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Cisco IOS® MPLS ManagementTechnology Overview

Enabling Innovative Services

February 2004


Agenda

• IntroductionProblems, challenges, requirements

• Technology Overview• Summary


Service Provider Problems

• Operational EfficienciesIncrease management automation and availability

• New Services ProvisioningEnable competitive differentiation and customer retentionthrough profitable bundled services

• Disparate NetworksManage and consolidate traditional and emerging networks

OSS

OSS

TDM

FR, ATM

TDM

FR, ATM

IP

OSSOSS

OSS

IP

MPLS

TDM FR, ATMOSS


MPLS Service Provisioning Challenge

10%

Integration with OSS and Billing System

Number of Network Elements Involved

Integrating MultipleTechnologies into a Single Service

Finding CustomerSelf-Provisioning Tools that Work

Equipment Manufacturer ManagementSystem Not Designed for Provisioning

Interoperability Among Products

Manual Configuration of Equipment 18%

Challenges in VPN Service ProvisioningChallenges in VPN Service Provisioning

20% 30% 40% 50% 60%

35%

41%

41%

47%

47%

65%

Source: Infonetics, 2003


Reducing OpEx with Network Management• CapEx typically follows

the economy• OpEx is consistent

• Typical ratio of a Tier 1 carrierCapEx vs OpEx spending

• OpEx efficiencies have higherprofitability and a higher ARPU

Source: Frost and Sullivan, 2002

27%

73%

CapitalExpenditureOperationalExpense

$ B

illio

ns

Quarterly Spending

$0.0

$1.0

$2.0

$3.0

$4.0

$5.0

$6.0

$7.0

$8.0

$9.0

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4

CapitalExpenditureOperations &SupportExpense


Customer Requirements

• Provide systemic management solutions for achieving dramaticproductivity gains through automation, intelligence, andsimplification

• Enable competitive differentiation and customer retention throughhigh-margin, bundled services

Provide automated embedded toolsConfigurationError detection & recoveryPerformance and accounting

• Perform data plane validation with respect to control planeData plane liveliness and troubleshooting

• Standards and open interfaces, APIs to management/OSSapplications and third-party software vendors

• End-to-end circuit/service-level health/alarm correlation



Agenda

• Introduction• Technology Overview• Summary


Info Server VPN PolicyManager

Cisco Info Center

Cisco® IPSolution Center

EMSEMS

CNS PerformanceEngine

NetFlowCollector

ISV PartnersOSS

IngressPE

CECE EgressPE

ProcessNetworkAlarms

DetermineService Impact

• VPN Topology• Service Provisioning

Device/Network Provisioning

MPLS Management Life Cycle

MPLS OAM

End-End OAMAttachment VC OAM’s Attachment VC OAM’s

PWE3 orVPN Label

LSP created by LDP and/or RSVP-TE

Fault PerformanceAccounting

9

MPLSEmbedded

Management

MPLS Management Architecture

FaultFault ConfigurationConfiguration Performance Performance & Accounting& Accounting

ElementElementManagementManagementSystemSystem

• Alarm Notification• Alarm

Synchronisation• Threshold Alerts• Dagnostic

MonitoringSNMP Get,getBulk, TrapsSyslogs

• RMON

• Config Upload• Incremental

Configuration• Change

NotificationProgrammaticInterfaceCLITFTP

• Data Collection• Data Export

SNMP Getand GetBulkBulk filetransferNetflow

Operations SupportOperations SupportSystem (OSS)System (OSS)

Software PartnersSoftware PartnersGUI

• CORBA• SNMP• TL1• XML

TelnetTelnetSSHSSH

CNS BusCNS BusHTTPHTTPSNMPSNMP

NetFlowNetFlow

Cisco IOS Software

MPLSFCAPS

SNMPXML

CLI

MIBs

LSP PingTraceroute

VCCV Protocol Enhancements

AutoTunnelAutoMEshSecurity

AccountingNetFlow

PerformanceSAA

InfrastructureEnhancements

Cisco IOSProgrammatic

Interface


MPLS LSP Ping/Traceroute

• Draft-ietf-mpls-lsp-ping-xx.txtIETF StandardsIETF Standards

• IPv4 LDP prefix• TE tunnel• MPLS PE, P connectivity for MPLS transport, MPLS VPN, MPLS TE

applications

ApplicationsApplications

• MPLS LSP Ping (ICMP) for connectivity checks• MPLS LSP Traceroute for hop-by-hop fault localization• MPLS LSP Traceroute for path tracing

