Cisco MATE Design is a network planning tool that helps model application migrations between data centers. It allows users to assess the impact of migrations on network infrastructure and determine optimal locations. The document provides examples of how MATE Design can be used to: 1) determine the best location for migrating a specific application between three data centers based on interface utilization and worst-case analysis; 2) model data center routing policies and failure scenarios; and 3) identify the lowest impact location for building a new data center or migrating all applications from a closing one.
1) Mobile business users now spend more time using their devices at home than at work or on the go, with home being the primary location for using devices like laptops, tablets, and smartphones.
2) While smartphones still rely on mobile networks, most other business user devices connect exclusively via Wi-Fi, and business users generally prefer Wi-Fi connectivity over mobile networks due to benefits like speed and cost.
3) More than half of business users utilize public Wi-Fi networks weekly, most commonly at locations like coffee shops, outdoor spaces, and other venues, though very few pay for access.
Next-Generation Knowledge Workers: Accelerating the Disruption in Business Mobility White Paper: http://cs.co/6019ZLTv
For more discussions and topics around SP Mobility, please visit our Mobility Community:http://cisco.com/go/mobilitycommunity
The Cisco Quantum Policy Suite is a software solution that allows providers to build and launch new services quickly, manage the subscriber experience throughout their lifecycle, and dynamically match services to users and network conditions to drive monetization. It facilitates OTT partnerships and delivers personalized experiences at scale, enabling providers to seize new opportunities. The Quantum Policy Suite provides unmatched scalability and reliability compared to legacy policy systems, with the ability to handle high transaction volumes and sessions loads with low latency.
Service providers can generate new revenue through location-based advertising over Wi-Fi networks. Location data from a user's movement within a venue's Wi-Fi zone combined with user profiles allows advertisers to send personalized ads, increasing their effectiveness. Cisco solutions like CMX and SP Wi-Fi enable service providers to capture user location and engagement data within Wi-Fi networks to facilitate these targeted ads. Location-based advertising also creates opportunities for partnerships between service providers, advertisers, and venue owners to further increase revenues.
This document is a confidential Cisco document from 2013-2014 consisting of 16 pages with repeated copyright notices and confidentiality statements but no other substantive content.
Cisco MATE Design is a network planning tool that helps model application migrations between data centers. It allows users to assess the impact of migrations on network infrastructure and determine optimal locations. The document provides examples of how MATE Design can be used to: 1) determine the best location for migrating a specific application between three data centers based on interface utilization and worst-case analysis; 2) model data center routing policies and failure scenarios; and 3) identify the lowest impact location for building a new data center or migrating all applications from a closing one.
1) Mobile business users now spend more time using their devices at home than at work or on the go, with home being the primary location for using devices like laptops, tablets, and smartphones.
2) While smartphones still rely on mobile networks, most other business user devices connect exclusively via Wi-Fi, and business users generally prefer Wi-Fi connectivity over mobile networks due to benefits like speed and cost.
3) More than half of business users utilize public Wi-Fi networks weekly, most commonly at locations like coffee shops, outdoor spaces, and other venues, though very few pay for access.
Next-Generation Knowledge Workers: Accelerating the Disruption in Business Mobility White Paper: http://cs.co/6019ZLTv
For more discussions and topics around SP Mobility, please visit our Mobility Community:http://cisco.com/go/mobilitycommunity
The Cisco Quantum Policy Suite is a software solution that allows providers to build and launch new services quickly, manage the subscriber experience throughout their lifecycle, and dynamically match services to users and network conditions to drive monetization. It facilitates OTT partnerships and delivers personalized experiences at scale, enabling providers to seize new opportunities. The Quantum Policy Suite provides unmatched scalability and reliability compared to legacy policy systems, with the ability to handle high transaction volumes and sessions loads with low latency.
Service providers can generate new revenue through location-based advertising over Wi-Fi networks. Location data from a user's movement within a venue's Wi-Fi zone combined with user profiles allows advertisers to send personalized ads, increasing their effectiveness. Cisco solutions like CMX and SP Wi-Fi enable service providers to capture user location and engagement data within Wi-Fi networks to facilitate these targeted ads. Location-based advertising also creates opportunities for partnerships between service providers, advertisers, and venue owners to further increase revenues.
This document is a confidential Cisco document from 2013-2014 consisting of 16 pages with repeated copyright notices and confidentiality statements but no other substantive content.
