Reid Stidolph, Technologist and Senior Product Manager, Juniper Networks

Juniper Session Smart Technology Overview

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Screen capture with host Reid Stidolph, Technologist and Senior Product Manager, Juniper Networks, on the right. The slide headline says, “Reality.” A network diagram is below with icons of computers and devices on the left. On the far right is a server icon. In between are the headings, from left to right, “Firewalls. Load Balancers. Overlays and Tunnels.”

Starting wonderfully anew: Why Session Smart Router changes everything.

Most SD-WANs rely on tunnel overlay technology and are riddled by overhead, retransmissions, fragmentation, and generally poor goodput. Reid Stidolph and Adam Morris demonstrate how Session Smart breaks the badput habit of tunnels. An in-depth technical Q&A follows Reid’s presentation.

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You’ll learn

  • Rewind the clock to 2014 for a recap of networking’s unwieldy past

  • The difference between the theory and reality of networks

  • The four key elements of Juniper’s tunnel-less Session Smart Router

Who is this for?

Network Professionals Security Professionals

Host

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Reid Stidolph
Technologist and Senior Product Manager, Juniper Networks
Adam Morris Headshot
Adam Morris
Systems Engineering Manager, Juniper Networks

Transcript

0:08 and um yeah just super excited and

0:10 honored to be here with uh you know with

0:12 the the delegates and and uh

0:15 and the team to really introduce and

0:17 demonstrate session smart a bit and and

0:20 you know talk about its integration with

0:22 mist and

0:23 and uh

0:24 you know for starters here we're gonna

0:27 um i'm gonna

0:28 like was mentioned earlier some of you

0:30 may have seen you know past network

0:32 field day with 128 technology and so

0:35 some of this may be a little bit of a

0:36 refresher but you know really wanted to

0:38 set the stage here for those that may

0:40 have missed it

0:41 um and and you know talk about session

0:44 smart what it means where it came from

0:46 and and why it's here now with juniper

0:49 um i

0:50 personally enjoy talking about this

0:52 journey of session smart technology and

0:54 secure vector routing uh because i was

0:57 really lucky enough to have a front row

1:00 seat through

1:01 uh through all of it most of its

1:03 creation so

1:05 um

1:06 so to start with you know let's let's uh

1:10 let's rewind the clock a bit back to

1:12 2015 or 2014 actually when when this

1:16 tunnel-less technology that we're going

1:17 to talk about here was was first being

1:20 created now

1:21 um you guys you panelists in the

1:23 audience

1:24 will remember that uh

1:26 um

1:27 you know back in 2014 sd-wan really

1:31 wasn't that much of a

1:33 buzzword yet uh sdn and nfv were kind of

1:36 the hot topic or the hot uh buzzwords

1:39 kind of you know climbing the hype cycle

1:41 and and

1:42 and you know arguably the the tools of

1:46 software and software defined we're

1:47 still looking for a useful marketplace

1:50 landing with broad acceptance and

1:51 utility so of course in hindsight we all

1:54 know that that that place would

1:56 ultimately turn out to be the land and

1:57 and

1:58 uh but not a lot of people were talking

2:00 about it at that particular time

2:03 uh now back in 2014 the people the folks

2:07 that were working on this technology not

2:09 only had a background in ip routing but

2:11 also in ip telephony

2:14 so they kind of looked at networking

2:15 through a slightly different lens

2:18 you know for instance with an ip voice

2:20 and and video application they operate

2:23 inherently with the notion of a session

2:25 and so in like in that world you know i

2:27 pick up the phone and initiate a call to

2:30 you

2:31 and there's this signaled session that

2:33 gets established

2:34 and and there's a directionality with

2:37 that session me to you and based on that

2:40 asymmetry uh in in the conversation

2:42 progresses as we exchange information

2:45 and truthfully this is the way most

2:47 applications work um you know so this

2:49 approach to sessions where there's a

