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18 July 2013

Network Barometer Report 2013

Analyst briefing

About the Network

Barometer Report

The Technology Lifecycle

Management (TLM)

Assessment

Research Sample

Technology Lifecycle Status

Security Vulnerabilities

IOS Version Management

Architectures – the changing

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Reviews the status of networks globally

Aggregates data from the 233 Technology

Lifecycle Management (TLM) Assessments

conducted across the world in 2012 and

compares them to the data from the past 5

years.

Reviews networks’ readiness to support

business by reviewing network device:

• End-of-Life status

• Security vulnerabilities

• IOS Version Management

Investigates architectural networking trends

The Network Barometer Report looks at how ready

networks are to support business

Dimension Data

Network Barometer Report

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time

The Technology Lifecycle Management (TLM) Assessment

discovers, catalogues and analyses network devices.

Execute business and

technical interviews

Collect asset list and

analyse to milestones

Compare against

maintenance asset

listing

Conduct

a TLM assessment

Discover

Execute TLM

assessment

centralised service to

automate discovery

and analysis

Create a prioritised

set of recommend-

ations and roadmap

Align recommend-

ations with long term

architecture

Analyse TLM

assessment output and

roadmap list of

prioritised projects

Construct

Present the

recommendations

based on risk, cost

and strategic factors

Official report and

onsite presentation of

findings

Present

recommendations and

roadmap

Recommend

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The sample size is heavily weighted towards enterprise

and large sized organisations.

Sample distribution by organisation size

• Small – fewer than 100 users

• Medium – greater than 100, but fewer than 500 users

• Large – greater than 500, but fewer than 2500 users

• Enterprise – greater than 2500 users


The sample is broadly representative of networks around

the world.

Sample distribution by geography

• Europe includes Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Spain,

Switzerland and the United Kingdom

• Americas include Canada, USA, Brazil, Mexico and Chile

• Middle East and Africa is primarily South Africa

• Asia includes China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines,

Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam


Representation across industries is broadly reflective of the

adoption of IT and associated spend across vertical sectors.

Sample distribution by vertical industry sector

• 3 verticals make up almost half of the sample, therefore results will be particularly applicable to these

sectors.

• The remaining assessments were reasonably spread across the remaining vertical industries.

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Vendors have standardised end-of-life

milestones through which they progress their

products

towards obsolescence.

Technology at EoS (end-of-sale) status

is regarded as an aging asset and will be

increasingly unsupportable and exposed to risk

as it progresses towards LDoS (last-day-of-

support).

By EoSWM (end-of-software-maintenance),

any new bugs found on the software will no

longer be patched opening the organisation up

to availability and mean time to repair (MTTR)

risks

Technology Lifecycles


The percentage of client networks that have entered the

obsolescence cycle increased in 2012

Average % of devices beyond EoS by Region

• This year’s results show that the overall percentage of devices that have progressed to EoS and beyond

has increased steadily over the past 4 years.


More even distribution of devices by lifecycle stage

Milestone distribution of devices by end of life cycle stage

• The percentage of devices that were only EoS has dropped from 70% in 2011 to 58% in 2012

• The percentage of devices that were ‘late’ in their product lifecycle increased, with EoE increasing from 8%

last year to 23% this year and LDoS increasing from 9% last year to 18% this year.


Technology Lifecycle Status – summary findings

• The percentage of networking devices past

End of Sale increased for the third year in a

row to just under half of all devices

• This makes sense given the generally slow

macroeconomic conditions globally AND

the fact that the great majority of devices

are “only” end of sale, and therefore not as

risky to clients

• Over the next 18 to 36 months, the install

base will progress to later lifecycle stages

that present significantly more risk so it is

safe to assume that network refresh

projects will become more prevalent

Technology Lifecycles

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In the context of the Report,

vulnerabilities relate to existing known

defects in the software, for which the

manufacturer has a recommendation for

remediation.



The number of new vulnerabilities identified by Cisco

decreased in CY2012

Security vulnerabilities identified per year

• After peaking at 64 new PSIRTS in 2007, the announcements had tapered off in the 45 to 50 range through

2010 before spiking again to 60 in in 2011. In 2012 there were 50 announcements


Of all of the devices analysed, 46% are carrying at least

one known security vulnerability.

Average % of devices with security vulnerabilities by organisation size

• 67% of all devices carry at least one known security vulnerability. This figure is marginally less than the

75% figure of the previous year.

• A single vulnerability was responsible for this high PSIRT penetration. PSIRT 10944, identified by Cisco in

September 2009, was found in 62% of all the devices analysed during 2012


Security Vulnerabilities - In summary

• Network devices are slightly less

vulnerable this year – 67% of all devices

had at least one PSIRT

• For the third year running, the most

common vulnerability was PSIRT 109444,

in fact, it was linked to 91% of all devices

• After PSIRT 109444, the next 3 most

common PSIRTS were each in

approximately 20% of all devices AND

carried a higher risk rating than 109444


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Managing the number of unique versions of IOS can be

an operational challenge

Number of assessments categorised by count of versions of IOS

• Of all devices assessed, 46% occurred in networks with between 1 and 30 unique versions of IOS,

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The Access Network – 80:20 moving to 20:80 !


What does our discovery data say?

1/2 of all

access switches

support

PoE

1/3 of all

access switches

support

GE

11% of all

access switches

support

10GB uplinks

WLAN

bookings growing at

+30% pa


Architectural Trends – summary findings

• It does not appear that architectural

requirements have yet to drive a significant

refresh in client core routing and switching

networks

• Organisations have started to upgrade the

networks in their data centres, but it is at an

early stage of the transition.

• This should accelerate in the next 18-24

months as the install base continues to age

and moved into riskier lifecycle stages

Architectural Based Refresh


In summary

Visibility and vigilance – clients must

have a strategy to understand the network

threat landscape and how it can impact their

business.

1

Lifecycle and obsolescence – vendors will

continue to grow their product portfolio and

clients need to understand how this affects

them.

2

Architectures – trends like Cloud, Mobility

and Collaboration will impact the network

and an architectural approach is strongly

advised.

3


18 July 2013

Thank you

Ky Ox – Group Marketing Manager, Network Integration

[email protected]

Raoul Tecala – Group Business Development Director, Network Integration

[email protected]

Questions?

mailto:[email protected]

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