VPLS Applicability Draft

draft-lasserre-l2vpn-vpls-ldp-applic-00
Marc Lasserre - Riverstone
Xipeng Xiao – Riverstone
Yetik Serbest – SBC
Cesar Garrido - Telefonica
 VPLS Applicability Draft
• draft-ietf-l2vpn-vpls-ldp defines a method
– for signaling MPLS connections between
member PEs of a VPN
– for forwarding Ethernet frames over such
connections.
• draft-lasserre-l2vpn-vpls-ldp-applic
describes the applicability of such
procedures to provide VPLS services
– Compares VPLS characteristics against L2VPN
requirements draft
 Content of Applicability Draft
• Overview of VPLS
– Operation of control, data and management
planes
– Alternative approaches to VPLS
• Scalability
• Deployment Aspects
 VPLS Scalability
• Mesh connectivity (full mesh, hub & spoke)
• Number of MAC addresses (switch or router
interconnect, MAC limiting per VPLS)
• Broadcast limiting
• Replication (HVPLS, IGMP snooping)
 VPLS Deployment Aspects
• Service provisioning & management
– PE discovery
– Traffic conditioning
– TE
– Monitoring & accounting
• Migration Impacts
– From 802.1Q/QinQ to VPLS
• Multihoming (STP, primary/secondary)
• Loop prevention
 VPLS Deployment Aspects
(Cont’d)
• Packet reordering
• QoS (802.1P, ToS/DSCP to Exp/Tunnel mapping)
• Multi-domain connectivity (HVPLS spoke,
interworking with BGP VPN)
• Interworking with FR/ATM/PPP attachment circuits
– Dataplane interworking (Bridged Ethernet)
– Service profile, OAM, circuit management mapping to be
specified
• Security
– Traffic isolation (per VPLS FIB)
– DoS
 VPLS Applicability:
Next Steps
• Describe missing requirements and add
metrics as defined in draft-ietf-l2vpn-
requirements (e.g. unauthorized CE access,
capacity sizing)
• Solicit comments on list
• Become a WG document