Aspen Service Mesh
Aspen Service Mesh provides critical networking and visibility for service providers deploying a service-based architecture, and for enterprises moving from monolithic services to a microservices architecture
Use Cases
Our Istio-based service mesh has many uses, from service providers moving to a 5G standalone (SA) service-based architecture (SBA), to enterprises moving from monolithic services to a microservices architecture.
5G Standalone SBA Service Mesh
Deploy CNFs with security and visibility.
Enterprise Microservice Deployment Platform
Preserve legacy and hybrid workloads.
4G VNF to 5G CNF Transition Platform
Enable faster transition to 5G core.
HA/DR Microservice Deployment Platform
Deploy workloads requiring high availability and disaster recovery.
Service Provider IT Microservices Platform
Leverage microservices for SP back-office IT.
Multi-Cluster/Multi-Cloud Deployments
Deploy complex large-scale workloads.
How It Works
Aspen Service Mesh is deployed by an enterprise as an Istio-based microservices service mesh platform, or by a service provider as a service-based architecture (SBA) service mesh building block for 5G SA deployments. It may also be deployed by a service provider in conjunction with F5 BIG-IP Next Service Proxy for Kubernetes (SPK) for legacy 4G or 5G non-standalone (NSA) deployments in transition to a standalone 5G deployment.
Connecting Microservices with a Service Mesh
Incorporating a service mesh connects your microservices and scales Kubernetes in a way that minimizes management overhead.
Product Benefits
Open source Istio capabilities
Provide service resilience, observability, traffic control, basic security, and policy enforcement
Robust security by default
Configuration provides strict security capability out of the box
IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack networking
Supports native, end-to-end dual-stack networking across the service mesh
Packet Inspector
Enables service mesh traffic capture and visibility
Certificate Orchestrator
State-of-the-art granular certificate management for service mesh and other products
Built-in support for Helm 3
Makes installations and upgrades easier
Extension of X.509 DNS Subject Alternative Name (SAN) certificates
Enables FQDN as well as SPIFFE for trust establishment. Eases 4G VNF to 5G NSA CNF migration, and from 5G NSA to 5G SA CNF service transition
