ASON/GMPLS:

Development and Deployment

Young Lee
Huawei, USA

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Outline
ASON/GMPLS overview
Huawei Product Development

Worldwide Network Deployment

Standard Status & Roadmap/Vision

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Migration to Broadband Transport Network (BTN)

Internet

Broadband Subscribers (M)

Narrowband Telephony Service

Broadband IP/Video Service

xDSL

600

33%CAGR

FTTx~
400

18%CAGR

200

IPTV

Sourceovum RHK
2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

Video phone

2010

(Thousands)
Cable TV

Leased line/ATM/Frame

15,000

-3%CAGR

1500

23%CAGR

10,000

FR,DDN,E1 Leased Line

1000
Ethernet ports in service

5,000

500

Sourceovum RHK
2005

TDM

IP
ATM

SDH
WDM

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Incremental 10G per core ring

Narrowband transport network

Mobile TV

Triple-play

2006

2007

2008

2009

Ethernet and Storage Private line

2010

Broadband transport network

30

High traffic Scenario

Low traffic scenario

30

20
10

2006

Source
ovum RHK

2007

2008

IP/MPLS

10
2009

2010

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GMPLS OTN/WDM

2011

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Evolving Point-to-Point WDM to Switched WDM/OTN

PtP
WDM
PtP WDM
OEO
OEO
OEO
OEO
OEO
OEO
OEO
OEO

NMS

Dustbin

NMS
Fiber Cables

PtP WDM

SDH XC
( OCS)

PtP WDM

SDH XC(OCS or DXC) required for protection & grooming

OEO
OEO
OEO
OEO
OEO
OEO
OEO
OEO

Complex Network Administration and High OPEX

Fiber Cables

Fiber Cables

OEO
OEO
OEO
OEO
OEO
OEO
OEO
OEO

Point-to-Point WDM, Manual back-to-back OEO interconnect

Need several weeks or even months for time to market

Switched WDM/OTN
Photonic cross connect

ROAD
M

Automated end-to-end wavelength and sub wavelength provisioning

NMS

Minimize OEO conversion and cost

No need for additional OCS (cross-connect)
Significant CAPEX and OPEX reduction

ODU
XC
Matrix
Electrical layer switching

Mesh network working better

with GMPLS control plane
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ASON/GMPLS Market Milestone

Private protocol

Standard protocol

ASON mature
Large scale deploy
(>5000 nodes)

KICK OFF
WSS, ROADM

Small scale deploy

(>500 nodes)
To
Middle scale deploy
(>2000 nodes)

Large scale deploy

STUDY

OTN XC

KICK OFF
(>100 nodes)

Small scale deploy

to
Middle scale deploy

STUDY

KICK OFF
PTN XC

PTN ASON

STUDY

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UNIFY GMPLS CONTROL PLANE

SDH ASON WDM ASON OTN ASON

Small scale deploy

(>500 nodes)
To
Middle scale deploy
(>2000 nodes)

KICK OFF

Interworking

Small Scale deploy

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ASON/GMPLS Evolution
Network
Planning

Topology

Multi layer
planning
Online
Multi
Failure

UNI

VCx /ODUk
/Packet

Multi layer
Multi domain

Offline
Multi
Failure
Offline
Single
Failure

Multi domain
Planning Tools

MESH
RING
CP

Manually

POINT TO POINT
Centralize
Control Plane

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CP

Distribute Control Plane

+ Offline Network Planning

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CP

CP

Distribute Control Plane

+ Online Network Planning

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Control
Module

ASON / GMPLS Architecture

NMS

MP
(Manage Plane)

Network Management Interface

OCC

CP

ASON: Automatic Switched Optical

Network, Requirements defined by ITU-T.
GMPLS: Generalized Multi-Protocol Label
Switching, A series protocols (LMP, RSVPTE, OSPF) defined by IETF.

