DATA SHEET OnePlanner Unified Design System OnePlanner is an advanced multi-layer network design and optimization tool that leverages Ciena s extensive background in Layer 1 control plane planning and simulation, photonic system design, advanced algorithm research, and GUI development into a comprehensive and easy-to-use platform. OnePlanner correlates data from different network layers, allowing the network planner to easily see the association between services, facilities, and equipment. OnePlanner s Photonic module supports 6500 Packet-Optical Platform and Common Photonic Layer (CPL) photonics designs. The Optical Switching module supports 5410/5430 Reconfigurable Switching Systems and 6500 SONET/SDH and OTN control plane network dimensioning and what-if failure scenarios. OnePlanner s modular architecture enables use of design and engineering modules with the Ciena portfolio. These can be used autonomously for a specific layer, or simultaneously to plan, design, and model networks involving both Layers 0 and 1. Network topology and service demands can be entered into the system through the intuitive GUI or imported as well-defined text files. OnePlanner can be deployed in a standalone configuration or in a multi-user client/server configuration. Intuitive GUI Fluid zoom - OnePlanner s GUI can zoom in from a high-level network topology view to show the sites where demands and services terminate and the interconnecting cables. As the user zooms in, intermediate sites such as line sites are displayed, along with associated fiber information. By zooming even closer, the user will see the network Features and Benefits Ensures peak multi-layer network optimization Includes what-if failure scenario simulations to ensure validation of network survivability under multiple simultaneous failures Features an intuitive GUI to easily visualize network layout and design Offers planning based on live network data for accurate analysis Reduces manual effort significantly through accurate and autodiscovered fiber characterization Features forecast-tolerant designs, ready for future growth Provides various on-screen summaries as well as exportable reports Builds and displays various network views selectively through powerful GUI
elements, amplifiers, pads, and Dispersion Slope Compensation Modules (DSCMs) located in each site. The use of vector graphics guarantees high-quality display, whatever the zooming level, with no loss of resolution. Interactive canvas and grid view - OnePlanner shows the visualization of the network topology and details of the selected entities such as fibers, equipment, services, and wavelengths. This view can be customized to user need. All modifications are automatically propagated to all views. Optical Modeling Network Survivability Simulation Traffic Engineering And Capacity Planning Live Network Import Features Automatic Link Engineering (ALE) and photonic components placement - Using sophisticated design algorithms, 6500 photonic components such as Wavelength Selective Switch (WSS), Channel Mux/Demux (CMD), DSCMs, pads, and amplifiers can be optimized to meet pre-defined end-of-life performance targets. Forecast-tolerant designs ready for future growth - When enabled, the ALE engine positions photonic components in the network to support any-to-any wavelength connectivity for the full capacity of the 6500, considering the DWDM interfaces selected by the user. Following the initial deployment, the network will accept any wavelength addition using the pre-selected DWDM interfaces, regardless of the source and the destination. Traffic pattern-specific designs - While networks are ideally designed to accommodate any future growth scenarios, operators may trade network flexibility and capacity against additional performance. The user can identify limited wavelength connectivity and perform a design, manually or automatically, considering these limitations. Branching - Optical branching allows wavelengths to cross optical domain boundaries photonically without regeneration. The end-users can create branched configurations and visualize them using equipment schematics that show all branching directions. User Defined Paths - Creating User Defined Paths (UDPs) extends the concept of forecast tolerance outside the scope of a specific domain to identify inter-domain connectivity and create aggregated domains. The tool can analyze and validate UDP viability. Workflow-based views - OnePlanner takes an innovative approach to network design and planning by offering the user a choice of activities, such as photonic system design, OTN network design, addition of service or wavelengths, and more. In each case, OnePlanner will list the sequence of steps, along with the required data, to execute the selected activity. Photonic Module The Photonic module is used to design and validate Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) networks of 6500 photonics and CPLs using sophisticated link engineering and light propagating algorithms to simulate real-life transmission of light over fiber, resulting in designs that are guaranteed over the life of the system. Components manual placement - 6500 photonic components can be placed manually to allow the user to verify that their own designs can support the pre-defined traffic pattern and meet the selected system s optical performance objectives. A manually designed system can also be validated to be forecast-tolerant. Optical parameters reports - These include information on the wavelength route, Optical Signal Noise Ratio (OSNR), OSNR margin, power margin, dispersion, and calculation of latency for each optical path present in the analyzed design. 2
