Cisco IOS MPLS Management

Technology Overview

Enabling Innovative Services

February 2004

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 Agenda

Introduction
Problems, challenges, requirements

Technology Overview
Summary

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 Service Provider Problems

OSS OSS
TDM FR, ATM
TDM
TDM

IP
OSS MPLS
OSS
FR, ATM OSS
FR, ATM
OSS IP

Operational Efficiencies
Increase management automation and availability
New Services Provisioning
Enable competitive differentiation and customer retention
through profitable bundled services
Disparate Networks
Manage and consolidate traditional and emerging networks
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 MPLS Service Provisioning Challenge

Challenges in VPN Service Provisioning

Integration with OSS and Billing System 65%

Number of Network Elements Involved 47%

Integrating Multiple
47%
Technologies into a Single Service

Finding Customer 41%

Self-Provisioning Tools that Work

Equipment Manufacturer Management

41%
System Not Designed for Provisioning

Interoperability Among Products 35%

Manual Configuration of Equipment 18%

10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%

Source: Infonetics, 2003

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Reducing OpEx with Network Management
CapEx typically follows Typical ratio of a Tier 1 carrier
the economy CapEx vs OpEx spending
OpEx is consistent OpEx efficiencies have higher
profitability and a higher ARPU
$9.0
Quarterly Spending Capital Capital
Expenditure Expenditure
$8.0 Operational
Operations &
Support Expense
Expense
$7.0

$6.0

$5.0 27%
$ Billions

$4.0

$3.0

73%
$2.0

$1.0

$0.0

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4

Source: Frost and Sullivan, 2002

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 Customer Requirements

Provide systemic management solutions for achieving dramatic

productivity gains through automation, intelligence, and
simplification
Enable competitive differentiation and customer retention through
high-margin, bundled services
Provide automated embedded tools
Configuration
Error detection & recovery
Performance and accounting

Perform data plane validation with respect to control plane

Data plane liveliness and troubleshooting

Standards and open interfaces, APIs to management/OSS

applications and third-party software vendors
End-to-end circuit/service-level health/alarm correlation

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 Agenda

Introduction
Technology Overview
Summary

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MPLS Management Life Cycle

OSS ISV Partners

Cisco Info Center

VPN Policy
Info Server
Manager Cisco IP CNS Performance
Solution Center Engine
VPN Topology
Process Determine Service Provisioning
Network Service Impact
Alarms

Fault Performance NetFlow

EMS
EMS Accounting
Device/Network Provisioning
Collector

End-End OAM
Attachment VC OAMs Attachment VC OAMs
MPLS OAM

CE Ingress Egress CE
PE LSP created by LDP and/or RSVP-TE PE

PWE3 or
VPN Label

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MPLS Management Architecture
Operations Support Software Partners
GUI System (OSS)
CORBA
SNMP
TL1
XML

Element
Performance
Fault Configuration
& Accounting Management
System
Alarm Notification Config Upload Data Collection
Alarm Incremental Data Export Infrastructure
Synchronisation Configuration SNMP Get Enhancements
Threshold Alerts Change and GetBulk
Dagnostic Notification Bulk file
Monitoring Programmatic transfer Performance
SNMP Get, Interface Netflow SAA
getBulk, Traps CLI MIBs
Syslogs TFTP
RMON
CNS Bus
MPLS
SNMP HTTP Telnet FCAPS
NetFlow SSH
XML Accounting
LSP Ping NetFlow
SNMP CLI MPLS Traceroute
VCCV
Cisco IOS
Programmatic
Embedded Protocol
Enhancements
Interface Management AutoTunnel
AutoMEsh
Security
Cisco IOS Software
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 MPLS LSP Ping/Traceroute

Detect MPLS traffic black holes or misrouting

Isolate MPLS faults
Requirement
Verify data plane against the control plane
Detect MTU of MPLS LSP paths

MPLS LSP Ping (ICMP) for connectivity checks

Solution MPLS LSP Traceroute for hop-by-hop fault localization
MPLS LSP Traceroute for path tracing

IPv4 LDP prefix

TE tunnel
Applications
MPLS PE, P connectivity for MPLS transport, MPLS VPN, MPLS TE
applications