SolutionSolution

• Detect MPLS traffic black holes or misrouting• Isolate MPLS faults• Verify data plane against the control plane• Detect MTU of MPLS LSP paths

RequirementRequirement


LSP Ping/Traceroute Example

Originatingrouter

Targetrouter

MPLS Echo Request

MPLS Echo Reply

TTL=1 Targetrouter

MPLS Echo Reply

1

2

3 4

9

5

6 7 8

TTL=2

TTL=3

Ping

Traceroute


MPLS AToM Virtual CircuitConnection Verification ( VCCV)

• Draft-ietf-pwe3-vccv-xx.txtIETF StandardsIETF Standards

• Layer 2 transport over MPLSFRoMPLS, ATMoMPLS, EoMPLS


• AToM VCCV allows sending control packets in band of an AToMpseudowire. Two components:

Signaled component to communicate VCCV capabilities as partof VC labelSwitching component to cause the AToM VC payload to be treated as acontrol packet

Type 1: uses Protocol ID of AToM Control wordType 2: use MPLS router alert label

SolutionSolution

• Ability to provide end-to-end fault detection and diagnostics for anemulated pseudowire service

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



VCCV Example

Attachment VCLSP Tunnel

LSP PseudowirePing

Attachment VCs


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

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

IETF StandardsIETF Standards

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

condition – “Bandwidth Protection”


• Backup AutoTunnel—Enables a router to dynamically buildbackup tunnels

• Primary one-hop AutoTunnel—Enables a router to dynamicallycreate one-hop primary tunnels on all interfaces that have beenenabled with MPLS TE tunnels

• Mesh Group AutoTunnel – Enables automatic establishment of full-or partial-mesh of TE tunnels

SolutionSolution

• Ability to protect links and nodes with no requirement of “trafficengineering”

• Need to ease configuration of “increased bandwidth inventory”MPLS TE designs such as full mesh



MPLS Traffic EngineeringAutoTunnel – Primary & Backup

Router A

Router C

Router B

Router A establishes AutoTunnels to adjacent routers –“automates” configuration of Link & Node Protection

Router D

Backup AutoTunnel – NextHop – “Link Protection”

AutoTunnel Backup NextNext Hop – “NodeProtection”

AutoTunnelPrimary

Router configured with AutoTunnel Primary & Backup

Manually configured Tunnels take precedence over AutoTunnels –provides “tweaking” capability for customers


MPLS Traffic EngineeringAutoTunnel – Mesh Groups

Service ProviderBackbone

AutoTunnels belonging to “Mesh Group 1”

Partial Mesh of Physical Connectivity

Routers A, B, C, D, E – defined as members of “Mesh Group 1”Capable of building multiple meshes for DiffServ aware Traffic EngineeringAutomates configuration of full mesh of TE Tunnels resulting in operational efficiencies

Router A

Router B Router C

Router D

Router E


MPLS-Aware SAA

• RFC 1889 Jitter Compliant metricsIETF StandardsIETF Standards

• MPLS, MPLS-VPN, MPLS-TEApplicationsApplications

• Active traffic generation within Cisco IOS using SAA• Jitter, packet loss, latency, connectivity• CPE to CPE, PE to CE, and PE to PE measurements• SAA PE, multi-vrf CE or dedicated SAA router

SolutionSolution

• IP SLA monitoring for MPLS VPNs• Network performance monitoring per VPN• Hop-by-hop statistics for troubleshooting• Low-cost solution embedded in Cisco IOS® Software



