AT&T Multi-protocol Label Switching

Private Network Transport Service

(MPLS PNT)

National Communications
Tel: 866-624-2008
Email:
Sales@nationalcommunicationsgroup.com

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Agenda

• Your Business Requirements

• What is MPLS?
• MPLS PNT Offer – IP VPN
• The Value of MPLS PNT
• Wrap Up and Q&A

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 Your Business Requirements
Global solutions that
Consistent grow with the business Consistent and
customer support predictable services
Superior customer
Easy to use, Migration path
experience
integrated services to new technologies

Value for return

On-time
on communications
implementation
investment

AT&T Designs Networking

Solutions for Your
Business Needs

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AT&T’s IP Network: Engineered to Your
Requirements
AT&T is Investing to Operate the World’s Best IP Network
HQ
Single AT&T Global
HQ End User Network Corporate Business
Sites Partners

End-to-End
Quality of
Service

Varying
Corporate Degrees of
Business Management
Partners Sites Remote Worker End User

AT&Ts Network Evolution: Optimizing Application Performance with MPLS

• Supports Quality of Service/Classes of services for different applications
–Traffic Prioritization
• Scalable Virtual Private Networks (VPN)

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MPLS in the AT&T Global Network Backbone

RAS

Private & Internet Edge VPNs

I1.1 Servers
RAS Shared
NCP
Servers
CSR CSR CSR

X-over PE PE
NCP SNA Services Internet
MPLS VPNs PE
Network P
CSR Shared MPLS E
Network
PE
CSR
Frame ATM & Frame Optical Core Network
VPNs Infrastructure

CSR

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How MPLS forwards Packets
Data Packet Two Labels

The inner label (second- The outer label (first-

level) identifies the level) is the forwarding
destination VPN and label for transport
customer address within the core

Egress MPLS Edge

Router removes labels Ingress MPLS Edge
from each packet Router adds two labels
to each packet

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 Convergence - Wouldn’t this be Nice?
MPLS Enabled IP Network – All Applications on ONE IP Network

Data Voice
Applications Applications

MPLS IP
Backbone

Internet
Applications

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 MIS – Managed Internet Service
The Foundation for MPLS PNT
Provides customers with managed, dedicated connectivity to the public Internet, complemented with a number of
value added services. AT&T carries customers’ traffic to anywhere on the Internet
LAN
Customer Customer
Premises router
Description
Dedicated port into AT&T’s OC48/OC192 Common Backbone - no single point of
failure in the core backbone:
• Designed with multiple rings for alternative routes between nodes
• Routers deployed in a redundant fashion (power, processors)
AT&T Access
POP router
• Access speeds range 56kbps – 2.5 Gbps (OC48)
• Access options: PL, FR, ATM, T1SINA, Ethernet

• MIS with CPE option includes: equipment lease, installation, monitoring, and
maintenance; also offer redundant configuration (“Cold Standby” CPE)
AT&T CBB
(IP Backbone)

Public Internet

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What is AT&T MPLS PNT?
 PNT is a new type of VPN (Hybrid of the traditional models)
– Provisioned on the AT&T IP Network
– Uses MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching) to provide security

 Does not need additional VPN gear at the customer’s site for
security
• A private networking environment in a shared infrastructure
(IP Network) utilizing Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
technology based on IETF Standard (RFC 2547)

Simply stated – A network-based IP VPN

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Applications of MPLS PNT

 VPN
– MIS PNT is a network based VPN, which offers all of the benefits of
traditional IP based VPNs without the need for additional VPN gear
and management
 Point to Point Connection
– MIS PNT provides a dedicated, replicable, and secure path through
the AT&T IP Backbone
 Merge Networks (FR, ATM, IP)
– MIS PNT gives customers the ability to have the security of FR on an
IP network. Therefore, they can have Internet access and security
and CoS all on one network

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Features of MPLS PNT
 Access Speeds
– Packet over SONET (POS) interface access for T1, T3, OC3, OC12 and OC48 (Fractional T1
is not available at this time – coming 1Q04)
– (NxT1 is not available at this time – however MARO ALB is available)

 Addressing
– Allows both private (example10.x.x) and public addressing

 Routing protocol
– Supports both Static and BGP (depending on PNT model)

 Billing options
– Flat rate, Burstable, Hi-Cap Flex, and aggregate

 Internet Access
– MPLS PNT does not provide internet access (on the same port – Coming soon!)
– Internet access can be provided by purchasing Internet ports and will incur additional charges

 Management
– Supports both managed and unmanaged options

 Footprint
– Domestic US only

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 Model Examples of MPLS PNT

Label Transport IP Transport

Downstream Customer
ISP’s MPLS MPLS VPN Region 1 MPLS VPN
VPN
CE
CE

CE
CE
Downstream PE P PE
PE P PE ISP’s MPLS (AR) (BR) (AR) Customer
(AR) (BR) (AR) VPN Region 2

CE router will send AT&T's PE (AR) router labels CE router will act just like any other IP
identifying the VPN. The AT&T PE router adds router. The CE router will send IP packets
labels identifying the path through the network to AT&T's PE router (AR). The AT&T PE
router assigns VPN labels to the packets

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 The Value of Both Models
 MPLS Label Transport  MPLS IP Transport
(CPE sends a VPN label to AT&T AR) (CPE does not send a VPN label to AT&T AR)

