ViaIpê: Last-mile network visibility at RNP, presented at Internet2 2016 Global Summit, on May 17th 2016.

1. VIAIPÊ: LAST MILE NETWORK VISIBILITY AT RNP
Rafael de Oliveira Ribeiro
Sr. Network Operations Analyst, RNP
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CONTENTS
ViaIpê: Last-mile network visibility at RNP
• Background
• Motivation
• ViaIpê portal
• Future work
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Background
• A national R&E network
– Tiered network operation
• 27 PoPs and a backbone NOC
• Degrees of autonomy
• Personnel and their expertise
• Geographic dispersion: 1000+ campuses,
multi-state connections
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Motivation
• From a client’s perspective
– Multi-state institutions
– Credentials galore
– Different information formats
• Case in point: last-mile traffic statistics
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Motivation
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Motivation
• Drivers of change
– Multi-state institutions
• Simplified information
• Non-technical audience
• Credentials too many
– Transparency
• Public funding
• Non-sensitive piece of information
– Higher management
• Backbone weathermap example – should it be extended to our clients?
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Motivation
• Choices considered:
– Brute force
– Integration
– Something else
• Inspiration
– Much of the data is already available – can’t we use them?
– “Many Eyes” website.
– Weathermap popularity
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ViaIpê portal
• Unified access
– Centralised, map-based display.
– No logins needed!
• Technical details
– Distributed architecture.
– Known software: Cacti and Smokeping.
– Commit-based configuration control.
• Outsourced Development
• URL: http://viaipe.rnp.br
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ViaIpê portal
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http://viaipe.rnp.br/

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ViaIpê portal – Controls
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Home button
Disaggregate
Zoom
Search
Filters
http://viaipe.rnp.br/

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ViaIpê portal – Disaggregated view
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http://viaipe.rnp.br/

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ViaIpê portal – Zoomed out view
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ViaIpê portal – Search
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ViaIpê portal – Filtering
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Institution
PoP
Quality
Packet loss
Download (%)
Upload (%)
Sample

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ViaIpê portal – Filtering example
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ViaIpê portal – Filtering results
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ViaIpê portal – Regional view
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ViaIpê portal – State level
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ViaIpê portal – Mouse-over display
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ViaIpê portal – Detailed view
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ViaIpê portal – Detailed view
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ViaIpê portal – Detailed view
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ViaIpê portal – Detailed view
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ViaIpê portal – Detailed view – Quality measurements
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ViaIpê portal – Results
• Troubleshooting and escalation
– Better communication
• Expanded analysis of last-mile access
– Filtering.
– Statistics applied to capacity planning
• Unplanned outcomes!
– Portal being used by providers
– Enhanced stakeholder management!
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Future work
• Enhancements
– Filtering
– Quality measurements
– Commits and deployment.
• Features
– REST interface and systems integration: ERP, monitoring engine.
– Central server redundancy.
– Other visualisations.
– Data persistence for historical and trend analysis.
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Special thanks to
• Development team
– Rafael Emerick Zape de Oliveira
– Wancharle Quirino
– Guilherme Meira
– Romulo Rosa
– Gabriel Moulin
• RNP PoPs – all of them!
– Timely feedback
– Patience 
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28. VIAIPÊ: LAST MILE NETWORK VISIBILITY AT RNP
Rafael de Oliveira Ribeiro
Sr. Network Operations Analyst, RNP
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Backup Slides

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ViaIpê portal – architecture overview
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ViaIpê portal – Central server admin interface
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ViaIpê portal – Central server admin interface – Debug view
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ViaIpê portal – Collector admin interface
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ViaIpê portal – Collector admin interface – Institution edit
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ViaIpê portal – Collector admin interface – Commit Control
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ViaIpê portal – Technical info
• Base system
– 8GB RAM / 40GB storage / 2 vCPUs
– Debian Linux, Kernel 3.2
– PHP 5, nginx 1.2
– cacti 0.8, smokeping 2.0
– Python3, angularJS and nodeJS code
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