Current Trends in IP/Optical Transport Integration Harald Bock, CTO Technology Strategy, Coriant September 2014
Market Dynamics: A New ed World A New Kind of Business A New Kind Customer of Business Customer Private and public cloud Elastic compute and storage Hypergrowth - Video, Mobile/LTE, Cloud A New Kind of Consumer Living in the cloud Download to streaming Driving new network loads A New Kind of Service Provider SaaS, IaaS, PaaS Elastic Compute & Storage Requires an Elastic SDN-Enabled A New is Required: Bandwidth-on-demand - to match compute/storage ondemand technology Multi-tenant Higher utilization, greater efficiency Scalable and resilient Faster service deployment Increasing need for packet optical integration 2
Evolution of IP/Optical Transport Integration History: A Slow Start Field Deployments Started Today Future NMS Transport NMS NMS Virtual Transponder Interfaces: 1/10GE Transport DWDM Point-to-Point Interfaces: Colored DWDM MD-ROADM?? SDH OTN 10GE 100GE Trsp/OTN Feasible, But Limited Acceptance Multiple Equipment Layers Separate Teams for Operations Open issues: Responsibilities and organizational structures 100G integrated DWDM interfaces Reduced footprint, power Router actions triggered by optical degradation, IP/optical coordination Next steps in IP/Optical evolution? 3
Evolution: More Than Pure IP-over-DWDM Transmission Simple, Lean Structure Packets Circuits Optical Transport Vendor B Technology Z Vendor A Vendor C Technology X x Vendor E Technology Z Vendor B Vendor D Technology Y Vendor F Technology M Packets Circuits Optical Transport Vendor A Vendor B E2E Layer Vendor B Technology Z Vendor C Technology X x Vendor E Technology Z E2E Optical Vendor D Technology Y Vendor F Technology M Today: Fragmented Structure of IP Carrier s Evolution: New, Simplified Architecture High operational complexity, inefficient use of capacity, lack of scalability Integrated Packet Transport network Simplified, lean, more scalable network structure Three Key Elements Data Plane Integration Management Integration Control Plane Integration 4
Key Packet Optical Convergence Elements: Data Plane Integration Scope of packet optical convergence extends significantly beyond alien wavelength transmission Provides over multi-layer transport, including: Regeneration and wavelength translation, physical layer planning tool integration, Aggregation in different layers enabling multi-layer network optimization Intelligent Control End-to-End Path Management Interactive Planning Customers Metro Regional Core Three Key Elements Data Plane Integration Management Integration Control Plane Integration 5
Key Packet Optical Convergence Elements: Management Integration End-to-End and Service Management End-to-end connection provisioning Fault and trouble management planning and multi-layer optimization Performance management Configuration management Service provisioning Intelligent Control End-to-End Path Management Interactive Planning Customers Metro Regional Core Three Key Elements Data Plane Integration Management Integration Control Plane Integration 6
Key Packet Optical Convergence Elements: Control Plane Integration Multi-layer resiliency e.g. optimized interaction between fast-reroute and optical restoration Advanced protection mechanisms More efficient use of network resources Intelligent Control End-to-End Path Management Interactive Planning E-NNI Customers Metro Regional Core Optical Transport GMPLS Three Key Elements Data Plane Integration Management Integration Control Plane Integration 7
IP/Optical Integration: Example Today E2E Optical Transport Portfolio OTN DWDM Metro & Core Services, Planning, MLO TNMS Management System Inter-working Integrated Packet Transport IPTN Solution Data plane integration & Multi- Layer planning Multi-layer optimized network structure Efficiency of packet network & cost advantage of optical transport network Support of legacy and next-gen services Management Integration Fast multi-layer provisioning Simplified end-to-end network operation Control Plane integration Multi-layer resiliency across optical transport and packet layers Standards-based inter-working Converged Supercore Switch PTX 3000 Junos ASICs PTX 5000 IP Core & Edge Routers MX-Series T-Series Open Operating System Available Today Solution Integration @ Q4 2013 OFC demo @ Q1 2014 Field Trial @ Q2 2014 8
Packet optical integration is field proven today Example: IPTN field testing done by Juniper and Coriant in Q2 2014 - Kazakhtelecom Trial specifics: Test of commercially available 100G CP QPSK colored interfaces in Juniper PTX via deployed Coriant hit 7300 DWDM system Challenging 1575 km transmission link with many high loss spans (longer than 130km). 100G-optimized link design without dispersion compensation modules and hybrid EDFA/Raman amplification for best possible transmission performance. Optical planning and setup of the network is done using Coriant TransNet planning tool Managed wavelengths: Transport Management - E2E path management of router interface fully supported by Coriant TNMS. Seamless physical layer interworking demonstrated Further tests planned with line-side compatible 100G transponders and regenerators. 10
Evolution of IP/Optical Transport Integration IP-over-DWDM to Multi-Layer, IP/Optical ing History: A Slow Start Field Deployments Started Today Future Transport NMS SDN Control Viirtual Transponder Software- Defined Intelligence Apps API Apps API Intelligent Control 1/10GE Transport DWDM Point-to-Point DWDM MD-ROADM Colored Interfaces Colored Interfaces Multi-Layer Optical Transport Colored Interfaces Multi-Layer Optical Transport SDH OTN 10GE 100GE Transport/OTN Grey Interfaces L0 DWDM, L1, L2 Grey Interfaces L0 DWDM, L1, L2 & optical separation Multiple, separate transport layers Transponder-based DWDM transport Colored DWDM interworking Virtual Transponder NMS Multiple transport technologies to single optical equipment layer Seamless inter-working, E2E multi-layer transport E2E multi-layer management Multi-layer, optimized network planning SDN-controlled L0-L3 network, enabling: Dynamic, multi-layer optimization New business models New operational concepts 10
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