Case Studies

Brief

A company with a centralized video server farm used for delivery was prevented from streaming high-quality video to end customers due to long-distance causing latency, and traditional CDN was becoming too expensive

Description and scope of work

• Analyze the market and detect regions and continents where most traffic is delivered
• Work with multiple local colocation providers, intelligently choose a most suitable company
• Establish peering with local Internet carriers.
• Ship required equipment and build colocation in each chosen datacenter
• Build CDN node in each colocation and connect to local carriers
• Work with software developers to activate new CDN nodes for video delivery

Used Tools

• Supermicro and Dell servers
• Dell storages
• Cisco and Brocade switches and routers

Achievements

• Migrating to own CDN system reduced expenses
• Outsourced partnership to build CDN released onboard staff and allowed to concentrate on business solutions
• Own CDN system increase value/price of the company
• Cisco and A10 load balancers

Brief

A company experiencing periodical DDOS attacks was looking for a solution and asked AV5 to deploy RioRey appliances
Description and scope of work

• Install RioRey defense system
• Work with DDOS defense service provider

Used tools

• RioRey RS10, RS30 DDOS defense appliance
• DDOS defense service provider
• BGP protocol

Achievements
Completed RioRey on-site installation
DDOS defense service provider successfully blocked attack while maintaining service to end users.

Brief

A company had a software-based load balancer with issues and wanted to estimate if a hardware-based load balancer is a better solution
Description and scope of work

• Work with vendors Cisco, F5, A10 networks and collect possible solutions
• Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of each solution
• Adjust the existing network for the new load balancer
• Install load balancer, perform performance and failure tests
• Work as DevOps with the existing on-board team to migrate the application to the new load balancer
• Train the existing on-board staff to manage the new load balancer
• Choose appropriate hardware and software versions of A10 ADC

Used tools

• A10 ADC
• Cisco Nexus aggregation switches

Achievements
Eliminated the existing issues
Improved users’ experience
Increased number of end users
Released on-board staff to work on new features
Implementation of enterprise solution increased value of the company

Brief

Docker will unify and simplify multiple version of software, reducing labor cost. Virtualization will help to implement CI/CD ( Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery ) for faster product delivery. Accelerated product delivery will give an advantage over other players in the market
Description and scope of work

• Install Docker
• Prepare Docker images of middleware
• Install Docker registry.

Used tools

• Docker
• Gitlab registry
• Ansible playbook for Docker management.
• AWS
• Terraform

Achievements
Migrating to own CDN system reduced expenses
Outsourced partnership to build CDN released onboard staff and allowed to concentrate on business solutions
Own CDN system increase value/price of the company

• Choose most suitable Palo Alto appliance
• Install and configure disaster recovery colocation
• Clone Palo Alto installation to primary colocation.
• Enable stateful box2box High Availability (HA) for full, hitless redundancy (with sync of active sessions and configuration)

Used tools

• Palo Alto
• Pingdom (monitoring from multiple locations)

Achievements
Installing NG (Next Generation) firewall improved security
Became HIPAA compliant with new firewall
Standard design and structure which avoided vendor lock-in, and providing better manageability
Combination of two different firewalls from two different vendors improved security.

• Work with carriers to get private or public connectivity between datacenters
• Install Cisco SLA responders in each datacenter
• Configure adaptive routing based on SLA metrics
• Display statistics on Cacti dashboard

Used tools

• Cisco SLA
• Cacti

Achievements
Cisco SLA and multiple carriers allowed to build redundant connectivity between datacenters
An adaptive routing implementation allowed to reach for best possible latency
Multiple carriers let auctions run to get the best offers

• Propose several new firewall options to migrate from old appliance
• Work with selected F5 vendor to choose hardware and software solutions
• Architect, install and configure F5 LTM and WAF
• Train on-board staff to manage the new solution.

Used tools

• F5 LTM (Local Traffic Manager)
• F5 WAF (Web Application Firewall)

Achievements
Migrating to newer firewall improved security while local traffic balancer allowed to build a server farm with redundancy
Reduced total cost due to reduced labor cost
New solutions improved end user’s experience