Cloud-based BNG Architecture Testing

Carsten Rossenhövel

Co-founder and Managing Director of EANTC

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Cloud-based BNG Architecture Testing
Carsten Rossenhövel
March 20, 2017
About the European Advanced Networking Test Center

 State of the art testing expertise focusing

on innovative telecom technologies
Testing and
Certification  Emulating fully realistic scenarios
for Vendors representative for today’s production
networks
Acceptance  EANTC is 100% independent
Tests and and vendor-neutral
Audits for
Enterprises  Adhering to highest quality standards
Network Design, and actively participating in test methods
Proof of Concept
Testing and Audits standardization
for Service
Providers
Speaker Profile – Carsten Rossenhoevel
Managing Director, CTO, Co-Founder of EANTC AG
Over 20 years of experience in telecommunication networks testing
Technical areas of expertise – quality assurance of NFV, SDN,
packet transport, network security, mobile core (LTE/IMS/IOT)
Rapporteur for ETSI guidelines on NFV interoperability testing

Recent independent tests of Huawei solutions

 Performance, scalability and reliability tests of NE5000E cluster, 400G, 1T interfaces
 Performance test of NE40E including TCP/video acceleration module
 Huawei FusionSphere NFVI and virtualized router interoperability
Motivation – Operator’s Expected SDN/NFV Deployment

 Broadband
Network
EMEA
Gateways (BNG)
are a complex
application to
virtualize
 Scalability and
reliability
requirements for
consumer services
are high
Source: Heavy Reading Web-based survey of network operators worldwide, March 2016 (86 qualified participants, around half of which were from EMEA)
EANTC Test Areas

Huawei commissioned EANTC with an independent test

of the virtualized BNG focusing:
 Lifecycle Management
 Performance and Scalability
 Resiliency & Security
 Advanced Functionality
Tests were conducted in Beijing, China, March 2017
Emulated Testing – Important Requirements

EANTC worked with Spirent TestCenter, using advanced

configurations to ensure representative test results:
Emulation must reflect realistic customer scenarios

Emulation of application services at very high load with fine

granularity

Emulation of multiple NFV-specific failure scenarios (cluster

nodes, internal communication delay)

Packet transport network emulation with coordinated control

plane protocols Spirent TestCenter
 Huawei CloudMetro Architecture

Network Capabilities Openness Platform 3rd APP

Network
Agile Auto Planning
Capabilities Conn. Mgmt. Sub. Mgmt. Security
Controller & Provisioning
Orchestrator
MSE = Multi-Service Edge
PaaS POP = Point of Presence
Diagram source: Huawei

IaaS CSG = Customer Service Gateway

OLT = Optical Line Termination
MSE
CR = Core Router
OLT
MSE CR Internet PaaS = Platform as a Service
CSG MSE IaaS = Infrastructure as a Service
POP Core
Physical Test Setup

Details of virtualized
Network Control Engine
see next slide

4 Compute nodes Huawei RH2288Hv3

(each with 2x Intel Xeon E5-2690v3)
Virtual Test Setup – Network Cloud Engine

 CTL – Control VM – 2 cores, 16 GB RAM

 FWD – Data Plane VM – 22 cores, 16 GB RAM
 UPMNG – User Plane Management VM – 6 cores, 32 GB RAM
 UPACC – User Plane Access VM – 14 cores, 32 GB RAM
 OVS = Open vSwitch; KVM/QEMU = Hypervisor
Results: Life-Cycle Management

Solution successfully
demonstrated life-cycle
management:
 Instantiation,
teardown, operational
management
 Scale up and down of
NCE control plane
components to adjust
for performance
demand
Results: Performance
 Up to 1 million subscribers per Network
Cloud Engine
Using default QoS profile and shared IP
pool; verified with bidirectional test
traffic
 High number of simultaneously active
subscriber sessions EANTC Session Setup Rate Test Configuration

 Up to 2,600 subscriber sessions

Cloud-based BNG
established per second 1M 2600/s

EANTC tests confirm Huawei‘s claims: x4 x2.6

Cloud-based BNG scales much higher than 250K Traditional 1000/s
Huawei‘s traditional BNGs Subscribers Access Rate

Huawei‘s Scalability Comparison Claims

PPPoE = Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet
IPoE = Internet Protocol over Ethernet
MSCHAPv2 = RADIUS authentication method
 Results: Resiliency & Security
 Simulated faults of control plane components cause no interruption in
current user sessions or data traffic
 Recovery of Network Cloud Engine components from various faults through
redundant setup of components
 Stable operation under ongoing DDoS attacks: Existing sessions continued, no data loss
PPPOE discovery (PADI) requests limitation on NCE Creation of new sessions interrupted for 150 s

No session or data loss

No session or data loss

Existing sessions continued, no data loss

Establishment of new sessions interrupted
for 9 s (shutdown) / 20 s (restart)

VXLAN session failure: No session or

data loss, no new sessions could be established
Results: Functionality

 Huawei demonstrated separation of data plane and control plane

 Verified authentication of PPPoE and IPoE subscribers via RADIUS
backend
 Simultaneous support of PPPoE and IPoE subscribers
on the same physical interface
 Application of per-subscriber bandwidth
profiles upon session establishment
and modification on the fly
 Automated deployment of NCE software
EANTC tests confirm Huawei‘s NCE design
goals to match typical service provider
BNG requirements Logical Topology
Summary

Independent test results confirm Huawei’s claims for NCE performance,

reliability and functionality

NCE and MSE together implement data/control plane separation; improve

service scalability

Huawei R&D and EANTC cooperation ensures high quality product that has
been verified under realistic conditions

Detailed test report reflecting typical customer scenarios has been published
Thank you for your interest!

For further information, please contact us:

EANTC AG
Salzufer 14
10587 Berlin
Germany

Phone: +49.30.318 05 95-0

E-mail: info@eantc.de
www.eantc.de
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