Network virtualization in access networks
A method, system and computer readable medium for advertising and interoperating Layer 2 VPN services from an access node to a core network. The method can include executing, using one or more processors, a routing protocol on an access node to establish adjacency with a core network node in an access mode. The method can also include mapping, using the one or more processors, an access network Layer 2 service identifier to a core network service identifier. The method can further include advertising, using the one or more processors, a mapping for the L2VPN service to the core network node. The method can also include sending, using the one or more processors, network traffic from the access node to the core network node without core network encapsulation.
1. A system comprising:
an access node, having an access node processor coupled to an access node data storage device having stored therein software instructions that, when executed by the access node processor, cause the access node processor to perform operations including:
executing a routing protocol on the access node to establish adjacency with a core network node in an access mode;
mapping an access network Layer 2 service identifier to a core network service identifier, wherein the mapping includes mapping of a VLAN to an ISID;
advertising the mapping for an L2VPN service to the core network node; and sending network traffic from the access node to the core network node without encapsulation; and
wherein the core network node includes a core network node processor coupled to a core network node data storage device having stored therein software instructions that, when executed by the core network node processor, cause the core network node processor to perform operations including:
executing, using one or more processors, a routing protocol from the core network node towards the access node in an access mode;
extracting, using the one or more processors, an access network Layer 2 service identifier to a core network service identifier mapping from a routing protocol message received from the access node, wherein the access network Layer 2 service identifier to a core network service identifier mapping includes mapping of a VLAN to an ISID;
creating, using the one or more processors, a VLAN on the core network node and adding to the VLAN a port corresponding to a port on which the service mapping was received; and
preventing, using the one or more processors, routing messages received from other core network nodes from reaching the access node.
2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the routing protocol is ISIS.
3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the routing protocol is ISIS and the advertising includes sending an ISIS-SPB TLV message from the access node to the core network node.
4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the access node does not advertise itself as a core network node to the core network.
5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the core network node is an immediate upstream core network node of the access node and wherein the access node is configured to not perform topology computations to reach other network nodes different from the immediate upstream network node.
6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the core network encapsulation includes Mac-in-Mac encapsulation.