M1 Product Overview

7810 Velocix Transparent Cache
System Specialist Course

Module One: Product Overview
COPYRIGHT 2014 ALCATEL-LUCENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
MODULE OBJECTIVES
1. Identify the main hardware of the Velocix

Transparent Cache (VXTC)
2. Access the documentation for the VXTC
3. Identify and describe the main deployment
scenarios in a network
4. Understand the basic architecture and
features
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INTRODUCTION
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Content provider
WHAT IS TRANSPARENT
CACHING?
A service provider deploys
caching islands to intercept
OTT traffic typically to
reduce infrastructure costs
or improve QoE related to
Broadband Service
Reduced transport costs for OTT Traffic
Service provider
Transit or peering
CDN
Traffic Intercept
& Caching
Improve Quality of Experience

Manage traffic Surges
CONTENT
Subscribers
TRANSPARENT CACHE APPLIANCE

Carrier Grade Media Caching Appliance
HP Gen8 hardware platform, in common with other Velocix products
6.6Gbps cache throughput, network & storage architecture.
Policy Based Website Definition update Service & create your own policies
Optimized for the modern Internet

Partial object (HTTP 206) caching for download managers.
Video seek requests for major video sites (Youtube etc)
Relays non HTTP port 80 traffic, doesnt break Skype or other port:80 tunneled services
Smart multi-level storage

Hierarchical storage system intelligently distributes objects between RAM, SSD and HDD to give maximum
throughput
Delivers CDN Traffic providing a Unified Cache

Can deliver HTTP traffic from Akamai, Level3 etc and also from an on-net Velocix CDN.
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VXTC & CDN RELATIONSHIP

VoD origin library
East
Service
Service Node
Node
Service
Service Node
Node
Velocix NOC
Mediaroom Unmanaged
VoD Server
Live/Linear
Channel
Encoders
West
Publishing
Publishing
Websites /
Publishing
Publishing
Storage
Storage
3rd party content
Storage
Storage
Headend
Delivery
Delivery
Appliance
Appliance
Delivery
Delivery
Appliance
Appliance
Delivery
Delivery
Appliance
Appliance
Delivery
Delivery
Appliance
Appliance
Transparent
Transparent
Cache
Cache
Delivery Appliance
Caches / Streaming
Servers
Pay per
view Movies Download to
play
Linear (live) channels
Promotional
video
Retail
/Wholesale
Video
delivery
Example End
User
Multiscreen
Devices
TRANSPARENT CACHING
DEPLOYMENT IN A NETWORK
Service
Optimize
bandwidth
usage
Internet
Improve Quality
of Experience
Transparent
cache
T
Service provider
managed network
Peerin
g point
Reduce transit
and peering
costs
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TRANSPARENT CACHE
DEPLOYMENT IN A NETWORK
Pros
Cons
Core Network
Fewer caches needed Wire speeds may be too

Hosting/rack-space
high to tap into.
Much greater likelihood of
may be easier
asymmetric routes
Access
Network
Saves money on
regional network
Asymmetric routes
less likely
Wire speeds lower
Space may be limited

More caches needed
Deployment more
expensive
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SUPPORT FOR HTTP CONTENT TYPES

TRADITIONAL HTTP DELIVERY
HTTP
Progressive
download
HTTP
Download
FILES ARE DOWNLOADED, OR PARTIALLY DOWNLOADED,

PRIOR TO CONTENT BEING VIEWED BY USER
HTTP
HTTP
Web site object
acceleration
Seek
USERS HAVE ABILITY TO
SKIP OR SEEK
HTTP ADAPTIVE STREAMING
CONTENT IS CACHED
CLOSE TO USER
HTTP ADAPTIVE STREAMING
APPLE
ADOBE
HTTP
Live Streaming
HTTP
Dynamic Streaming
MICROSOFT
IIS
Smooth Streaming
DYNAMIC
ADAPTIVE
STREAMING
OVER HTTP
CONTENT IS SPLIT INTO SEGMENTS, ENCODED AT DIFFERENT BIT RATES AND ADAPTS TO NETWORK CONDITIONS
DURING STREAMING. USERS CAN PLAY-PAUSE-RESUME
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EXAMPLE TRAFFIC PROFILES

Type
Description
Cacheability
Software Download
Dominated by Microsoft Updates,

Apple (App Store/iTunes), and antivirus updates
Very cacheable 90%+ savings often possible
Video sites
Netflix, Hulu
Large catalogue (>1PB) with a flat popularity

profile requiring significant storage in the cache
for high hit ratio. 50%
User Generated Video

Sites
Youtube, Dailymotion, Vimeo
Some content that is very popular is easy cache.

