Apstra AOS® 2.2 Simplifies Data Center Network Automation with Powerful New Release Including an “Easy Button” for Multi-Vendor Intent-Based Networking
Apstra has unveiled AOS® 2.2, including the industry’s first solution automating multi-tenant EVPN across multiple vendors, Apstra’s first supported open source network operating system(NOS), unmatched Intent-Based Analytics™(IBA) with extensible telemetry and enterprise class capabilities including RBAC and audit trails.
AOS enables enterprise, web scale, and service providers to reduce cost, manage the health of the network, accelerate time to delivery of applications and services — without the headaches that exist today deploying and operating business-critical data center network infrastructure.
EVPN
AOS 2.2 introduces support for multi-tenancy and enhanced inter-rack L2 connectivity through Ethernet VPN (EVPN). EVPN provides a scalable control plane for VXLAN and enables a multi-tenant deployment via VRFs, creating multiple security zones. However, despite EVPN being an industry standard, current vendor implementations are painful, often incompatible and extremely hard to configure and troubleshoot.
AOS abstracts that complexity and automates all aspects of EVPN configuration and operations, across Cisco and Cumulus implementations, effectively providing an “easy button” for EVPN deployments. This allows customers to continue to address their existing application connectivity requirements as they transition to modern L3 Leaf-Spine Clos architectures for better agility and scale. Users can easily automate their design and configuration of EVPN, benefiting from simplicity, increased agility, scalability and reliability.
In addition to EVPN, additional new and enhanced features in AOS 2.2 include:
- Intent-Based Analytics (IBA) enhancements, extensible telemetry, and blueprint discovery:
- Network operators and administrators can now quickly, from the AOS GUI, set-up proactive closed-loop monitoring and actionable alerts for gray failures with 9pre-defined IBA probes that can detect anomalies and process custom telemetry. AOS users can also write their own custom telemetry collectors.
- AOS can now also be deployed in monitoring mode on existing data center deployments. After automated discovery of the network, AOS offers the same continuous validation and intent-based analytics capabilities in a risk-free, read only fashion.
- Enterprise Class Features:
- TACACS+ support and customizable RBAC roles – Provides integration with existing authentication systems and allow administrators to customize AOS roles to match organization requirements
- Audit trail – Allows customers to monitor login access to AOS and audit every single change for troubleshooting and compliance.
- Increased choice in hardware and software – Including Dell EMC and Mellanox devices, OpenSwitch (OPX), the latest version of Cumulus (3.6), Ubuntu 16.04 for servers, including the Free-Range-Routing (FRR) routing stack.
- IPv6 Phase 1 – Leverage IPv6 to conserve IPv4 space on fabric links.
- Many other enhancements driven by real customer requests.
“Organizations today require powerful automation that simplifies the operations of data center network infrastructure and enables network operators to conduct their business with confidence as they upgrade their data centers to meet the burgeoning demands of digital transformation, Internet of Things (IoT), and 5G,” said Mansour Karam, CEO and Founder of Apstra. “Apstra continues to drive innovation and empowers network operators with choices and new capabilities in AOS, as they face increasingly complex technology environments made up of a growing landscape of private and public cloud services, as well as data center and edge resources.”
Product Availability and Pricing
The new AOS features will be generally available in June 2018 at no extra cost for existing AOS customers.
Additional Resources
- Read the Apstra blog
- Join the AOS EVPN and IBA webinar on June 20th
- Learn more about Apstra’s Intent-Based Networking solution – Watch how Apstra puts the Easy in EVPN video
- Download the AOS EVPN data sheet
See a demo, or schedule a 1:1 with us at Cisco Live!
About AOS
AOS® delivers a turnkey Intent-Based distributed operating system and a data center application suite that offer 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. Its self-documenting nature streamlines compliance tasks. AOS is hardware-independent 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 how data center networks are built and operated. AOS® increases business agility through an autonomous or Self-Operating Network™ that delivers log-scale improvements in CapEx, OpEx and capacity. AOS is a hardware-inclusive, closed-loop 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.
