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Junos Space Connectivity Services Director

Synchronization Management

Junos Space Connectivity Services Director includes an

optional component that manages synchronization devices

such as the Juniper Networks TCA Series Timing Appliances,

as well as synchronization subsystems within other Juniper

devices that support the IEEE 1588-2008 standard—commonly

known as Precision Time Protocol (PTP) and Synchronous

Ethernet. In addition to managing device-level synchronization

attributes, Connectivity Services Director also manages logical

timing entities or domains that comprise groups of devices or

subsystems. Users can create timing domains, assign various

synchronization devices and subsystems to a domain, and

then apply a specific timing service template to each domain.

Connectivity Services Director scans the devices in the timing

domain and performs configuration operations one-by-one

based on the service template, automating and simplifying the

configuration process.

Features and Benefits

Feature

Feature Description

Benefits

Removal of all possible manual

configuration errors

• Junos Space Connectivity Services Director provides a

centralized location for all L2VPN and L3VPN services.

• Reduces meantime to recovery (MTTR) when

troubleshooting customer connectivity issues.

Reliable and scalable architecture

• Junos Space Connectivity Services Director runs on a

distributed and scalable architecture.

• The Junos Space fabric can be expanded organically, as

administrators can simply add nodes to increase scalability.

• Users can monitor the health of the fabric and adjust node

membership, as needed. The application automatically load-

balances the processing across any new nodes, as required.

• Allows for a resilient application infrastructure.

• Allows for expansion of the application infrastructure

with the growth of the number of devices, number of GUI

operators and northbound operations support systems (OSS)

clients.

• Enables geographically distributed data centers to operate on

the same Junos Space fabric. In case one data center is not

operational, the secondary data center can still provide full

management capability to continue operations.

Autodiscovery (AD) and inventory

of network devices

• Using IP address range, IP subnet and hostname,

Connectivity Services Director is able to connect to and bring

in the complete physical inventory of the managed devices.

• Provides a complete and accurate device inventory of line

cards, PICs, interfaces, Juniper Networks Junos operating

system version, chassis type, and serial number that is

accessible in one single place.

Automated MPLS and network

resource management

• Leveraging Juniper best practices, there is a set of predefined

network signature rules that help with identifying the MPLS

role, UNI, and NNI. When configuring carrier Ethernet

services, a large number of network resources typically need

to be allocated and tracked for a given MPLS service.

• Provides automated resource allocation and management for

network and device resources.

• Provisioning Ethernet services at scale becomes fast and

efficient by automating network resource allocation.

Service design

• Leveraging Juniper MPLS best practices, Connectivity

Services Director has predefined service offering designs

for LSP and VPN services. Service designers can further

customize a carrier’s predefined service offering designs.

• Time to market is shortened, providing a turnkey service

model that can be leveraged rapidly.

• Custom service definitions allow for flexibility in service

provisioning.

Point-and-click provisioning

• Simple point-and-click provisioning allows the operator to

easily select the endpoints for activating a customer VPN.

• MPLS services supported are carrier Ethernet E-Line and

E-LAN (with E-Tree and multihoming) services. IP services

along with LSP services are also supported.

• Removes all possible manual configuration errors.

• Provides one centralized location to track all customer VPN

services (E-Line, E-LAN, IP).

• Reduces MTTR when troubleshooting customer connectivity

issues.

Configuration pre-validation

• Before deploying carrier Ethernet services, pre-validation is

done to determine if there are any conflicts with selected

network parameters—VLAN IDs, VC ID, route targets (RTs)

collision, uniqueness of route distinguisher (RD).

• All of these network pre-validations provide a certain level of

assurance that the service intended by the operator has no

conflicts and is configured correctly without errors.

Configuration post-validation

• Connectivity Services Director validates at a configuration

level to determine if the intended configurations are present

on all targeted devices.

• Ensures that the service configurations are present as

intended by the operator.

Operational validation

• In order to ensure that carrier Ethernet services are

operational, two validation levels are executed—control plane

and data plane validations.

• Provides the operator with a clear assurance that carrier

Ethernet services are indeed working.

Create, Read, Update, and Delete

(CRUD) functionality

• CRUD operations are available for all services supported.

• Customers can easily create, read, update, and delete their

services.

Synchronization management

(option)

• Connectivity Services Director allows configuration of PTP

and Synchronous Ethernet interfaces across Juniper devices.

• Provides network-wide consistency in the management

of synchronization—a critical requirement for 3G/4G/LTE

networks.