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SONiC OCP2018 WAN

This document discusses Microsoft's global network and software-defined networking (SDN) strategies for wide area network (WAN) scenarios. It notes that Microsoft has one of the largest private networks in the world, with over 8,000 ISP sessions, 130 edge sites, and 33,000 miles of fiber. It describes how the company uses regional networks, high availability designs, and SDN to manage this infrastructure. It then discusses challenges around reducing hardware dependencies and lifecycle efforts. It proposes using SONiC, an open-source networking software, to help address these challenges for both peering routers at the edge and backbone routers across the global WAN.

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SONiC OCP2018 WAN

This document discusses Microsoft's global network and software-defined networking (SDN) strategies for wide area network (WAN) scenarios. It notes that Microsoft has one of the largest private networks in the world, with over 8,000 ISP sessions, 130 edge sites, and 33,000 miles of fiber. It describes how the company uses regional networks, high availability designs, and SDN to manage this infrastructure. It then discusses challenges around reducing hardware dependencies and lifecycle efforts. It proposes using SONiC, an open-source networking software, to help address these challenges for both peering routers at the edge and backbone routers across the global WAN.

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Azure Networking

WAN Scenarios

Yves Pitsch
Gary Ratterree
Microsoft
Global Greenland
Svalbard

Network United States

Canada United
Kingdom
Norway
Sweden
Russia

Poland
Ukraine Kazakistan
France Russia

Turkey
United States

Iran China Pacific


Algeria
One of the largest private
Atlanta Saudi Ocean
Ocean Libya Egypt Myanmar
Mexico Arabia India
(Burma)
networks in the world
Niger
Mali Sudan
Chad
Pacific
Ocean Nigeria
Ethiopi
• 8,000+ ISP sessions Venezuela
Colombia
Dr
a
Congo
Indonesia
• 130+ edge sites
Peru Angola Indian
Brazil Zambia Ocean
Bolivia
Nambia
• 44 ExpressRoute locations Australia
South
Africa
• 33,000 miles of lit fiber Owned Capacity Data Argentina
center
Leased Capacity
• SDN Managed (SWAN, OLS) Moving to Owned Edge Site

DCs and Network sites not exhaustive


Regional
Networks

High Availability Design

Regional network gateway

Massively parallel, hyper scale​


DC interconnect​ (up to 1.6 Pb/s)

Space and power protected

RNG data centers​

T-shirt sized (S,M, L, XL)​

Contains server racks, DC NW​

RNGs are sized to support growing


the region by adding data centers
Software
Defined Management Central

Networking
Commodity HW
API Controllers

(SDN) vNIC vNIC vNIC vNIC vNIC vNIC

Azure SDN
Basis of all NW virtualization
in our datacenters

Decoupled
SDN allows compute to SmartNIC
evolve and converge to a
single allocator

Key to flexibility and scale is Host SDN


SDN for WAN
(SWAN)

Traffic
Global control plane for Engine
Inter-DC network

High Network Utilization


Input Stream Output Stream
Router agents for FIB
programming

Optimization & Machine Learning (Data Science)


WAN Challenges and Microsoft innovation
100G
Colored
QSFP28C

• Reduce dependencies
• Reduce hardware lifecycle effort

SONIC for WAN…


Proposal #1 Details (Peering Router)

• IS-IS
• Further augment BGP for the edge
• Community Lists
• AS-PATH filter
• Route-Map
• Large ACL (for edge-facing devices)

• Sflow/IPFIX – for traffic measurement


• Policy Based Routing – to check BGP community before sending
Use-case and Motivation

Transit
Peer

Private Network IC
Internal SONiC Customer Site
WAN Router Peering Router

Internet Exchange
Proposal #2 Details (Backbone Router)

• Support for multichip/modular devices


• Full stack MPLS/LDP support (including Segment Routing)– SONiC +
SAI + ASIC implementation
• Support of WAN-facing hardware: MACSEC, Open Line System (OLS)
• Hooks for Cloud-Based SDN Tools and Operations (e.g. Streaming
Telemetry, Event-based scripts)
Use-case and Motivation

Edge Legacy SONiC


Peering Backbone Peering
Router Router Router

SONiC
Backbone
Router
Q&A
Moving Forward: Enabling WAN Scenarios
• Global Network is growing exponentially. We need
⎻ Agility for fast Time to Market feature release and defect remediation
⎻ To minimize hardware dependencies
⎻ To scale and grow the WAN efficiently while controlling costs

• Sonic is an integral element of our Cloud SDN solutions for intelligent traffic
management

• Two major roles


⎻ Edge Peering Router
⎻ Backbone Router

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