2:52 signaled exchange exten establishing in

2:55 intent and the dispossession of the

2:57 network towards the session were some of

3:00 the formational um things of the

3:02 technology but at the time

3:04 while network was networking was

3:06 certainly seeing some notable changes

3:08 that it hadn't seen in a very long time

3:10 thanks to kind of being reinvigorated

3:12 with the powers of software and software

3:14 defined you know the ip routed networks

3:17 that everyone was building upon were

3:19 were largely built and operated the same

3:22 way they had been for the past 20 or so

3:25 years as shown in the slides we see

3:27 uh here you know the routed networks

3:29 were born out of a theory

3:31 that

3:32 that said hey keep the networks

3:35 stateless

3:36 leave security to the endpoints keep it

3:38 fast and simple and of course this was

3:41 obviously for really good reason in the

3:43 early days when

3:45 when rfc 1717 was being drafted by the

3:48 long bearded wizards of the itf

3:50 it was all the internet could do to

3:52 really keep up with the booming demand

3:54 for networks so

3:56 uh you know based on the technology of

3:58 the day making it go bigger and faster

4:01 were the most important things

4:04 um but you know bottom line routers

4:06 started out simple and stateless

4:09 so

4:10 you know if that was the the reality uh

4:13 or the the theory

4:14 uh in the beginning

4:17 in 2014 when

4:19 this technology was was sort of

4:21 germinating uh you know this was the

4:23 reality that we lived in you know as the

4:25 networks grew and the internet took off

4:28 uh

4:29 you know high value targets such as

4:31 financial institutions governments and

4:33 everything you know started to put

4:35 things on the network and it turns out

4:37 uh security was needed uh within the

4:40 network and so firewalls got got loaded

4:42 on top and to to keep up with the the

4:46 distribution of load and scale

4:48 applications load balancers and and

4:50 other stateful devices were piled on top

4:53 and as the networks were not the routed

4:56 networks anyways we're not smart enough

4:58 to take packets where they needed to go

5:00 tunnels and overlays proliferated to get

5:02 them where they needed to go you know so

5:04 the if the networks were envisioned to

5:07 be simple and stateless they had become

5:08 anything but that state

5:11 was everywhere and complexity really was

5:13 was the result of it so

5:16 you know for the majority of the

5:17 industry wielding the power of software

5:20 and software defined at that time

5:22 they were busily focused on taking the

5:25 same approaches and the same

5:26 architectures they had done

5:28 uh previous and just kind of recreating

5:31 them software uh recreating them in

5:33 software which really you know was only

5:35 compounding the problem of fragility and

5:38 complexity that was festering and and

5:41 you know really for just marginal gains

5:44 and end user experiences

5:46 so

5:47 the only medicine that was being applied

5:49 to this malady from our perspective was

5:51 putting packets into tunnels to get them

5:53 to go places the routed networks

5:55 wouldn't weren't smart enough to take

5:56 them and sprinkling a heavy dose of

5:59 orchestration and automation on top of

6:01 it

6:02 you know to to that team back at the

6:04 time that was the definition of

6:06 technical debt and networks everywhere

6:08 were just accumulating it so

6:10 you know the motivation was a feeling

6:12 that that what was being done just

6:14 wasn't enough if all we did was take the

6:16 same things we did in hardware and do

6:18 them in software we were just doing it

6:21 wrong so

6:22 you know the promise and vision of

6:24 software and software defined

6:26 uh of unlocking innovations and

6:29 networking to power next generations and

6:31 networks improve user experience uh they

6:34 just weren't going to be realized to

6:36 their fullest potential on the current

6:37 trajectory so

6:41 so that was the mindset um and some of

6:43 the formational thinking uh behind the

6:45 session smart router and and at the time

6:48 it was conceived of um

6:50 so they set out to build a router a