But there is a very long tail. 25-50% but needs
good policies
Photo Sharing Sites
Photo sharing sites (e.g. flickr)
Long tail, huge volumes of traffic, and less viral.

Builds up more over time. 25%
Adult Video Sites
Lots of traffic comes from adult video

sites (think youtube but with adult
videos). E.g. xvideos.com
A lot of viewing tends to be focused around the

newest videos. But videos often long often seek,
seek, watch 5 mins and stop. Hit rates of 10-70%
depending upon site.
Static Media sites of

major sites
Fbcdn.net (facebook), ytimg.com and

Youtube. Or images from news sites
30-50% hit rate
Totally dynamic sites
Google search, Facebook profiles
Very hard to cache. <10%
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TRANSPARENT CACHING DEPLOYMENT
Saves
Saves capacity
capacity on
on peering
peering points
points
and
and the
the global
global CDN
CDN
Scales
Scales by
by stacking
stacking caches
caches and
and
using
using load-balancers
load-balancers
Load
Load balancer/router
balancer/router redirects
redirects
HTTP
HTTP port
port 80
80 traffic
traffic
Transparent
Cache
Transparent
Caching
array
HTTP Port
80
Load
Balancer
ISP
Network
RG
EAN
Origin
Cache
server
IP/MPLS
Backbone
Aggregation
Access
Video
clients
Internet
Peering
Border
Router
Off-net
BNG/
BRAS
Border
Router
Internet
Peering
TC
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Global CDN
Internet
Video
Aggregator
FLEXIBLE DEPLOYMENT OPTIONS

Internet
Policy Based
Routing (PBR)
PBR
PBR
Transparent
PBR
Transparent
PBR
Cache
Transparent
Cache
Transparent
Cache
Cache
Port
Port Mirror
Mirror
Transparent
Transparent
Cache
Cache
Load
Load Balancer
Balancer
(load balancer
and 2 x TCs
shown)
Port Mirror
All circuits shown are either

1Gbps or 10Gbps
Subscriber
Network
End Users
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TRANSPARENT CACHE
STANDARD (2U)
Family
VXRMS-201-23SAS
CPU
Dual Intel E5-2620 6core 2.0Ghz
Memory 128 GB DDR3-1333

Cache
Disk
23 x 300/600/900GB
(6.9TB/13.8TB/20.7TB)
Delivery 8x or 16x 1G ports

or
2x or 4x (SR or LR) 10G
optical ports
HP DL380 Gen8, 23 SAS disk version

AC and DC variants
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DEPLOYMENT OPTIONS
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DEPLOYMENT MODES
By default the cache is setup in semitransparent mode; it can also be configured

to be in fully-transparent mode, where it
spoofs client IP addresses.
Which one you choose will depend on the
topology of the network, and customer
requirements.
A third, explicit mode, is also available, though
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SEMI-TRANSPARENT MODE
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FULLY TRANSPARENT MODE
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ASYMMETRIC ROUTES
OVERVIEW
Request
Response
Origin Server
Client
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ASYMMETRIC ROUTE
SEMI-TRANSPARENT MODE
Transparent Cache
Request
Response
SRC DST
C
SRC DST
OS
TC
Client
OS
Origin Server
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ASYMMETRIC ROUTE
FULLY TRANSPARENT MODE
Request
Response
Transparent Cache
SRC DST
C
SRC DST
OS
Client
OS
Origin Server
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DEPLOYMENT MODES
PROS AND CONS
Mode
Pros
Semi-Transparent
Fully Transparent
Explicit
Cons
Safest transparent mode

Avoids asymmetric routing
issues
No client configuration
VxTC is effectively
transparent to client and
server
No client configuration
Easy to setup, no routing

requirements
Some web applications may not

function correctly
Some web hosts may think they are
under attack
Cannot be used for asymmetric
flows
Introduces more complexity due to
IP spoofing
Client must be configured
VxTC can be used as open proxy
Not transparent
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TRANSPARENT CACHE INTERNALS
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CACHE INTERNALS
PORTS AND PROTOCOLS
GUI admin (http/https)
:8500
CLI (ssh)
:22
Logs (FTP, FTPeS, SFTP)

