Post Event ReportMPLS SDN Multi-Vendor Interoperability Test 2020

For Participants Only / Not for publication as a documentInformation from this report can be used publicly (not under NDA)

Test Areas

EVPN Segment Routing

SDNOrchestration

Clocking FlexE

Participating Vendors

DevicesVendor Device Vendor Device Vendor Device Vendor Device

ADVA Activator Cisco 3100-V,3600-R,Nexus 9300-FX,Nexus 9300-FX2,Nexus 9300-GX,NSO Server PC

Juniper ACX5448-D,cRPD,HealthBot,MX204,NorthStar, ControllerQFX10002-72Q,QFX5110-48S,QFX5120-32C,QFX5120-48Y

Lumina SDN Controller SuiteArista 7050SX2,

7050X3,7280R2,7280R3

Metaswitch NOS Toolkit

Microchip BlueSky,TimeProvider4100,TimeProvider5000

Arrcus ArcRR,QuantaMeshT4048-IX8A,QuantaMeshT7080-IXAE

Delta AGC7648SV1,AGCV208S

ECI NPT-1800

Calnex Paragon-T,Paragon-X

Huawei ATN980C,NetEngine 8000 F1A,NetEngine 8000 M8,NetEngine 8000 X4,NCE Controller

Keysight Ixia IxNetworkIxia XGS2/Novus

Nokia 7750 SR-1,NSP Server

Ciena 5171,6500 T12

Spirent TestCenterN4U

Topo

logy

Goals

Multi-vendor interoperability event open to all interested vendors

Focusing on innovations in EVPN, Segment Routing, SDN, Clock Synchronization and FlexE

6 months of preparation with participating vendors

Intense two-week hot staging at EANTC Berlin with 100+ attendees

Helps to document state-of-the-art and improve interoperability

50 %75 %44 %68 %44 %18 %

39%

26%

7%

12%

14%2%

EVPN Segment Routing PCEP NETCONF Clocking FlexE

122 Devices under Test by 16 Vendors44 Unique Device Types

40108

Executed Test CasesTested Features

Overview

Total Interoperability Results507

Number of Participants

Test Areas

EVPNSegment RoutingPCEPNETCONFClockingFlexE

Participants in each Test Area

Assigned participants to separate meeting rooms / Zoom rooms by themes for focused calls

More than 65% of participants joined remotely

Testing during German time zones;some participants worked during their nights

>400 hours of Zoom conferences in total Secure, private Rocketchat server hosted

theme-focused chats Confluence-based results reporting system

was upgraded for increased efficiency

Remote Collaboration

Multi-Vendor Demos (1)

Eight multi-vendor demonstrations between 5-20 minutes each covering the full range of test areas

Recorded during hotstaging with local and remote presenters from participating vendors

Published on our websiteand YouTube channel, referencedfrom our LinkedIn EANTC account

Already thousands of downloads!

Multi-Vendor Demos (2)

Demo Participants

SRv6 TE & TI-LFA Arrcus, Cisco, Huawei, Keysight, Juniper

SRv6 TI-LFA & SRLG Arrcus, Cisco, Huawei, Keysight, Juniper

NETCONF/YANG Cisco, Metaswitch, Nokia, Spirent

Device Configuration using NETCONF/YANG Juniper, Lumina, Nokia

EVPN MAC Mobility Arista, Arrcus, Cisco, Juniper, Metaswitch, Nokia, Spirent

FlexE Channelization and Physical Isolation ECI, Huawei, Keysight

Egress Peer Engineering Arrcus, Juniper, Nokia, Spirent

Clocking Phase/Time Full Timing Support ECI, Calnex, Ciena, Huawei, Juniper, Microchip

White Paper

Description of tested technologies Anticipated by service providers and analysts Outlining positive results of the hot staging 40 pages explaining use cases

and working demonstrations

Available free of charge on our website

Business & Social Networking

Participants published blogs and press releases Lots of activity on LinkedIn and Twitter

Thank you very much sincerely for your outstanding commitment to our event in these difficult times! It has been an honor to work with all of you, as always, but this time even more. Our team and I look forward to continue the successful collaboration, and eventually to meet & greet once the Covid-19 pandemic will be over.Stay Healthy and Take Care!