Cisco MATE software allows users to import network topology and routing metrics to evaluate loop-free alternate (LFA) coverage for fast reroute. The software performs an LFA analysis that examines coverage for each demand across each interface, identifying interfaces as green (full coverage), yellow (partial coverage), or red (no coverage). Example analyses show percentages of traffic with circuit and node protection, as well as coverage levels. A dual-plane topology solution provides 100% LFA protection throughout the network.
The document summarizes the Cisco MATE portfolio, which consists of MATE Design, MATE Live, and MATE Collector products. It describes how each product supports network planning, engineering, and operational tasks. It then provides examples of key usage scenarios for network planners and designers, including using the tools to simulate traffic growth over time, analyze the impact of proposed topology changes before implementing them, and evaluate whether a network could support a new customer or service.
This document discusses the growth of mobile data usage and strategies for mobile data offload. It notes that 50% of mobile data traffic will be offloaded to Wi-Fi and small cells in 2013. It also discusses how offloading mobile data can help service providers with retention and loyalty by reducing churn, save money by reducing network costs, and make money through new revenue streams from managed wireless services, location analytics, and location-based advertising. Finally, it provides examples and case studies on implementing various mobile data offload strategies.
Small cell technology has significantly decreased in cost from $30,000 to $1,000 per unit. Enterprises are demanding small cells to solve voice coverage issues within their locations. 22 of 23 enterprises at a Cisco customer advisory board stated they want small cells now primarily for voice coverage. Leveraging existing Wi-Fi infrastructure and practices will be key to lowering the total cost of small cell deployment for enterprises. Location-based services and analytics provide unique opportunities for small cell deployments within enterprises.
Cisco MATE Design is a network modeling tool that allows users to simulate complex routing policies through the use of external endpoints for demands. External endpoints define priority-based failover configurations for demand sources and destinations. This enables modeling of inter-autonomous system traffic distribution and failover policies, as well as data center redundancy. When an external endpoint member fails in a simulation, MATE Design instantly updates the network display to show the impact on traffic routing.
Global Crossing wanted more visibility and control over its IP network like it had with legacy networks. It used Cisco MATE Design and collector to map its network and measure traffic flows. This allowed it to accurately simulate the network's behavior under different conditions and identify points of congestion. It could then optimize the network configuration and capacity planning to improve resilience and reliability while reducing costs. The MATE software helped Global Crossing transition from overprovisioning bandwidth to precisely targeting capacity increases only where needed.
Cisco MATE Design is a network modeling tool that allows users to forecast traffic growth and its impact on networks. It enables network planners to view the effects of adding customers or services, rapidly model future network growth, and determine when optimizations are needed. The tool can simulate increased demands to analyze impacts, assess failures, and project regional or network-wide growth over time using traffic trend data from Cisco MATE Live. MATE Design provides visualizations to identify objects most at risk and plan necessary network changes.
Read other blog posts by the author, Zahid Ghadialy, here: https://communities.cisco.com/people/ZahidGhadialy/content
For more discussions and topics around SP Mobility, please visit our Mobility Community: http://cisco.com/go/mobilitycommunity
MATE Design software offers an integrated system for designing, engineering, and planning IP/MPLS networks. It allows network planners to maximize investments, model complex networks, simulate failures and traffic flows, perform traffic engineering and capacity planning. MATE Design integrates with other Cisco network management tools and helps ensure network efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
This paper outlines the need for traffic matrices and describes how Demand Deduction works. You will learn what a traffic matrix is and how Demand Deduction creates reliable traffic matrices; Demand Deduction as a proven accurate, complete, and useful traffic simulation.
More Information: http://cisco.com/go/quantum
Read Monica Paolini's blog post to learn more, The Evolution of the Small-Cell Backhaul Market: How to Pick the Right Solutions (and Vendors): http://cs.co/mpssbr
Look through the slides from the July 17th FierceWireless webinar with guests from Cisco, SDNCentral, and Openwave Mobility as they examine the place of SDN in facilitating next-generation application services.
