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Bruno Klauser

Consulting Engineer NMS/OSS

Europe & Emerging Markets

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SelfMan 2006

Panel: Toward Self-Managed Networks?

A Perception

[Dublin – 20060616]

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Demand

• Clearly there is a demand to address operational issues which are extremely hard to solve from outside the Network(hard = inaccurate, time- or resource-consuming, otherwise expensive)

• Often such issues arise when operating

– managed services (ie CPE based services)

– large managed infrastructures (ie MPLS VPN, Aggregation)

– mobile networks (ie pWLAN aboard trains & buses)

Research

• Significant amount of research work(ICAC, SelfMan itself are proof of that – Passion & Dedication)

Toward Self-Managed networks?

Great Progress – 1/2

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msec Sampling

Implementations

• Existing infrastructure => (Event-MIB, Expression-MIB, IOS EEM, RMON, Netconf/E-DI, ...)

• Existing smart data sources available=> (IOS BQA/Corvil, IPSLA, IPFIX/NetFlow, RMON, MIBs, etc ...)

Toward Self-Managed networks?

Great Progress – 2/2

Relevant Events

Link Capacity

Example: BQA

Banwidth Quality Analysis of micro-congestion

External App – 5 Min Samplingt

b/wExample: Diagnose MPLS

Diagnose complex root-causes in MPLS networks

LSPLSP

Example: IP SLA

Large Scale Monitoring of Delay, Jitter, Packet Drop

Source

Targets

SyntheticTraffic

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Challenges

• Bridge the Chasm

Need to educate/evangelize on autonomic concepts

Need to link autonomic approaches with the outside world(ie.: synch with external applications, dominant in today's operations, provide transparency)

• (Speed of) Industry Adoption

Need to map research findings onto existing infrastructure

Need to leverage existing (today often under-utilized) data sources better

Toward Self-Managed networks?

Moving Forward – 1/2

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Opportunities

• Focused Solutions based on matching:

– Demand

– Autonomic approaches

– Existing device instrumentation

• Programmatic Interfaces to Groups of Network Elements lend themselves very nicely to link autonomic approaches with the outside world=> (such as IETF Netconf / Cisco E-DI)

Toward Self-Managed networks?

Moving Forward – 2/2

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