CANARIE, DANTE, and SURFnet Test Plan

for Nortel OME6500 release3.0 10GE EPL

Problem/need definition

Nortel are developing a 10GE Ethernet Private Line (EPL) interface for use within the OME 6500 MSPP platform. This interface will enable 10GE client connections to a SONET infrastructure using GFP-F adaptation in a very similar way that GE client connections are possible. In addition, the 10GE EPL interface will support VCAT which will permit the provisioning of multiples of STS-3c capacity to 10GE client ports.

Within CAnet 4, there are two pressing requirements for 5 Gbps LightPaths? (STS-3c-32v), one of which is for TRIUMF in support of the LHC ATLAS experiment.

Project Goals

The purpose of this project is to test the basic operation and performance of the new OME6500 10GE EPL, as well as test its interoperability with the Alcatel 1678 MCC platform.

General Description

The project can be sub-divided into 4 parts:
1. CANARIE will test OME6500 to OME6500 basic operation and throughput performance with Nortel, between Carelton University and Nortel Lab10, over CAnet 4. Note Nortel have already completed in-house testing.
2. CANARIE will repeat the tests in 1. above, replacing the Nortel end-point by TRIUMF in Vancouver. An additional difficulty will be the bridging of the Vancouver local loop between TRIUMF and the local CAnet 4 PoP? which require DWDM optics.
3. DANTE and SURFnet will test 10GE EPL interoperability between the OME6500 MSPP and the 1678 MCC.
4. CANARIE and SURFnet and/or DANTE will provision and test a 5 Gbps LightPath? between TRIUMF and CERN.

Description main tasks and timeline

Task Description	Resources	Timeframe	Task Status
Cards and software
Order Nortel 10G EPL prototype cards	CANARIE, SURFnet		Completed
Ship 10G EPL prototype cards	Nortel	Was scheduled for week of 17 July	18 Sep, 2006 - the First 10G EPL card has been delivered by Robert to CANARIE office and the Second card will be shipped to BCnet by tomorrow and should be in BCnet by Wednesday.
Verify availability of Alcatel 10G EPL card	DANTE		Completed. Is in service in GEANT2. Frankfurt interface ideal end-point.
Verify Nortel support for pluggable DWDM optics	CANARIE, Nortel		Completed. Nortel will disable software verification of XFPs. TRIUMF will provide a 1500.12nm XFP
Deliver OME Release3.0 software load	Nortel		Completed. Nortel has delivered the release 3.0
Install OME Release3.0 software load	CANARIE		Complete. Installation was completed in the week of Oct 3. Edmonton and UofV? OME are upgraded first, and the rest of them are done in two days later
Test plan
Draft Carleton U to Lab10 Test Plan	CANARIE, Carleton U, Nortel	26 Oct 2006	Carleton-Nortel
Draft Carleton U to TRIUMF Test Plan	Carleton U, Nortel	30 Oct 2006	Carleton-TRIUMF
Draft TRIUMF to CERN Test Plan	TRIUMF, CERN	?? Nov 2006	TRIUMF-CERN
Draft Nortel-Alcatel 10GE EPL interoperability Test Plan	CANARIE, DANTE, Nortel, SURFnet		René and Bart to send draft to DANTE and SURFnet for review
LightPath? engineering and provisioning
Engineer and provision Carleton U to Lab10 LightPath?	CANARIE, CarletonU?, Nortel	31 July 2006	CANARIE to complete detailed design
Engineer and provision Carleton U to TRIUMF LightPath?	CANARIE, Carelton U, TRIUMF	31 July 2006	CANARIE to complete detailed design
Engineer and provision GEANT2 to SURFnet LightPath?	DANTE, SURFnet		DANTE and SURFnet to complete detailed design.
Test equipment
Obtain 10GE test equipment for throughput testing from Carelton U	Carleton U, Nortel		Nortel will loan test gear to Carleton U
Obtain 10GE test equipment for throughput testing from GEANT2 end-point to SURFnet	DANTE, SURFnet		DANTE should be able to get a loaner from Alcatel
Testing
Execute Carleton U to Lab10 Test Plan	Carleton U, Nortel	mid August 2006	- 27 Oct, 2006: Tests were performed at Carleton U. Bart has brought in a 10GE testset for use as an end device for testing. We ran into a bit of problem with the 10GE EPL card. For some reasons, it locked up in the middle of testing. First we thought it was problems on the testset due to the fact that Bart was quite famillar with the testset. After a few hours testing, we decided to stop and came back some other time so Bart can get familiar with the testset. - 10 Nov 2006 - We went through the tests we did couple weeks ago trying to reproduce the problems we ran into before. We did identfiy the lockup problem with the 10GE EPL card. The problem is the incrementing packet/frame size that test set generated which produced the repeatable lockup of the EPL card. The problem is reproduceable every time with the same packets pattern. Bart will bring this up with the engineering to look into this. Other than the problem, CCAT and VCAT is working properly. sts3c-16v and sts3c-32v VCAT circuits were tested.
Execute Carleton U to TRIUMF Test Plan	Carelton U, TRIUMF	31 August 2006	- 9 Nov 2006: David tried to install the 10GE EPL in Vancouver OME, he noticed that the daugther broad on the card wasn't secured so he has secured the card with one screw. The card power up fine but we would bring the card in service. The system doesn't recognize the card at all. I have sent an email to Bart and Robert and asked them for their advices. - 17 Nov 2006: Nortel support has logged in the the system, they has confirmed that the card is dead. So we need another card to support the TRIUMF 5G lightpath that should be online very soon. Robert is helpping to locate other proto-card for temporary use. 21 Nov 2006 - Robert got back to us saying that there will be a delay for the three new cards, they has been pulled back due to problems found with card components, they will not be ready until Feb, 2007. We can delay the deployment of the 5G circuit so I decided to take the 10GE EPL card in Ottawa to be used in Vancouver. We'll try to get another proto-card from Robert in Ottawa
Execute Nortel-Alcatel 10GE EPL interoperability Test Plan	DANTE, SURFnet	31 August 2006

