www.infovista.com Carrier Ethernet Services: Drivers for Wireline and Wireless Service Providers Pennsylvania Telephone Association 25 April 2012 Michael Fox Senior Director, CLEC and Braodband Sales North America Copyright 2011 InfoVista S.A. All rights reserved.
Global Expansion from Metro to Carrier Ethernet The Beginning: Metro Ethernet The MEF was formed in 2001 to develop ubiquitous business services for Enterprise users principally accessed over optical metropolitan networks to connect their Enterprise LANs Expansion to Carrier Ethernet The success of Metro Ethernet Services caught the imagination of the world as the concept expanded to include Worldwide services traversing national and global networks Access networks to provide availability to a much wider class of user over fiber, copper, cable, PON, and wireless Economy of scale from the resulting converged business, residential and wireless networks sharing the same infrastructure and services Scalability & rapid deployment of business applications Adoption of the certification program While retaining the cost model and simplicity of Ethernet 2
Carrier Ethernet Defined for Service Providers: A set of certified network elements that connect to transport Carrier Ethernet services for all users, locally & worldwide Carrier Ethernet services are carried over physical Ethernet networks and other legacy transport technologies for Business Users: A ubiquitous, standardized, carrier-class Service and Network defined by five attributes that distinguish it from familiar LAN based Ethernet 3
The 5 Attributes Carrier Ethernet (1) Attribute 1: Standardized Services E-Line, E-LAN provide transparent, private line, virtual private line and multi-point to multi-point LAN services. A ubiquitous service providing globally & locally via standardized equipment Requires no changes to customer LAN equipment or networks and accommodates existing network connectivity such as, time-sensitive, TDM traffic and signaling Ideally suited to converged voice, video & data networks Wide choice and granularity of bandwidth and quality of service options 4
The 5 Attributes Carrier Ethernet (2) Attribute 2: Scalability The ability for millions to use a network service that is ideal for the widest variety of business, information, communications and entertainment applications with voice, video and data Spans Access & Metro to National & Global Services over a wide variety of physical infrastructures implemented by a wide range of Service Providers Scalability of bandwidth from 1Mbps to 10Gbps and beyond, in granular increments 5
The 5 Attributes Carrier Ethernet (3) Attribute 3: Reliability The ability for the network to detect & recover from incidents without impacting users Meeting the most demanding quality and availability requirements Rapid recovery time when problems do occur, as low as 50ms 6
The 5 Attributes Carrier Ethernet (4) Attribute 4: Quality of Service Wide choice and granularity of bandwidth and quality of service options Service Level Agreements (SLAs) that deliver end-to-end performance matching the requirements for voice, video and data over converged business and residential networks Provisioning via SLAs that provide end-to-end performance based on CIR, frame loss, delay and delay variation characteristics 7
The 5 Attributes Carrier Ethernet (5) Attribute 5: Service Management The ability to monitor, diagnose and centrally manage the network, using standards-based vendor independent implementations Carrier-class OAM Rapid service provisioning 8
Carrier Ethernet Terminology UNI (User-to-Network Interface) Physical interface/demarcation between service provider and subscriber Service start/end point Ethernet Virtual Connection (EVC) An association of two or more UNIs Three types of EVC Point-to-Point Multipoint-to-Multipoint Rooted Multipoint (Point-to-Multipoint) EVCs and Services In a Carrier Ethernet network, data is transported across Point-to-Point, Point-to-Multipoint and Multipoint-to-Multipoint EVCs according to the attributes and definitions of the E-Line and E-LAN services NNI (Network-to-Network Interface) Demarcation/peering point Between service providers (ENNI) Between service provider internal networks (I-NNI) 9
Carrier Ethernet Service Types Features Low latency Predictable QoS 1 mbps to 10 gbps Standardized Reliable Manageable Optimal Line Usage Low cost E-Line Service Type for Virtual Private Lines (EVPL) Ethernet Private Lines (EPL) Ethernet Internet Access E-LAN Service Type for Multipoint L2 VPNs Transparent LAN Service Multicast networks E-Tree Service Type for Rooted multi-point L2 VPNs Broadcast networks Telemetry networks UNI E- Access Service Type* for Wholesale Access Services Access EPL Access EVPL UNI UNI UNI Carrier Ethernet Service Provider UNI ENNI UNI UNI UNI Point-to-Point EVC UNI Point-to-Point EVC Multi-point to Multi-point EVC Rooted Multipoint EVC Carrier Ethernet Access Network UNI * Technical Specifications targeted for completion 2011. All specifications subject to change until approved. 10
