BGP Technology Strategy

Sheetal Sabharwal, Bertrand Duvivier

BGP Team, SP Routing

Mar 2021
SP Business Challenges & Opportunities

Securing critical infrastructure to establish market credibility

Creating new business services and revenue stream by leveraging integrated VPN services over
unified transport

Optimization OPEX through network traffic optimization

Delivering new business services with fast time to market via SDN/Automation

Solving customer specific network challenges – scale, convergence etc.

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Control Plane Evolution with BGP
Almost all existing or newer network services/transport are using BGP

FUNCTION Use Cases Original Now

MPLS transport LDP BGP Label Unicast, BGP SR, BGP SRv6

TRANSPORT MPLS Traffic Engineering RSVP-TE BGP SR-TE, SR Auto-Steering, Tree-SID

IP Tunnel Transport GRE, IP in IP BGP VXLAN, GRE, IP in IP
IPv4 to IPv6 Migration -- IPv4 with IPv6 NH
Internet Services BGP IPv4 BGP IPv4/ IPv6, Transit, Peering, Peering TE, 6PE, 4VPE
BGP IPv4/IPv6 VPN over MPLS, SR-MPLS, SRv6, VXLAN,
L3 VPN Services BGP L3VPN
GRE, Inter-AS
SERVICES Multicast L3 VPN Services BGP Mc IPv4 BGP IPv4/IPv6 over mLDP, PIM, IR
L2 VPN E-Line Services LDP BGP EVPN, VPWS
L2 VPN E-LAN Services LDP BGP EVPN, VPLS
BGP Scale -- 70M path, 1M IPv4 prefixes, 500K IPv6 prefixes
DDOS Mitigation PBR BGP Flow Spec

SECURITY Route Highjack Protection -- BGP RPKI

Policy and Filtering RPL RPL
Network Monitoring -- BMP
Network Topology Discovery -- BGP LS
SDN
Model Driven CLI, XML BGP Yang and Services Yang Models
Route
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BGP Focus Areas

Network
Network Automation
Automation SERVICE PROVIDER OUTCOMES
(SDN)
(SDN)
 OPEX REDUCTION

Trust Transport
Enablement Enablement  NEW SERVICES MONETIZATION

BGP
 TIME TO MARKET ACCELERATION

Service Network
Enablement Optimization  REPEAT BUSINESS– SLA, CX

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 New Areas:
• Monitor Data Center Trends
•• Dockerization
Dockerization Workshops
Workshops

BGP FY21 Priorities

Drive Platform Independent Features

SR and EVPN BGP RR Migration BGP Infra

Security
to vRR Improvements
• Continue to drive differentiation against competition
by driving SR-MPLS, SR-PCE and CoE production
• DDoS • XR on docker • RPL (scripting to python based)
implementation in a multi-vendor environment
• BGP Flowspec Enhancements
• Reduce customer OPEX by transport simplification • Propagation Mitigation (at • XR on docker optimized for BGP(remove • IETF drafts on optimization of BGP (IDA
IETF investigation level) components from XR on docker that doesn’t have BGP and GROW workgroups)
to work with SONiC)
• Enables new services (e.g. SDN- xW)
• BGP ORR Enhancements • Datacenter specific BGP enhancements
• Dive IPv6 transition via SRv6 • Key Customers: (investigation needs to start e.g.1028
• Drive IP Routing Programmability via NSO function ECMP ask by MS)
pack • Key Customers:
• Secure Topologies: Trusted Path Routing • Troubleshooting Automation: Machine
• Key Customers: Reasoning Engine

• EVPN: Normalize on EVPN for all services

• Build out redundancy schemes and EVPN service
options
• Build further competitive differentiation with EVPN
for IPv6

• Key Customers:

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BGP Team

Headcount Fulltime: Contractors:

17 17 0

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Roadmap

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 FCS 7.1.1 Aha View

BGP Roadmap 7.1.15 Aha View

7.1.2 Aha View

7.1.1 7.1.15 7.1.2

• Specify source address or interface for RP • Inter-AS Option-B label scalability solutio • SRTE: IPv4 SR policy over BGPv6 session (IPv
KI (Resource Public Key Infrastructure) se n - using next-hop instead of per-prefix lab 6 BGP-TE external controller use-case)
rver el • CSCvq21467 - OCNI-BGP Advertised Prefix
• BGP debugability • BGP: BGP slow peer detection • SRTE-Services: L3-Services Inter-AS option B i
- conditional BGP prefix level trace and pe • BGP Graceful Restart Helper Mode preem ntegrated with Automated Steering (+ ODN)
r update-group reason (CSCux85606) ption
• NCS55 – 64 WAY eBGP
(Global & VRF) ECMP

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 721 Aha View

BGP Roadmap 731 Aha View

741 Aha View

7.2.1 7.3.1 7.4.1

• EVPN Convergence Improvements - Core
Isolation protection (Peer Down / BGP Nei
ghbor Tracking)
• SR: BGP Peer-Set SID + Manual Peering S
ID for EPE
• Timer delay enhancement in BGP
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FCS
• BGP slow peer automatic isolation from up
date-group.
• Route Reflect add-path control per neighbo
r - Comcast Backbone and Aggregation op
portunity
• EVPN: Convergence: PRISM - PRImary
Standby Mechanism (aka. L2-FRR)
• ASR9K - EVPN Convergence Improveme
nts - Core Isolation protection (Peer Down
/ BGP Neighbor Tracking)
• SRv6-Services: VPNv6 - IPv6-L3VPN -- (
END.DX6 , END.DT6)
• ORR for 6PE
• ASR9K - SR: BGP Peer-Set SID + Manual
Peering SID for EPE
• ASR9K/NCS5x - SRv6: Micro-Segments i
n Network Instruction (
uSID)
• SRv6-Services: End.DT6 - IPv6 Internet (
GRT) - Endpoint with specific IPv6 table l
ookup
FCS
• EVPN: OptionB
(NHS for IAS / IA) ELAN and ELINE Service E
xtension - Single Homing
• Async notification for "rib-has-route async" oper
ator with BGP protocol
• Support 50 Default-VRF eBGP
Sessions v4 UC - per system, 50 Default-VRF
eBGP
Sessions v6 UC - per system, 5K BGP Policies
, 5K BGP Community Lists (CVs, RTs, RDs etc.
.)
• Support 16K Flowspec routes with multiple mat
ching fields:
Src/dst prefixes, src/dst
ports, protocols (plus Packet length)
• [PI NeXT] BHA XCARE Triggers - BGP Infra
• [PI NeXT] BHA XCARE Triggers - BGP Config
• Reduce Flowspec entry install time after LC rel
oad
• eBGP
-U Signaled withdraw of route to BNG for upstr
eam SLC to Core  when link/lag failure occurs
• IP Routing and BGP announcement for eBGP
-U learned Access management subnets from t
he sub-tended BNG connected to dual SLC X-l
eaf. EC’ed
 751 Aha View

BGP Roadmap 761 Aha View – Plan

771 Aha View - Plan

7.5.1 7.6.1 7.71

• Support IETF 6790 Specification- "The Us • 761 Aha View- Plan 771 Aha View - Plan
e of Entropy Labels in MPLS Forwarding“
• EVPN: IGMP and MLD Selective Multicas
t (RT-6)
• BGP Support
• BGP Fallback Feature for LAG Bundles
• BGP PIC Backup path when primary is stat
ic route with next-hop as an IP Address
• BGP Best-external local leak vrf to vrf
• ORR support with FlexAlgo

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EC’ed EC’ed Tentative