Jeff,

I am not sure if I should even get into this ... but oh well why not :)

> Resource allocation could happen by either WAN controller pre-allocating
resources
> and then exposing them to SD-WAN controller for consumption (ala carte)
or SD-WAN
> controller asking for a particular set of resources (on demand) and WAN
controller providing these.


On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 12:36 AM, Jeff Tantsura <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi Linda,
>
>
>
> (not speaking as rtgwg chair, where you might want to present the draft)
>
>
>
> The scenario we are talking about is really - WAN (underlay/transport)
> controller interworking with SD-WAN (overlay) controller.
>
> Resource allocation could happen by either WAN controller pre-allocating
> resources and then exposing them to SD-WAN controller for consumption (ala
> carte) or SD-WAN controller asking for a particular set of resources (on
> demand) and WAN controller providing these. In any case – there’s business
> relationship between 2 or more parties, so from functionality prospective a
> node that is transit (not service aware) should forward the traffic based
> on the destination, while node that is service aware (BSID anchor) should
> pop IP/UDP and lookup the BSID/steer the traffic into SR policy, using
> SPRING lingo.
>
>
>
> SRinUDP encap provides ability to traverse non SR /3rd party networks,
> BSID (has to be provided by WAN controller at the resource allocation time)
> is pushed by source SD-WAN node with the FEC that is associated with the
> particular behavior and hence doesn’t require any additional mapping, e.g
> BSID value is the mapping (BSID lookup yields an egress adj/tunnel)
>
>
>
> Hope this makes sense to you
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
> *From: *spring <[email protected]> on behalf of Linda Dunbar <
> [email protected]>
> *Date: *Monday, July 2, 2018 at 15:11
> *To: *Robert Raszuk <[email protected]>
>
> *Cc: *SPRING WG List <[email protected]>
> *Subject: *Re: [spring] solicit feedback on 
> draft-dunbar-sr-sdwan-over-hybrid-networks-02
> proposing SD-WAN source node using UDP port to indicate to SR ingress node
> how to map to appropriate Binding SID
>
>
>
> Robert,
>
>
>
> There are many definitions for SD-WAN in the industry. I used the one from
> ONUG, who claims that “SD-WAN” concept was created by them in 2013:
> https://www.onug.net/software-defined-wide-area-network-sd-wan/.
>
>
>
> In terms of real time deployment, there are plenty. For example, here are
> some public available cases & services:
>
> https://youtu.be/JRoTXMSxtCY;
>
> http://www.verizonenterprise.com/products/networking/
> managed-network-services/managed-sdwan/
>
> http://www.centurylink.com/business/networking/sd-wan.html
>
>
>
> It is CPE pooling together paths from different ISPs.   The draft proposes
> a method for Service Provider to attract flows which would otherwise
> traverse public internet, to traverse its own domain.
>
>
>
> Linda
>
>
>
> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Robert
> Raszuk
> *Sent:* Monday, July 02, 2018 4:50 PM
> *To:* Linda Dunbar <[email protected]>
> *Cc:* SPRING WG List <[email protected]>
> *Subject:* Re: [spring] solicit feedback on 
> draft-dunbar-sr-sdwan-over-hybrid-networks-02
> proposing SD-WAN source node using UDP port to indicate to SR ingress node
> how to map to appropriate Binding SID
>
>
>
> Hi Linda,
>
>
>
> You mentioned in the document the below quote:
>
>
>
>    "SD-WAN, as described by ONUG (Open Network User Group), is about
>
>    pooling WAN bandwidth from n service providers to get better WAN
>
>    bandwidth management, visibility & control."
>
>
>
> Can you provide some real life examples listing which service providers
> allow to be externally pooled for their available WAN bandwidth as well as
> what interface is used to get such pooling instantiated in place ?
>
>
>
> Once we understand above next natural question would be to ask how
> accurate is such pooling in the light of the observation that due to basic
> characteristics of the service provider's traffic patterns available
> bandwidth or in other words congestion usually have very transient nature ?
>
>
>
> If I were writing such document I would give up any pooling and instead
> use one of many available techniques to measure the end to end path quality
> when making at the ingress the decision of the preferred path to be taken..
> That is in fact what number of SD-WANs today already do without any need
> to  make any attempts to enforce anything at the ingress to the transit
> journey :).
>
>
>
> Many thx,
>
> Robert.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 11:33 PM, Linda Dunbar <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-dunbar-sr-sdwan-
> over-hybrid-networks/ describes a method for end-to-end (E2E) SD-WAN
> paths (most likely encrypted) to traverse specific list of network
> segments, some of which are SR enabled and others may be IP networks that
> do not support SR, to achieve the desired optimal E2E quality.
> In another word, one or both SD-WAN end points are NOT directly attached
> to SR PE nodes.
>
> Under many circumstances the SR's Binding SID can't be exposed to the
> SD-WAN source node (e.g. if the SD-WAN source node belongs to a different
> administrator than the one who manage/own the SR domain).
>
> The draft propose a method for SR Controller to expose a "Key" to the
> SD-WAN source node. The SR Ingress node will map the "Key" carried by the
> SD-WAN traffic/flows to their designated Binding SID.
> The "Key" can be carried by GRE key field, or be encoded as UDP Source
> Port used by SD-WAN source node to differentiate flows.
>
> We understand that UDP source port is usually used for Entropy purpose.
>
> We want to hear feedback, flaws or allergic reaction to our proposed
> method for some deployment scenarios like:
>   1) only one or two 3rd party hops are between SD-WAN end points and PE
> and those hops may not even use Entropy (like LTE links); or
>   2) Grouping Applications by UDP ports may enforce same application
> traverse through same route, which is acceptable by many deployment
> scenarios).
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Linda Dunbar
>
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