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ORACLE COMMUNICATIONS UNIFIED INVENTORY MANAGEMENT

MPLS L3 VPN TECHNOLOGY PACK

Domain MPLS L3 VPN

Business Logic Deep

Business Model Broad

Vendor/Device Independent

Model Perspectives

Service Fulfillment

Product

Technology Pack Facts

Specifications 56

Characteristics 229

Rules 40

Implemented Ext. Pts. 40

Cartridges 17

Custom Web Services 0

Domain MPLS L3 VPN

Business Logic Deep

Business Model Broad

Vendor/Device Independent

Model Perspectives

Service Fulfillment

Product

Technology Pack Facts

Specifications 56

Characteristics 229

Rules 40

Implemented Ext. Pts. 40

Cartridges 17

Custom Web Services 0

 

•  This is a large modular set of

object templates and related

business logic created using

Oracle Communications

Design Studio for UIM. It isbased on Oracle’s leading-

practice model for MPLS L3

VPN service fulfillment

Oracle’s Technology Packs for Unified Inventory Management leverage our domain expertise and experience in building models to

 provide a rich set of business entities for a particular domain. The

 MPLS L3 VPN Technology Pack enables service providers to quickly

define and manage MPLS L3 VPN services and resources using

Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management, and 

 provides a solid base for project-specific adaptation.

MPLS Layer 3 Virtual Private Networks

MPLS Layer 3 Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) are widely deployed by serviceproviders around the world to provide IP connectivity between customer business

locations. This technology provides significant advantages in flexibility, scalability,

and operations cost when compared against legacy technologies.

The MPLS L3 VPN Technology Pack provides business entities and behaviors

commonly required by providers of data networking services using MPLS Layer 3

VPNs as standardized by RFC4364 BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private Networks (VPNs).

Oracle’s proven familiarity with this technology ensures that terminology and concepts

are aligned with standards, common usage and industry direction.

MPLS L3 VPN Services

MPLS L3 VPN technology provides great flexibility in providing connectivity

amongst customer sites. Planning and tracking details of VPN configurations is

important in managing customer services and internal resource usage.

The MPLS L3 VPN Technology Pack supports hub and spoke, full mesh and hybrid

topologies. Route targets and VPN-IDs are managed resources associated with the

MPLS L3 Network and MPLS L3 Service that may be manually or automatically

allocated within the system.

Data Networking Modeling

Consistent representation of customer sites with associated geographic information and

customer premises equipment (CPE) is a critical aspect of managing a network for any

sort of business networking service.

The MPLS L3 VPN Technology Pack includes a standard Data Networking model that

captures key aspects of the service deployment directly visible to the customer

including customer premise equipment, interface information and connection

redundancy. The Data Networking site definition is applicable to multiple different

instances and implementations of a service thereby minimizing inventory churn as the

customer’s service deployment evolves.

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Oracle Benefits

• Productized Technology

Packs are supported and

maintained by Oracle

• Investment protection with

Oracle Lifetime Support

• Open, partner-friendly

business model

• Oracle commitment to, and

investment in,

communications

VRF and Routing Protocol Modeling

Virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) instances are critical resources within an MPLS

L3 VPN deployment. Therefore VRFs, their attributes and their associations with

interfaces and devices must be carefully and consistently managed.

The MPLS L3 VPN Technology Pack provides explicit modeling of VRF instances,allowing their management as logical resources and enabling flexibility in representing

complex service scenarios. This modeling takes into account scenarios where VRFs

are not bound to specific interfaces, and situations where they are used to provide

virtual routing instances outside the context of an MPLS network (i.e. VRF-Lite). The

VRF model supports a rich set of characteristics to represent VRF-specific routing

information as well as associations to Route Targets, interfaces and interface-specific

routing parameters. OSPF, RIP, EIGRP, eBGP and Static routing are all represented in

the model. Extensibility

The MPLS L3 VPN Technology Pack provides a consistent structure and a rich set of building blocks for managing L3 VPN services based on an MPLS infrastructure.

However, in many circumstances, it may be necessary to extend these definitions with

additional information or business logic specific to a provider’s unique environment.

The MPLS L3 VPN Technology Pack supports this requirement by providing natural

extension points that can be utilized without modifying the Technology Pack itself.

These extensions make use of standard patterns supported within Oracle

Communications Unified Inventory Management for augmenting existing models. For

example, different or additional business rules for validation or allocation may be

introduced as well as new configuration options to model L3 QoS for MPLS L3

Terminations or VRF-Lite Configurations.

Summary

The MPLS L3 VPN Technology Pack provides an essential set of components aligned

with RFCs and router vendor implementations. Using these components in

conjunction with standard UIM capabilities enables service providers to accurately

model their MPLS L3 VPN service environment to the appropriate level of detail

required to support their operations. The domain knowledge and modeling patterns

encapsulated in this Technology Pack provide significant benefits in reducing overall

implementation costs and timelines for MPLS L3 VPN deployments.

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