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NIKHIL KELSHIKAR: Hello, everybody,
and welcome to this quick talk on how Cisco and Google are
joining forces to enable Cisco SD-WAN-connected
users to easily access cloud resources in Google Cloud
and beyond with Google's Network Connectivity Center.
I am Nikhil Kelshikar, Director of Product Management in Google
Cloud, responsible for enterprise networking.
And I'm glad you're spending the next few minutes of your time
watching this session.
Customers have had to adapt to changes in their business model
during the current black swan events.
The businesses which have adapted to digitization faster,
whether it was your neighborhood restaurant
or your big retailers, have been thriving.
And, for those who could not scale to remote collaboration,
have been challenged.
Businesses needed to deliver new applications and platforms
across the enterprise.
They could not build it fast enough
and have been consuming the infrastructure,
as against building the infrastructure themselves.
This has given them immense ability
to scale quickly and adjust the business model to changing
conditions and demands.
Networking is critical in this transformation.
Enterprises have to extend their networks
to where their workforce, their workloads, their partners,
and customers are now residing.
This requires an enterprise to scale the network
geographically and add capacity to meet customer demands.
Delivering a consistent connectivity and security model
is critical, regardless of where the applications and services
are running.
And these challenges are driving a unique transformation
for the network infrastructure which is being built today.
Cisco and Google aim to bring this agility to your network,
jointly.
Cisco SD-WAN and Google Cloud Network Connectivity Center,
or NCC for short, enables a unique combination
which brings together the industry-leading SD-WAN
fabric from Cisco to easily connect to your cloud resources
in Google in a completely automated manner.
Cisco's vManage registers with Google's NCC,
and now enterprise sites can access Google Cloud resources
globally.
All of the enterprise sites, irrespective
of where they are located, can connect
to each other via the Google network
and through the resources in the cloud.
And they can also connect with their data centers
and their SaaS services.
Users can get a superior application experience
via SD-WAN policy automation.
Google provides autoscaling of the cloud resources
and the network in this model.
Traditionally, all of this is based
on a simple and flexible consumption model
of network and cloud access.
Let's take a closer look at how Network Connectivity Center
works.
Google's NCC provides a single pane of glass Management
and Operations, which enables you to connect various network
resources.
For example, data centers or enterprise sites
and different user locations can either
connect via Google Cloud interconnect or partner
interconnect.
The same resources could connect to NCC and to the Google
Cloud via site-to-site IPsec VPN tunnels,
and you can use a Cisco SD-WAN as well as an option
to bring all the branches and the users
to connect to the cloud.
What this does is, once these are connected to NCC,
these resources can now talk to each other.
So your data centers can talk to branches
and your data centers can talk to resources and workloads
running in the cloud, and this is completely automated
for you.
The Management plane of NCC can integrate and share
contacts with Cisco vManage for easy SD-WAN onboarding.
NCC provides a globally consistent control plane.
What that means is resources can be in any part of the world
and they can connect to each other seamlessly.
Policies can be created and applied irrespective
of where the resources exist and they can be realized
consistently, which means the exact same policy can be
applied in different resources anywhere
they are and have the exact same behavior with policies.
The data plane is highly distributed
for optimal performance, globally
running on Google's low-latency and highly scalable network.
Let's take a closer look at how this could
work in a real-life scenario.
A customer project in Google would create a Virtual Private
Cloud, or VPC resource, which enables
sites to connect to Google Cloud, on the left,
in the US West region and, on the right,
in the Asia South Region.
These sites can be connected to Cisco SD-WAN cloud hubs,
either over the internet or via an MPLS circuit.
Connectivity is orchestrated by the Cisco controller, which
connects to NCC, to enable a customer
to access cloud and network resources in a completely
automated workflow.
Now, once that is set up, sites 1, 2, 3, and the data center
in this picture are communicating
with each other over the globally available, low-latency
Google network.
The Google Cloud resources are available for access
to users and workloads with a consistent policy
model applied to it.
If you wanted to add new sites, say,
a new set of branches or a new acquisition
which was being integrated, you could add those sites easily.
And if you want to remove sites, you can remove them flexibly.
If you need additional capacity for data transfers--
say it is a major event like a big sale or a big shopping
event--
you can do that.
You can scale the capacity without needing
to always provision your network and the infrastructure
for peak.
And that's really the benefit of the cloud.
And last, but not the least, a customer can pay as you grow.
You can pay as you grow with a consumption-based model
or new capacity.
So, to recap, here are some of the main use cases.
Users can connect to cloud resources seamlessly and have
access to all services running in the cloud from anywhere.
Site-to-site connectivity can be provisioned easily via
the Google network, enabling a no-friction onboarding
and scalable network access and improved application
performance via an application profile-based SD-WAN policy,
which enables you to select the optimal path
for your application based on network health
and reachability, and all of this brought to you
in a flexible and simple model for connectivity with
a pay-as-you-grow approach on a consumption-based model.
So key takeaways here, number one,
NCC is now available for all GCP users.
You can visit the resources listed on this slide
to learn more information.
For example, visit the Network Connectivity Center
site to learn more about NCC and the user guides
and how to use it.
And visit cloud.google.com/cisco for more information
on the Cisco and Google partnership.
Thank you for your time and interest in this joint solution
from Cisco and Google.
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