EQUINIX PERFORMANCE HUB™ Fast, Consistent and Reliable Network and Application Performance for the Enterprise AT-A-GLANCE The Network Reimagined How to Design and Deploy an Equinix Performance Hub Enterprise demands a lot from a network. It must be robust, secure, distributed and Current IT trends are moving towards cloud computing, but limited skills and experience able to meet on-premise and cloud application performance needs. The Equinix leave enterprises unsure how to get to the cloud with an efficient, distributed and scalable Performance Hub is an extension node of an enterprise’s network into an Equinix network infrastructure. Equinix can make this process easier and more efficient with its International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data center. It enables an enterprise to consulting services and validation design program. securely and reliably connect to the network and cloud providers. The deployment in the IBX includes off-the-shelf networking and other infrastructure equipment. Internet Benefits • Move to Cloud: Enables easy private cloud deployment, secure and direct Performance Hub Rack connectivity to public clouds, laying the foundation of a hybrid cloud. • Efficient Network: Simplifies the network and provides access to the cloud Aggregation Routing and the Internet without hair-pinning traffic only via select locations. Switching • Improves Quality of Experience (QoE): Optimizes network and application QoE WAN Accl. Firewall by offering higher throughput and low latency, and deploying close to end-users. VPN Load Balancing High Speed Local Loop/ High Speed Local Loop/ • Provider Choices: Provides connectivity to 975 networks, 450 cloud providers Metro Ethernet Metro Ethernet PLATFORM and 600 IT service providers. Branch/Store (1 toN) EQUINIX • Higher Manageability: Provides the agility, security and visibility needed to take Data Center/HQ/Campus control of the network. Performance Hub Components WAN/MPLS Enterprises can connect their headquarters and branch offices to the nearest Equinix IBX data centers via high speed local loop or Ethernet connectivity. Within the IBX, enterprises can deploy network equipment and connect to network and cloud providers. Performance Hubs (PH) are usually deployed in local proximity to specific end-user communities. Equinix IBX data centers are prime locations for Performance Hub deployments because they host an expansive mix of network and cloud services. This allows enterprises to easily build future hybrid cloud deployments. Equinix IBXs offer industry-leading reliability and security and the ability for enterprises to connect to more than 975 networks, 450 cloud providers and 600 IT service providers. The Performance Hub solution enables enterprises to easily adopt these deployment elements. www.equinix.com AT-A-GLANCE EQUINIX PERFORMANCE HUB™ Enterprises can connect their locations to a Performance Hub in the following ways: Equinix Validated Design (EVD) Equinix Validated Design (EVD) is a solutions validation program which tests and Enterprise-WAN Scenarios Cloud-Connector Scenarios certifies reference architecture design and solution components (network infrastructure, on-premise and cloud applications) for full-scale deployment. Scenario 1 (S1) Scenario 2 (S2) Scenario 3 (S3) Scenario 4 (S4) Scenario 5 (S5) Tether an existing Connect HQ & branch Connect inter- Direct connect to Connect to on-premise EVD for Performance Hub provides a detailed design guide for building Equinix Performance regional branch enterprise data center office locations to public cloud providers resources and public Hubs. It offers guidelines for integrating networking, compute, storage and network services, to closest IBX closest IBX offices via IBX through PH cloud through PH Interconnect achieving WAN optimization, securely connecting to the industry’s leading public cloud providers and deploying the PH in industry-leading Equinix IBX colocation facilities. Solution Components The following table summarizes the components of the PH architecture. The hardware Equinix Consulting Services (ECS) and software solution components are recommendations based on EVD benchmark Equinix Consulting Services offers guidance every step of the way by performing results. Customers are at liberty to choose other products according to their preferences. detailed business and technical analysis and providing recommendations to optimize network and application performance. Enterprise Cloud WAN Connectors Components Description Scenarios Scenarios Customer Engagement Flow S1 S2 S3 S4 S5 Equinix IBX Flexspace, Power, Cabinets & Cooling & X-Connect Network Long Haul Connectivity (MPLS-VPN) Connectivity Ethernet (Private Line or VPLS) Localloop Connectivity (MPLS-VPN or VPLS or Metro-E) Internet Connectivity Network Routing—Juniper