NMI

NMI

OCC

(Control Plane)
UNI control

OCC

OCC

NNI

OCC

ASON/GMPLS Introduces control plane to

ON.
Its the first time to adopt dynamic
switching function.
Distributed control plane is the trend.

E-NNI

Connection Control Interface

CCI

CCI

TP

NE

NE

(Transport Plane)
NE

NE

The purpose of the control plane is to:

NE

UNI data

Enhance Network Reliability and Stability

Lower Network TCO (Total Cost of
Ownership)
Simplify Network Operation

E-NNI

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Outline
ASON/GMPLS overview
Huawei Product Development

Worldwide Network Deployment

Standard Status & Roadmap/Vision

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Huawei OptiX GCP ASON/GMPLS Solution

Access
ETN/T-MPLS
convergence

RTN

PTN

PTN

ETN/T-MPLS
Metro Core

PTN
M WDM

M WDM

Private Line
NG-SDH
STM-1/4/16

PTN

BTS
PTN

LH Backbone

Metro

PTN

MPLS
Core

OSS

PTN
LH
DWDM

NG SDH
STM-4/16/64

Optical Core

Enterprise

iManager
T2000

NG SDH
STM-16/64

Residential
NG SDH
STM-4/16/64

PSTN
FR
ATM

OSN
STM-64/256

Metro WDM

MDS6600
CWDM

ASON (Automatic Switch Optical Network) / GMPLS Control Plane

NG WDM

NG SDH

OSN1500

OSN2500

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OSN3500

OSN7500

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OSN6800

OSN8800

Huawei Intelligent OTN/WDM solution

Unique vendor to provide both SDH/OTN/WDM end to end GMPLS solution, 7+ ASON equipments.
Unify GMPLS platform from widely deployed intelligent SDH control plane
Photonic layer GMPLS released; Electrical layer coming soon;
100+ ASON applications (include SDH ASON) all over the world with ZERO OUTAGE in 2007! Pass
2008 south China snow storm (Hu Bei Power CO.) and 2008.5.12 China big earthquake in Si Chuan (De
Yang Telecom ASON network)
Metro aggregation

OSN3800

Regional Core

OSN6800

GMPLS Control Plane

Auto-discovery

of nodes , links, , sub , and topologies.

Fast

/sub provisioning by point & click

Rich

choices for protection or restoration, or combined protect multi failures:

WDM
OTN

layer: permanent 1+1, 1+1 protection +restoration, protection

layer: permanent 1+1, 1+1 / ring protection +restoration, protection

OTN/WDM
Control

layer: Dynamic or precomputed restoration

plane alarms

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Backbone

OSN8800

Multiple Service Levels: SLAs

1+1 Protection

Protection

Permanent 11 Protection

1+1 + Restoration (OTN/WDM)

(OTN/WDM)

scheme

(OTN/WDM)

Ring + Restoration (OTN only)

Ring Protection

Restoration (OTN/WDM)

unprotected

(OTN/WDM)

(OTN only)

Provide permanent protection

Description

for service when there is

enough resource

protection first, if protection is

invalid, restoration works.

Protection time50ms

Performance

Protection time <50ms

Restoration time, hundreds

Protect multi failures

ms~2 seconds
Protect multi failures

No dedicated backup

Protection

resource

Protection time
<50ms
Protect 1 failure

Restoration time,
hundreds ms~2
seconds
Protect multi failures

Offer static PC or intelligent SPC services, or the blend of them.

Static PC can be in-service upgraded to intelligent SPC, or vice versa.

1+1 , 1+1 +Restoration, permanent 1+1 can be interchanged online (OTN/WDM)

Ring ProtectionRing + Restoration can be interchanged online (OTN)

* Restoration time depend on the network

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Smart RWA optimize wavelength tunable network

In ROADM network, wavelength collide will make wavelength service blocking. That
will lower the utilization of network resource.

