SURPASS hiD 6600 Enhanced QoS Solution

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Agenda

Introduction SLA service attributes SURPASS Carrier Ethernet QoS solution Upstream mechanism Downstream mechanism SURPASS hiD traffic management capabilities Summary

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Introduction Quality of Service (QoS) implies the ability to differentiate between traffic streams and to define a level of performance for those traffic streams across network. When does QoS become a challenge? When moving from a "network per-service" model to a converged network model with multiple services over a single network. When moving to real-time or mission-critical services such as video streams or IP-telephony.

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The Carrier Network is the basis of all new services

One network
For > 9 services per customer
High Speed Internet OAM
(Operation, Administration Maintenance)

Business VPN services

Business internet services
Real time applications

Games / E-Learning
hiD 6670

Mobile
hiD 6630 hiX 5635 hiD 6650

VoD IPTV Voice

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How can all services live on the same network? Powerful QoS mechanism with:
- Service differentiation
- Priority up to the individual service level - Classification and traffic conditioning - Scheduling algorithms - Congestion avoidance - Rate limiting & shaping

Service providers use QoS to gain more money from the network and need QoS to offer, monitor and enforce Service Level Agreements (SLA).

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SLA Service Attributes

SLA =

Bandwidth Profile Performance guarantee

CIR/EIR/CBS/EBS
*CBS/EBS Committed/Excess Burst Size *CIR/EIR Committed/Excess Information Rate

Service Performance
Frame Delay Frame Jitter Frame Loss

Voice Business services Low delay and jitter Guaranteed bandwidth Low packet loss Low packet loss Sub-second protection 50ms protection Video HS Internet Low delay and jitter Guaranteed bandwidth Low packet loss Best Effort for excess High bandwidth per subscriber bandwidth Sub-second protection
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SURPASS Carrier Ethernet QoS Solution Upstream mechanisms Traffic from the customer towards the network:
Classification, marking, shaping and policing Egress hierarchical shaping (for SP) Congestion avoidance Priority queuing Scheduling

Connection Admission Control (CAC)

Upstream

Carrier Network

Downstream
Downstream mechanisms - Traffic from the network towards the customer:
Hierarchical shaping
Rate limiting
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Traffic shaping Priority queuing: per port, user, individual service

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Upstream Ingress Bandwidth Profiles

Ingress Bandwidth Profiles:
Per Ingress UNI Per EVC (Ethernet Virtual Circuit) Per CoS (Class of service) ID
EVC1

EVC1
Ingress Bandwidth Profile Per Ingress UNI

Ingress Bandwidth Profile Per EVC1 Ingress Bandwidth Profile Per EVC2

UNI

EVC2 EVC3

UNI

EVC2 EVC3

Ingress Bandwidth Profile Per EVC3

CE-VLAN CoS 6

Ingress Bandwidth Profile Per CoS ID 6 Ingress Bandwidth Profile Per CoS ID 4 Ingress Bandwidth Profile Per CoS ID 2

UNI

EVC1

CE-VLAN CoS 4 CE-VLAN CoS 2

EVC2

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Upstream Bandwidth Profile SLA Color aware

CIR (Committed Information Rate) Minimum BW guaranteed for an Ethernet service.
Policing is enforcement of CIR Zero CIR means Best effort (no BW is guaranteed) Traffic above the CIR is marked or colored

CIR Conformant Traffic CIR

EIR (Exceeded Information Rate) Service frames colored yellow may be delivered but with no performance commitment.