Worldwide Business Ethernet Services Worldwide revenue for Business Ethernet Services Increases steadily to $47 billion by 2015. Enterprise Ethernet Services demand is projected for the next four years, with doubledigit annual growth across all geographic regional markets: Asia/Pacific, EMEA and North America Service providers committed to Ethernet as the ubiquitous standard for network service connectivity. Ethernet equipment vendors actively enabling this mportant transition. Enterprise Ethernet service revenue $ billions $50 $40 $30 $20 $10 $0 Most likely Optimistic Pessimistic Source: Ovum 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 11
Ethernet Business Services Principal Applications Site-to-site access, server consolidation, business continuity/disaster recovery, Enterprise-class cloud-based applications, Internet access, distributed imaging, distributed storage area networks, VoIP, streamed/interactive video, L2-VPNs, virtualization Top Market Sectors Finance, Healthcare, Education, Government, IT, Retail, Real Estate, Legal, Media, etc Benefits Scalability, control, reliability, performance, data center & server consolidation, expedites and enables new applications Cost reduction, revenue acceleration 12
Carrier Ethernet for Mobile Backhaul Carrier Ethernet Economically meets exploding bandwidth requirements currently constrained by the prohibitive costs of legacy networks New wholesale business opportunities for wire-line providers Leverages rapid move to Carrier Ethernet for wire-line traffic enabling a single integrated wire-line and mobile backhaul network A necessity for 4G/ LTE technology Most mobile traffic is broadband/ip centric Carrier Ethernet is optimized for packet data traffic Overcomes TDM (T1/E1) services scalability This alone makes Carrier Ethernet the compelling choice Time/urgency Carrier Ethernet removes the barrier to timely progress 13
Management A Critical Component Service Management is a critical component MEF covers provisioning, fault & performance monitoring and management at per EVC and CoS level Augments OAM standards from IEEE(5), ITU(4), IETF(2),and TMF(2) with 9 MEF OAM specifications Interconnect Service OAM Fault & performance sectionalization are mandated to isolate issues, ensure SLA compliance, provide visibility end-to-end to many parties MEF OAM provides systematic approach to scenarios such as this: Buying Providers On-Net Network Carrier Ethernet Exchange Long Haul Provider Service Provider (Access) Enterprise HQ UNI ENNI ENNI ENNI UNI branch end-user 14
50 Certified Providers Worldwide MERICA 15
Supported By 77 Certified Vendors MEF Certification Lab 750+ Certified Systems April 2011 16
Who are Ethernet services customers?
A global financial services provider
Jan We don t mind how you do it but it's got to be fast; we measure in nano-seconds and need worldwide consistency Image source: ing.com Copyright 2012 InfoVista S.A. All rights reserved. 19
A health & medical services vendor
it's about cost effective, high bandwidth. Not just in the metro... rural populations need access too John Image source: Businessweek.com Copyright 2012 InfoVista S.A. All rights reserved. 21
The Carrier Ethernet Gold Rush Carrier Ethernet Retail Services 2012 Forecast $34B Copyright 2012 InfoVista S.A. All rights reserved. 22
A global Communications service provider
Randall We need to be where our customers are performance is our No.1 driver Image Source: Washingtonpost.com Copyright 2012 InfoVista S.A. All rights reserved. 24
The Carrier Ethernet Gold Rush Carrier Ethernet Wholesale Services 2012 Forecast $18.5B Copyright 2012 InfoVista S.A. All rights reserved. 25
A wireless operator
Vittorio 130 exabytes *?! Yes I need bandwidth but I need smart BW with multiple CoS, and time is critical *Cisco VNI Mobile Forecast, 2011-2016 Image Source: Bloomberg.com Copyright 2012 InfoVista S.A. All rights reserved. 27
Data Traffic Explosion! Copyright 2010 InfoVista S.A. All rights reserved. 28
Carrier Ethernet service management: the back-office of the service provider
1. Visibility across 3 dimensions of a service Copyright 2012 InfoVista S.A. All rights reserved. 30
How do you achieve this visibility? Switch- Router? NIDs? 1-way, 2-way? NE Poll? EMS? Test Probes? Copyright 2012 InfoVista S.A. All rights reserved. 31
2. Ensuring your flexibility gives you choices Switch- Router? NIDs? Service Quality Visualization Either; based on Cost/Revenue 2-way for SMB 1-way for FDS Service/Customer specific Normalized Tailored drill-downs 1-way, 2-way? NE Poll? EMS? Test Probes? Copyright 2012 InfoVista S.A. All rights reserved. 32
Does visibility + choices + service model = Performance Assured Ethernet (?) My customers are happy now aren t they? SLA = Happiness Copyright 2012 InfoVista S.A. All rights reserved. 34
