Adventures in Multi-Layer, Multi-

Vendor Network Control

Wes Doonan
Control Plane R&D
July 2010
 Connection Control

  Building the Pipes

  A software infrastructure for making network connections

Carrier
  Connections as resources in a management/service plane
  Convergence of layers into unified delivery platforms
  Enough with the separate boxes, already
  Embedded control, external control; but anyway control

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 Transport Elements Today

WDM Transport
 Integrated Multi-Degree ROADM
 2-way, 8-way; with automated equalization Multiple Transport
 Tunable Transponders, Tunable Filters Capabilities
 Any wavelength, anywhere
 Full Control Plane Support

Ethernet Transport
  Layer 2 Switching Functionality
  SVLAN support, EVC support, EPL/EVPL profiles
  Tag stacking (e.g. Q-in-Q), C- and S-tag
  Tag switching, VLAN crossconnect
  Full Control Plane Support

OTN Transport
  OTN Encapsulation / Multiplexing
  Clients: OTn, Ethernet, FC, SDH, …
  Standardized FEC, Encryption
= now
  OTN Switching at multiple granularities = soon
  ODU0, 1, 2, 3 …
  Full Control Plane Support

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 Layer Integration

  Multi-Layer Traffic Engineering

  Control Plane operations enabled in each transport layer
  Wavelengths engineered between WDM switching modules
  S-tagged flows engineered between Ethernet switching modules
  ODUk container flows engineered between OTn switching modules
  Control Plane handles element provisioning operations
  VLAN tag allocation and crossconnection, policer/shaper configuration
  ODUk container allocation and crossconnection, overhead configuration

TDM Channel Module

Packet Channel Module
UNI
UNI
NNI
NNI UNI WDM
UNI WDM OTN
ETH Ports
Ports Ports UNI
Ports UNI NNI
NNI
UNI ODU0
UNI Ethernet VLAN
Lambda Channel Module Cross Connect
Cross Connect
NNI NNI

NNI NNI WDM

WDM
Ports NNI NNI Ports

NNI MD-ROADM NNI

Cross Connect

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 Integrated Layer 2 Switching

Packet Channel Module

EVC
Port UNI NNI

Ethernet VLAN
Cross Connect

  Aggregation/Switching of Ethernet flows

  10PCA: 10x1GbE + 2x10GbE ports
  2PCA: 4x10GbE ports
  Full set of VLAN tagging capabilities
  C-tag, S-tag, tag swapping, etc

  2 Slot x 5 HU
10PCA-PCN-1G3+10G
  All interfaces pluggable (WDM SFP/XFP)
2PCA-PCN-10G
  Multiple cards per shelf, multiple shelves

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 VLAN Crossconnect

VLAN tag Y
VLAN tag Z

VLAN tag X

  Hardware = Optical LSP, lambda A

  Optical DWDM transport = Optical LSP, lambda B

= ETH LSP, VLAN X

  Integrated L2 switching modules
= ETH LSP, VLAN Y + Z
  Push/pop s-tags at endpoint elements
= swap tags (Y for Z)
  Swap s-tags at transit elements
= add/remove s-tag

  Control Plane
  Optical tunnels setup via CP; label is Lambda
  Ethernet tunnels also setup via CP; label is VLAN tag
  VLAN tag may change along service path, per policy

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 WDM + Ethernet + Packet
TE Link: A <-> B
F
Packet SWC: PSC/Packet LSP “FLOW-1”
BW: 0.5G
1.5G
2.5G
3.5G BW: 1G
B SUB = “sub layer”
LSP “FLOW-2” BW = “bandwidth”
BW: 1G SWC = “switch caps”

LSP “FLOW-3”
A BW: 1G

Ethernet
TE Link: B <-> E
B SWC: SVLAN/ETH
BW: 5.5G
10G TNL-ETH “TRUNK-1”
TNL-ETH: “CLIENT-1” SRC: A / 1-4-C2
SRC: A / 1-4-C1 TE Link: A <-> E DST: B / 1-5-C2
DST: E / 1-3-C1 SWC: SVLAN/ETH SUB: PSC/Packet
SUB: <none> BW: 4.5G
8G
10G BW: 3.5G
BW: 2G A
E

WDM TNL-WDM: “WAVE-2”

B SRC: B / 1-5-N
TNL-WDM: “WAVE-1” DST: E / 1-3-N
SRC: A / 1-4-N SUB: SVLAN/ETH
DST: E / 1-3-N BW: 10G
SUB: SVLAN/ETH
BW: 10G C
A F

= WDM+ETH element E
D
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 ODUk Switching

