WOCC 2007 Talk WOCC 2007 Talk WOCC 2007 Talk A Management Strategy for A Management Strategy for A Management Strategy for MPLS Networks MPLS Networks MPLS Networks Tony Lin Tony Lin Tony Lin WANDL Systems Engineering WANDL Systems Engineering WANDL Systems Engineering 04/28/07 04/28/07 1 1
Outline Outline Introduction Introduction Life Cycle Management of MPLS Networks Life Cycle Management of MPLS Networks MPLS Network Management Strategies MPLS Network Management Strategies 2 2
Introduction Introduction 3 3
WANDL Overview WANDL Overview Founded in 1986 Founded in 1986 Headquarters in Piscataway, New Jersey Headquarters in Piscataway, New Jersey Locations Locations – Domestic Domestic – New Jersey, Washington D.C., Illinois, California New Jersey, Washington D.C., Illinois, California – International International – United Kingdom, Belgium, Italy, Taiwan, China United Kingdom, Belgium, Italy, Taiwan, China 4 4
WANDL Overview WANDL Overview Focus is multi- -vendor multi vendor multi- -protocol OSS: protocol OSS: Focus is multi – Planning: Planning: – Network Modeling & Simulation Network Modeling & Simulation Network Planning, Design, & Analysis Network Planning, Design, & Analysis Network Optimization Network Optimization – Operations: Operations: – Fault, Configuration, & Performance Management Fault, Configuration, & Performance Management MPLS TE/FRR, TE/FRR, VPN Management VPN Management MPLS Provisioning Support Provisioning Support 5 5
Life Cycle Management of Life Cycle Management of MPLS Networks MPLS Networks 6 6
MPLS Network Management System MPLS Network Management System MPLS Network Management System (NMS) needed to MPLS Network Management System (NMS) needed to effectively manage Life Cycle effectively manage Life Cycle � Deployment � Operations � Post Deployment � Inception � Deployment � Operations � Post Deployment � – Inception – Improvement/Growth Improvement/Growth NMS Desired Characteristics NMS Desired Characteristics – Integrated Online (Real Integrated Online (Real- -time) Management and Offline Design & time) Management and Offline Design & – Simulation System Simulation System – Multi Multi- -technology support technology support – – Multi – Multi- -vendor support vendor support – High Scalability High Scalability – – High Performance High Performance – – Manage changes and growth Manage changes and growth – 7 7
Why Integrated Online Management/ Why Integrated Online Management/ Offline Design & Simulation? Offline Design & Simulation? Pro- -active (online) active (online) Pro – Ability to timely report network events Ability to timely report network events – – Ability to timely alleviate potential bottlenecks Ability to timely alleviate potential bottlenecks – – Ability to timely allocate resources needed – Ability to timely allocate resources needed – Ability to re Ability to re- -arrange or load balance the network arrange or load balance the network – – Ability to quickly access the network to diagnose problems Ability to quickly access the network to diagnose problems – Predictive (offline) Predictive (offline) – Ability to predict if network can survive when a failure occurs Ability to predict if network can survive when a failure occurs – – Ability to predict if network can sustain traffic growth in near Ability to predict if network can sustain traffic growth in near or or – long term long term 8 8
MPLS Network MPLS Network Management Strategies Management Strategies 9 9
MPLS Management MPLS Management Statistics Statistics Statistics Collection Traffic Analysis MPLS Design and Modeling CLI Tunnel Live/Monitoring and Configuration MPLS Network MPLS Management System 10 10
Network Data Collection Network Data Collection Types of data collected: SNMP, Configuration Types of data collected: SNMP, Configuration Configuration data: Configuration data: – Auto Auto- -discover the network discover the network or or Import a set of config files Import a set of config files – – Intelligent parser to extract Nodes, Interfaces, Tunnels, Intelligent parser to extract Nodes, Interfaces, Tunnels, – VPNs, routing configuration, etc VPNs, routing configuration, etc 11 11
Model Construction and Visualization Model Construction and Visualization 12 12
MPLS Design & Modeling MPLS Design & Modeling 13 13
