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Junos Space Connectivity Services Director

Connectivity Services Director Product

Description

Companies that offer MPLS and carrier Ethernet services face

common business challenges such as controlling capital and

operating expenses, accelerating time to market, and increasing

customer satisfaction. At the same time, these companies also

have to deal with technical challenges such as:

• Provisioning a customer service rapidly and accurately

• Scaling to keep up with customer demand

• Tracking site-specific quality of service (QoS)

• Troubleshooting and pinpointing problems in the network

Junos Space Connectivity Services Director allows service

providers and enterprises to rapidly enable new service

offerings. It facilitates an automated and streamlined approach

to the service design and provisioning process, reducing fallout

from misconfigured customer services and increasing customer

satisfaction and retention. Besides automating key provisioning

tasks, Junos Space Connectivity Services Director also provides

a complete network management solution, including automated

service discovery, MPLS resource management, point-and-

click service provisioning, validation, as well as monitoring

and troubleshooting for legacy ATM/TDM, MPLS, and carrier

Ethernet environments.

Junos Space Connectivity Services Director manages the life

cycle of services comprised of resource pool management,

service design, service provisioning, service troubleshooting,

service monitoring, service-level agreement (SLA) monitoring,

and service decommissioning. High-level capabilities include:

• Automating the design, activation, and validation of the

provisioning process for E-Line, E-LAN, IP services across

ATM/TDM, MPLS, and carrier Ethernet networks, enabling

service providers to efficiently and cost-effectively manage

deployments while reducing fallout from misconfigured

services

• Designing, provisioning, and activating RSVP-signaled

label-switched paths (LSPs), as well as static LSPs, which

can be configured as end-to-end, point to point (P2P),

point to multipoint (P2MP), or full mesh

• Monitoring service faults and performance of VPN services

using standards-based protocols and technologies such as

Figure 1: Junos Space Connectivity Services Director Functions

Resource

Management

Device and

services inventory

Service Design

Pre-defined and

custom templates

for services

Service

Provisioning

Rapid provisioning

of services

Validation and

Troubleshooting

Network performance

and SLA assurance

Ethernet connectivity fault management (CFM), Ethernet

link fault management (LFM), and Bidirectional Forwarding

Detection (BFD)

• Enforcing SLA of VPN services using Y.1731

• Provisioning synchronization interfaces such as IEEE1588-

2008(PTP) and Synchronous Ethernet

The Junos Space Network Management Platform and Junos

Space Connectivity Services Director are both accessible

through a northbound Representational State Transfer (REST)-

based API. This enables network providers to tap into the rich

functionality of Junos Space and build native applications on

their operations/business support systems (OSS/BSS) as they

begin to embrace SDN architectures in their networks.

Connectivity Services Director manages the services shown

in Table 1.

Table 1: Services Managed by Connectivity Services Director

Use Case

Service Supported

Service Type

Transport

RSVP LSP

• Point to point (P2P)

• Point to multipoint (P2MP)

• Full mesh

Static LSP

• Single hop

• Multihop

• Bypass

Generic routing

encapsulation (GRE)

tunnel

• Full mesh

• Hub and spoke

VPN

E-Line (multi-segment)

• Layer 2 circuit (E-Line

Martini)

• L2VPN (E-Line Kompella)

• EVPN-VPWS

E-LAN

• VPLS

• EVPN(E-Tree)

• Virtual switch

IP

• VRF

• Virtual router

• IP transit

OAM

CFM

• E-Line

• E-LAN

• Interface

LFM

• Interface

Y-1731

• E-Line

• E-LAN

RFC-2544

• E-Line

• IP

• Interface