You will learn:
1. How to provide subscriber-awareness in a SDN network via the SDN Controller
2. Why a hierarchical (L2-4 and L7) SDN approach is necessary
3. The critical business and ROI drivers for service providers considering Gi-LAN services
For more SP Mobility related content, visit our Cisco SP Mobility Community: http://cisco.com/go/mobilitycommunity
Visit the Big Thinkers in Small Cells Portal: http://www.cisco.com/assets/sol/sp/big_thinkers/index.html
To learn more, please visit the Cisco Small Cell Solutions Page: http://cisco.com/go/smallcell
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/building-and-scaling-ai-applications-with-the-nx-ai-manager-a-presentation-from-network-optix/
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In this presentation, van Emden covers the basics of scaling edge AI solutions using the Nx tool kit. He emphasizes the process of developing AI models and deploying them globally. He also showcases the conversion of AI models and the creation of effective edge AI pipelines, with a focus on pre-processing, model conversion, selecting the appropriate inference engine for the target hardware and post-processing.
van Emden shows how Nx can simplify the developer’s life and facilitate a rapid transition from concept to production-ready applications.He provides valuable insights into developing scalable and efficient edge AI solutions, with a strong focus on practical implementation.
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Cisco MATE software allows users to import network topology and routing metrics to evaluate loop-free alternate (LFA) coverage for fast reroute. The software performs an LFA analysis that examines coverage for each demand across each interface, identifying interfaces as green (full coverage), yellow (partial coverage), or red (no coverage). Example analyses show percentages of traffic with circuit and node protection, as well as coverage levels. A dual-plane topology solution provides 100% LFA protection throughout the network.
The document summarizes the Cisco MATE portfolio, which consists of MATE Design, MATE Live, and MATE Collector products. It describes how each product supports network planning, engineering, and operational tasks. It then provides examples of key usage scenarios for network planners and designers, including using the tools to simulate traffic growth over time, analyze the impact of proposed topology changes before implementing them, and evaluate whether a network could support a new customer or service.
This document discusses the growth of mobile data usage and strategies for mobile data offload. It notes that 50% of mobile data traffic will be offloaded to Wi-Fi and small cells in 2013. It also discusses how offloading mobile data can help service providers with retention and loyalty by reducing churn, save money by reducing network costs, and make money through new revenue streams from managed wireless services, location analytics, and location-based advertising. Finally, it provides examples and case studies on implementing various mobile data offload strategies.
Small cell technology has significantly decreased in cost from $30,000 to $1,000 per unit. Enterprises are demanding small cells to solve voice coverage issues within their locations. 22 of 23 enterprises at a Cisco customer advisory board stated they want small cells now primarily for voice coverage. Leveraging existing Wi-Fi infrastructure and practices will be key to lowering the total cost of small cell deployment for enterprises. Location-based services and analytics provide unique opportunities for small cell deployments within enterprises.
Cisco MATE Design is a network modeling tool that allows users to simulate complex routing policies through the use of external endpoints for demands. External endpoints define priority-based failover configurations for demand sources and destinations. This enables modeling of inter-autonomous system traffic distribution and failover policies, as well as data center redundancy. When an external endpoint member fails in a simulation, MATE Design instantly updates the network display to show the impact on traffic routing.
Global Crossing wanted more visibility and control over its IP network like it had with legacy networks. It used Cisco MATE Design and collector to map its network and measure traffic flows. This allowed it to accurately simulate the network's behavior under different conditions and identify points of congestion. It could then optimize the network configuration and capacity planning to improve resilience and reliability while reducing costs. The MATE software helped Global Crossing transition from overprovisioning bandwidth to precisely targeting capacity increases only where needed.
Cisco MATE Design is a network modeling tool that allows users to forecast traffic growth and its impact on networks. It enables network planners to view the effects of adding customers or services, rapidly model future network growth, and determine when optimizations are needed. The tool can simulate increased demands to analyze impacts, assess failures, and project regional or network-wide growth over time using traffic trend data from Cisco MATE Live. MATE Design provides visualizations to identify objects most at risk and plan necessary network changes.
Read other blog posts by the author, Zahid Ghadialy, here: https://communities.cisco.com/people/ZahidGhadialy/content
For more discussions and topics around SP Mobility, please visit our Mobility Community: http://cisco.com/go/mobilitycommunity
MATE Design software offers an integrated system for designing, engineering, and planning IP/MPLS networks. It allows network planners to maximize investments, model complex networks, simulate failures and traffic flows, perform traffic engineering and capacity planning. MATE Design integrates with other Cisco network management tools and helps ensure network efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
This paper outlines the need for traffic matrices and describes how Demand Deduction works. You will learn what a traffic matrix is and how Demand Deduction creates reliable traffic matrices; Demand Deduction as a proven accurate, complete, and useful traffic simulation.
