Service Provider SDN Segment Routing in Action Sandbox v1 now available on Cisco dCloud!

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Overview

The Service Provider SDN Segment Routing in Action sandbox explores the following concepts and exercises:

• Segment Routing (SR) configuration in IOS-XR and IOS-XE
• LDP to SR migration steps
• SR verification and monitoring
• Topology-Independent Loop Free Alternate (TI-LFA) configuration and verification
• SR On-Demand Next-Hop (ODN) for on-demand instantiation of SR policies
• Automatic traffic steering onto SR policies without performance degradation
• Cisco® IOS XR - XR Transport Controller (XTC) acting as stateful SR PCE for multi-domain SR-TE policies
• IOS XR (XTC) as controller relying on BGP to distribute SR policy to a head end
• New SR-TE infra for IOS-XR head-end nodes
• New BGP SAFI/NLRI to distribute SR policies to head-end nodes
• Cisco WAN Automation Engine (WAE) for multi-domain Network / LSP discovery and automation leveraging northbound APIs on XTC
• Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) for faster and more reliable service orchestration

Check it out here: https://dcloud-cms.cisco.com/demo/sp-sdn-sr-sndbx-v1

Scenarios

• Scenario 1: Access Segment Routing Lab

Requirements

Required	Optional
Laptop	Cisco AnyConnect®

Components

• Cisco WAE 7.0.1
• Cisco NSO 4.4
• IOS XRv 6.3.1 (pre-release)
• VIRL

Features

WAE	Model-driven path visibility and computation engine Simulates, optimizes, and activates paths in a network Supports multi-vendor and multi-layer environments
NSO	A single, network-wide interface to all network devices and all network applications and services
Virtual Internet Routing Lab (VIRL)	Multi-purpose network virtualization platform. Provides an easy way to build, configure, and test new or existing network topologies
XTC	Stateful, distributed computation engine running in IOS XR

Topology