Pluribus
Networks, a leader in open networking and next generation software defined
networking (SDN), today introduced the industry's first white box, multi-tenant
data center gateway router. Optimized for public cloud interconnect, Pluribus
is delivering a high-performance, multi-tenant solution at approximately
one-fifth the cost of traditional data center gateway routers.
Regional cloud service providers (CSP), managed service
providers (MSP), and colocation/hosting providers (Colo) are all investing
heavily in private cloud infrastructure to support the migration of workloads
from on-premises locations to hosted private clouds. According to IDC, the cumulative spend for 2019-2023 on
hardware infrastructure (server, storage and networking) by the off-premises
private cloud segment is estimated to be $50.7B. These service providers need a
cost optimized solution that delivers high performance connectivity to the
public cloud hyperscale providers while also offering deep network slicing for
full isolation and security of each tenant.
Existing Data Center Gateways Don't Fit the Bill
While many CSP, MSP, and Colo providers have deployed white
box leaf and spine networks to cost effectively deliver east-west traffic, they
still typically deploy traditional internet edge routers at the data center
gateway location which sits at the border of the data center for north-south
traffic. These edge routers do not typically offer deep slicing which is
beneficial for multi-tenant operations. Furthermore, these repurposed edge
routers are typically designed with expensive custom application-specific
integrated circuits (ASICs) and enough memory to hold the entire internet
routing table. For regional CSPs, MSPs, and Colos this expense, and the lack of
sufficient network slicing, is no longer acceptable.
The Industry's First White Box Multi-Tenant Data Center
Gateway Router
Today Pluribus is introducing a new, more cost effective,
fully virtualized data center gateway edge router, the Pluribus Freedom Series
9532C-XL-R. The industry's first white box multi-tenant data center gateway
router (DCGR) runs Netvisor
ONE OS R5.1 and will be generally available in July, 2019.
Located at the edge of the data center this platform
connects tenants and their workloads running on regional cloud infrastructure
to public cloud and SaaS providers via high speed direct connections.
With the Pluribus solution, each tenant receives a dedicated,
containerized, and hardware accelerated virtual router running Linux Foundation
open source FRRouting providing full isolation across the data, control, and
management planes. The containers can be provisioned, moved, and decommissioned
with zero effect on the other tenants and limits can be imposed on the resources
allowed to one or another container. Migration of enterprise workloads to
the private cloud service provider, along with high speed connectivity to
multiple public cloud and SaaS providers, is simplified through completely
isolated routing instances with no operational constraints or IP addressing
reconfiguration required.
Disruptive Economics with High Performance
Leveraging the advantages of commoditized merchant silicon
and white box open networking hardware from its partner Edgecore, Pluribus' powerful Linux-based
software delivers industry-leading performance at a fraction of the cost of
traditional edge router solutions. The 9532C-XL-R offers up to 32 x 100 GbE
interfaces or up to 128 x 10/25 GbE interfaces in a compact 1RU package with
wire rate performance. The 9532C-XL-R is further cost reduced with a lower
memory footprint optimized to support up to 128,000 routes which is more than
sufficient to support the public cloud interconnect function but requires far
less memory than a traditional edge router which will holds up to 1 million
routes to cover the full internet table.
"Pluribus' current MSP and CSP customers have asked us for a
white box multi-tenant data center gateway router and we have delivered. This
solution will help our customers deliver high performance public cloud
connectivity more securely for their tenants, all while reducing the cost of
private cloud infrastructure. As data centers become smaller and more distributed
over the next few years this will become even more important," said Kumar
Srikantan, Chief Executive Officer, Pluribus Networks.
"We are pleased with our Pluribus leaf and spine network
deployed across four distributed data centers, soon expanding to six, with full
network slicing for east-west traffic. With the addition of the white box
multi-tenant DC gateway router we can now increase our footprint while
delivering better control and security at a lower price to our customers -
making us more competitive in the market," Paolo Bombonati, Econocom Italia's
Chief Operating Officer.
"The Pluribus Data Center Gateway Router (DCGR) is designed
to enable a cost-effective shared infrastructure for multi-tenant operators,
using deep slicing to deliver control and security through the full isolation
of tenants, and a single solution to manage workloads on hosted and public
clouds. CSPs, MSPs, and regional Colos will want to examine the Pluribus DCGR
for its open networking and cost points for public cloud interconnect," said
Michael Howard, Technology Fellow and Advisor, Carrier Networks at IHS Markit.
"There is a massive investment happening in private cloud
buildouts. The new private cloud opportunity is built on a software-defined
foundation, delivering a standard portfolio of cloud services, automation
tools, and alignment with leading public cloud platforms," said Rick Villars,
IDC Research Vice President, Datacenter & Cloud.