based data center network,” said Mansour Karam, Apstra CEO and Founder. “With AOS IBA, network operators can quickly detect and prevent a wide range of service level violations - including security breaches, performance degradations, and traffic imbalances. AOS 2.1 has the only vendor-independent, intent-based analytics capability that works across devices from both established vendors and open alternatives. AOS 2.1 brings the industry closer to the vision of a Self-Operating NetworkTM.”
Industry Support:
Dell EMC Networking
“Dell EMC and Apstra share a common
commitment and belief in open networking, disaggregating the fundamental
building blocks of networking to maximize customer choice and
capability. In conjunction with our industry-leading OS10 operating
system, we see Apstra’s Intent-Based Analytics as an effective means to
help network operators cut costs while significantly improving service
agility and delivery.”
Gavin Cato, Senior VP Engineering
Mellanox
“Mellanox shares a commitment with Apstra to fully
support open networking solutions and deliver market leading
technologies. Apstra AOS 2.1 with Intent-Based Analytics combined with
our unmatched monitoring and instrumentation capabilities, brings
network analytics to a new level and enables Mellanox customers to
increase their network agility, identify and resolve bottlenecks, reduce
network outages and optimize cost.”
Kevin Deierling, VP of
Marketing
Cumulus Networks
“Our customers are challenging the status
quo of networking in their organizations and reaping huge operational
benefits. Intent-Based Analytics provide an important offering for our
customers and we are here to support their journey.”
JR Rivers,
Founder and CTO
AOS 2.1 IBA is fully automated, and can be configured through a simple intent-based interface through which network operators specify:
(1) The queries to generate the raw telemetry of interest. These queries
are dynamic and adapt automatically to physical, virtual, or logical
network infrastructure changes, as well as to changes in network
operator intent.
(2) The big-data processing functions to aggregate
this raw telemetry spatially and temporally, enabling them to extract
relevant information. AOS includes built-in processors, and network
operators can create their own processors.
(3) Their expectations
for the specific network services, generating anomalies when deviations
are detected.
“AOS 2.1 enables you to post a declarative IBA probe with a simple REST call and monitor complex signatures about the operational state you care about, supported by a context-rich and up-to-date graph representation of your infrastructure. You are then simply alerted when deviations occur,” said Sasha Ratkovic, Apstra CTO and Founder. “Contrary to the traditional big-data analytics status-quo, this approach relieves you from having to write complex low level imperative programs that need to be integrated and constantly kept in sync.”
IBA also includes:
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Pre-defined, turnkey probes that network operators can deploy at will:
- to detect link traffic imbalance between leaves and spines
- to detect when links are reaching saturation
- to compare East-West and North-South traffic distributions
- to detect MLAG pair traffic imbalance
- to detect interface Error/Discard Counters
- to detect interface flapping
- to compute available bandwidth between servers or switches
- An open source catalog of IBA probe configurations which enables an ecosystem with customers, partners, and other third parties. View the catalog here.
- Advanced services offerings to help customers tailor IBA probes to their exact network service goals.
Apstra Intent-Based Analytics leverages the integrated nature of the AOS core platform and the telemetry-driven, real-time graph representation of the network state, which provides a single source of truth. IBA enables users to immediately define and enforce highly customizable operational objectives in minutes - a task that would otherwise take weeks or months.
In addition to IBA, AOS 2.1 introduces the following new capabilities:
- Enhanced “configlet”, which offers full flexibility for network operators to customize their device configurations. This “configlet” capability allows users to automate these customizations on a per-device, per-rack or per-blueprint basis.
- Fabric-wide MAC and IP locator, which allows operators to quickly locate a workload in the fabric based on its MAC or IP address, reducing troubleshooting times.
- LDAP support, with configurable mapping of LDAP groups to AOS roles, which allows integration of AOS user management with your existing systems.
- New hardware and network operating systems to its hardware compatibility list, extending the power of AOS to a wide range of new devices from multiple manufacturers.
Click to download the AOS 2.1 data sheet, join an AOS 2.1 webinar, read an AOS 2.1 blog post by Mansour Karam, a blog post on Network Outages and Gray Failures by Sasha Ratkovic, or schedule a demo.
Apstra
Operating System
AOS™ delivers a turnkey Intent-Based
Distributed Operating System and a data center application suite that
offers game-changing network service agility, increased uptime and
dramatically improved infrastructure TCO. AOS automatically prevents and
repairs network outages for dramatically improved infrastructure uptime.
It operates a network as one system, massively improving infrastructure
agility while reducing operational expenses. AOS’ distributed data store
is a repository of all intent, configuration, and telemetry state, and
hence acts as a single source of truth for your network. It’s
self-documenting nature streamlines compliance tasks. AOS is
device-agnostic and works across all major vendors as well as open
alternatives.
About Apstra, Inc.
Apstra pioneered Intent-Based Networking
and Intent-Based Analytics™ to simplify the data center network and
increase business agility through an autonomous or Self-Operating NetworkTM.
AOS™ is a vendor-agnostic, intent-based, closed-loop “command and
control” system that delivers log-scale improvements in CapEx, OpEx and
capacity critical to accomplishing digital transformation goals. AOS is
an intent-based distributed operating system that automates the full
lifecycle of network operations and enables the network to configure
itself, fix itself and defend itself. Apstra is based in Menlo Park,
California and is privately funded.
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