2. WHAT AM I TALKING ABOUT?
• My Journey
• The Future of ISP Infrastructure (for some)
• Virtual X-Connect Fabrics
• Cloudification
• Conceptual
3. WHAT I DO
• Design, Build and Operate the networks of ISPs,
Datacentres, Enterprises, Governments, Banks in 10
countries
• Constantly figuring out new ways to creatively use network
infrastructure, products and technologies to disrupt the
marketplace
• Get my buzz from helping the small guys compete against
the big guys – costing YOU millions
• It’s not personal… you just move too slowly and charge too
much
4. HOW I GOT HERE
• At Uni. Of Melb in 89-90 when the Internet was turned on
• Worked with the first non-Telstra ISPs in the mid 90’s
• Built Pre-Broadband ISPs using Dialup, ISDN, Frame Relay
• Built Techex - one of the first partners of RequestDSL
• Built UnitedIP - one of the first aggregator ISPs using Optus
XYZed, Uecomm, iBurst, RequestDSL, Nextep &
Connect.com.au with Telstra via other parties
• Built over 300 boutique/vertically focused Service Providers
5. CONCEPT: THE CLOUD ISP
• No, Not a Cloud Provider
• Not a reseller
• Not the old term ‘VISP’
• A REAL, multi-carrier, self managed, elastic
infrastructure, Internet Service Provider
• Almost doable – 6-18 months
6. WHY DO THIS?
• Rapid deployment of ISP environments
i.e. OTT player
• No Hardware/Licensing delays
• No equipment failures
• Scalable capacity without hardware upgrades
• Highly redundant – Multi-cloud, regions and AZs
• Minimise business risk – no capex
• Elastic Infrastructure – pay only for what you need,
when you need it
• Global reach and possibilities
• Replicatable – i.e. copy/paste in Singapore
7. THE PARTS - Now and in the next 18 months
• Vendors: Cisco, A10, Juniper, Brocade
• LNS: Cisco CSR1000v
• CGN: A10 vThunder CGN
• Firewalls: Cisco vASA, Juniper Firefly (vSRX)
• Cloud Providers: AWS, Azure, Softlayer, Google
Compute, Cisco InterCloud, … more coming
• VxC Fabrics: Megaport, IXA, Pacnet (PEN), Equinix
Cloud Exchange, Nextgen (coming?!)
• Datacentre X-Connects
8. • IP Transit – Backup paths, Diverse On-Demand capacity
• Metro Access Tails – xDSL, Fibre, MetroE, anything layer 2 or
L2TP
• International Ethernet Circuits or IPVPN – NTT, Pacnet, Optus,
Telstra, TATA, China Telecom – directly/in-directly
• VoIP - SIP Trunks, Hosted
• DDoS Protection-aaS / CleanFeed – i.e. Micron21
• Firewall-aaS - Appliances
• Remote Access-aaS (VPN) - Appliances
• Load Balancing-aaS – Appliances
• Wholesale Value-Add – Streaming, Gaming, Business Services
WHAT CAN/COULD I BUY? (For ISPs)
9. X-CONNECTS ARE EVERYTHING
Virtual (VxC)
• Megaport is one of the best examples
• MegaDirect to get to anyone who isn’t on Megaport
• It’s possible to use MegaDirect to bridge to other VxC Fabrics
– or in the future perhaps interconnects between Fabrics
• IX Australia now offering VxCs, Equinix coming
Brokering
• Creating VxCs between two end-points on VxC Fabrics like
Megaport, IX Australia and others
• Creating XCs between two racks inside DCs – possible with
Equinix today – checking with others, managed DC’s only
• Allows non-infrastructure guys to play
13. • If you’re not selling via VxC Fabrics, your competition will be
• Ease of migration from you to someone else – and back
• Hardware vendors will move to VxC Fabrics – storage, etc.
• You can ignore it, but others are already servicing the market
• They will still buy your tails, but all your VA profit will
disappear
• Enterprises are starting to buy wholesale ISP services
directly
WHY SHOULD YOU CARE?
14. • Machine Images still coming – many more needed
• Licensing from Vendors could be nicer
• Cloud Provider internal networking still needs developing
• Inter-connection pricing for data needs to be improved
• Terminology is a pain
• Figure it out yourself
WHAT DOESN’T WORK …YET
15. THE NEXT 24 MONTHS
• Cloud ISPs. Rapidly deployed full service ISPs
• More VxC Fabrics, on demand and fast (more 100Gb)
• Marketplaces develop, bidding for infrastructure
• A LOT more wholesale product offerings with Value-add
products making all the difference
• Fabric Inter-Connections