ODUx
ODUy

ODUm

  Hardware = Optical LSP, lambda A

  Supports aggregation, switching modules = Optical LSP, lambda B

= OTN LSP, ODUm

  Add/Drop ODUk container(s) and edges
= OTN LSP, ODUx + ODUy
  Switch containers at transit elements
= swap containers (x for y)
  Support high- and low-order encapsulation
= map/unmap

  Control Plane
  Optical tunnels setup via CP; label is Lambda
  ODUk tunnels also setup via CP; label is Container(s)
  Container(s) may change along service path, per policy

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 WDM + OTN + Packet
TE Link: A <-> B
F
Packet SWC: PSC/Packet LSP “FLOW-1”
BW: 10G
20G
30G
40G BW: 10G
B SUB = “sub layer”
LSP “FLOW-2” BW = “bandwidth”
BW: 10G SWC = “switch caps”

LSP “FLOW-3”
A BW: 10G

TDM
TE Link: B <-> E
B SWC: TDM/G.709
BW: ODU4 (100G)
(60G) TNL-TDM “TRUNK-1”
TNL-TDM: “CLIENT-1” SRC: A / 1-4-C2
SRC: A / 1-4-C1 TE Link: A <-> E DST: B / 1-5-C2
DST: E / 1-3-C1 SWC: TDM/G.709 SUB: PSC/Packet
SUB: <none> BW: ODU4 (50G)
(100G)
(90G) BW: ODU3 (40G)
BW: ODU2 (10G) A
E

WDM TNL-WDM: “WAVE-2”

B SRC: B / 1-5-N
TNL-WDM: “WAVE-1” DST: E / 1-3-N
SRC: A / 1-4-N SUB: TDM/G.709
DST: E / 1-3-N BW: ODU4 (100G)
SUB: TDM/G.709
BW: ODU4 (100G) C
A F

= WDM+OTN element E
D
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 Provisioning Methods

  Top Down
  Provisioning at a higher layer requests topology from lower layer
  Higher layer request intercepted at network reference point (e.g. UNI)
  If needed, lower layer LSP instantiated to support request
  Paths determined individually as needed
  In-network agent determines when/if to add to higher-level topology
  Sub-optimal; visibility only to the immediate request

  Bottom Up
  Provisioning in a lower layer creates topology in a higher layer
  LSP in WDM layer becomes a TE link in the OTN or Ethernet layer
  And so on; LSM in OTn layer becomes a TE link in the Packet layer …
  Forwarding Adjacency Label Switched Path (FA-LSP, e.g. RFC4206)
  Directly planned and routed by the operator
  Paths computed within each individual layer separately
  Intra-layer effects indicated via link metrics/colors/SRLGs
  Optimal resource use, predictable/controllable outcomes
  Find optimal set of lower-layer LSPs to support higher-layer traffic matrix

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 Top-Down Layering

= ETH = WDM+ETH
MLC
= ETH LSP = WDM LSP

Area 0
= ETH TE Links = WDM LSP

MLC = Multi-Layer Control

Area 1 Area 2
MGMT

START
END

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 Bottom-Up Layering

= ETH = WDM+ETH

= ETH LSP = WDM LSP

Area 0
= ETH TE Links = WDM LSP

Area 1 Area 2
MGMT

START
END

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 Multi-Vendor Interoperability

 Transport / Data Network Convergence

  Network asked to deliver 1G/10G/40G/100G pipes
  Pipes deliverable at L0/L1, L2 or L3
  Cost/function trade-offs exist to deliver at any given layer
  Control and management costs are similar, however

 Interoperability through Standardization

  IETF: MPLS, GMPLS, etc
  OIF: UNI, E-NNI, I-NNI
  ITU-T: Terminology and Architecture

 Directions, Progress
  Rich set of connection control functions
  Resource discovery, signaling in any layer
  Path Computation Element (PCE) for any layer
  Commercial inter-domain components
  UNI / NNI reference points and gateways
  ITU-style layer network traffic engineering architecture

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 Juniper – ADVA

Juniper M320 Juniper M320

10GbE PIC 10GbE PIC
ADVA FSP3000R7
10G OTn PIC 10G OTn PIC
WCC10GT
Tunnel PIC Tunnel PIC
4OPCM
SWITCH 2 x eROADM SWITCH

320a 320b

R7a R7b

= 10GbE / STM64 on 1310nm to WCC-PCTN-10G

= OTn DWDM to 4OPCM or eROADM

= RSVP-TE, OSPF-TE
= 10/100 eth (fe0, eth0)

= GRE tunnel
= OSC

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