40G and 100G wavelengths support* 40G designs are available for configurations using 40G wavelengths only, or mixed 10G and 40G wavelengths, riding uncompensated or dispersion compensated links over different types of fibers. Depending on fiber types or rate mixes, some configurations may be supported only in estimation or normal mode, or can be analyzed only on compensated or uncompensated fibers. 100G designs are available for configurations using 100G wavelengths only, or mixed 40G and 100G wavelengths, over compensated and uncompensated fibers of different types. Ciena and foreign wavelengths support - The user can include foreign wavelengths in the network design, and the tool will validate that the service is will be supported by the designed network. Protected and unprotected demands - The tool supports a mix of protected and unprotected wavelengths in the same network. Demands can traverse different domains of control. Automatic or manual wavelength routing - The user can force each wavelength to take a specific route in the network or have it automatically routed using the shortest path available in the network. Automatic or manual wavelength assignment - Wavelengths can be auto-assigned based on 6500 guidelines to optimize performance and expansion, or the user can manually assign the wavelengths to consider specific constraints. New wavelength validation - Once the design has been completed, the user can add a new wavelength using a different DWDM interface and run a validation process to ensure the new service can be supported by the designed network. User-defined profiles - The user has the ability to create standard, customized profiles to be used by default in all the designs, assigning default values to cable, fiber, DWDM interfaces, and 6500 components, to be loaded and used every time a new design is started. Fiber types - NDSF, ELEAF, and TWRS fiber types, including spans and domains containing mixes of the supported fiber types, are supported. Additionally TWc, DSF, LS, Tera, and TWReach are also supported for specific applications. Equipment schematics - Detailed equipment schematics, including component interconnections down to the port level, can be displayed and exported in Visio format or JPEG to facilitate installation and provisioning documentation. Provisioning and ordering reports - A detailed photonic components list can be displayed and exported as an Excel or CSV file. The equipment list breaks down the equipment for each site or can be displayed as total counts for the complete network. Additionally, provisioning information such as amplifier target peak power and target gain, as well as CMD adjacency, is available in detailed on-screen and Excel/CSV-formatted reports. Photonic network capture - The photonic characteristics can be discovered automatically from the deployed network via OneControl. The captured parameters include all the photonic components, their position in shelves, part codes, and serial numbers. Various fiber parameters, such as per-span fiber loss, fiber type, dispersion compensation modules, and wavelengthspecific parameters such as latency, Polarization Mode Dispersion (PMD), and Bit Error Rate (BER), can be discovered, thereby providing an accurate view of the as-built network for the basis of network utilization calculations, optimization, and channel-adds. Optical Switching Module The Optical Switching module is used to design and optimize a network of 5410/5430 RSSs, CoreDirectors, and 6500s to ensure the network meets resiliency, latency, and utilization requirements. The module pre-validates services, including control plane resiliency, prior to deploying these services in the network. The module can be used to plan services and the network topology to groom and route these services in the most efficient way, dimension the links required to support the planned traffic demands, and identify the equipment required to terminate these links. Additionally, the Optical Switching module can be used to simulate simultaneous failure scenarios, predict restoration times, optimize the network for low latency, and identify additional bandwidth required to support various restoration scenarios. Features Routing simulation - The tool utilizes the same routing algorithm used by Ciena s Control Plane to ensure that the services are routed in the most efficient way throughout the network. This algorithm takes into consideration specific SLA characteristics including bandwidth, Shared Link Risk Group (SLRG), lowest cost, lowest administrative weight, shortest path, lowest latency, and *Refer to the 6500 user guide for release-specific details. 3
protection mechanisms, enabling the simulation of traffic routing and re-routing behavior and providing reports on bandwidth utilization resulting from these actions, including both OTN link and SONET line utilization. Switch resource utilization - Can be modeled upon the various line terminating modules in each network element used by the requested traffic. Manual failure/recovery simulation - Based on user-selected nodes/lines/protection bundles, the tool can simulate the service failure/recovery process in the same way it would in the deployed network. Automated failure analysis - A simulation of possible points of failure can be executed automatically. A detailed report is generated that shows the effects of a simulated failure of each node, line, protection bundle, or line module on the network. Automated delay analysis - A performance simulation of all single failures of objects of one chosen type can be run automatically. A detailed report is generated that lists the effects on the network of each node, line, protection bundle, or line module failure in terms of maximum restoration times, number of crankbacks, and unrestored services. Regrooming connections - Regrooming is the process of finding a better route for a connection