EIR Conformant Traffic CIR

PIR (Peak Information Rate) Maximum rate at which packets are allowed to be forwarded. No traffic
PIR = CIR + EIR (greater or equal to the CIR) Service frames exceeding PIR are red packets and are unconditionally dropped

Traffic PIR

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Upstream Classification and Traffic conditioning

Classifier identifies groups of packets to receive a specific service and carries information about traffic class
Traffic conditioning defines the service eligibility and marks the drop precedence
traffic class A Low Drop Precedence Marker & Filter High Drop Precedence

Classifier User traffic User flow classification ingress port

traffic class B

L2 802.1q VLAN tag L2 Src/Dst MAC or Ether type L2 802.1p bits L3 TOS/DSCP bits L3 IP Source/Dst address/subnet

traffic class C

Traffic Conditioning Mechanism Meter Marker Dropper

Dropping

Both classifying and marking are performed at the Ingress port.

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Upstream Ingress Policer

Policing purposes SLA enforcement; Policer restricts some traffic to ensure subscribers don't send traffic beyond their subscribed rate Protect the carrier Network Policing per classified flow (e.g. Port, Port+VLAN, Port+VLAN+TC etc.)
Package: HSI 5Mb VPN 4 Mb IPTV 8 Mb Voice 128Kb

Ingress VPN - 4Mb HSI 8Mb

Egress VPN - 4Mb HSI 5Mb

HSI 8 Mb HSI 4Mb

ISPs

VPN 4Mb

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Upstream Policing - Dual Token bucket

Dual rate token bucket with a programmable CIR and PIR, as well as CBS and MBS. The meter may also be color-aware, to take the previous marking of the packet into the metering process.
Confirmed rate tokens entering @ PIR per second Confirmed rate tokens entering @ CIR per second Outgoing Frames at a regular rate with controlled burst Incoming Frames Peak Rate Bucket
Conforming Frames

Committed Rate Bucket

Violating Frames
Bucket size according to MBS
Exceeding Frames

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Dropped

Bucket size according to CBS

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Upstream Ingress scheduling & Queuing Scheduling: Choosing which queue to serve in each packet transmission.
Switch
fabric 1G One scheduler per egress port

1G 1G

Eight queues per scheduler

managed by the fabric adaptor

1G

1G 1G Voice VOD IPTV HSI

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The scheduler send credits to the queues assigned to it by using two scheduling algorithms

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Upstream Scheduling - Algorithms

Strict Priority Queuing Queues are processed in descending order (highest to lowest). Queues assigned as high priority are serviced until they empty. Low priority queues potentially can be starved, in order to avoid it, high priority traffic should be kept small.
Weighted Fair Queuing WFQ applies a "weight" to a queue that indicates the importance of the queue in relation to the available resources. The weight is used to ensure that more important queues get serviced more often than other less important queues.

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WRED - Congestion Avoidance

Congestion avoidance mechanism to ensure higher-priority traffic gets through, in case of the buffer becoming full.

WRED (Weighted Random Early Detection) Extension to RED that allows discrimination between different traffic classes.
Drop packets randomly whenever a buffer becomes mildly congested Drop low priority frames first, according to drop precedence Gives precedence to new packets.
high priority frames threshold Drop low priority frames first low priority frames threshold

DA

SA

FCS

Incoming frames

Queue per egress, per CoS

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SURPASS hiD 6600 QoS Packages Diffserv Mode

*10% *30% *24% *18%

*2%
*12% *4%
*Default configuration *EF/AF = Expedited/Assured Forwarding

Multi-field classification Policing and shaping according to the customers CIR/EIR/ CBR/EBS Discarded according to WRED mechanism. Drop precedence is supported (Low + High DP).
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SURPASS hiD 6600 QoS Packages Enhanced Mode

*8%

*10% *10% *14% *24% *20% *2%

*8% *4%
*Default configuration *GBW = Guaranteed Bandwidth

Diffserv mode functionality Special mode for E-Line services with guaranteed BW end to end

Connection Admission Control (CAC)

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Upstream Process Summary

Understanding each element part in the QoS flow
Hierarchical Packet shaping Processors Fabric Adaptor Packet Fabric Packet Processors Processors Adaptor Hierarchical shaping