IETF Standards Draft-ietf-mpls-lsp-ping-xx.txt

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 LSP Ping/Traceroute Example

MPLS Echo Request

Target
Originating router
Ping router

MPLS Echo Reply

MPLS Echo Reply

1
TTL=1 Target
router
2

Traceroute
3 4
TTL=2
5

6 7 8
TTL=3

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 MPLS AToM Virtual Circuit
Connection Verification ( VCCV)

Ability to provide end-to-end fault detection and diagnostics for an

emulated pseudowire service
Requirement One tunnel can serve many pseudowires.
MPLS LSP ping is sufficient to monitor the PSN tunnel (PE-PE
connectivity), but not VCs inside of tunnel

AToM VCCV allows sending control packets in band of an AToM

pseudowire. Two components:
Signaled component to communicate VCCV capabilities as part
of VC label
Solution Switching component to cause the AToM VC payload to be treated as a
control packet
Type 1: uses Protocol ID of AToM Control word
Type 2: use MPLS router alert label

Layer 2 transport over MPLS

Applications
FRoMPLS, ATMoMPLS, EoMPLS

IETF Standards Draft-ietf-pwe3-vccv-xx.txt

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 VCCV Example

Attachment VCs

LSP Pseudowire
Ping

Attachment VC
LSP Tunnel

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 MPLS Traffic Engineering: AutoTunnel
Primary, Backup, & Mesh Groups

Ability to protect links and nodes with no requirement of traffic

engineering
Requirement
Need to ease configuration of increased bandwidth inventory
MPLS TE designs such as full mesh

Backup AutoTunnelEnables a router to dynamically build

backup tunnels
Primary one-hop AutoTunnelEnables a router to dynamically
Solution create one-hop primary tunnels on all interfaces that have been
enabled with MPLS TE tunnels
Mesh Group AutoTunnel Enables automatic establishment of full-
or partial-mesh of TE tunnels

MPLS VPN with multiservice SLAs (voice, video, and data sites)
MPLS AToM-based Layer 2 services with Bandwidth Assurances
Applications
Enhanced SLA service offerings with low packet loss during failure
condition Bandwidth Protection

draft-ietf-mpls-rsvp-lsp-fastreroute-03.txt
IETF Standards draft-ietf-ospf-cap-01.txt
draft-vasseur-mpls-ospf-te-cap-xx.txt

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 MPLS Traffic Engineering
AutoTunnel Primary & Backup

Router A establishes AutoTunnels to adjacent routers

automates configuration of Link & Node Protection

Router B
AutoTunnel
Backup AutoTunnel Next
Primary
Hop Link Protection

Router A
Router D

AutoTunnel Backup Next

Router configured with Next Hop Node
AutoTunnel Primary & Backup Protection
Router C

Manually configured Tunnels take precedence over AutoTunnels

provides tweaking capability for customers
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 MPLS Traffic Engineering
AutoTunnel Mesh Groups
Routers A, B, C, D, E defined as members of Mesh Group 1
Capable of building multiple meshes for DiffServ aware Traffic Engineering
Automates configuration of full mesh of TE Tunnels resulting in operational efficiencies

Router B Router C

Router A
Service Provider
Backbone

Router D

Router E

Partial Mesh of AutoTunnels belonging

Physical Connectivity to Mesh Group 1

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 MPLS-Aware SAA

IP SLA monitoring for MPLS VPNs

Network performance monitoring per VPN
Requirement
Hop-by-hop statistics for troubleshooting
Low-cost solution embedded in Cisco IOS Software

Active traffic generation within Cisco IOS using SAA

Jitter, packet loss, latency, connectivity
Solution
CPE to CPE, PE to CE, and PE to PE measurements
SAA PE, multi-vrf CE or dedicated SAA router

Applications MPLS, MPLS-VPN, MPLS-TE

IETF Standards RFC 1889 Jitter Compliant metrics

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 SAA VPN Measurements
Per VPN Performance Monitoring
Packet loss, Latency, Jitter, Connectivity
PE to PE, CE to CE, PE to CE, PE to remote CE