and shifting the connection s home route to that better route. When all lines have the same cost and available bandwidth, the network finds the shortest path between nodes. As facilities that make a more efficient route (for example, a line with a lower administrative weight) are added to the network, the regroom function uses these new facilities and reroutes the connections. Recompute restoration routes - When all lines have the same cost and available bandwidth, the network finds the shortest path between nodes. When lines with a lower administrative weight are added to the network, the tool can be used to recalculate a lower-cost restoration path. This function is similar to regrooming a connection s home route. Delay analysis for mesh restoration - This feature uses a discrete event simulator for mesh restoration to simulate control plane-enabled Ciena network elements. The main purpose of the simulation is to determine the time required to complete mesh restoration in the event of one or more simultaneous link, node, protection bundle, or line module failures. This process depends on several factors, including the number of nodes in the network, the link bandwidths, the number of connections in the network, and the amount of network traffic. The simulator can be used to model the behavior of the network for different scenarios. Global Optimization - This powerful feature has three components: traffic optimizer, capacity planning, and mesh survivability assistant. These modules add functions to maximize network utilization while minimizing new capacity requirements, thus increasing revenue and reducing overall network costs. The traffic optimizer determines the set of paths for a group of connections that provided the overall lowest cost. Capacity planning determines the amount of bandwidth required between specified node pairs to best support a given traffic demand set. The mesh survivability assistant determines the capacity upgrades required per line to reach optimal mesh survivability. All three components can be used in both the new design process and in existing networks to support regrooming and expansion planning. Path finder - The path finder module finds the shortest paths through a network for a specified set of connections, considering user-defined administrative weight. The user specifies the number of paths to find and network constraints Client services routing and grooming - In an OTN, client services are routed over a virtual topology formed by logical links. Traffic grooming represents the optimization of these routes to minimize the design costs and maximize the operational performance of a given network. An automated grooming and routing feature can optimize the delivery of client services over an OTN network. This information can then be used as an input for the Photonic module when a DWDM network is required to support the deployment of the optical switching network. Live network import - The live network characteristics can be discovered automatically from the network to enable an accurate and realistic simulation of the network behavior, considering the NE parameters. 4
Packet Module The Packet module provides the ability to design the packet layer using the GUI to create Ethernet switches, links, bi-directional LSPs (unprotected or protected), and services (E-Line services routed over MPLS-TP tunnels, LSPs, and Manual assignment of LSP Group to services). Packet layer network designs also feature the Path Advisor, which allows for the automatic path computation for LSPs (Shortest Path First for unprotected LSP and Shortest Pair for protected LSP), and the automatic assignment of an LSP Group to services. OnePlanner also provides the ability to simulate failures and recoveries of network entities. Multilayer Module The Multilayer module provides the ability to create a network design that encompasses the photonic and TDM layers simultaneously. In Multilayer designs you can manually create multi-function nodes which combine a photonic and TDM node, or photonic nodes alone, as well as links (fiber, OSRP, OTN lines, capacity planning lines, and user-defined paths), and connections (OTN SNCs, OTN SNCPs, services, and photonic SNCs). The Multilayer also allows you to route and unroute connections and wavelength services, and run path validation and link engineering. OnePlanner supports non-control plane networks only for the Multilayer. Technical Information Supported operating system Client/Server Configuration Server: Windows Server 2008 R2.0 Enterprise Edition Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard Client: Windows 7, 64-bit Windows 8.1, 64-bit Windows 10, 64-bit Standalone Configuration Windows7 64-bit recommended Recommended hardware requirements Server Quad Core Intel Xeon 3500+ (5500, 5600, ) or AMD Opteron 4000/6000 2/4/6/8 CPU Cores Min RAM 32GB expandable to 512GB Dual 1GbE ports System HDD, single data disk or two disks in RAID 1 configuration, hot plug 3.5-inch 500GB or larger Redundant power supply Dual Core processor (3GHz or faster) or compatible 8 GB or more of physical RAM 10 GB or more of available hard disk space Client Dual-core Intel Core 2 Duo (Desktop PC: E7200, E8200, E8300), Intel Core i7-920, Intel Pentium D, or better. 4 GB or more of physical RAM 4GB or more of available hard disk space Connect with Ciena now Ciena may make changes at any time to the products or specifications contained herein without notice. Ciena and the Ciena Logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Ciena Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. Third-party trademarks are the property of their respective owners and do not imply a partnership between Ciena and any other company. Copyright 2016 Ciena Corporation. All rights reserved. DS230 9.2016