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Junos Space Product Description Juniper Networks® Junos Space® Connectivity Services Director is part of Junos Space, a comprehensive network management solution that simplifies management of Juniper’s switching, routing, and security devices. Junos Space is a critical component of Juniper’s SDN strategy. It provides a centralized management plane with a single point-of-access into the network, and a common management platform for managing and creating applications to meet your specific needs. With Junos Space, you can simplify and automate the network, improve network agility, and deliver new services quickly, all from a single console. Junos Space is composed of the following software elements:

  • Junos Space Network Management Platform: Offers comprehensive fault, configuration, accounting, performance, and security (FCAPS) and element management of Juniper devices, improving operator efficiencies and providing a programmable interface and exposable APIs that enable the development and integration of third-party applications
  • Junos Space Management Applications: Provides plug-and-play, domain- specific applications to help you provision new services and optimize workflow tasks across thousands of Juniper devices The Junos Space Network Management Platform infrastructure includes the basic capabilities for device management and system administration, such as:
  • Device discovery
  • Device image management
  • Device inventory management
  • Script management
  • Log files management
  • User and security administration
  • Fault management
  • Performance management In addition to these basic functions, the Junos Space Network Management Platform facilitates a multitenant, plug-and-play application environment that enables fast startup and in-service device upgrades. While the Junos Space Network Management Platform offers broad fault, configuration, and device provisioning capabilities with a task-specific user interface, Junos Space Management Applications extend the breadth of the platform to optimize network management for various domains. The Connectivity Services Director application runs on the Junos Space platform, where it enables users to automate the end-to-end provisioning of new services across thousands of devices with a simple point-and-click GUI, and to optimize management for specific domains such as core, edge, access and aggregation, data center, WAN, and campus and branch. Product Overview Service providers and enterprises must be able to rapidly provision and offer new MPLS and carrier Ethernet services across their networks. In order to reduce operational costs and enable quick service rollouts, these network operators need an intelligent provisioning application that facilitates the design, deployment, and management of services. Junos Space Connectivity Services Director facilitates life-cycle service management, addressing MPLS use cases such as:
  • Transport
  • VPN services
  • QoS
  • Timing/synchronization
  • OAM Featuring an intuitive GUI, Connectivity Services Director supports a rich set of APIs to enable northbound integration and service orchestration with other OSS platforms.

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

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.

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  • Provides an early warning about network problems and allows service providers to meet SLAs. T opology view • Connectivity Services Director has a BGP-LS based topology view. Optical links in the network are also available in topology view.
  • Multiple overlays can be viewed as part of a topology view link layer, transport layer, and service layer. NorthStar Controller integration • Connectivity Services Director uses the NorthStar Controller REST API to manage LSP services and give a single pane of glass for VPN services and LSP services managed by NorthStar Controller.
  • Customer can create LSP(s) as part of VPN service provisioning in a single REST API call.
  • Connectivity Services Director will take care of creating the LSP(s) and VPN service and making sure they are deployed on the network.
  • It will also associate the created LSP(s) with VPN service. OSS/BSS integration (option) • Connectivity Services Director provides REST API for northbound OSS/BSS to access the applications and orchestrate other services.
  • Simple interface to achieve platform extensibility, multivendor support and service orchestration. Table 2: Supported Platforms and Models for Connectivity Services Director Supported Platforms Supported Models ACX Series Universal Access Routers
  • ACX500
  • ACX1000
  • ACX1100
  • ACX2000
  • ACX2100
  • ACX2200
  • ACX4000
  • ACX5048
  • ACX5096
  • ACX5448
  • ACX5448-D
  • ACX5448-M MX Series 3D Universal Edge Routers
  • MX80
  • MX104
  • MX240
  • MX480
  • MX960
  • MX2010
  • MX2020
  • MX10003
  • MX10008
  • MX10016 M Series Multiservice Edge Routers
  • M320 router
  • M7i
  • M10i PTX Series Packet Transport Routers
  • PTX3000
  • PTX5000 EX Series Ethernet Switches • EX4550
  • EX4600
  • EX9200 QFX Series Switches • QFX5100
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