SRv6 Enables Intelligent Connections

Help Enterprises Achieve Digital

Economic Success

Sun Guoyou
Marketing Director of Huawei Service Router
Product Line
Industry Digitalization: One Million Enterprises Are
Moving to the Cloud
China is promoting the "Migrating The European Union launched
By 2025… One Million Enterprises to the the "European Open Science
Cloud" initiative. Cloud" initiative.

Enterprise services Beijing Guangdong

100% will be deployed on
the cloud. Jiangsu Jinan
EOSC
Zhejiang Shanghai
The EU plans to invest EUR 6.7
Enterprise billion to build the European
85% applications will Cloud Open Science Cloud.
run on the cloud.

Source: Gartner
 Industry Service Cloudification Requires Automated WANs with
Guaranteed SLAs
Intelligent
Finance
• Service rollout period shortened in the
Bank 4.0 era: 6+ months -> ~30 days
• Refined SLA assurance: 4000+
microservices
• IPv4-to-IPv6 evolution: national policy-
driven evolution to IPv6 of financial
networks
Automation, IPv6, and
tenant-level SLA assurance
Smart City
• Service-oriented transformation of
governments: service cloudification and
multi-department information sharing
• Key event assurance: artifact-free
videoconferencing and uninterrupted
emergency services
Automation and tenant-level
SLA assurance
Smart Grid ISP/OTT
• Differential protection: E2E • Site-to-cloud private line:
latency < 5 ms service provisioning within
days and on-demand
• Power grid big data: data volume
bandwidth adjustment
per day (GB -> TB)
• Improved link utilization:
reduced link rental costs due
to DCI
SLA assurance and Automated service provisioning,
high bandwidth on-demand bandwidth, and
traffic load balancing
 Intelligent Connections: Networks Are Aware of Service Intents, and SRv6 Enables
Automated Service Provisioning and Differentiated SLA Assurance
Apps and tenants on the cloud schedule networks on demand,
Network Challenges setting up connections with differentiated SLAs.
Regions with identical addressing schemes Finance Power Government Education ISP Solutions
due to IPv4 address shortage, causing IP
address conflicts after cloud migration.
A multitude of IPv6 addresses
Cloud platform • Unified IPv6 addressing scheme
across the entire network, ensuring

Fast service
provisioning
One networks in multiple regions can
connect to the cloud without address
Region A Region B cloud conflicts
IP address conflict

SRv6-powered automated cross-

Tenant intent domain service provisioning
Work order Work order awareness
• One unified protocol and seamless
Automated service connections across domains
provisioning and
MPLS MPLS MPLS • Source node control, matching the
optimization
Access Backbone SDN architecture and enabling
Aggregation automated E2E service provisioning
One
Shared pipes:
network SRv6
how can SLAs be guaranteed SRv6-powered tenant-level
for high-value services? Low-latency differentiated SLA assurance
connections DC • App and tenant identification through
High-bandwidth SRv6
connections

High-reliability • Intelligent traffic steering and

connections DC DC optimization based on latency or
… bandwidth with guaranteed SLAs
Similar Challenges Facing IP and Transportation Networks

IP networks Transportation networks

A multitude of services A multitude of

and applications vehicles

IP networks Transportation
networks

1. Mass connections 1. A multitude of vehicles

2. Automated seamless connections across 2. One hop to destination
domains 3. Shortest arrival time to destination
3. Application-level SLA assurance 4. Traffic load balancing, reducing congestion
4. Traffic load balancing, reducing congestion
1 Mass Connections: IPv6 Effortlessly Provides Access for 5G-Era
Applications and Mass Terminals
Transportation networks IP networks
Upgrade license plate number rules to IPv6 addresses, meeting the access
cope with rapidly increasing number of vehicles. requirements of mass applications and terminals.

Internet era: Human-

machine interconnection
Before: 京A 12345 IPv4 • Complex address planning
Every 10 families
own a car.
License plate 32 bits • Difficult source tracing due
numbers to NAT
A maximum of 4.3 billion IPv4
consisting of
100,000 license addresses
digits only
plate number
combinations

5G and cloud era:

Internet of Everything
Now:
Every 1.46 families 京A PT123 2021
IPv6 • Free Planning and No
own a car. conflict
License plate 25 billion
128 bits
numbers consisting connections • NO need NAT and Easy
A maximum of 48 340 undecillion source tracing
of digits and letters
million+ license plate IPv6 addresses
number combinations
2 Automated Seamless Domain Interconnection: SRv6 Allows
One-Hop Service Transmission
Transportation networks IP networks
Didi Travel: No transfer required and one SRv6+NCE achieve automated service provisioning across
hop to destination domains and one-hop connection.