– CE router must be LDP (MPLS Label

– Customer Edge router (CE) will send IP
Distributed Protocol) enabled. It will send
IP traffic to AT&T PE Router and add traffic to AT&T PE router
additional labels identifying the VPN – AT&T PE router (AR) will assign two labels
– AT&T PE router (AR) will assign two more to the customer’s packets.
labels to the customer’s packets – One label identifies the VPN and the other
identifying the VPN and path through the label identifies the path through the AT&T
AT&T network
network
– The combination of the customers labels
plus AT&T’s labels creates the labels – Static and BGP routing protocol between
needed for MIS PNT customer router and AT&T access router
– Static routing protocol supported between – Advantage:
customer router and AT&T router at this  Simplicity. Customer doesn’t have to
time.
understand MPLS but will be provided
– Advantage: a network based VPN
» Customer does not need to send
AT&T their external routes
» Customer can run MPLS within their
regional network
» Customer can offer MPLS VPN to
their own customers.

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 How Label Transport Model Works
• IP Backbone has been MPLS enabled
• During the Provisioning process, AT&T creates a “VPN ID” for the
customer
• The Provider Edge (PE) router (or Access Router) will terminate
Customer Edge (CE) routers (or Customer Routers) MPLS PNT ports
and assign a VPN label to it.
• PE router will then add on another label for packet forwarding
purposes. Once the packet gets into the backbone core, the
Provider’s (P) routers (or Backbone Routers) will have no knowledge
of this VPN, where it terminates, or its IP addresses. The P routers will
just forward the labeled packets, following the normal network
routing mechanism.
• Once the packet reaches the destination PE router, it will then strip off
the forwarding label.
• Based on the VPN label, the destination PE router will know which
port belongs to the VPN. It will then take off the VPN label, and send
the packets to the designated port connected to the CE router.

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 Class of Service With MPLS PNT

CBB
Core

CR1 AR1 BR AR2 CR2

• Packet prioritization by reordering

• Bandwidth allocation
• Congestion management
CR=Customer Router
AR=Access Router

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Service Level Agreements (SLAs)

 SLAs
– 99.99% Availability
– 60 millisecond Network Latency/Delay
– <0.7% Packet Loss

 Provisioning
• T1: 32 Business days
• T3: 42 Business days
• OC3 : 63 Business days

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 The Value of MPLS PNT
 Cost Effectiveness
– Significant cost savings – 10%-40% compared to “Traditional VPNs”
– Merges both Internet and private networking needs over one cost effective network
 Layer 3 PPP local access
– Offers end to end Native IP
 Guaranteed Full Port Speeds
– Not a CIR/CDR concept that cannot “guarantee” port speed
 Extensive U.S. Domestic Reach via the AT&T IP Backbone - a Native IP
Network
– Uniform MPLS-enabled IP Network
– Access independent
 Security
– MPLS inherent security on par with Frame Relay
– Additional optional AT&T Security Services
 High Performance Network
– Available with MARO (MIS Access Redundancy Options)
– Tier 1 carrier-class IP network reliability and performance
 Predicatable Performance (QoS)
– Multiple Classes of Service supported to accomodate all types of applications

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The Value of MPLS PNT - con’t
 Project Management
– Comprehensive network solution design leveraging AT&T engineering and
operational expertise
– Project and deployment management utilizing global tool set to develop,
document and drive implementations globally
 Simplicity of One Stop Shop with Flexible Billing Options
– One contract, one price schedule, one servicing model deployment /
operation / customer care, one bill
– Billing includes options for flat rate, burstable, hi-cap flex and aggregate
 Scalability
– Network based service can be scaled easily in terms of sites and speeds
– Fully meshed connectivity to all sites with just a single connection into the
VPN
 Simplicity
– No tunnel or PVC provisioning and maintenance required
 Flexibility
– Add or delete sites/routes as needed
 Excellent Customer Support
– 24X7 customer care and network support

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AT&T Accolades
AT&T ranked highest on Gartner’s US NSP Magic Quadrant
with best “Ability to Execute” and “Completeness of Vision”

AT&T IP backbone is the largest US IP backbone in

traffic volume

AT&T IP backbone is the best performing IP backbone

in the industry

A clear leader of managed data networking provider in

large enterprise market in a enterprise survey

Data market leader in performance and presence by

META Group

First and ONLY carrier with both a coast to coast OC-192

AND more than 1.8M sq. ft. of hosting capacity

Handles 2,700 trillion bytes of data on an average business

day, equivalent to the printed contents of the Library of
Congress, every 11 minutes

Operates with 99.999 percent network reliability for ATM and

Frame Relay,as well as 99.99 percent reliability for IP services

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 AT&T: The World’s Networking Company

Thank You

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Back Up Slides

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 MIS Access Redundancy Options (MARO)
• Purchase multiple connections to the AT&T IP backbone to help protect against potential failure in
any single component of the MIS circuit. e.g., customer’s access router, IP backbone router, circuit
link, etc.
• AT&T will coordinate with the customer to implement their desired traffic flow over the two links
and manage the necessary BGP4 routing
• Fast rerouting within the AT&T network upon failure
• AT&T will implement failover mechanisms to protect against failures of the MIS Managed Routers
on customer premises
• AT&T can provide network professional services to assist in traffic flow design, load sharing, BGP4
design, etc. for MIS customers with or without Managed routers

Backbone Node Redundancy Access Router Redundancy Automatic Load Balancing

Backbone Backbone Backbone Backbone

AR AR AR AR AR
IOC IOC IOC

POP POP POP

LC LC LC
CR CR CR CR CR
Customer site Customer site Customer site

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