6:52 smarter router uh and and there were a

6:55 few key things that they decided a smart

6:58 router needed to have

6:59 first of all it had to make the best

7:01 possible use of software and the powers

7:04 of software defined

7:05 you know there's there's that famous

7:07 saying that says software is eating the

7:08 world and it's for good reason you know

7:11 no hardware can compare to the rapid

7:13 innovation cycles the superior economics

7:15 of software

7:17 and you know the platforms that power

7:20 software from small to large to cloud

7:22 and the economics of them really had to

7:24 be leveraged well

7:27 secondly it had to operate based on

7:29 sessions in the journey from client to

7:31 cloud sessions are the thread that

7:33 connect the users to the applications so

7:36 a certain amount of that network state

7:39 that was just being kind of piled on top

7:41 and all these uncoordinated middle boxes

7:44 just needed to be democratized into the

7:46 routing plane in a matter that was well

7:48 coordinated across the routing nodes

7:51 and you know

7:52 not not just for the purposes of an

7:55 evolved and better circuit synchronized

7:57 control plane but also for the purposes

7:59 of telemetry which plays an important

8:01 role in some of the stuff that we're

8:02 going to see

8:03 as we get into mist

8:05 um

8:06 so

8:07 also the way the network was designed

8:10 and operated kind of that day zero um

8:14 experience it really had to op orient

8:16 around services not ip ports prefixes uh

8:20 the network constructs themselves had to

8:22 orient around services because that's

8:24 what you know without services what's

8:26 the point of a network it's there to

8:27 deliver services and last but not least

8:30 security had to be baked in not painted

8:34 on in perimeters and

8:36 and

8:38 and

8:39 zones and things like that it really

8:40 there

8:41 an element of native zero trust had to

8:44 be um kind of baked in it at every hop

8:47 so

8:49 that's more than an adequate setup an

8:52 intro to the uh the technology let's

8:54 let's jump right into how it works and

8:57 and uh

8:59 operate so

9:01 in the diagram here we gotta we got a

9:02 simple topology of of basically two ssrs

9:07 with a cloud in the middle some network

9:09 some layer three network in the middle

9:12 um

9:13 and uh we're gonna kind of walk through

9:14 a packet as it flows through this um and

9:18 and

9:18 and talk about secure vector routing and

9:21 and and how it works um i'll point out

9:24 as we go through this that uh you know

9:27 this is a simple setup of two ssrs um

9:30 you know could be a simple hub and a

9:32 spoke at a data center or a how about a

9:34 branch or a hub at a data center spoke

9:36 at a branch um but uh you know this this

9:40 was designed and intended for multiple

9:42 hosts so there could be potentially many

9:44 ssrs kind of in this uh in this middle

9:47 bit but we'll we'll start simple here um

9:51 and you know we have a source and a

9:53 destination at the left and the right um

9:56 source ip address destination ip address

10:00 and it sends that packet into the ssr at

10:03 some point um you know ideally this ssr

10:06 is the uh is the default gateway for

10:09 this uh this source client here uh on

10:12 its lan

10:14 um and and you know the very first thing

10:17 that that ssr is going to do

10:19 is

10:20 uh

10:21 detect first of all whether or not this

10:23 is part this packet is part of an

10:25 established session you know in this

10:27 case it isn't it's the very first packet

10:29 that we've seen for this user and for

10:31 this session uh so

10:33 you know we're going to associate it

10:34 with a set of services and policies and

10:38 and tenants now the tenant is who the

10:40 user is we're going to decide

10:42 we're going to we're going to decide who

10:44 this user is and um and ultimately does

10:47 he have access to the services that he's

10:50 that this packet is destined for

10:53 and then finally we're going to

10:54 determine the policies that are

10:55 associated like how we're going to

10:57 deliver this session to the next hop and

11:00 ultimately on to its destination in this

11:02 case we determine our next top is

