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Optimizing Metro Ethernet

Optimizing Metro Ethernet. Tim Hubbard Nortel Networks. RHK Telecom Negotiation Tips Educating the Enterprise Customer. “Aggregate spending into one contract to draw more bids” Support for Triple play of Voice, Video, and Data “Include renegotiation clause in the event of a downturn”

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Optimizing Metro Ethernet

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  1. Optimizing Metro Ethernet Tim Hubbard Nortel Networks

  2. RHK Telecom Negotiation TipsEducating the Enterprise Customer • “Aggregate spending into one contract to draw more bids” • Support for Triple play of Voice, Video, and Data • “Include renegotiation clause in the event of a downturn” • Dynamic bandwidth provisioning • “Assure latest technology will be used” • Ethernet-based services in high demand • “Include termination clauses for poor service” • Carrier-class availability and verifiable SLAs

  3. Metro Service Platform • Advanced Traffic Management • Bi-directional bandwidth control • Hierarchical quality of service • High performance hardware implementation • Global Scalability • VPLS • H-VPLS • Carrier-class Resiliency

  4. Traffic Management

  5. Subscriber Services Central Office Service Provisioning SLA Monitoring Differentiated Services Requirements • Flexible provisioning of Bandwidth: • Bandwidth control: Rate shaping, policing • Differentiated service delivery: • Proven end-to-end Quality of Service • Wire-speed Implementation of Traffic management • Low latency

  6. Measure by Classification (Coloring by Apps) Data Video Voice Policing and Remarking (Tired ingress Control) Discard or re-marked as Best Effort Best Effort Priority mapped into .1p tag in vMAN header Low Priority To Switch Fabric Mid Priority High Priority Traffic Management Illustration Incoming Traffic

  7. Traffic Management Rate Shaping • Gigabit throughput on any port with over-subscription • Flexible provisioning of bandwidth per subscriber • Bi-Directional Rate shaping • Support for ingress and egress rate shaping • 3 Color Rate Shaping • Committed Information Rate (CIR) for guaranteed traffic • Peak Rate (PR) for Burst Services • Marking for non-conforming excess traffic • Granular and Accurate Rate Shaping with 1 and 2 kbps increments for Ingress and Egress rate limiting; • Statistics collection: CIR, PR and Dropped Bytes • Reserve or limit bandwidth per application/per subscriber

  8. Traffic Management Quality of Service • Quality of Service Implementation: • Bandwidth allocation per user / per application • Classification • “QoS” aware and unaware applications • Marking • DiffServ – IP QoS, 802.1p – Ethernet QoS • Classify, Mark/Re-mark, Schedule • Scheduling • 8 hardware-based queues per port to support:

  9. Traffic Management 1st level Per Service (VLAN) 2nd level Per Customer (VMAN) 3rd level Per Physical Port 1st level Per Service (VLAN) 2nd level Per Customer (VMAN) Cust A Cust A Cust B Cust Z BW Dynamic Allocation = Enables customer to use all bandwidth and fill it in order of service priority Each customer has the minimum (=CIR), and maximum (=PR) bandwidth setting Available resources within the customer’s total bandwidth are allocated to the other service types in a weighted fashion after priority CIR is met

  10. Maximum Latency For Voice High Performance Traffic ManagementSupports triple-play: voice, video and data • Wire-speed implementation of network processing and control • Non-blocking architecture delivering “zero” latency • No impact on performance when features are activated: • Rate shaping • QoS • Latency is independent of network load

  11. High Performance Traffic ManagementSupports triple-play: voice, video and data • Scalable Multicast Service Delivery • Wire-Speed forwarding of Unicast and Multicast simultaneously • Adding multicast will not affect unicast forwarding • Supports increasing number of user • Every new receiver will not slow forwarding • Every port in the network can potentially be a receiver • Supports increasing number of video streams • Every new transmitter will not slow forwarding • Every port in the network can potentially be a transmitter • No performance drop for video applications • Video Conferencing • Video Streaming and distribution

  12. Global Scalability

  13. Global ScalabilityLayer 2 Multiplexing • QinQ and MinM • End-to-end Layer 2 subscriber services • Provides subscriber scalability and separation of subscriber/provider Ethernet control traffic • Traditional Layer 2 VLAN service in access • Preservation of customer VLAN tags VMAN or QinQ tunnel

  14. Ethernet (vMAN) Access Ring Ethernet (vMAN) Access Ring Highly-scalable Metro Core (VPLS Switched / IP Routed) MPLS L2VPN Tunnels (For Differentiated Service Classes & Fast Path Restoration) IP Networks (Internet) & Content Providers Global ScalabilityHybrid Ethernet/VPLS Metro EAPS (RFC 3619) (Ethernet Automatic Protection System) Either Ring or Mesh Architecture

  15. “Carrier-Class” Resiliency

  16. Layer 3 – Routing Layer 2 – Ethernet Topologies Software Redundant Port Chassis Blade Port 48si E- BGP Internet Link Aggregation VRRP OSPF Ring • STP • RSTP • EAPS • Proprietary VLAN Aggregation • Virtualisation of software threads and processing • Software sparing AvailabilityMulti-layer Network Resiliency Layer 1 – Physical • Physical Redundancy • Port, blade, chassis • Redundant Power supply • Redundant Switching Fabric • Hot-swappable • Hitless upgrades, patching, etc • Protected memory

  17. AvailabilityManagement / Fabric Resiliency Hitless Upgrade Software and firmware can be updated without taking switch out of service Hitless FailoverSwitches maintain state and forwarding capabilities even in the event of software or hardware failures Existing Core Hardware protectionProtects against cable, port and I/O module failure Metro Ethernet Network

  18. Availability,Solutions for Layer-2 Resiliency • IEEE 802.1w/s  IEEE 802.1D • Standard - Rapid spanning tree and Multiple instance spanning tree • IEEE 802.3ad • Link aggregation often used as 1:1 protection switching • Provides the benefit of enabling use of “sparing” or standby link when both interfaces are operating normally • Dual homed software based redundant ports; • Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP): • Topology intelligent Ethernet protection; • Ethernet Automatic Protection System (EAPS) RFC 3619 • Ethernet ring-based protection • Multiple domains on a ring • Multiple domains on a node • VLAN can be member of multiple domains • Co-exists with STP

  19. Availability – EAPS v2Ethernet Automatic Protection Switching • Layer 2 Fast protection switching for Ethernet ring topologies • EAPS - Informational RFC 3619 • Fail-over < 50 Milliseconds • Faster than Fast STP in a ring: • Fail-over independent of number of nodes in the ring • Traffic flow in both directions paths selectable per VLAN • Enables Traffic Engineering • Supports simple and complex ring topologies • Dual attached rings • Subtended rings

  20. Metro Service Summary • Advanced Traffic Management • Bi-directional bandwidth control • Hierarchical quality of service • High performance hardware implementation • Global Scalability • QinQ at the Edge • H-VPLS into the core • Carrier-class Resiliency • Ethernet APS • RPR • EoSonet/SDH

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