Carrier Ethernet Services - the Future
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Carrier Ethernet Services - The Future Public Multi-Vendor Interoperability Test Berlin, September 2008 Carrier Ethernet World Congress 2008 Multi-Vendor Interoperability Test EDITOR’S NOTE INTRODUCTION This year the interoperability This year’s interoperability event focused on the hot staging test for the Future of Carrier Ethernet Services. While each Carrier Ethernet World previous event concentrated on specific topics such Congress took place in as mobile backhaul or service creation, this event parallel to the Beijing aimed to congregate the knowledge and experience Olympics. the industry gained in the last four years into a single 80 engineers from 28 parti- modern, converged network showing all that a tier- cipating vendors with over one service provider is likely to encounter. We therefore tested: Carsten Rossenhoevel 100 systems attended our Managing Director test. According to data from • Converged residential, business and Mobile Heavy Reading, more than Backhaul services 90% of the Carrier Ethernet switch and router market • Clock synchronization share were represented in this test. • Business services realized using E-Line, E-LAN The participating vendors verified 34 test areas in and for the first time E-Tree services any-to-any combinations in ten days, truly challenging the Olympic motto “Faster, Higher, • The leading access, transport and aggregation technologies Stronger“. Carrier Ethernet implementations support more functions and cover more markets today — • Microwave access and transport ranging from core to microwave to access, E-Lines to • Ethernet OAM: Fault management and perfor- E-Trees, triple play to mobile backhaul. mance monitoring It was an outstanding experience to witness the • High availability massive testing feast, a unique get-together of • Management and SLA reporting virtually all leading players with one single goal: In order to construct such a large test To improve multi-vendor TABLE OF CONTENTS network and cover all the above test interoperability of advanced areas a ten day, closed doors hot Carrier Ethernet implementa- Participants and Devices ..............3 staging event was conducted at EANTC’s lab in Berlin, Germany. tions. Network Design..........................4 Since the first Carrier Ethernet World An EANTC panel of service Interoperability Test Results...........4 2 providers worldwide including Congress in 2005, EANTC has Ethernet Service Types .................4 experts from COLT, GVT organized interoperability test events Brazil, PT TELKOM Indonesia, Diverse Access Technologies ........6 which are then showcases at the T-Systems and Metanoia Inc Diverse Transport ........................7 congress. reviewed the test plan MPLS Core .................................8 Our interoperability showcases are thoroughly to ensure the event’s driven by three main goals: E-NNI........................................9 scenarios are realistic and Technical – Through participation in Mobile Backhaul.......................10 sound. the event, vendors have the oppor- Interestingly, market forces are Clock Synchronization...............14 tunity to verify the interoperability of operating at full strength. This Ethernet OAM ..........................15 their devices and protocol implementa- year, we once again tested Resilience and Fault Detection.....18 tions against the majority of the three transport technologies in industry’s leading vendors. Management and SLA Reporting.21 the test event’s metro/aggre- Marketing – The participants can Acronyms.................................22 gation networks: MPLS, PBB-TE showcase the interoperability of their and T-MPLS. These three References ...............................23 latest solutions on a unique, large- compete to some extent — at scale platform. our test, they all proved being Standards – When fundamental issues are found well suited for the transport of Carrier Ethernet during the hot staging event EANTC reports the services. discoveries to the standard bodies. These in turn Service OAM support is becoming mandatory for update the standards. aggregation and CPE devices; the Ethernet EANTC started the preparation for the event by microwave market flourishes; mobile backhaul inviting interested vendors to weekly conference pushes support for backwards compatibility (ATM calls during which the technical and marketing goals pseudowires, circuit emulation) and new features for the event were discussed and agreed. The test (clock synchronization, IEEE 1588v2, E-Tree, among plan, created by EANTC based on the test topics others). suggested by the vendors, expanded on the This white paper summarizes in detail the experience gained from previous events and was monumental effort that the participating