Considerations Considerations Network design & capacity planning Network design & capacity planning – Satisfy traffic demands, resiliency requirements, Satisfy traffic demands, resiliency requirements, – reduce cost, improve efficiency reduce cost, improve efficiency Survivability and resiliency Survivability and resiliency – Simulate failure scenarios, analyze peak utilization Simulate failure scenarios, analyze peak utilization – – Design diverse paths, FRR Design diverse paths, FRR – Optimization Optimization – Optimize tunnel paths Optimize tunnel paths – – Size tunnels Size tunnels – 14 14
Design/Simulate Protection Tunnels Protection Tunnels Design/Simulate Design path, link, and node protection Design path, link, and node protection – Specify primary tunnels to be protected Specify primary tunnels to be protected – – Set site/link/facility diversity level Set site/link/facility diversity level – Verify computed protection tunnel (FRR or bypass Verify computed protection tunnel (FRR or bypass or detoured) or detoured) FRR Link FRR Link Protection Protection FRR Node FRR Node Protection Protection 15 15
Live/Online Live/Online Management and Monitoring Management and Monitoring MPLS TE/FRR Management MPLS TE/FRR Management MPLS VPN Management MPLS VPN Management 16 16
FCAPS/Management Flow FCAPS/Management Flow Topology PM FM Routing/Design/TE Module Module Simulation/Optimization Module 4’ 4’ 1’’ TCA LSP Events 2’ Commands VPN CM Delay/loss Ping Configlets Module Traffic In CLI Traceroute Trap Data CPU/Mem 3’ Etc. Or XML Events 1’ Auto-discovery Interface/Tunnel SNMP Diagnostics Router Config, interface Traps Traffic Collection Control Tunnel path collection 5 3 1 4 2 CLI SNMP SNMP CLI (ssh/telnet) Provisioning 5’ MPLS System VPN2 configuration Changes VPN2 VPN1 VPN1 17 17
MPLS TE/FRR Management MPLS TE/FRR Management LSP statistics and traffic LSP statistics and traffic LSP routes, status changes LSP routes, status changes LSP FRR protection LSP FRR protection LSP events LSP events LSP diagnostics LSP diagnostics LSP configuration and change management LSP configuration and change management 18 18
Fault Management Fault Management Fault Management Fault Management 19 19
MPLS TE Management MPLS TE Management LSP Status and Route changes LSP Status and Route changes 20 20
MPLS FRR MPLS FRR Visualize FRR Visualize FRR Protection tunnel Protection tunnel 21 21
MPLS TE Management MPLS TE Management Exa Examine link traffic c ine link traffic contribution from tunnels ntribution from tunnels 22 22
MPLS VPN Management MPLS VPN Management VPN topology discovery VPN topology discovery VPN views VPN views VPN traffic VPN traffic VPN diagnostics VPN diagnostics VPN SLA VPN SLA VPN events VPN events VPN model/configuration VPN model/configuration 23 23
MPLS VPN Management MPLS VPN Management VPN Traffic VPN Traffic bound with LS bound with LSP 24 24
MPLS VPN Configuration MPLS VPN Configuration VPN Configuration Management VPN Configuration Management 25 25
MPLS VPN Management MPLS VPN Management VPN Configlet Generation VPN Configlet Generation 26 26
VPN Diagnostics VPN Diagnostics 27 27
VPN SLA: Delay, Loss, Jitter VPN SLA: Delay, Loss, Jitter 28 28
Roles of IP/MPLSView Roles of IP/MPLSView Traffic and Event Mgmt Inventory Mgmt & Config/ Conformance IP/MPLSView IP/MPLSView Planning, Design & Simulation Network Data, Integrity & Topology Mapping Provisioning Support (configlets) 29 29
WANDL’ ’s IP/MPLSView s IP/MPLSView WANDL Single Platform accommodates Multi- -vendors vendors Single Platform accommodates Multi and Multi- -Technologies Technologies and Multi Integrated Functionality Integrated Functionality – Online management and monitoring, with offline Online management and monitoring, with offline – planning, simulation, design and optimization planning, simulation, design and optimization – Integrated Fault, Configuration, Performance Integrated Fault, Configuration, Performance – Management Management High Scalability High Scalability – System can handle large sized router networks System can handle large sized router networks – High Performance High Performance – Network Network- -wide integrity checking, routing simulation wide integrity checking, routing simulation – and failure simulation and failure simulation 30 30
Thank you for attending! Thank you for attending! Questions? Questions? Please visit WANDL booth Please visit WANDL booth http://www.wandl.com www.wandl.com/ / http:// HQ: +1- -732 732- -457 457- -8888 8888 HQ: +1 31 31
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