RPR Over SDH/SONET Protection Interaction

S. Jose IEEE 802.17 Meeting Sept 2001 Vittorio Mascolo Alcatel

Table of Contents

q Introduction
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Scope of the presentation

q RPR ring over deployed Metro SDH/SONET Fibre Ring . q Conclusion

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Introduction

q There are a lot of already deployed Metro SDH/SONET Fibre Rings. Analyze some scenarios to figure out how RPR resiliency capability could interact with deployed SDH/SONET ring protection systems. q Single ring scenario.
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RPR deployed over unprotected trail (like Virtual ring built over a meshed netw.). SDH/SONET ring with full RPR traffic. SDH/SONET ring with mix of RPR and SDH traffic.

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Scope of the presentation

q Define an HOLD-OFF-TIME requirement to allow easy interoperability between RPR resiliency capability and SDH/SONET systems when a failure ring occurs.

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RPR over deployed SDH/SONET Metro Fibre Ring

q An RPR ring can be built over a deployed Metro SDH/SONET Fibre Ring. The RPR boxes connect themselves through the physical path SDH/SONET connections . q RPR uses one VC4 or VC4-xc, VC4-xv (STS-3c or STS-12c SPEs) in the working channels . Each VC4 (SPE) is protected by another VC4 (SPE) belonging to the protection channel. q Two possible scenario from the behaviour point of view.
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RPR deployed over unprotected trail or the whole ring carries RPR traffic only (same behaviour). both RPR and Sdh/Sonet traffic are involved on the same ring.

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RPR over unprotected trail or full RPR traffic scenario

RPR Box

RPR Resiliency needed only RPR virtual ring

Sonet/SDH

Sonet/SDH

RPR traffic

Metro SDH/SONET Fibre Ring

Sonet/SDH Sonet/SDH

RPR Box
Sonet/SDH

RPR Box

RPR Box
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RPR over unprotected trail or full RPR traffic scenario q RPR resiliency is the suitable solution (SDH/SONET ring protection disabled). q RPR must grant the maximum level of protection:
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Switch in case of SF (Signal Fail). Switch in case of SD (Signal Degrade, optional) Hold-off timer is NOT needed (RPR must provide fast protection). Wait Time to Restore (WTR) timer is needed (to avoid problems with fast trilling alarms).

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Mixed RPR and SDH/SONET traffic - scenario

RPR Box

TDM Customer How to protect Both traffic ?

RPR virtual ring SDH traffic

Sonet/SDH Sonet/SDH

RPR traffic

Metro SDH/SONET Fibre Ring

Sonet/SDH Sonet/SDH

RPR Box
Sonet/SDH

RPR Box

RPR Box
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Mixed RPR and SDH/SONET traffic - scenario

q The RPR resiliency and Sdh/Sonet ring protection must interoperate, but not work together ! q The SDH/SONET shared ring reacts at Multiplex Section Level using the protection channel (ITU-T G.841). q If RPR Resiliency manages a properly set Hold-off time no MAC protection is required and link stays UP, unless failure is again present when Hold Off Time expires. q Both the RPR and SDH traffic are kept alive by means of the SDH/SONET ring switching.

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Conclusion

q For the most type of failures that affect the ring, RPR and SDH traffic, when they coexist, can be saved by SDH/SONET ring protection capability. q RPR MAC should support hold-off time and signal detection (SF, SD optional) in order to use some facilities of the SDH/SONET Shared Protected Ring. q RPR MAC should support Wait-torestore timer.

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