MX-5 Equipment Switching—Alcatel-Lucent 7210 Firewall—Palo Alto 5020 SSL-VPN—Palo Alto 5020 Load Balancer—A10 Thunder 1030 * * WAN acceleration—Silver-Peak VX2000/8000 Network Thousandeyes.com—SaaS application (latency Performance measurements between locations) Management Logicmonitor.com—SaaS application (Monitoring, Collecting, Alerting, Trending, Reporting) * * Application Performance Appneta—APM (Trace, Path, App, FlowView) Management * * All work will be performed and delivered by Equinix Consulting Services (“ECS”) professionals and/or ECS approved consulting partners. Compute Dell PowerEdge R720 & Storage * * (Equinix IBX VMware ESXi.5.x Hypervisor * * Rack) Netapp FAS series—Storage * * For More Information Compute Amazon Web Services (EC2)—Public Compute http://www.equinix.com/platform-equinix/performance-architecture/ & Storage (Public Cloud) Amazon Web Service (S3)—Public Storage network-performance-hubs or contact us at Email: [email protected] * Optional: Needed for Application Hosted in Equinix IBX Rack © 2014 Equinix, Inc. www.equinix.com DS-EN Equinix-Performance-Hub-Glance 2F4 PK-MB 1406 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS EQUINIX PERFORMANCE HUB™ QUESTIONS 1. What is the Equinix Performance Hub (PH)? 1. What is the Equinix Performance Hub (PH)? The Equinix Performance Hub increases flexibility and options for customers by adding Equinix as an additional site to their existing corporate wide area network (WAN). 2. What are the benefits of the Equinix Performance Customers can then connect privately and directly to Hub? the interconnection-rich ecosystem inside an Equinix International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data center. 3. How does Equinix Performance Hub improve performance? Direct connections to business partners and service providers can dramatically improve application performance 4. What impact does a Performance Hub have on for corporate users and significantly improve the total cost of overall technology spend or cost? ownership. 5. What kind of solutions can easily be built through 2. What are the benefits of the Equinix Performance the Performance Hub architecture? Hub? The Equinix Performance Hub can solve multiple 6. How can Equinix assist customers who are business issues that customers may be experiencing considering deploying a Performance Hub? today. Customers can start off with a small Performance Hub implementation to address a single issue, tackle 7. How can I learn more about Equinix Performance multiple issues at once, or modify their Performance Hub Hub? implementation over time as their business needs change. Some examples of where Performance Hub can immediately address customer’s needs are: • Cloud Enablement: Direct and private connections to multiple cloud service providers enable customers to build hybrid cloud solutions that maximize their existing infrastructure, while making it more scalable and secure. They also offer the certainty and predictable performance that’s difficult to achieve over the public Internet. • Application Performance: The choice to keep some applications central while choosing to push others closer to the user base can dramatically improve application performance. Established performance benchmarks using common corporate applications show significantly improved results with Performance Hub over a typical corporate implementation. • Provider Choice: Customers who deploy a Performance Hub solution have the capability to connect to 975+ networks, 450+ cloud providers and 600+ IT service providers within the Equinix ecosystem. equinix.com FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS EQUINIX PERFORMANCE HUB™ 3. How does Equinix Performance Hub improve 6. How can Equinix assist customers who are performance? considering deploying a Performance Hub? Customers can deploy Performance Hubs at any of our 100+ Equinix can assist customers in a number of ways when they IBX data centers which span five continents, 15 countries are considering a Performance Hub solution: and 32 metro areas. Adding single or multiple Performance Hubs to an existing corporate WAN allows customers • Equinix Validated Designs provide customers with pre- to connect to service providers in the local area, push configured and pre-tested hardware configurations that applications closer to users and increase overall application customers can choose to deploy in their environment. performance. Equinix can also assist customers in hardware procurement and deployment by referring them to local 4. What impact does a Performance Hub have on solutions providers. overall technology spend or cost? • Performance benchmarks for popular corporate Performance Hub offers a very clear return on investment applications have been established under the (ROI), without the subjective factors