11:06 going to happen via

11:08 another one of our ssr brethren out

11:10 there in the network uh the one on the

11:13 right and so

11:15 we will go ahead and forward that packet

11:17 out onto the wire

11:18 and now we will we will effectively nap

11:21 the packet so now the packet is no

11:23 longer from source to destination it's

11:26 from waypoint one to waypoint two and

11:29 this is effectively just a nat of the

11:31 packet uh we nap the ips and the ports

11:34 associated with it

11:36 and the original

11:37 uh

11:38 source and destination important

11:40 protocol is encapsulated in a little bit

11:43 of metadata along with the associated

11:46 policies that were that were decided

11:48 upon at this first uh router

11:50 it's cryptographically signed

11:52 and it's sent out onto the wire to

11:55 traverse this network destined for

11:56 waypoint two

11:58 ultimately it finds its way to waypoint

12:00 two

12:01 waypoint two

12:02 first of all validates that uh that is

12:05 authentic that it's secure

12:07 uh and then begins to inspect the uh the

12:10 policies that were decided and it turns

12:13 around and for or programs its

12:15 forwarding plane for the rules that were

12:17 decided on for this session and

12:19 ultimately the packet comes out the

12:20 other side source and destined to you

12:24 know to and from the the end uh um

12:27 endpoints in source and destination as

12:30 if uh as if there was nothing in the

12:32 middle

12:33 as this session progresses

12:36 uh the metadata is effectively shut off

12:38 um once the forwarding planes are all

12:41 programmed in you know one or more ssrs

12:45 in this path uh they can shut off

12:48 metadata at that point so then it's just

12:49 effectively a nat no encapsulation no

12:52 overhead and uh you know the the the

12:56 good put um of of that session is is

12:59 really maximized because it's it's just

13:01 a simple nat at that point

13:03 and because this is a network field day

13:06 let's uh let's actually look at this in

13:09 action um

13:11 so what we're going to see here is a

13:13 packet

13:14 from our endpoint at

13:17 192 168 10 10 going to 10 2 0 4 this is

13:22 the original packet that first packet

13:24 hitting the the first hop ssr

13:27 and here it is egressing the first hop

13:29 ssr

13:30 so what you see here is that little bit

13:32 of metadata that i mentioned that's kind

13:35 of stuck um you know on the end of the

13:37 transport header

13:39 and um in this particular case we've

13:41 actually decrypted the metadata here

13:44 with our dissector so we can see some of

13:45 the the elements of it but we see that

13:48 original source and dest ips and ports

13:51 and all that good stuff

13:52 and we see the tenant that was aside

13:54 this came from a user in our finance

13:57 segment uh the service is inventory new

14:00 that's the name of our service it has

14:03 you know associated policies

14:05 uh and you know we're headed for our

14:07 peer

14:08 so it

14:08 transmits across the network this is

14:10 ultimately arriving at the next top

14:13 uh pier

14:14 um and you know we see it actually goes

14:18 through multiple hops

14:20 before finally it comes out the other

14:22 end and the metadata is is removed now

14:26 yeah go ahead before this is aaron

14:27 conaway

14:28 how are the users and the tenants

14:31 detected i guess the tenant's probably

14:33 from the user right but how is the user

14:35 identified

14:37 yeah great great question ultimately

14:39 there's a variety of ways that that

14:42 user tenancy is is identified probably

14:45 the simplest way is is similar to like

14:48 you might do on a zone based firewall

14:50 where you have uh you know an interface

14:53 a vlan or something like that that is

14:55 the you know that is the gateway for um

14:58 a collection of users

15:00 and and they're matched you know based

15:02 on their their ingress point uh into the

15:05 into the network um so that's that's

15:08 kind of the

15:08 uh the the simplest way um there's some

15:12 more advanced ways like like we can do

15:15 source uh prefix matching um you know

15:18 say the

15:20 say all these packets are flowing into a