vendors and lined up with recent IEEE, IETF, ITU-T and MEF EANTC team underwent. Enjoy the read. standards. Participants and Devices PARTICIPANTS AND DEVICES Vendor Participating Devices Vendor Participating Devices Nortel Metro Ethernet Routing Switch (MERS) 8600 Actelis Networks ML658 RAD Data ACE-3205 ADVA Optical FSP 150CC-825 Communications ACE-3200 Networking ACE-3400 Alcatel-Lucent 1850 TSS-40 ASMi-54 5650 CPAM Egate-100 7450 ESS-6 ETX-202A 7705 SAR ETX-202A/MiRICi 7750 SR7 ETX-202A/MiTOP 9500 MPR IPMUX-216/24 LA-210 Calnex Solutions Paragon Sync OP-1551 RICi-16 Cambridge VectaStar RICi-155GE Broadband Networks Redback Networks — SmartEdge 400 Ceragon Networks 2 FibeAir IP-MAX an Ericsson Company FibeAir IP-10 Rohde & Schwarz SIT SITLine ETH Ciena LE-311v LE-3300 SIAE ALS MICROELETTRONICA ALFO Cisco Systems 7606 7604 Spirent Spirent TestCenter ME4500 Communications Catalyst 3750-ME Symmetricom TimeProvider 5000 PTP ME-3400-2CS Grand Master 3 ME-3400-12CS TimeCesium 4000 ECI Telecom SR9705 Tejas Networks TJ2030 Ericsson Marconi OMS 2400 Telco Systems — T5C-XG a BATM Company T5C-24F Foundry Networks NetIron XMR 8000 T5C-24G Harris Stratex Eclipse (Gigabit) Radio T-Marc-250 Networks T-Marc-254 T-Marc-340 Huawei Technologies NE5000E Cluster System T-Marc-380 NE40E-4 T-Metro-200 CX600-4 Tellabs 8830 Multiservice Router InfoVista VistaInsight for Networks Ixia XM2 IxNetwork Juniper Networks M10i MX240 Service Provider Test Plan Review MX480 The draft test plan was reviewed by a panel of global service providers in July this year. Their NEC Corporation CX2600 feedback and comments were reflected in the final PASOLINK NEO version of the test plan. EANTC and the partici- PASOLINK NEO TE pating vendors would like to thank: COLT, GVT Brazil, PT TELKOM Indonesia, T-Systems and Nokia Siemens hiD 6650 Metanoia Inc. Networks Flexi WCDMA BTS FlexiHybrid RACEL Carrier Ethernet World Congress 2008 Multi-Vendor Interoperability Test NETWORK DESIGN INTEROPERABILITY TEST RESULTS As in previous events we set off to construct a In the next sections of the white paper we describe network that would allow all participating vendors to the test areas and results of the interoperability establish end-to-end Ethernet services with any of the event. The document generally follows the structure other vendors. One of the central design consider- of the test plan. ations for the network was to enable any device Please note that we use the term »tested« when positioned in the access network to reach any other reporting on multi-vendor interoperability tests. The access network device regardless of the other term »demonstrated« refers to scenarios where a device’s point of attachment to the network. This service or protocol was terminated by equipment proved to be especially useful for such end-to-end from a single vendor on both ends. tests as Service OAM or Mobile Backhaul. The specifics of these tests can be found in the test case sections. ETHERNET SERVICE TYPES We also aimed to build a network that would look The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) has defined three familiar to service providers. It is perhaps unrealistic Ethernet service types in order to allow the industry to expect that service providers will incorporate all and specifically the customers interested in the current transport technologies into their network. services to have a common language to discuss such Nevertheless the familiar network domains are likely Ethernet based services. The three service types are to exist: access, aggregation, metro and core, defined in terms of the Ethernet Virtual Connection regardless of the chosen transport technology. It is (EVC) construct: realistic, however, to expect service providers to use MPLS in the core. • E-Line – Point-to-point EVC Looking at the network from a customer’s • E-LAN – Multipoint-to-multipoint EVC perspective, we used the following network areas: • E-Tree – Rooted-multipoint EVC • Access: The devices that normally exist at the While the E-Line service type provides a service to customer premise or by NodeBs or base stations exactly two customer sites, the E-LAN and E-Tree were positioned here. We were lucky to see a service types allow the connection of more than two diverse number of access technologies for trans- customer sites. In contrast to the E-LAN service type porting Ethernet such as microwave links, which allows an any-to-any connectivity between copper, and fiber. These devices implemented customer sites, E-Tree introduces two different roles 4 the UNI-C construct as defined by the MEF. for customer sites: leaf and root. An E-Tree service • Aggregation: The aggregation area of a network facilitates communication between leaves and roots, consisted of a variety of solutions meant to however, leaves can not communicate with each aggregate