Intelligent control plane with Huawei advantage RWA and wavelength tunable will
reduce wavelength collide rate.

tunable
2
1

Step1

Step2

Step3

Wavelength broken,
ASON start to
reroute. Find a best
route accord the
restriction and
network resource.

collide

change

Find best route but the

other service use same
lambda. Wavelength
collide!

Change another
lambda that available in
this route. Reroute
success.

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Comprehensive Photonic Parameter Considering

Unify ASON/GMPLS Control Plane

ASON/GMPLS control plane with

comprehensive photonic

POWER/OSNR

CD

PMD

parameter considering will

support 40G service better.
Physical layer parameter calculate
able to check if router is available.
That avoid unavailable photonic
layer reroute.

40G

STEP 1
Lambda
broken, start
reroute

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STEP 2
Try path 1,
photonic
parameter is
unavailable.
Route roll back.
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STEP 3
Try new path 2.
Photonic
parameter is
available.
Reroute success.
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Smooth interworking with Non ASON Network (OTN/WDM)

Click & point in NMS
T2000

GMPLS Control Plane

Configure by NMS

Non ASON network

Configure by NMS

ASON network

Non ASON network

Configure protection between sub network when planning.

ASON node

Click & point source and destination in NMS to create a end

to end service.

Non ASON node

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Outline
ASON/GMPLS overview
Huawei Product Development

Worldwide Network Deployment

Standard Status & Roadmap/Vision

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Extensive SDH ASON commercial application experience

Ukraine UMC
Romania
Vodafone

Romania Vodafone intelligent

mobile bearer network

China Mobile/China
Telecom/China Netcom
Mexico
Telefonica

Indonesia Excelkom
ASON backbone

Brazil Telemar national

intelligent backbone

Brazil Oi
(Telemar)

As the leader in the ASON/GMPLS field, Huawei had deployed more than 150 ASON networks
for more than 80 operators (VDF, Oi/Telemar, Excelkom, UMC, China Telecom, China Mobile,
China Netcom) and accumulated abundant ASON commercial application experience.
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2009 OTN/WDM ASON (WSON) application map

Greece OTE

Turkey

Vodafone
Portugal

Bengal GP

Morocco
Telecom

China Mobile
Shanxi
Chongqing
Guiyang
Vietnam VNT
Egype TE

Qatar QTel

Thailand TT&T
Malaysia CTS

OTN ASON
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WDM ASON

First Commercial ASON/OTN network in the world

China Mobile Backbone Network (Shanxi)

Shared protection ring(4F-Och-SPRing)

TONGCHUAN

21

1~20

21
XIANYAN

21

21~40

WEINAN
1

1~20
21
21~40

XIAN 1

21

XIAN 2

Building IP oriented agile optical transport network for migration from TDM to IP
WSS-ROADMs were deployed in core nodes, GMPLS was used for automatic wavelength provision and protection.
Automated Rerouting based on ASON/GMPLS provided rapidly protection switches between inner and outer ring
against double faults (4 Fiber-Optical channel shared protection ring)
Evolution to optical mesh network in future, providing SLA services

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World-largest WDM ASON Backbone

Challenges

Frequently fiber cutting due to whole-year-rainy weather

and certain contrived reasons, network reliability degrades
seriously

Fiber aging, some sections has laid over 10~15 years, large
attenuation.

Broadband & GSM subscribers increase exponentially, 3G

business also in big progress, original SDH backbone network
has approached the bottle-neck of bandwidth.

Solution and Benefits

WSS-ROADM deployed in all services node, long distance

over 8,700km with 800G large capacity

Super DRZ successfully solve the aged fiber transmission

problem and guarantee enough ASON restoration routes.

High reliability-Industry unique ASON/GMPLS all services by

protection and ASON restoration in both WDM layer and SDH
layer.

Saving Opex by automatic topology & resource discovery and

E2E service provisioning, shorten time to market.