Alerts (email)
:25
Alerts (http GET)
:80
Alerts (SNMP)
:161
Policy updates
:443
Alerts (syslog)
:514
:80, :8080
data
configd
management
management
:21
DNS
querying
Web
traffic
alertd
taskmgr
snmpagen
td
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:53
intercept
/cacheX
proxy
ext4
filesystem
/logs
ext4
filesystem
PRODUCT FEATURES
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MAIN FEATURES
CACHE EFFICIENCY
Maximize Cache
Efficiency and
Bandwidth Saving
Flexible Policy
Management
Download
Manager Support
Asynchronous IO
Inter Cache
Communication
Video Seek
Request
Ease of Deployment
Value Add Services
Semi- and Fully

Transparent
Mode
Cluster
Configuration
Reporting
Surge Protection
Content Filtering
CDN Integration
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What
Configuring a set of rules which alter the default

behavior of the cache on a per web site basis
Uses and Benefts
Improves caching efficiency and optimization by

implementation of a powerful 'rules based' policy
framework
How
FLEXIBLE POLICY MANAGEMENT
Wide range of fully configurable parameters to

define rules
Identifies as common content referred to by
different URLs
Support for proprietary range requests
Transparent
Transparent
Cache
Cache
Filters out irrelevant parameters in the URLs
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Transparent
Transparent
Cache
Cache
Transparent
Transparent
Cache
Cache
What
Caching and serving partial objects (HTTP byte

range requests)
Uses and Benefts
Support for download managers that break the

download of a large file into several parallel
requests for smaller pieces of the overall file
How
DOWNLOAD MANAGER SUPPORT

Origin
Origin
Transparent
Transparent
Cache
Cache
Bandwidth savings for these file downloads

Major video, file sharing and software update sites
End User
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What
Prevents performance bottlenecks in a cache system

caused by disks, which suffer an exponential growth in
waiting time as load increases. This is due to the
challenging read/write profile of caching traffic, which is
not well addressed by traditional disk buffer techniques
How
ASYNCHRONOUS I/O
Decouples disk processing from other cache tasks
X
Uses and Benefts
Processing
Provides a more stable performance: less variability,

more predictable under load
Avoids slowing other tasks as disks slow down
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Disks
What
Stores a single copy of the each object within the

cluster consistently directing requests for that
object to one of the caches in the cluster
Uses and Benefts
Intelligent clustering technology that provides

superior bandwidth and storage savings while
optimizing resource utilisation
How
INTER CACHE COMMUNICATION
URL Request - Response

End
User
Increases cache efficiency by up to 15%

Avoids unnecessary requests back to the origin
server when the content is already available within
the cluster
Flexible implementation allows very popular objects
to be held by several caches in the cluster to avoid
bottle necks
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Object
consistently
hashed to
cluster member
Transparent
Transparent
Cache
Cache
Transparent
Transparent
Cache
Transparent
Transparent
Cache
Cache
Pools cache
capacity
within a
cluster
Uses and Benefts
How
What
VIDEO SEEK SUPPORT

Improved cache efficiency for major video sites
Understanding a range of video file indexing

formats
Caching and serving partial files
Allows user requests for jumping ahead in the video

to a position not yet downloaded to be served from
the cache
For large files it avoids the need to download entire
file thus reducing transit bandwidth and improving
cache space utilization
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Transparent
Transparent
Cache
Cache
MAIN FEATURES
DEPLOYMENT
Maximize Cache
Efficiency and
Bandwidth Saving
Flexible Policy
Management
Download Manager
Support
Asynchronous IO
Inter Cache
Communication
Video Seek
Request
Ease of Deployment
Semi- and Fully

Transparent Mode
Cluster
Configuration
Reporting
Surge Protection
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Value Add Services
Content Filtering
CDN Service
What
Individual caches can be clustered into a 'supercache', where the aggregate cache size of all the
individual caches is calculated for the cluster cache
size
Uses and Benefts
Flexible scalability of the cache capacity
How
CLUSTER CONFIGURATION
Clustering allows a set of individual caches to be

treated as a single super cache improving the
cache efficiency through double caching avoidance,
reducing response time and simplifying its
management
Flexibility to cluster different size caches
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Transparent
Transparent
Transparent
Cache
CacheCache
Transparent
Transparent
Cache
Cache
Cache Delivery
Delivery
Transparent
Cache
Transparent
Cache
Delivery
Delivery
Delivery
Delivery
Transparent Cache Cluster
Uses and Benefts
How
What
REPORTING
Provides detailed real time and historic reports to
help understand the system performance and status
Reporting on: throughput, request rates, connection