15:22 router and there's multiple different

15:25 segments for which it's not the gateway

15:27 and it's kind of further back in the

15:29 network uh we can do source prefix

15:31 matching to figure those out

15:33 um

15:34 and then we have some prototypes of of

15:36 even some more advanced things where we

15:38 actually have drivers on an endpoint

15:41 like on a windows device

15:44 that will

15:45 that will actually associate the user to

15:47 a tenant and actually put metadata right

15:50 in the packet so that packet could

15:52 almost enter from anywhere uh and and

15:55 that tendency would be established by by

15:58 a driver right on the on the endpoint

15:59 that that is is a is a prototype i i

16:03 can't go into a whole lot of detail on

16:04 that one but uh um you know the the the

16:08 implementation they're sort of the way

16:10 that we identify tenancy today in the

16:12 implementation uh but certainly the

16:14 protocol and the technology was always

16:16 designed where uh this tendency could be

16:19 established in a variety of ways um you

16:21 know and ultimately once it hits the

16:23 router um and you know then that that

16:27 tenancy feeds into the services and and

16:29 the associated policy great question

16:32 thanks

16:33 hey reid i've got a question for you as

16:34 well while your flow is broken so yeah

16:36 looking at the packet capture here and

16:38 looking you know down the stack here am

16:40 i am i reading this right is the 128 t

16:42 is that payload or is that somewhere

16:43 else that you guys are putting that in

16:45 header data where does that sit exactly

16:48 yeah to ultimately to the you know to a

16:51 router in the middle that didn't

16:52 understand metadata it would look like

16:54 payload it's it's right after you know

16:56 it's put right on the end of the of the

16:58 transport um um

17:01 protocol uh you'll note here that our

17:04 source and desk ports are

17:07 are

17:07 different they're changed as well so you

17:09 know here here's waypoint one and

17:11 waypoint two of of the routers that you

17:14 know in the fabric that this is uh um

17:17 you know heading to and from

17:19 um every you know one unique thing about

17:22 this technology is every session in

17:25 equals a session out

17:27 meaning

17:28 um

17:29 every you know if when you think about a

17:31 traditional tunnel it's going to kind of

17:33 stack up all of all sessions in

17:36 and to devices in the middle that may be

17:38 doing ecmp based on flow hashing or

17:40 something like that

17:42 often they will have problems with that

17:43 because it will all look like you know

17:45 port 4500 port 4500 or something like

17:48 that um this

17:51 the

17:52 the

17:52 i the five tuple basically the outer

17:55 five tuple that we see here ultimately

17:57 becomes a flow key

17:59 uh not just for

18:01 you know the end ssr as it enters the

18:03 next the the the ssr that it's destined

18:05 to uh but you know other devices in the

18:08 middle will see these as unique flows as

18:11 well they'll they'll you know distribute

18:13 load and everything um and you you kind

18:16 of prevent some of those elephant pro

18:19 flow problems that you can get in other

18:20 places so just a couple clarifications

18:22 so this packet is this packet is sent

18:24 like at intervals to identify the flow

18:26 and then you've got you know whatever

18:27 your user payload data is or is this are

18:29 you borrowing from the payload in each

18:30 packet to make sure this metadata is

18:32 encoded how does that work yeah so this

18:35 this what we'll see here i'm going to

18:36 kind of go down through a few of these

18:38 here um

18:39 you know there's there's that forward

18:42 metadata in the first packet of a flow

18:44 that would that would um

18:46 again program the forwarding planes for

18:48 one or more ssrs in in the path

18:51 um

18:52 and as this flow progresses you're going

18:55 to see in the reverse direction there's

18:57 a little bit of metadata re sent in the

18:59 reverse direction and that metadata will

19:02 include sometimes it'll include things

19:04 like state of of

19:06 um like load state of the next hops you

19:08 know they're kind of talking to one

