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Saroj Kumar GochhayatRESILIENT PACKET RING
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Resilient packet ring (RPR)
• RPR technology is optimized for robust and efficient packet
networking over a fiber ring topology.
• This technology incorporates extensive performance
monitoring, proactive network restoration, and flexible
deployment capabilities.
• RPR networks have the ability to carry multiple services,
including jitter- and latency-sensitive traffic such as voice and
video in addition to Ethernet and Internet protocol (IP)
services.
• RPR combines the best features of legacy synchronous
optical network (SONET)/synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH)
and Ethernet into one layer to maximize profitability while
delivering carrier-class service.
• Reliable – RPR offers a lossless transport; nodes on the ring
will not drop packets.
Resilient packet ring (RPR)
• Efficiency
Multicast – One RPR multicast packet can be
transmitted around the ring and can be received
by multiple nodes. Mesh topologies require
multicast packets to be replicated over all
possible paths, wasting bandwidth.
Spatial Reuse – RPR unicast packets are stripped
at their destination. Unlike SONET/SDH
networks, where circuits consume bandwidth
around the whole ring, RPR allows bandwidth to
be used on multiple idle spans.
Resilience
Proactive span protection automatically avoids failed
spans within 50 ms. Topology Discovery – Nodes
are automatically added and removed from the
topology map.
Services
Support for latency/jitter sensitive traffic such as
voice and video. Support for committed information
rate (CIR) services.
Efficiency
Spatial reuse: Unlike SONET/SDH, bandwidth is
consumed only between the source and destination
nodes. Packets are removed at their destination,
leaving this bandwidth available to downstream
nodes on the ring.
Scalable
Supports topologies of more than 100 nodes per
ring. Automatic topology discovery mechanism.
Resilient Packet Ring (RPR)
• Resilient Packet Ring (RPR), also known
as IEEE 802.17, is a standard designed
for the optimized transport of data traffic
over optical fiber ring networks. Its design
is to provide the resilience found in
SONET/SDH networks (50ms protection)
but instead of setting up circuit oriented
connections, providing a packet based
transmission. This is to increase the
efficiency of Ethernet and IP services.
POINT TO POINT & RPR
RING TERMINOLOGY 802.17
• IEEE STANDARD RING PROTOCOL
802.17 PACKET FLOW
RPR MAC
RPR MAC
• Receive Decision – Every station has a 48-bit
MAC address. The MAC will receive any packets
with a matching destination address.
• The MAC can receive both unicast and multicast
packets. Multicast packets are copied to the host
and allowed to continue through the transit path.
Matching unicast packets are stripped from the
ring and do not consume bandwidth on
downstream spans.
• There are also control packets that are meant
for the neighboring node; these packets do not
need a destination or source address
RPR MAC Transit Path
• Nodes with a non-matching destination
address are allowed to continue circulating
around the ring. Unlike point-to-point
protocols such as Ethernet, RPR packets
undergo minimal processing per hop on a
ring.
• RPR packets are only inspected for a
matching address and header errors
(TTL=0, Parity, CRC).
RPR MAC
• Transmit and Bandwidth Control – The
RPR MAC can transmit both high- and
low-priority packets. The bandwidth
algorithm controls whether a node is within
its negotiated bandwidth allotment for low-
priority packets. High-priority packets are
not subject to the bandwidth-control
algorithm.
Protection
1. RPR has the ability to protect the
network from single span (node or fiber)
failures. When a failure occurs,
protection messages are quickly
dispatched. RPR has two protection
mechanisms:
1. Wrapping 2.Steering
Wrapping
• Nodes neighboring the failed span will direct
packets away from the failure by wrapping traffic
around to the other fiber (ringlet). This
mechanism requires that only two nodes
participate in the protection event. Other nodes
on the ring can send traffic as normal.
Steering
• Steering – The protection mechanism
notifies all nodes on the ring of the failed
span. Every node on the ring will adjust
their topology maps to avoid this span.
• Regardless of the protection mechanism
used, the ring will be protected within 50
ms.
Protection
Protection
Protection
Physical Layer
• RPR packets can be transported over both SONET and
Ethernet physical layers. The SONET/SDH physical
layer offers robust error and performance monitoring.
RPR packets can be encapsulated within the
synchronous payload envelope (SPE) using a high-level
data-link control (HDLC)–like or generic framing protocol
(GFP) encapsulation. A robust Layer-1 protocol,
SONET/SDH provides information such as loss of signal
and signal degrade for use by the RPR protection
mechanism. When using a SONET/SDH physical layer,
RPR can be carried over SONET/SDH TDM transport.
• Ethernet provides an economical physical layer for RPR
networks. RPR packets are transmitted with the required
inter-packet gap (IPG).
• RPR Systems using the SONET physical layer will not
interoperate with Ethernet physical-layer-based systems
on the same ring.
The Future of RPR
RPRs provide a reliable, efficient, and
service-aware transport for both enterprise
and service-provider networks. Combining
the best features of legacy SONET/SDH
and Ethernet into one layer, RPR
maximizes profitability while delivering
carrier-class service. RPR will enable the
convergence of voice, video, and data
services transport.
PROTOCOL
Traffic Classes
RPR RING
RPR RING
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