More Information: http://cisco.com/go/quantum
Read Monica Paolini's blog post to learn more, The Evolution of the Small-Cell Backhaul Market: How to Pick the Right Solutions (and Vendors): http://cs.co/mpssbr
Look through the slides from the July 17th FierceWireless webinar with guests from Cisco, SDNCentral, and Openwave Mobility as they examine the place of SDN in facilitating next-generation application services.
You will learn:
1. How to provide subscriber-awareness in a SDN network via the SDN Controller
2. Why a hierarchical (L2-4 and L7) SDN approach is necessary
3. The critical business and ROI drivers for service providers considering Gi-LAN services
For more SP Mobility related content, visit our Cisco SP Mobility Community: http://cisco.com/go/mobilitycommunity
Visit the Big Thinkers in Small Cells Portal: http://www.cisco.com/assets/sol/sp/big_thinkers/index.html
To learn more, please visit the Cisco Small Cell Solutions Page: http://cisco.com/go/smallcell
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/building-and-scaling-ai-applications-with-the-nx-ai-manager-a-presentation-from-network-optix/
Robin van Emden, Senior Director of Data Science at Network Optix, presents the “Building and Scaling AI Applications with the Nx AI Manager,” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
In this presentation, van Emden covers the basics of scaling edge AI solutions using the Nx tool kit. He emphasizes the process of developing AI models and deploying them globally. He also showcases the conversion of AI models and the creation of effective edge AI pipelines, with a focus on pre-processing, model conversion, selecting the appropriate inference engine for the target hardware and post-processing.
van Emden shows how Nx can simplify the developer’s life and facilitate a rapid transition from concept to production-ready applications.He provides valuable insights into developing scalable and efficient edge AI solutions, with a strong focus on practical implementation.
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Power Grid Model
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Power Grid Model is an open source project from Linux Foundation Energy and provides a calculation engine that is increasingly essential for DSOs. It offers a standards-based foundation enabling real-time power systems analysis, simulations of electrical power grids, and sophisticated what-if analysis. In addition, it enables in-depth studies and analysis of the electrical power grid’s behavior and performance. This comprehensive model incorporates essential factors such as power generation capacity, electrical losses, voltage levels, power flows, and system stability.
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-An update on the latest advancements in Power Grid -Model technology during the first and second quarters of 2024.
-An interactive brainstorming session to discuss and propose new feature requests.
-An opportunity to connect with fellow Power Grid Model enthusiasts and users.
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Son and the Art of War: Small Cell System Design Issues For Self-Organising networks
1. SON and the Art of War - Small Cell System Design Issues for Self-Organising
Networks
Posted by kitkilgour Jun 4, 2012
“Successful Deployment is a result of Close Co-operation” – SON Tzu
This is a humorous pseudo-quote put out on Twitter a month or so ago, parodying what the ancient
Chinese military strategy master Sun Tzu, perhaps most famous for his book “The Art of War”, might
have said about modern cellular network deployment.
Self Organising Networks (SON) is an over-abused term with many products claiming to support it, and
there is much information on the web as to what it is, or might be, so I will only outline various aspects
of it and then focus on some small cell aspects. SON can come in a number of forms that broadly relate
to different stages in the deployment of a network, but the drivers remain keeping operator costs under
control as the demands on improving the user experience get tougher.
1. Self Configuration – 'Zero Touch' Plug and Play, when a cell and network is first being set up. This
involves doing things like
o listening to the radio environment (and later mobile device measurements) to
determine the neighbouring cells for handover purposes,
o spot conflicts and errors in other cells' configurations,
o automatically select certain operating values such as its frequency channel and
scrambling code (for 3G).
o Automatically connect to a provisioning server and then to the correct hierarchical
elements in the network
Femtocells were the pioneers in this approach, with the anticipated scale of their deployment
demanding automation, with the AT&T Microcell from Cisco and ip.access being the leader in Zero
Touch operation, whilst the ip.access nanoGSM 2G picocell has been listening out for over a decade
now. The introduction of LTE has standardised many functions to assist with this, including getting
measurements from the handset to discover neightbours, known as ANR (automatic neighbor relation)
2. Self Optimisation - This is the continued fine tuning of a network when things are up and
running. Examples include improving key performance indicators such as call drop, or reducing ping-
pong handover between two cells
3. Self Healing - this is where a network automatically moves to compensate for an event such as a cell
shutting down.
Focusing on Self Optimisation for a while: as mentioned above one of the key things to try and prevent
is call drop during a handover between two cells. One of the standards terms given for improving this is
Mobility Robustness Optimisation (MRO). There are a whole range of things that can affect a handover,
2. but one could be that the source cell just didn’t have enough downlink coverage in a particular region
due to lack of power, whilst another could be that some of the handover parameters such as how long
to wait before handing over after the signal in the source cell becomes much weaker than the target.
