PARIS, MPLS+SDN+NFV World Congress,
April 09, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The explosive growth in IP
traffic continues to create opportunities and challenges for
service providers who are focused on delivering compelling services
to retain and grow their customer base. Changing network traffic
patterns show 35% of Internet traffic will be carried
metro-to-metro in 20211, up from 22%
in 2016, with more devices connected to the network. As a result,
service providers are adjusting their network routing plans to
distribute features further to the edge for improved
performance.
Cisco is leading with innovation that allows
carriers to transform their networks to deal with the explosion in
traffic growth and change in traffic patterns led by mobile apps
and connections, IoT, video, 5G and more. Cisco has responded with
innovative hardware, software and security additions to its service
provider routing platform to offer a mix of options for customers
needing feature-rich platforms with higher density to support
intense bandwidth demands.
Powered by Cisco IOS XR, the industry's most
trusted network operating system, this expanded portfolio offers an
abundance of features that help to simplify operations such as
zero-touch deployment, advanced programmability and model-driven
telemetry.
Routing hardware additions include:
- Cisco NCS 500
Series: Featuring a unified, single operating system
(Cisco IOS XR), it addresses converged wireline and wireless
5G-ready requirements for fronthaul, midhaul and backhaul, and
future evolutions of carrier ethernet networks; It addresses
various bandwidth needs ranging from 1 Gigabyte to 100 Gbps
interfaces in small form factors.
- Cisco ASR
9901: Also featuring a unified, single
operating system (Cisco IOS XR), it supports applications such as
distributed provider edge, Internet peering, metro aggregation and
broadband network gateway (BNG) in a space-optimized platform;
It delivers 900 Gbps of throughput while also providing
flexibility in terms of port speeds ranging from 1 to 100 Gbps
with industry-leading MACsec encryption support across all
ports.
- Cisco NCS 5500
Series: New components include:
- Two fixed chassis supporting 24 and 36 100GE
ports
- A 36 100GE ports line card targeted at
high-density core, mobile backhaul and data center interconnect use
cases; Offers flexible port configuration supporting 10G/25G/40G
and 100G per port with enhanced scale capabilities (external
TCAM)
- A compact 2RU router targeted at high-density
metro aggregation, mobile backhaul networks and long-haul
connectivity use cases; Delivers maximum flexibility with the
support of Modular Port Adapters (MPA) with options of different port types
and MACsec encryption support.
Routing software additions include:
- Segment Routing:
Offers service providers more control over Internet traffic by
delivering a unified transport fabric across aggregation, edge,
core and data center network domains with unmatched simplicity,
resiliency and scalability; With Segment Routing Flexible
Algorithm, a new addition to the Cisco Segment Routing Traffic
Engineering toolkit, service providers can:
- Optimize the same physical network infrastructure
along various dimensions such as low-latency, bandwidth or path
disjointness.
- Custom fit 5G network slices to specific
applications
- Ethernet VPN
(EVPN): Cisco is now offering seamless integration with
Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS), helping service providers speed
up migration from VPLS to EVPN as another method to provide
Ethernet-based multipoint to multipoint communication over IP or
MPLS networks; EVPN offers improved scalability, optimal forwarding
and helps prevent traffic floods.
With more applications and devices connected to
the network, security threats are significantly increasing. Cisco
is securing the service provider network at three levels to help
protect against current and future threats:
- Hardware: Ensuring platform integrity while
in transit from factories to customer premises
- Software: Providing secure boot and integrity
check to ensure the software that is installed is genuine and
unmodified
- Network: Offering MACsec hardware support to
encrypt traffic between network nodes as well as scalable
anti-DDoS
"Cisco continues to drive innovation in service
provider routing to help our customers uplevel their architectures
and be one step ahead in managing their network traffic demands,"
said Jonathan
Davidson, senior vice president
and general manager, Service Provider Networking,
Cisco. "As the majority of our customers get ready
for 5G, our unmatched portfolio of options offers intent-based
networking practices to enable networks to self-heal without
service interruptions."
"We needed a future-proof networking platform to
support high-density 100G interfaces with optimized power
consumption to deliver ultrabroadband connections,"
said Marco Arioli, senior manager of
Network Engineering at Fastweb."With the Cisco NCS 5500
platform, we are getting the scale and power efficiency we were
looking for and are reaping the benefits of a seamless and unified
software fabric, powered by Cisco IOS XR to accelerate our
time-to-market and streamline adoption of new services."
"We are building a widespread and efficient
network to speed broadband adoption across Italy,"
said Domenico Angotti, head of
Engineering at Open Fiber. "We are deploying Cisco NCS
5500 in our national Points of Presence to give us the performance
and high-density of 100GE interfaces with lower power consumption,
and a rich set of YANG data models that are essential to advanced
network programmability."
"Shentel is evolving its network to support 100G
interfaces to keep pace with the growth of Internet services and
lay the foundation for 5G services," said Edward McKay, senior vice president, Wireline and
Engineering, Shentel. "Cisco IOS XR and segment routing
technology is helping to simplify our operations with an SDN
architecture designed to support multi-path routing with extreme
scale across our core networks."
Cisco is leading the disruption in the industry
with its technology innovations in systems; silicon; software and
security; and its unrivalled expertise in mass-scale
networking, automation, optical, optics, cable access, video, and
mobility. Combining these capabilities with Cisco's portfolio of
go-to-market security, collaboration, IoT, and professional
services, we enable service providers, media and web companies to
reduce cost and complexity, help secure their networks, and grow
revenue.
Supporting
Resources
- Cisco NCS 500 Series
- Cisco ASR 9901
- Cisco NCS 5500
- Cisco Segment Routing
- Cisco IOS XR
- Sumeet Arora blog: An Architectural Approach
to Flexible Consumption for Service Providers with IOZ XR
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