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1. Cisco's Fixed Mobile Convergence System Release 2.0 is
Available Now
Posted by Jason Dachtler Oct 25, 2013
The Cisco SDU Mobility team is proud to announce the availability of release 2.0 of
Cisco's Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) system. Building upon the successful delivery
of Unified MPLS for Mobile Transport (UMMT) system, Cisco’s FMC system
architecture delivers the next level of integration, cost optimization and service
innovation for service providers over fixed wireline, mobile or combined transport. The
FMC architecture combines industry leading platforms, service enablement and
massively scalable bandwidth capabilities with simplified operations and optimized cost
points.
The Challenge
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The Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Forecast for 2012-2017
predicts that global mobile data traffic will grow 13-fold from 2012 to 2017, a compound
annual growth rate of 66%. Addressing exponential traffic demands such as this with
existing architectures will fail to address the scaling of the services and subscriber
layers. In addition to addressing this growth, the FMC program addresses a broader
range of challenges, that allow a Service Provider to:
Innovate services delivered
Lower cost in the face of exponential traffic growth
Simplify operations while adding new services when the network has grown over a long
period of time to utilize multiple technologies and standards
Personalize services in an automated fashion without arduous operational procedures
Achieve the "any service on any device at any location in a secure manner with
consistent quality of experience" that the customers expect
Monetize my network assets while enabling subscribers to use any device they want to
access services
The FMC system provides validation for the foundational policy, security, user
experience and overall network strategy to address all these challenges.
Why Now?
Operators are making huge investments in fiber and microwave assets now to support
the 4G/LTE technology transition for mobile networks and looking to leverage those
investments by offering fixed services over the same infrastructure. As convergence
happens at the transport layer, it is driving convergence at the service and subscriber
layers, bringing new and innovative service offering capabilities via cloud enabled
services.

2. Why FMC?
By demonstrating solutions to today’s bandwidth, cost and simplification challenges, the
FMC system is positioned as the foundation to deliver future network services,
integrating cloud services with the network, and leveraging Cisco’s rich suite of SDN
interfaces for service innovation in the future. FMC brings innovative solutions that
integrate Cisco patented technology with microwave transport and also brings a full set
of fiber access options with Cisco equipment for both point-to-point and GPON
approaches.
What is FMC 2.0?
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FMC 2.0 expands upon converged transport to offer converged services and subscriber
control, regardless of whether these are via fixed wireline or mobile network access.
Beyond converged transport, FMC 2.0 validates two key service convergence use
cases:
A common Subscriber Policy Repository (SPR) and Policy and Charging Rules Function
(PCRF) implementation across fixed and mobile access, enabling personalized services
based on a common subscriber identity regardless of the access method.
Business L3VPNs over wireless LTE access to help operators expand the addressable
service footprint to those locations where fixed assets are not available.
Key technical innovations addressed in this release include a preview of Autonomic
Networking, Mapping of Address and Port: protocol translation (MAP-T) for residential
IPv6, Provider Backbone Bridging with Ethernet VPN (PBB-EVPN) for more scalable
business L2VPN services, enhanced Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (eMBMS)
for mobile, virtualized route reflector (VRR) implementation with IOS XR VR on the
Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) platform, Cisco Quantum Policy Suite (QPS)
for common PCRF, and introduction of the ME 2600 and ME 4600 platforms.
FMC 2.0 Components
The FMC 2.0 release is comprised of the hardware platforms and corresponding
software releases shown in the following table:
ROLE
PLATFORM DETAILS
Small Branch Business CPE
ISR G2 for L3 and ASR-901 for L2 (Fixed and LTE
Mobile Access)
Large Branch Business CPE
ASR-1000
Residential CPE
TP-LINK CPE (TL-WR1043ND, OpenWRT Version
12.09-rc1)
Residential ONT
Various models from ME-4600 for Residential,
Business and Mobile
Cell Site Gateway
ASR-901, IOS 3.11

3. Central Office located FTTX Access Node
ME-4600, ME-2600
Remote FTTX Access Node
ME-3600-24CX, IOS 3.10
Remote DSLAM
ME 4600, uMSAN-48 (ADSL2+)
Pre Aggregation Node (PAN)
ASR-903, XE 3.10
PAN with Service Edge (PAN-SE)
ASR-9001, XR 4.3.2
Aggregation Node (AGN)
ASR-9000, XR 4.3.1
AGN with Service Edge (AGN)
ASR-9000, XR 4.3.2
Aggregation Autonomous Systems Border Router
ASR-9000, XR 4.3.2
(AGN-ASBR)
Core Autonomous Systems Border Router (CNASBR)
CRS-3, XR 4.3.1
Core Node (CN)
CRS-3, XR 4.3.1
Route Reflector (RR)
IOS XR Virtual Router, version 4.3.2
DHCP
Cisco Prime Network Registrar (PNR) release 8.1
PCRF
Cisco Quantum Policy Suite (QPS) PCRF 5.3.5
Service Management
Cisco QPS Portal/PCRF/SPR 5.3.5
Subscriber Management
Cisco QPS SPR/AAA 5.3.5
Carrier Grade NAT (CGN)
AGN-SE with ISM doing NAT-64, XR 4.3.2
For More Information
A Design Guide for FMC release 2.0 may be found at the following
link: https://communities.cisco.com/docs/DOC-36998. This document describes in detail
the design methodology and best practices utilized in the FMC system and other
functional considerations of the system architecture design.
For more information on the SDU FMC System, please email: fmc-info@cisco.com
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