Modern Cloud Edge Application Resourcing
Current high performance Wide Area Network (WAN) communication solutions suffer from critical limitations, including network vulnerabilities, bottlenecks, and poor scalability. These vulnerabilities pose a direct threat to key elements of critical communications infrastructure. Instera is developing SAANT, an ultra-secure non-internet protocols communications system architecture. Instera’s SAANT Architecture will deliver a real-time, non-internet protocol (non-IP), terrestrial composable WAN communications architecture which revolutionizes internet fundamentals, making the current vulnerable, and non-deterministic transmission operating methodologies obsolete in the DC, Colo, MAN, WAN and Cloud Edge.
SAANT introduces SPAANS “Secure Protocol for All Area Network Switching” an innovative multi-path approach to interconnecting compute, network and storage resources which not only results in significantly reduced latency which maximizes system performance, but also creates a resilient and ultra-cyber secure system that is impervious to malevolent incursions.
Information technology (IT) systems and infrastructure are aging and need to be modernized to be protected against cyber-security threats. Integrating new technology into existing communications systems is essential to maintain
network security and improve network capabilities. More significantly, the potential benefits of cloud computing, big data analytics, increased automation, and cognitive computing can only be fully realized with modern high speed, guaranteed latency secure networks and “All Area” systems interconnects.
SAANT addresses this challenge by providing an innovative and proactive solution to the evolving cyber-security threat facing our communication networks. SAANT’s non-traditional, multi-path methodology for terrestrial WAN communications between all compute and storage resources, delivers a comprehensive ‘performant’ approach which integrates advanced fast storage, secure networking, improved resource utilization, and enhanced provisioning systems.
SAANT significantly reduces communication infrastructure costs and, precludes the need to update ineffective and obsolete systems. By re-envisioning network fundamental protocols, SAANT will deliver an innovative, holistic, dynamically composable and fiscally viable capability that provides partners a decisive set of Application Performance and TCO “Total Cost of Ownership” Control advantages.
Instera’s Command Center ” ICC” for SAANT always keeps you and your staff in command and control of your AI/ML assisted dynamically composable SPAANs interconnected resource infrastructure’s use by your Applications . Secure command and control is achieved by Instera’s SAANT CC integration of the latest AI/ML, Smart Contract and private distributed ledger technologies proven to scale securely.
Operators of SAANT solutions make use of Instera’s SCMPe (pronounced ‘simpy’) to access, configure and monitor all physical and logical infrastructure elements in their SAANT solution.
SCMPe is an Instera security innovation for the SAANT control plane which extends and enhances security of the standard version of SCION Control Message Protocol. SCMPe achieves unprecedented levels of control plane security beyond current legacy offerings of SCMP and ICMP which works on SCION IP and Instera PCIE Networks.
SCMPe secures Instera’s SAANT solution by integrating operator access to SCMPe with dual cryptographic keys requiring multiple signature sign off for use. All operator access is tokenized to both secure, meter and control operator SCMPe ‘resource levels of use’ parameters (Bandwidth, path/channel use and count, time, CPU clock cycles, memory, etc). All Operator and SAANT solution SCMPe actions are ‘chain of custody” C2 compliant log recorded to the ICC’s dNTP time stamped distributed private ledger(Instera’s private fork of IOTA is the default configuration for distributed private ledger). All elements of the SAANT solution report state via SCMPe to one or more instances of the ICC as configured by the SAANT operator group.
SCMPe multiple mixed or parallel control planes can be configured by the ICC to alternatively make use of the Internet Protocol over single or multiple PCIe paths/channels when required, working effectively in parallel over both PCIe and other IP Networking physical types like Ethernet and Infiniband (thereby preserving investment in those legacy infrastructures). In such legacy control plane use cases, SCMPe is operating within the existing proven standard SCMP payloads, either through the use of SCMPe encapsulation for SCMP or as a registered SCMP variant operating in parallel and/or inter-mixed with SCMP control plane messaging, where the latter uses OSI Layer 3 Internet Protocol, the SCMP default mode of operation.
The Instera SCMPe element daemon automatically boots and discovers all other NVME/PCIe addressed elements on the Instera PCIe Backplane Interconnect eXchange Switch Meshes. SCMPe reports both logical and physical locations and states to the ICC. SCMPe is a standard feature all Instera BIX, BIC and StoreNode equipment, which is only activated via SCMPe issued by the ICC, upon discovery of the SAANT elements by Instera’s ICC. Smaller Instera WGIX “WorkGroup Interconnect eXchange” Switches also employ SCMPe in the same manner, reporting to the ICC first before multi-signature controlled activation by the ICC .
SCMPe interfaces locally within each physical and logical Element Network Interface “ENI” found in all Compute, Network or Storage nodes of an Instera SAANT solution. ENI controls per ICC and ICC AI_Engine instructions passed by of SCMPe, how the element should connect and make use of available resources within and between nodes. Instera created ENI to be a more secure and granular progression and improvement over earlier ATM standard UNI implementations. ENI was specifically designed by Instera to more easily connect , control and monitor existing legacy hypervisor, Operating Systems, Virtual Machine and Container elements use of resources consumed by today’s distributed Application workloads.
Instera’s SAANT is the next generation technology which will significantly improve and protect your critical communications infrastructure.