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ASON/GMPLS Guard OTEs Network

- Greece National DWDM Backbone
Challenges

International traffic grows very fast, bandwidth

based on 10G national backbone is already
exhausted.

Frequent fiber-cut caused by earthquakes,

network reliability seriously degraded.

Solutions and Benefits

Total solution by unified NG-WDM for both

terrestrial and submarine network, large single
hop nearly 350km.

40G eDQPSK TMUX solves the bandwidth

limitation and improves wavelengths utilization.

ASON/GMPLS and WSS-ROADM anti-multifiber-failure, guarantee high reliability and fast

services provisioning.
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TE WSON CASE - WDM ASON Backbone

Challenges
Network Reliability due

to the network

transfers the traffic between Europe and Asia, need to

highest solution for the network

Bandwidth Increase to require

Sidi Kerir

40G

The Benchmark in the industry

Ras el
Sudr
Ras el
Sudr

Multi-Layer Protection
3 kinds of protection categories provide 4 kinds of
protection scenarios: CLIENT side 1+1OTU side
1+1 and ASON/GMPLS rerouting -> tributary and
OUT destroyed; multi-optical cable broken; and OUT

& cable broken at same time: maximally support 10

points broken at same time while no any traffic is
broken the switching time < 50ms for all of scenarios

Saving CapEx and OpEx

The solution lighten the cost stress with 80 lambdas
system when will be upgraded to 40G system .

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Outline
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Leading Participant in IETF WSON standard

WSONWavelength Switched Optical Network

Architecture

Protocol
Extension

Routing Protocol

PCEP Protocol

Signaling Protocol

Format
Definition
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ASON/GMPLS Control Plane(GCP) Roadmap

WDM-based GMPLS Control

Plane
E2E Management Between
Traditional Network and ASON
Automatic Discovery of Network
Resource(Optical Layer) and
Routing Topology
E2E Automatically Provisioning
Lambda Services
Provisioning Plenty Lambda
Protection& Restoration (P&R)

OTN/WDM-based
Optical&Electrical Unified
GMPLS Control Plane
Automatic Discovery of Network
Resource(Optical& Electrical Layers)
and Routing Topology
E2E Automatically Provisioning
Services (Optical&Electrical Layers:
GE/any/ODUk/lambda)
Provisioning Plenty Lambda/Sublambda Protection&Restoration(P&R)

TDM-based GMPLS
Control Plane

2010:

UNI
GMPLS-BASED OVPN
Preempting Idle Resource
According to Priority While
Restoration
Diamond FA-LSP
Performance monitor of Control
Plane

OTN/WDM-based GMPLS
Control Plane Enhanced
UNI
GMPLS-BASED OVPN
1:N protection&restoration

Future:
Unified GMPLS Control Plane

TDM-based GMPLS
Control Plane

unified control packet/TDM/

Lambda/Sub-lambda
Implements Multi-Region Network
and Multi-Layer Network
(MRN&MLN)
PCE

PACKET-based MPLS Control

Plane
Supports MPLS

GMPLS Supports E2E and Fullseries Intelligent SDH Equipments

TDM-based GMPLS
Control Plane
share mesh restoration

2007
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2010-future
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Unified ASON/GMPLS transport network vision

Vision
IP over MPLS/ Eth. (Packet)

OTN (ODUk)

WDM ()

PCE
PCECP

GMPLS

GMPLS

SDH(VC\STM-N)

GMPLS

T2000 NMS
NMI

Today

MDS
6600
Modeler Planner

Unify ASON/GMPLS control plane

MPLS/IP core
UNI (GMPLS UNI
/ OIF UNI)
Optical Core
MRN/MLN

GMPLScontrolled PTN

GMPLS-controlled OTN/WDM
GMPLS-controlled OTN/WDM

Metro
GMPLS-controlled
SDH

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Metro
GMPLS-controlled
SDH
GMPLScontrolled PTN

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