10GEPL Project Calendar

If the start/end dates for main activities are known, you could display everything as follows:

26 Oct 2006 - 27 Oct 2006 - Carleton U and Nortel testing
30 Oct 2006 - 3 Nov 2006 - Carleton U and TRIUMF testing
6 Nov 2006 - 30 Nov 2006 - TRIUMF - CERN testing

You see...
-- HerveGuy - 18 Jul 2006

Description of main resources

- CANARIE staff: René Hatem, Thomas Tam, Wade Hong (Carleton University)
- DANTE staff: Michael Enrico, Otto Kreiter
- Nortel staff: Jan Willem Elion, Bart Hos, Robert Medina, Dave Yeung
- SURFnet staff : Erik-Jan Bos, Bram Peeters
- OME6500 10GE EPL interfaces for testing
- 1678MCC 10GE EPL in GEANT2 network
- 10GE test equipment
- LightPath? capacity for testing over the wide area
- Alcatel support

Last call

Date: Thursday 13 July 2006

Attendees: Bart Hos (Nortel), Wade Hong (CarletonU?/CANARIE), Otto Kreiter (DANTE), Doug Wong (Nortel - delegate for David Yeung), Jan Willem Elion (Nortel - SURFnet Account), René Hatem (CANARIE)

Previous call:

Date: Monday 19 June 2006

Attendees: Bart Hos (Nortel), Wade Hong (CarletonU?/CANARIE), Dave Yeung (Nortel), René Hatem (CANARIE), Michael Enrico (DANTE), Jan-Willem Elion (Nortel - SURFnet), Dino Fatica (Nortel), Bram Peeters (SURFnet)

Minutes

-- ReneHatem? - 17 Jul 2006

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