GEANT Integrated management Xavier Martins-Rivas IP Manager, DANTE TNC - Maastricht 6 th June, 2013

2 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Agenda Background New Architecture The Tools Legacy tools set and Implementation A new set of tools Bandwidth on Demand: A new Implementation Conclusion

3 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Procurement A tender was launched in 2011 to replace the Alcatel equipment supporting the layer 1 and 2 of the GEANT Network TDM switches – 1676 MCC supporting GEANTPlus DWDM layer – 1626 LM supporting the transmission infrastructure and GEANTLambda Last year the results were announced, with the selection of Juniper and Infinera. Juniper MX Platform Infinera XTC Platform

4 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Procurement outcome: IP/MPLS: Juniper MX Platform DWDM: Infinera DTN-X

5 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Network Architecture FibreLeased circuits SDH DWDM IP “Routerless”“Fully featured”Off fibre net IP/MPLS only NREN POPs Circuits over GÉANT Leased circuits Leased circuits Circuits over GÉANT

6 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate RU GEANT Plus Coverage Fink KEY Dark Fibre Nx10G leased lambdas ROLVBG PL FR IE PT GR HU ES LU BE NLUKCZ HRSI DK DE IT CHAT SK FR IE PT GR HU ES LU BE NLUKCZ HRSI DK DE IT CHAT SK PL GEANT Plus was covering only 75% of the GEANT footprint the GEANT footprint GEANT Plus now offers full coverage giving access to GEANT Plus to giving access to GEANT Plus to ALL NRENs ALL NRENs LT This means: Bandwidth on Demand Available to everyone thanks to GEANT Plus EELTEE RO LV BG RU

The Tools

8 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Systems Integration Introduction Efficient and integrated systems management is key for the delivery of high quality network services. DANTE owns 5 main in-house developed systems. Configuration Management – OpsDB. Monitoring – Cacti and Dashboard. Reporting – Monthly Service Report (MSR). Service Provisioning – Bandwidth On Demand (BOD). Integrated with the vendor proprietary management systems. Junos Space / Network Activate – Juniper Digital Network Administrator – Infinera Capacity Planing OPNet - Riverbed

9 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Legacy implementation: OpsDB

10 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Legacy implementation: Dashboard

11 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Legacy implementation: Cacti

12 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Legacy implementation: Monthly Service Report (MSR)

13 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Legacy implementation: Bandwidth On Demand (BOD)

14 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Reporting Technology Proxy SDE NMS Legacy implementation: The Challenges GEANT Network Dashboard CACTI Ops DB In this configuration the Operations Database (OpsDB) is King. Manual data input can and will create data integrity issues. The different systems are statically linked with each other. Need a change of mind set!

A New Set of tools

16 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate A New Set of Tools: JunOS Space

17 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate A New Set of Tools: DNA

18 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Late last year DANTE selected OPNET to provide a capacity planning tool The tool will provide flow analysis bases on netflow v9 The tool will also allow us to maintain configuration by providing reports on configuration mismatch on the routers A New Set of Tools: OPNET

Bandwidth on Demand A new Implementation

20 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate AutoBahn multi-domain overview Developed by the ProjectDeveloped by the Domains

21 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Autobahn implementation in GEANT BoD Portal Autobahn instance IDM/DM cNIS Technology Proxy JunOS Space ce GEANT MPLS Core It is repository for data regarding the network topology which is loaded into Autobahn at startup 0

22 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Autobahn implementation in GEANT BoD Portal Autobahn instance IDM/DM cNIS Technology Proxy JunOS Space ce GEANT MPLS Core A request comes in thru the user’s interface to BoD 1

23 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Autobahn implementation in GEANT BoD Portal Autobahn instance IDM/DM cNIS Technology Proxy JunOS Space ce GEANT MPLS Core Translate SOAP requests received from the Autobahn DM into REST requests for JunOS Space APIs. It is also responsible for communicating with our tools The feasibility of the request is evaluated against the topology information acquired from cNIS. If accepted the request is then sent to the Technology Proxy.

24 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Autobahn implementation in GEANT BoD Portal Autobahn instance IDM/DM cNIS Technology Proxy JunOS Space ce GEANT MPLS Core Controls and configure the devices in the network. 45

25 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Autobahn implementation in GEANT BoD Portal Autobahn instance IDM/DM cNIS Technology Proxy JunOS Space ce GEANT MPLS Core 56 JunOS Space configures a Layer 2 circuit between the selected VLANs/Interfaces.

26 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate The Technology Proxy CACTI Ticket system OpsDB Technology Proxy JunOS Space

27 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Conclusion Reporting Dashboard DNA OPNet Technology Proxy JunosSpace CACTI SDE Ops DB Limited manual input and increased data validation. RESTful APIs give greater flexibility the Network is King.

28 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate | | Connect | Communicate | Collaborate Thank you!