Dcn Case Study 4 Limitations - Cisco ONS 15454 DWDM Reference Manual

Chapter 15 Management Network Connectivity
ip route 10.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 192.168.20.1
ip route 10.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 Tunnel0 10
ip route 192.168.100.1 255.255.255.255 192.168.100.79
ip route 192.168.100.80 255.255.255.255 Tunnel0 10
Note that the host routing path to the peer DCN router (Router, IP 192.168.100.1) points to the
ONS 15454 network (by 192.168.200.79). This is required to set up the GRE tunnel. In this
configuration, only the external route to 10.0.0.0 (that include the NOC network) is overloaded with the
alternate path. However, overloading the last-resort route is also possible.
Table 15-8
DCN-connected nodes can advertise their capability to act as last-resort routers.
Table 15-8
Node
Node 1
Node 2
Node 3
Node 4

15.3.7.2 DCN Case Study 4 Limitations

Many limitations described in the
apply to this case study. However, the problems are less acute because of the DCN connection in the
middle of the optical network. For DWDM networks, increased latency might became a problem if the
linear topology has many spans with intermediate line amplifier or optical add/drop multiplexing
(OADM) nodes, which is sometimes done to cover long-distance connections. In this case, when one
DCN fails, management packets for nodes near the middle of the span travel 1.5 times the complete
point-to-point connection. The normal routing figure is 0.5. The full connection length of a GRE tunnel
is used as an alternate routing path.
15.4 DCN Extension
ONS 15454 DWDM networks require a communication channel to exchange data among the different
nodes within the network. Until Software Release 7.0, the only usable channel was the optical service
channel (OSC) provided by the OSCM and OSC-CSM cards. In a long DWDM metro network, usage of
OSC channel adds limitations in terms of cost and performance because the OSC channel maximum loss
is 37 dB.
The primary aim of the DCN extension feature is to remove the OSC constraint and leverage on already
available external DCN or traffic matrix that allows nodes to be reached without using an OSC channel.
You can connect two nodes in a DWDM network without using an OSC channel in the following two
methods:
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shows network settings on the four ONS 15454 nodes. The static routes are created so the
DCN Case Study 4 Node IP Addresses
IP Address/Mask
192.168.100.80/24
192.168.100.79/24
192.168.100.78/24
192.168.100.77/24
Using external DCN
Using GCC/DCC
Static Routes:
Default Gateway Destination/Mask – Next Hop
192.168.100.1 0.0.0.0/0 – 192.168.100.1
192.168.100.1/32 – 192.168.100.80
192.168.100.2 192.168.100.2/32 – 192.168.100.79
192.168.100.2 0.0.0.0/0 – 192.168.100.2
0.0.0.0 —
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15.4 DCN Extension
also
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