Do you ever use a Firewall, Load-balancer, WAAS, IPS, WSA or any other L4-L7 device in your network? How is your experience, when you have to introduce a new virtual/physical device in your network? When you have multiple departments/tenants sharing these devices?
Catena is a cutting edge innovation, that provides application chaining, security, analytics and L4-L7 applications integration solution at Multi-Tbps.
Catena is already available on Nexus 9000 and Nexus 7000 series of switches.
The solution works with all L4-L7 virtual and physical devices, such as, Firewalls, IPS, IDS, WAAS, DDoS protection, load-balancers, SSL offload engines, network monitoring, containers, VMs, etc.
User can create multiple instances of Catena. Each Catena instance can have multiple chains/paths. Each Chain can have multiple elements. Each element could comprise of one or more physical/virtual devices.
Please see this InformationWeek article for more info: https://www.informationweek.com/infrastructure/an-all-in-one-service-chaining-solution/v/d-id/1329125?
Here is the Catena configuration guide.
Here are links to some of my other innovations:
ITD: Intelligent Traffic Director
iCAM: Intelligent CAM Analytics and Machine Learning
RISE: Remote Integrated Services Engine
Cisco live session
https://www.ciscolive.com/global/on-demand-library/?search=Catena#/session/1485287127048001gdPB
The most value added features to the NX-OS are ITD and Catena that make life easier for Net/Sec admin also get ride off fancy , pricey LB .
Thanks you
Nice to see this Cisco solution of its successful Nexus product line from an accomplished technology industry professional, Samar.
Does it support IPv6 and Dual Stack… What is the scale this can go to ?