Priorities for assuring Ethernet? 54% Choosing the Right Strategies for Delivering High-Value, SLA-Backed Ethernet Services to Your Business Customers, March 21, 2012 Copyright 2012 InfoVista S.A. All rights reserved. 35
What are the performance and management Requirements for 4G / LTE Mobile Backhaul? Past Present Future Mbps per Cell 1-10 50-100 300+ Service Visibility Circuit-level Traffic type User-Equipment SLA Availability QoS CoS-based QoS Timeslot Granularity 15-60 min 5-15 min 1 min - 1 sec Reporting Detail Availability Performance Service-Aligned Key Performance Metric reporting by traffic type / user / service level in Real-Time is rapidly becoming table stakes in Mobile Backhaul operations Copyright 2012 InfoVista S.A. All rights reserved. 36
InfoVista for Mobile Service Performance Assurance across the All-IP Mobile Network Data Center/IT Application servers, appliances, security, hosting IP Transport IP/MPLS network engineering Mobile Packet Core Multi-vendor MME, xgsn and xgw management IP Backhaul Carrier Ethernet, cell-site remote reach, E2E quality, circuit emulation Radio Network LTE, 3G+, 3G, 2.5G, cell planning & engineering E2E Mobile Service Quality Assurance from Data Center to Cell Tower High Valuable Accounts Data Center GGSN Gn Path SGSN Content Providers VAS MVNO IP/MPLS Transport Ethernet Backhaul Node B Hosted VAS Internal Portal PSTN/ ISDN VLR PLMN MSC / Call Server Leased Line Backhaul Voice Network MSC, Call Server, HLR, VLR, SMSC, Voice Switching to PSTN & Internet HLR MGW BTS Copyright 2011 InfoVista S.A. All rights reserved. 37
Cell-site Traffic Assurance How to assure Cell-site traffic carried over a Carrier Ethernet powered Backhaul? ONE PLATFORM That allows you to monitor and troubleshoot connectivity in real-time Copyright 2010 InfoVista S.A. All rights reserved. 38
E2E Quality of Service Assurance How to guarantee an equivalent E2E service quality? ONE PLATFORM That allows you to monitor and troubleshoot quality of service in real-time Targets E2E reports on as with that helps to Pseudowires (VPLS & VPWS) IP-SLAs Ethernet OAM Frame Statistics: Busy, Out of Sync.. Drill down capable reports Per Cell-site and link granularity Reduce CHURN risks associated with QoS VLANs, EVCs & Interfaces MPLS Tunnels LSPs Reachability One Way & Frames Delay Packet Loss & Jitter Response Time % Frames Lost MOS Real Time 5 sec Charts KPI Based reports An intelligent Alerting engine Off the shelf Multivendor Support Understand suitability for offering voice and streaming services Improve Operational Efficiency with an Unified View Copyright 2010 InfoVista S.A. All rights reserved. 39
Capacity and QoE Monitoring How to identify BH bottlenecks and evaluate its current and future impact on QoE? ONE PLATFORM That allows you to monitor current and forecasted traffic loads and performance targets reports on as with that helps to Pseudo wires Utilization Hourly Baselines Hourly to Yearly Reports Per Cell-site and link granularity Predict and identify BH bottlenecks Interfaces Devices 95th percentile 3 month Forecasts Trending and Baseline Reports An intelligent Alerting engine Support accurate network planning CoS Queues... Traffic Volumes IN/OUT Dropped Packets... Drill down capable reports Off the shelf Multivendor Support Prioritize maintenance and expansion projects Copyright 2010 InfoVista S.A. All rights reserved. 40
E.g. Wireless Operator wholesale service customer Addressing not just what they need, but what they want They visualize the service their way And can see the performance %CIR on X2 1-way delay Wireless operator easily accesses their wholesale services NID availability Copyright 2012 InfoVista S.A. All rights reserved. 41
U.S Backhaul Market March 2012 (Total Cell Sites 320,000) Wholesale Ethernet - Tier 2s, 36,000,000 Wholesale Ethernet Tier 3s, 23,000 Wholesale Ethernet Tier 1s, 42,500 TDM-only, 193,500 Ethernet - Self Built by Wireless operators (including Clearwire), 25,000 Total number of cell sites in live service with Ethernet backhaul estimated at 126,500 as of as of March 2012 Copyright 2012 InfoVista S.A. All rights reserved. 42
Gaining from LTE and Backhaul momentum Existing Mobile Operator Customers Customers that have recently chosen InfoVista to help them grow their backhaul in the coming 3 years by controlling network capacity while proactively ensure end user quality of experience Tunisiana Maroc Telecom Telkom SA Cellcom US Cellular Telcel SFR Optus CenturyLink Fairpoint XO Copyright 2010 InfoVista S.A. All rights reserved. 43
Summary For retail and wholesale customers who want scalable and reliable bandwidth from 1Mb to 10Gb an affordable and flexible pay-as-you-grow service with standardized support from carriers around the world and end-to-end reporting and service management Carrier Ethernet may be the right solution! Copyright 2010 InfoVista S.A. All rights reserved. 44
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