SAA VPN Measurements

Cisco IP SolutionCenter

Partner ReportingApplications

PEPE

CE

CE

CE

Blue VPN site 3

Blue VPN site 1

Blue VPN site 2

SAA

SAA

SAACE

Red VPN site 1

SAA

CE

Red VPN site 2

SAA

PE PE

Dedicated SAA Router

Dedicated SAA Router

Blue VPN SAAMeasurements

CNS PerformanceEngine 2.1

SAA MIB DataSAA MIB Data

Per VPN Performance MonitoringPacket loss, Latency, Jitter, Connectivity

• PE to PE, CE to CE, PE to CE, PE to remote CE

Cisco® InfoCenter


MPLS-Aware NetFlow

• IPFIX WG proposed standardIETF StandardsIETF Standards


• Cisco IOS MPLS-Aware NetFlowNetFlow version 9Label export with destination prefixPer Label accounting aggregation

• CNS NetFlow Collector 5.0Support of EXP bits as a field to key flow reports onUsing NFC 5.0 + add on PE-PE Traffic matrix module provides PE-PEtraffic matrix aggregation

SolutionSolution

• MPLS network capacity planning• PE to PE traffic matrix• Per-VPN MPLS accounting• IP flow analysis



MPLS-Aware NetFlowMPLS-Aware NetFlow (version 9)

• Exports up to three MPLS labels,and IP packet information

• Ideal for Traffic Engineering andcapacity planning

MPLS

Traditional NetFlow for IP to MPLS traffic

PEPE PP PEPE

Traffic Flow

IP

IP

Egress MPLS NetFlow Accountingfor MPLS to IP traffic

MPLS-Aware NetFlow (version 9)

Performance Datavia FTP

NetFlow Collector (NFC)

CNS FCAPSPerfE: NFC VPN Accounting Module (PE-PE)

Partner Reporting

Applications

Aggreg. Netflow Data

XMLConfig control

SAA MIB data

CNS Publish and Subscribe BusCNS Publish and Subscribe BusCNS Publish and Subscribe Bus

MIB data

Third-PartyNetFlow Collector

NetFlow Data


MPLS MIBs

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

IETF StandardsIETF Standards


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

• Standards-based SNMP implementation• Integration with existing OSS and third-party vendors/software



Cisco Info Center: VPN Policy Manager 3.1

• Cisco Info Center VPNPolicy Manager (Cisco InfoCenter and IP SolutionCenter integration)correlates network eventsto affected services

• CIC VPN Policy Manageravailable today

• Cisco Info Center VPNPolicy Manager 3.1 offers:

• New Cisco Info Center VPNPolicy Manager DSAdeveloped

• New Cisco Info Center VPNPolicy Manager policiesdeveloped

• Device/Interface/Sub-interfaceMPLS VPN subscribercorrelation

• MPLS troubleshooting tools

Cisco Info CenterMPLS TroubleShooting Tools


Agenda

• Introduction• Technology Overview• Summary

© 2004 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.

Summary

• Provide systemic,integrated, andinnovativemanageability solutions

• Standards-based openinterfaces for easier andfaster integration

• Complete end-to-endMPLS service andnetwork managementsolutions

Intelligence

Automation SimplificationProductivityROI/TCO

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Cisco leads in the MPLS Market

Americas EMEA AsiaPac/Japan

EBTKorea

Telecom

Over 200 Customers (MPLS Core & L2/L3 Edge)



FasterA flexible QoS frameworkto enable migration to aconverged infrastructure

FasterFasterA flexible QoS frameworkA flexible QoS frameworkto enable migration to ato enable migration to aconverged infrastructureconverged infrastructure

LastingExtensibility to different

transports with standards-based open architecturefor investment protection

LastingLastingExtensibility to differentExtensibility to different

transports with standards-transports with standards-based open architecturebased open architecturefor investment protectionfor investment protection

SmarterThe foundation for more

services and morerevenues

SmarterSmarterThe foundation for moreThe foundation for more

services and moreservices and morerevenuesrevenues

Cisco IOS MPLS

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Enabling

Innovative

Services

Enabling

Innovative

Services

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