19:09 another here

19:11 so like it's an as needed this this is

19:12 sent as needed as you're needing to to

19:14 take action in the forwarding plane

19:16 exactly once this is established you

19:18 know there's no metadata it's it's just

19:20 there's nothing there there

19:23 as you alluded there's instances where a

19:25 little bit of metadata will be turned on

19:27 say we need to move a flow to a

19:28 different path

19:29 just turn on metadata move to a

19:31 different path um you know maybe there's

19:33 other kind of flow maintenance tasks

19:35 that will uh that will happen from time

19:37 to time but uh you know ultimately

19:40 unlike a

19:42 you know a tunnel with full

19:44 encapsulation uh this

19:46 metadata represents a

19:48 pretty much insignificant amount of

19:50 bandwidth in the overall life of of of

19:52 most flows gotcha one more question and

19:54 then i'll let you go what so what are

19:56 the implications for ipv6 uh you know

19:58 specifically since you don't have

20:00 fragmentation and you know mobile

20:02 networks are on the rise i think we went

20:04 over 51 of mobile usage in you know the

20:06 us in december for internet so we're

20:08 more mobile than we are you know

20:09 anything else and you've got some

20:10 slightly reduced mtus when you're

20:12 dealing with ipv6 payloads there what

20:14 are the amplification implications of

20:16 that when you're you know obviously

20:18 you're trying to build an sd-wan

20:19 connected ecosystem which includes

20:20 mobility devices a lot yeah um how does

20:23 that play into ipv6

20:24 yeah i mean ultimately our first

20:27 you know the the

20:29 step one is we try to prevent

20:31 fragmentation at all possible when it's

20:34 when it's required obviously the

20:36 the transit networks in the underlay can

20:39 be

20:39 uh can be ipv6 uh you can have ipv6 in

20:43 the in the outer you know you can kind

20:45 of weave in and out of ipv6 and ibv4 um

20:49 but one of the things that that

20:52 the

20:52 the routers do as they as they detect

20:55 paths

20:56 um between one another they will

20:59 actually monitor

21:00 you know there's kind of a process where

21:01 they discover the path say it's an ipv6

21:04 network um they discover the path

21:06 between themselves and they will

21:08 actually probe and discover things like

21:11 mtu size and and um you know kind of

21:15 understand if there's stateful devices

21:17 in the in the middle that could be

21:18 impacting or or

21:20 uh causing issues and then it'll deploy

21:23 prevention

21:24 you know and and and uh traversal

21:27 mechanisms uh as needed so um you know

21:30 in the case where you have a network in

21:33 the middle that that does require some

21:35 fragmentation um we we don't

21:38 in that fabric we don't do a traditional

21:41 ip fragment it would it would look on

21:44 the wire like a udp packet

21:46 um

21:47 but it it it transmits ultimately um um

21:51 sort of invisibly across that uh even

21:54 even if we'll take say that one

21:56 oversized ipv

21:58 or um

22:00 tcp packet and then transit it across

22:03 the fabric at broken up into two udp

22:05 packets

22:07 thank you guys do you guys spoof like

22:09 path mt discovery so that doesn't

22:11 actually have to happen on a discovery

22:13 basis because you know the mtu sizing

22:14 that you could do

22:16 sort of end to end so that way and hosts

22:18 when they're negotiating sort of

22:21 you know sort of kevin's point right you

22:22 can you can just answer back quickly and

22:25 tell them what size and set you want and

22:26 then because you guys are fragmenting

22:28 internally it doesn't matter

22:29 yeah yeah exactly can you do can you can

22:32 you actually do that do you actually

22:34 spoof pat mtu for v6 or is it not

22:36 something you do yeah we don't we don't

22:39 spoof it currently but but um you know

22:42 again

22:43 most times because we sort of

22:45 make that invisible to the end devices

22:48 um for the most part we do do some

22:50 things like mtu um or sorry mss clamping

22:53 where we will intelligently affect mss

22:56 again just to make it more efficient and

22:58 avoid fragmentation if at all possible