statistics, top sites and clients, disk, memory and CPU
usage, hit rates, cache status, bandwidth saving,
alerts
Provides business intelligence to evaluate the

performance of the system and to optimize business
decision-making
A dashboard provides a single interface through
which the operator can quickly gain an
understanding of the status, health and
performance of the system
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What
Disabling disk read/write for new connections while

under moderate overload
Disabling all processing for new connections while
under severe overload
Uses and Benefts
Ensures that the cache continues to provide

predictable behaviour even under extreme load
situations
How
SURGE PROTECTION
Performance of existing connections not degraded

by new ones
Two levels of protection allows some processing of
new connections if the overload is moderate
Existing
Connections
New
Connection
Disks
Processing
Existing
Connections
New
Connection
Disks
Disks
Processing
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Load
Status
Processing
Existing
Connections
New
Connection
Load
Status
Load
Status
MAIN FEATURES
VALUE ADD SERVICES
Maximize Cache
Efficiency and
Bandwidth Saving
Flexible Policy
Management
Download
Manager Support
Asynchronous IO
Inter Cache
Communication
Video Seek
Request
Ease of
Deployment
Semi- and Fully

Transparent Mode
Cluster
Configuration
Reporting
Surge Protection
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Value Add Services
Dynamic Content
Filtering
CACHE MANAGEMENT
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MANAGEMENT
BROWSER BASED GUI
Access via http or
https
Uses port 8500
Login as user:
admin
monitor
Reporting Interface
Cluster
Management
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MANAGEMENT
CLI
Command-line access
Uses ssh (port 22)
Login as user:
admin
Monitor
Limited reporting
Some functions
only available
through CLI
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MANAGEMENT
REPORTING
The Reporting tab in
the web GUI provides
information on the
health and
performance of the
local cache and the
cluster.
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7810 Velocix Transparent Cache

System Specialist Course

COPYRIGHT 2014 ALCATEL-LUCENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

1. Identify the main hardware of the Velocix

Improve Quality of Experience

TRANSPARENT CACHE APPLIANCE

Optimized for the modern Internet

Smart multi-level storage

Delivers CDN Traffic providing a Unified Cache

VXTC & CDN RELATIONSHIP

3rd party content

Linear (live) channels

Fewer caches needed Wire speeds may be too

Space may be limited

SUPPORT FOR HTTP CONTENT TYPES

FILES ARE DOWNLOADED, OR PARTIALLY DOWNLOADED,

HTTP ADAPTIVE STREAMING

HTTP ADAPTIVE STREAMING

EXAMPLE TRAFFIC PROFILES

Dominated by Microsoft Updates,

Very cacheable 90%+ savings often possible

Large catalogue (>1PB) with a flat popularity

User Generated Video

Youtube, Dailymotion, Vimeo

Some content that is very popular is easy cache.

Photo Sharing Sites

Photo sharing sites (e.g. flickr)

Long tail, huge volumes of traffic, and less viral.

Adult Video Sites

Lots of traffic comes from adult video

A lot of viewing tends to be focused around the

Static Media sites of

Fbcdn.net (facebook), ytimg.com and

30-50% hit rate

Totally dynamic sites

Google search, Facebook profiles

Very hard to cache. <10%

TRANSPARENT CACHING DEPLOYMENT

FLEXIBLE DEPLOYMENT OPTIONS

All circuits shown are either

Dual Intel E5-2620 6core 2.0Ghz

Memory 128 GB DDR3-1333

Delivery 8x or 16x 1G ports

HP DL380 Gen8, 23 SAS disk version

By default the cache is setup in semitransparent mode; it can also be configured

FULLY TRANSPARENT MODE

Safest transparent mode

Easy to setup, no routing

Some web applications may not

TRANSPARENT CACHE INTERNALS

Logs (FTP, FTPeS, SFTP)

Alerts (http GET)

Value Add Services

Semi- and Fully

Configuring a set of rules which alter the default

Uses and Benefts

Improves caching efficiency and optimization by

FLEXIBLE POLICY MANAGEMENT

Wide range of fully configurable parameters to

Filters out irrelevant parameters in the URLs

Caching and serving partial objects (HTTP byte

Uses and Benefts

Support for download managers that break the

DOWNLOAD MANAGER SUPPORT