Content Routing, Traffic Steering and Load Balancing via ITD

Content routing, Traffic steering and Load-balancing technologies are crucial part of network deployments. Cisco has recently released 6.2.(10) NXOS release which has innovative features that take content routing up to next level. Intelligent Traffic Director (ITD) is taking up the challenge to make our networks more scalable, reliable and manageable, while saving significant CAPEX and OPEX for the customers. ITD started shipping in NX-OS 6.2(8). In 6.2(10) release, ITD has achieved significant milestone with the following enhancements.

Weighted load balancing
L4 port based load balancing
Sandwich mode Node-State sync between two ITD services in  a VDC
DNS probe
Start/Stop/Clear ITD statistics collection
Show ITD statistics have % traffic distribution
Node-level standby
VRF support for ITD Service and Probes
Number of ITD services scaled up : 32 ITD services per VDC
Number of VIPs scaled up : 16 VIPs per ITD service
DCNM support using DevNet
N5k/N6k support (only available for EFT/PoC via special image. Email ask-itd@external.cisco.com)
NAT (only available for EFT/PoC via special image. Email ask-itd@external.cisco.com)

Testimonials :
“Great milestone Samar, Mouli and team!!!
We are very grateful for the work you guys did with pioneering and driving this new solution!!! (It’s great) to have team come up with such needed functionality, collaborate closely with field and our engineering and TME team and bring it to market. It will definitely  help us bring our VDS-TC solution to market as ITD simplifies the debugging and configuration and we are looking forward migrate our current customers as well as expand. ITD help us scale to 1T of cache traffic in single N77K with much more manageable solution and easier to support. Looking forward for more good stuff coming from your team.. Samar, you built world class team that is really great to work with! ”

“Nice job Samar and team!  ITD is a creative solution and these are impressive additions. One of my customers is trying ITD with an earlier version of 6.2.10 and is very impressed. Especially on the collaboration with the engineering team and building a relevant solution. Looking forward to a lot of deployments.”

Documentation:

ITD

Slides: ITD feature overview

White paper: At a glance

Demo: Demonstration of ITD

ITD with Network Monitoring device:ITD with NAM

ITD with Web application firewall: ITD with Imperva

ITD config guide: ITD config guide

Contact us: ask-itd@external.cisco.com