Fabric Module

Ingress port
VLAN manipulation Classification Policing L2 Process Multicast: Card Duplication Hierarchical Packet Packet Processors shaping Processors Fabric Adaptor Packet switching Queuing WRED Priority queuing per Port/VLAN/Service to the Service provider Controller Fabric Adaptor

Packet Processors

Hierarchical shaping

Egress port
Queue Scheduling Multicast: Port Duplication VLAN Manipulation Rate Limiting Page 18 May 2006
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Downstream mechanism
Understanding each element part in the QoS flow
Hierarchical Packet shaping Processors Fabric Adaptor Fabric Module Packet Fabric Packet Processors Processors Adaptor Hierarchical shaping

Egress port
Per port, VLAN, Service: Rate limiting Shaping Queuing Scheduling WRED Hierarchical Packet Packet Processors shaping Processors Fabric Adaptor Packet switching Controller Fabric Adaptor

Ingress port

Packet Processors

Hierarchical shaping

Egress port

Queue Scheduling

Ingress port

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QoS per subscriber from the first aggregation level

Why do we need it ? Multiple vendors and technologies at the access different capabilities of QoS No ability to differentiate between services of the same service provider. Reduce the costs of the VDSL / ADSL2+ equipment Simple DSLAM Maintain knowledge of different access vendors equipment. Use the existing access device and provide enhanced QoS per individual service.

SIEMENS Solution with SURPASS hiD 6600: - Additional daughter card for the relevant LICs. - Manage QoS from the SURPASS hiD 6600 per: - Port, Customer EVC, Customer service. - Port, Service provider VLAN / Service

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Downstream Bandwidth Profiles

Per Port
Egress Bandwidth Profile Per Egress UNI

Done in the 1st aggregation toward the DSLAM.

UNI

Performing user level scheduling. Providing a different queue for each service per user.

EVC1 EVC2 EVC3

Per EVC

UNI

Egress bandwidth profile per EVC. Different profile for each EVC.

Elastic data can use the unused capacity for other services. Per service

CE-VLAN CoS 6 CE-VLAN CoS 4 CE-VLAN CoS 2

EVC1

Egress bandwidth profile per CoS.

UNI
EVC2

Mapping each service to the suitable CoS bits. Hard QoS for the EVC services.

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Hierarchical Shaping Example

500 Mbps per Business Customer

Port

AND
100 Mbps Finance Department 100 Mbps Sales Department 300 Mbps R&D Department
VLAN1 VLAN2 VLAN3

Port

AND
35 Mbps VPN 20 Mbps Video Conference 45 Mbps Internet
Service 1 Service 2 Service 3

VLAN1

Port
VLAN2

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Enhanced QoS per subscriber from the first aggregation layer

TC 6

Skymax IPTV VLAN 100

Access agnostic QoS policy per subscriber

VoIP

TC 5

IP/MPLS
Video hiD 6600 hiD 6600

TC 7

Voice
TC 0

hiD 6600

ISPs

Data

ASPs
Video Servers

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Hierarchical Scheduling Example

Residential customer
*TV Unicast TV Multicast VoIP Bearer Individual Service

WFQ
WFQ

VoD Data Premium Voip control Data - Elastic

OAM & Management

*Used for Microsoft TV application

Up to 16 traffic class per subscriber.

Discarded according to WRED mechanism. Rate limiting according to single leaky bucket mechanism. Hierarchical scheduling functionality can be use in PNI ports also.
PNI = Provider network interface

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Practical Example For Business Customer - Downstream

30 Mb

PIR

Business Package:
30Mbps PIR 15Mbps CIR 15Mbps EIR
Recognize the service according to DSCP/TOS/IP and prioritize it. 20 Mb 10 Mb

EIR

CIR
0 Mb

VLAN 200 Video Conf. hiD 6600 hiD 6600

Voice

Data / VPN

hiD 6600

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Summary

Introduction SLA service attributes SURPASS Carrier Ethernet QoS solution Upstream mechanism Downstream mechanism SURPASS hiD traffic management capabilities Summary

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