Pseudowire Edge to Edge Emulation

FROM THE SERVICE PROVIDER POINT OF VIEW

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Drivers For PWE3/L2TPv3 (1) Adding to the product portfolio a service

that emulates “circuit-like” connections over a single or multiple (inter-AS) IP networks for Point-To-Point circuits or Point-To-Multipoint circuits

Having a performing and flexible toolbox for building customized solutions in the case of conflicting routing policies requirements:

open versus closed peering networksregional/national vs. hosting vs.

international transit backbone policies

Drivers For PWE3/L2TPv3 (2) Interconnecting at high-speed physically

disjoint network parts by building a “network based overlay” architecture.

Provide a mean for interconnecting Ethernet networks transparently.

Service Provider Requirements Transparency

No change to the routing architectureNo new IP protocol implementation

Run over “plain” IP High-speed capable

from T1/E1/E3/T3 to OC48 High performance

Hardware assisted (server card) for high BW

FlexibleIn terms of payload capability:Layer 2: PPP ,HDLC ,FR ,ATM ,ETHERNET

Service Provider Requirements Easy and quick service provisioning Secure

Solution: Simple Security with Tunnel ID/Key vs. IPSec capable

Scalable need for automatically/auto-magically

tunnels setup Minimum overhead

Tunnel Header: 4-12 bytes Takes benefit of the statistical

multiplexing of the IP networks

Services Overview – IP VLL (1) Service 1: IP Virtual Leased Line

Emulation of HDLC, PPP, FR, ATM, Ethernet End-to-End interconnectivityTransport of Layer 2 packets End-to-End

Point-To-PointSingle Virtual Leased Line/physical

interface One-to-One mapping: 1 tunnel bound to

the interface

Services Overview – IP VLL (2)

Services Overview – IP VLL (3) Examples:Lan To Lan (L2L) interconnection aka.

Transparent Lan Service (TLS)Replacement of clear channel SDH Finer granularity in bandwidth

(combined with existing IP rate-limiting tools)

Interconnection of 2 disjoint networks at high-speed

Layer 2 backhaul to a remote location

Virtual presence at IX (no need for expensive LL)

Services overview–IP MVLL (1) Point-To-Multipoint

Multiple Virtual Leased Lines/physical interface

Multiple tunnels with DLCI/802.1Q/[VPI/VCI] mapping to the corresponding sub-interface on the single physical interconnection

Services overview–IP MVLL (2)

Services overview–IP MVLL (3) L2 PPVPN (Provider Provisioned Virtual

Private Network).

Different topologies:

Hub-and-Spoke,Partial/Fully Mesh

Single Interconnection/site

Customer manage Routing and QoS

Tunnels provisioned by the Provider:

“Network based tunneling”

Services overview–IP MVLL (4)

Services overview–IP MVLL (5) Overlay network

Goal: The network D in the middle does not need to know about the routing in the other disjoint networks and has a different BGP/routing policy (more restricted for instance)

To scale one transit backbone Superset and subset of routes

Open versus closed peering policyClosed User Group (GRX )Distributed IX

Services overview–IP MVLL (6)

Services overview–IP MVLL (7) Premium Service

Goal: bundle different services on a single interface.

Examples:

a) Transit connectivity + multiple direct connectivity to regional peering

b) L2PPVPN + Internet Break-out + Managed Hosting/Housing Services

Services overview–IP MVLL (8)

Other Services (1) Metro TLS (Transparent LAN Services)

Interconnection of LANs in the Metro Area

Break-out to remote MANs, Internet, CUG (intranet/extranet), etc.

Other Services (2)

Other Services (3) Multi-services devices:

On same the router, connect: L2 PPVPN customers L2 Backhaul service IP transit Inter-Connectivity to different networks

(regional/national) with different routing policies

Premium service with different QoS requirements

VLAN rewriting/stripping

VLAN rewriting/stripping

Future (1) Control plane for the forwarding plane Enhanced security Automatically tunnel setup L2/L3 (dissimilar endpoints framing) L3/L3 (similar to GRE)Tips: MTU at endpoint interconnections < Maximum core

MTU – (20 bytes for IP Header) – 4 to 12 bytes for Tunnel Header (in today’s implementation -> no support for fragmentation)

ISIS hello padding disable it or set correct MTU at the edge

Conclusion:

PWE3/L2TPv3 is a high performance transparent encapsulation protocol optimized for the encapsulation of one protocol (L2&L3)over IP. No change to the network is required (runs over IPv4).

Conclusion

PWE3/L2TPv3 is a high performance

transparent encapsulation protocol optimized for the encapsulation of one protocol (L2&L3)over IP. No change to the network is required (runs over IPv4).