23:01 but we don't do that with the path mtu

23:03 at this time what are the control

23:06 mechanisms that kind of would prevent

23:08 um users from

23:10 being able to kind of uh

23:13 spoof their own source routing

23:16 yeah um you know

23:19 ultimately we

23:21 you know this is where we get into the

23:23 full stack um and some of you know using

23:26 some of our our uh um aps and switches

23:29 as well uh with the full stack and

23:31 juniper

23:33 you know we we are able to delegate a

23:35 little bit of that to the you know to

23:37 the wireless and wired access

23:39 um so by you know in a lot of these

23:42 environments by the time it hits the the

23:44 ssr

23:45 um you know there's already been some

23:48 element of of

23:50 you know access control relevant to

23:53 whatever their their access mechanism is

23:58 thanks

24:00 all right so

24:04 let's uh

24:06 let's just keep it moving here so um

24:09 yeah so that's kind of an overview of of

24:12 svr secure vector routing the protocol

24:14 how it works um you know but how does

24:16 this actually get deployed

24:18 uh in in you know in in real life and

24:22 and where do you put it how does it drop

24:24 into existing networks

24:25 uh

24:26 really you know as the routers um are

24:28 deployed at branches and data centers

24:30 and cloud edges these these those

24:32 waypoints that you saw

24:35 you know they kind of appear and and

24:38 become strategic points in the topology

24:40 to kind of to form an overlay fabric

24:43 and

24:44 you know the session smart routers

24:46 themselves are software based like we

24:47 mentioned running on x86 platforms and

24:50 they leverage uh kernel bypass

24:52 technology namely dpdk to streamline uh

24:56 the components

24:58 of of off-the-shelf hardware for

25:00 performance and latency

25:02 um and you know while the software

25:05 itself runs on commodity whitebox

25:07 platforms we have a versatile set of

25:09 certified platforms that we rigorously

25:12 and continuously test in our automated

25:14 test environments

25:15 to give the highest levels of uh you

25:18 know assurances for functionality

25:19 performance and support so the the

25:21 software scales up and down for small

25:24 branches small offices to large hubs uh

25:28 and and interconnect points alike and so

25:31 you know at the end of the day it forms

25:33 this uh um

25:36 this service-centric fabric uh that

25:38 becomes the sd-wan

25:40 now um you know at the end of the day um

25:44 software does need hardware to run on

25:46 and uh um as we alluded to uh at the

25:49 beginning of the presentation we're

25:51 excited to be introducing uh a branch

25:54 appliance for the ssr this is the ssr

25:58 100 line

26:00 and

26:03 you know these are ssr 120 and 130 these

26:05 are great small to medium branch

26:08 appliances and and you know really our

26:10 our aim with this is to simplify how we

26:13 get session smart routing into customers

26:15 hands

26:16 um

26:18 now

26:19 first party platforms aside the openness

26:22 and flexibility of the software remains

26:24 a really huge part of session smart

26:26 routing i mean you know

26:28 at the end of the day it's

26:30 platforms are simply a vehicle to get

26:32 session smart routing into more places

26:34 so networks and users can start enjoying

26:37 the benefits

26:38 and

26:39 you know here you see some of the

26:41 portfolio of third-party options um and

26:47 you know the some of the benefits here

26:49 in this era

26:51 current time as you guys know with

26:52 crippling supply train uh supply chain

26:55 shortages

26:56 um all over the industry we've we've

26:59 really seen that that you know thanks to

27:01 this uh ability of software and the

27:04 ability to run on more platforms

27:06 we've really been able to weather the

27:07 storm uh much better than most

27:12 so that's kind of hardware and a and a

27:16 you know a blast through uh or through

27:19 session smart routing and where it came

27:20 from and what's it all about and of

27:22 course we're we're

27:24 using that at the end of the day to

27:26 deploy

27:27 an sd-wan

27:36 you

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