Bus transfer Traditional MPLS solution

• Time-consuming Protocols Number
and stop-by-stop 2
SRv6
transfer. 10+
MPLS

Metro Backbone Metro

DC DC
Bus 651 Bus 394 Bus 41
Huawei Marriott
Transfer Transfer
Beijing to to Hotel IP MPLS IP MPLS IP MPLS IP
Configure node
Research
Institute Time required: 3.5 hours SRv6 2
MPLS 6+
SRv6 overlay solution
Uber Travel
• More convenient,
focuses on destination Provisioning time
without any transfers. SRv6 minutes
DC-GW DC-GW
MPLS weeks
Huawei DC Metro Backbone Metro DC
Direct
Beijing arrival Marriott
Research Hotel SRv6 over IPV6
Institute SRv6 SRv6
China Telecom and Huawei jointly completed the
Time required: 1 hour industry's first commercial deployment of SRv6.
3 Application-level SLA assurance: NCE Provide Online Maps and App-
level SLA assurance for IP Networks
Transportation networks IP networks
Real-time online maps, supporting Service path programmable based on NCE+SRv6 and provides
global monitoring of road congestion application level SLA assurance.

Traditional IP networks
Reachable path
Manual map query
• Unable to visualize • Best-effort forwarding, ensuring
road status
only reachability
IPv4

Application + delay Intelligent IP networks

requirement
ROAM
Algorithm
• NCE intelligent traffic steering, SRv6
Online map
policy throughout the entire network
• Vehicle-reported SRv6 policy EC
IOV CDN path programming, SLA assurance
information and real- 10ms
time display of global
road status Cloud VR
20ms Intelligent optimization algorithm
SRv6 ROAM
4 Traffic Load Balancing: NCE-based Global Optimal Scheduling, Building
Networks with Balanced Traffic
Transportation networks IP networks
Reversible lanes help cope with traffic waves and Global optimal intelligent traffic scheduling and traffic
reduce congestion during peak hours. load balancing based on NCE+SRv6

Link utilization > 60%

Traditional roads Traditional IP networks

• One-way • Traffic is forwarded along
congestion occurs the shortest path, causing
during peak hours, traffic load imbalance and
resulting in low road congestion on some links.
usage. Link utilization
< 10%

Reversible lanes Intelligent traffic scheduling

Intelligent IP networks
• Dynamic and on- iCAN • NCE schedules traffic on
demand lane algorithm the entire network based
adjustment to balance on SRv6, proactively
SRv6 Policy Telemetry balancing network traffic.
traffic and reduce
congestion.
intelligent congestion
iCAN evaluation algorithm
Congestion is reduced by 30% and rush hour reduced by an hour after
reversible lanes were implemented on Buji Road in Shenzhen. Load balancing of network-wide traffic
 SRv6: Huawei's Core Strategy in the IP Field, Leading Standards and
Commercial Deploy
Leading Standards: Participation in 75%+ of Leading Commercial Use: Industry' First SRv6
SRv6 Standards Commercial Use
Number of SRv6 Standards Documents Submitted to IETF Meetings
25
22
17
12
9 10
8
6
2 3 2 3
1 1
0

IETF101 IETF102 IETF103 IETF104 IETF105 Industry's first SRv6 commercial Industry's first SRv6 cross-backbone
C H C&H deployment cloud private line
Huawei collaborates with industry partners to jointly promote 2019.2 2019.4
the standardization of SRv6.

Industry Promotion: Hosting Industry Forums to Industry Collaboration: Cooperating with Industry
Promote the Industrial Process of SRv6 Partners to Accelerate SRv6 Industry Maturity

SRv6 Vendor C

Conducted the industry's Completed the EANTC

first interoperability test SRv6 interoperability test
Global SRv6 Industry Forum Global SRv6 Industry Roundtable 2018.9 2019.3
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