Cisco IP Solution Cisco Info Partner Reporting

Center Center Applications

CNS Performance
Engine 2.1
Blue VPN site 2

SAA
SAA MIB
MIB Data
Data
SAA
Blue VPN site 1

SAA PE CE
PE
CE
PE Dedicated SAA Router
PE

Dedicated SAA Router

SAA SAA CE
Blue VPN SAA
Measurements CE CE
SAA
Red VPN site 2 Red VPN site 1
Blue VPN site 3
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 MPLS-Aware NetFlow

MPLS network capacity planning

PE to PE traffic matrix
Requirement
Per-VPN MPLS accounting
IP flow analysis

Cisco IOS MPLS-Aware NetFlow

NetFlow version 9
Label export with destination prefix
Per Label accounting aggregation
Solution
CNS NetFlow Collector 5.0
Support of EXP bits as a field to key flow reports on
Using NFC 5.0 + add on PE-PE Traffic matrix module provides PE-PE
traffic matrix aggregation

Applications MPLS, MPLS-VPN, MPLS-TE

IETF Standards IPFIX WG proposed standard

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 MPLS-Aware NetFlow
Partner
Reporting MPLS-Aware NetFlow (version 9)
Applications Exports up to three MPLS labels,
and IP packet information
Ideal for Traffic Engineering and
XML capacity planning
Performance Data
Config control via FTP

NetFlow Data CNS

CNS Publish
Publish and
and Subscribe
Subscribe Bus
Bus

CNS FCAPS
PerfE: NFC VPN Accounting Module (PE-PE)

Aggreg. Netflow Data

Third-Party
NetFlow Collector
NetFlow Collector (NFC)

Traditional NetFlow MPLS-Aware NetFlow Egress MPLS NetFlow Accounting

for IP to MPLS traffic (version 9) for MPLS to IP traffic

IP
MPLS MIB data
SAA MIB data
IP

PE
PE P PE
PE
P

Traffic Flow

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 MPLS MIBs

Standards-based SNMP implementation

Requirement
Integration with existing OSS and third-party vendors/software

MIBs: LDP, LSR-MIB, TE-MIB, PPVPN-MPLS-VPN-MIB, PWE3-

Solution MPLS-MIB, MPLS-FRR-MIB

Applications MPLS, MPLS-VPN, MPLS-TE

MPLS-LSR-STD MIB, MPLS-TE-STD MIB, MPLS-FTN-STD MIB, MPLS-

LDP-STD MIB, MPLS-TC-STD MIB
IETF Standards

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 Cisco Info Center: VPN Policy Manager 3.1

Cisco Info Center VPN

Policy Manager (Cisco Info Cisco Info Center
Center and IP Solution MPLS Trouble
Center integration) Shooting Tools
correlates network events
to affected services
CIC VPN Policy Manager
available today
Cisco Info Center VPN
Policy Manager 3.1 offers:
New Cisco Info Center VPN
Policy Manager DSA
developed
New Cisco Info Center VPN
Policy Manager policies
developed
Device/Interface/Sub-interface
MPLS VPN subscriber
correlation
MPLS troubleshooting tools
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 Agenda

Introduction
Technology Overview
Summary

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 Summary

Provide systemic,
integrated, and
innovative
manageability solutions
Standards-based open Automation Productivity Simplification
interfaces for easier and ROI/TCO

faster integration
Intelligence
Complete end-to-end
MPLS service and
network management
solutions

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 Cisco leads in the MPLS Market
Americas EMEA AsiaPac/Japan
Over 200 Customers (MPLS Core & L2/L3 Edge)

Korea
Telecom
EBT

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 Cisco IOS MPLS

Smarter
The
The foundation
foundation for
for more
more
services
services and
and more
more
revenues
revenues

Enabling
Innovative
Faster Lasting
A
A flexible
flexible QoS
QoS framework
framework Services Extensibility
Extensibility to
to different
different
to
to enable
enable migration
migration to
to aa transports
transports with
with standards-
standards-
converged
converged infrastructure
infrastructure based
based open
open architecture
architecture
for
for investment
investment protection
protection

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