Technical Overview

Randy Premont
President Presented by SpaceCycles
310-993-5323
rpremont@spacecycles.net
 Network Issue for SaaS & Cloud Applications
The Dream
– Fast, secure, ubiquitous access to applications hosted in the cloud

The Reality
– Protocols inherent to Internet architecture limit data transfer speed
– Users are widely/globally distributed
– Variety of connection types exist (cable, DSL, etc)
– Traffic patterns are highly variable

The Result
– Cloud services suffer poor Quality of Experience
– Upload experience particularly limited
– Bandwidth is highly over-provisioned
– Users often deterred from popular data (i.e. videos)

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 Business Implications
Reduced Revenue Opportunities
– Limited reach to a global market
– Difficulty differentiating service
– Suboptimal customer usage
metrics
Increased Operating Costs
– More support calls / emails
– Risky and costly bets on new
data center sites
– Bandwidth at data centers
heavily over-provisioned
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Business Issues
Slow Data Transfer
End-users limited their usage
because upload speed was too
slow to handle their movies
and pictures
Limited Revenue Generation
End-users needed a better
reason to convert from free
trials to a paid subscription
Global Consistency
Globally distributed user base
necessitated many regional
data centers
Asankya Impact
Asankya improves
speed by 10x with no
software integration.
Asankya enables a
differentiated premium
tier of service.
Asankya decreases the
data centers needed by
increasing the reach of
each data center.
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 The Internet Problems
✘ Adding more bandwidth does not solve the
problem
– That only increases the last mile
– Customer does not control the middle mile

✘ Bottlenecks Have Moved to the ‗middle mile‘ ISP A

– ISP to ISP interconnects – ‗hot potato‘ routing
– Overloaded routers – default route is not always
ISP B
the best route

✘ Protocols Use the Network Inefficiently

– Network congestion causes protocols to slow Inefficiency
– Network delay causes protocols to use network
inefficiently

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 Breakthrough Technology: RAPID Protocol
New Layer 4 Algorithms: Research Awards
– Uses Multiple Paths Simultaneously
– Adjusts to Real-time Network Changes IEEE Motorola
– Overcomes Issues of Congestion and Delay

10x Improvement in Throughput

Issue Inter-ISP Handoffs, Protocol

Solved Network Congestion Inefficiencies

Intelligent
Multipathing
Transport

RAPID Protocol
Discovery Characterization Scheduling

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 Solving Real Network Problems Today

40x 10x

20x
6x 10x

3x
15x

Customers Yielding Up to 40x Performance Improvements

Cloud Storage Collaboration Government

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 Two Components of the RAPID Protocol

① Intelligent Transport – Maximizes throughput per path

② Multipathing – Avoids ―middle mile‖ congestion bottlenecks

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 Intelligent Transport
• The origin and destination nodes act
as TCP proxies for data.

• Asankya transport algorithms

optimize the utilization of the
aggregate capacity between the
origin and the destination.

• Algorithms include
• Accelerated start-up, advanced
congestion reaction
• Quick and reliable loss detection
• Multi-state operations
• Auto-tuning, multi-stage flow control

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 Intelligent Transport – Detail
The TCP transport layer protocol
has severe deficiencies in
achieving high utilization when the
end-to-end bandwidth, delay or
loss-rate is high
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Intelligent Transport is designed without
TCP‘s limitations. It‘s elements include:
(1)Accelerated start-up, rate
maintenance,
(2)Super-linear increase and
proportional decrease congestion
control
(3)Fast, robust loss detection and
recovery
(4)Auto buffer management
(5)Multi-state operations use RAPID
scheduling algorithm to split physical
flows into multiple virtual flows
Traditional TCP optimization solutions can only
―tweak‖ TCP in two ways to improve utilization:
(1) Increase advertised flow control window size
through window scaling; and
(2) Selective acknowledgements in addition to the
default cumulative acknowledgements
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 Multipathing
• All overlay mesh nodes act as route
reflection points on the Asankya
RAPIDnet network.

• The origin node uses the reflection

nodes to create multiple overlay
paths to the destination node.

• It then uses RAPID to successfully

harness and aggregate the
throughputs available along the
multiple paths.

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 Multipathing – Detail
RAPID scheduling algorithm decides
(1) how much to send along a path
(2) in what order to send them to
achieve in-order delivery
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6 5 4 3 2 1 3 6 5 4 3 2 1

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RAPID moves the seat The RAPID protocol A safety net reassembly
of intelligence to the process at the receiving
sending side in using (1) characterizes available paths in end guarantees no out of
multiple paths terms of throughput, delay and order delivery
loss performance, and
(2) stripes packets over the paths
such that (with a high probability)
they arrive at the receiving end in
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 RAPIDnet – Application Delivery for the Cloud

– Internet overlay network deployed

– Presence on 8 Tier I/II Providers
RAPIDnet PoPs
– Network nodes support up to 1 Gbps
Future PoPs – Fully redundant systems
– 1 TB packet caches at each PoP

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 Components of RAPIDnet
• RAPIDnode
• 1U rack-mountable, Linux OS
• 10Mbps, 100Mbps, 1Gbps licensing levels
• ―Cisco-style‖ CLI, Web GUI, SNMP, Front-panel
• ―Fail to wire‖ NIC, System level HA (optional)
• Central management console (optional)
• In development: VM, 10 Gbps

• RAPIDnet Plug-in
• 5MB download
• Windows XP, Vista, Server 2003
• Linux and Mac OS

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 RAPIDnet Connection Options
Connecting Remote PCs RAPIDnode installed at the
customer application site

Data RAPIDnet plug-in loaded on PC

Center

Connecting Office Users RAPIDnode installed at the

customer application site
Data
Center LAN RAPIDnode installed on LAN -
serves all local users

Connecting Data Centers RAPIDnodes installed at each

customer data center

Data Data
Center Center Applications can be hosted at
either location

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 Asankya Overview
 Asankya‘s solution accelerates data
transfers over IP networks.

 Government and Commercial

 Key Industry and standards body

recognition

 Founded at Georgia Tech

 Patents pending on key networking algorithms

“…the biggest news to hit the SaaS and cloud- “Asankya…solve[s] the biggest challenge that
based services market since Marc Benioff hinders the growth and global scale of cloud- and
launched Salesforce.com” – Computerworld SaaS-based services.” – CNet

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 Asankya Unique Benefits
Asankya Benefit Why?
Improves throughput 10x Best in class today is 1.5 to 2x. For many
buyers, performance is #1 criteria and 2x is
not enough.
Accelerates all encrypted WAN optimization techniques (CIFS, MAPI
traffic acceleration, compression) cannot be done
on encrypted traffic
Two-way Dynamic Increasingly applications are more
collaborative and more dynamic, which
makes them two-way and non-cacheable.
Application Independent WAN Optimization improvements are
protocol and application specific.
Improve throughput at 'in- Existing WOC and Overlay Network
country' distances offerings do not improve in-country/in
continent traffic .
Consistent performance Traditional Network Overlay Services only
globally improve where their systems have been
deployed and may miss large portions of
the global network.
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Who Cares?
Corporate IT, SaaS, dynamic web sites,
commerce sites, cloud storage and compute
Corporate traffic moving to the Internet needs
encryption
Traffic also needs speed improvement to match
private network speeds.
Companies wanting to use Sharepoint,
videoconferencing, storage (uploads), and
commerce (non-cacheable) apps.
Companies with more than one application or
applications that use unique protocols.
Half of application traffic typically happens in-
country – even small improvements have a big
effect.
Online services don‘t control where their uses
come from – need best performance from
anywhere in the world.
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