The solutions could be different depending on the precise cause: one could lead to increasing the
transmit power of certain channels on the source cell (or the targeted cell), the other could be tweaking
the parameters in the source cell to handover earlier. In 3GPP certain parameters being used when the
radio link fails are put into a Radio Link Failure message when the mobile device re-connects to the
network, and sent back to the source cell.
The precise way that optimisation is decided isn’t specified, but there are a couple of points: if both cells
are ‘greedy’ and don’t cooperate then they could both try and increase transmission power up to their
maximum limits, solving nothing and just creating more interference for other cells nearby, and any
“solution” could have a knock-on effect nearby. So, one takeout is that a single cell cannot alone
completely optimise its own handover performance although it may be able to get some way, but in a
dense deployment of different cells of different sizes and technologies, there can, and there needs to
be, some higher level function making sure that one local approach or set of algorithms doesn't go off at
a tangent and damage achieving overall network goals. The same need for an addtional level or an
overall 'holistic' controller comes up again when you consider optimisation between different layers
(small cell, macrocell) or different radio access technologies (2G, 3G, LTE, and possibly WiFi).
Hybrid Model
For this reason the model of SON deployment and control that the industry seems to be adopting is a
hybrid model, where responsibility is devolved to the level where it can be dealt with most effectively.
Timeliness, Scalability and Cost
Effectiveness has to include timeliness as well as scalability and cost. For timeliness, this can range for a
cell shutting down suddenly - where neighbours should start compensating by increasing coverage
immediately - to the handover optimisation that I illustrated earlier, where many days could be needed
to gather the necessary data to make a decision. Scalability is an issue that particularly affects the small
cell space: if you have 1 Million small cells deployed then unplanned real-time communication with a
single management node handling everything requires careful handling, but which can be alleviated by
adding an extra layer to aggregate messages - the issue is more likely to affect already-deployed macro
equipment rather than small cell network equipment which was designed from scratch with scalability in
mind. A small macro 3G RNC might handle a few hundred cells and so expect to have to deal with
accumulating radio link failure messages from, say up to 1000 cells neighbouring its coverage area. If
each macro cell had 10 or 100 small cells in its area of coverage, then then the number of links to be
maintained suddenly gets a lot bigger.
From the cost perspective small cells are, well, small(er), expected to scale, and be much more
numerous than macrocells. Predictions have them being more numerous than macrocells worldwide in
less than 5 years. Consequently there has to some focus on keeping their costs down and think carefully
3. about the case for adding new functionality to the largest number of devices. There is a clearly a case for
this when the device operates autonomously, as this can save backhaul signalling and limit the peak
demand - the backhaul is an increasing consideration in both network deployment business and
technical models. As noted above, things that have to happen nearly immediately should be dealt with
as locally to the trigger problem as possible, and there is a case for doing more where gains can be
shown.
The figure below illustrates a way of going about handling the issues, but, like devolved government, it is
not the only way and many people will have views about it.
Figure 1: Illustrative multi-layer SON control architecture (click to enlarge)
One of the advantages of being a system provider rather than supplying a single element is that you
have more choice in where to put the functionality and are better able to design it where the best
engineering option. In the case shown, there is going always going to be some intelligence in a 3G HNB,
at a minimum to carry out the initial self-configuration and detect when neighbouring cells undergo
significant changes (like going offline or accidentally deploying clashing radio parameters). At the next
level, if there is a dense deployment of small cells such as in an enterpris, or where an operator has
decided to have major focus on small cell coverage, possibly because of the large costs of deploying
macrocells, then some form of local cluster controller can be introduced as in region A - located either
geographically close, or virtualised as part of a controller for the whole network. The cluster controller
will aggregate messaging and talk to a higher layer control, as well as receive guidelines on how to
optimise from it. In region B there isn't yet a dense small cell deployment, although there is potential
inter-RAT optimisation. Consequently, apart from having a SON agent, would need to make its data
available in the correct format to the macro-system or the main RAT / inter-RAT SON control. Clearly, as
the deployment got denser, the case for a local controller becomes stronger.
In conclusion, SON is a key part of a mobile service provider's armoury in keeping the customer
experience good whilst seeking to keep operational and capital expenditure under control. It has great
4. prospects, but also many dimensions of deployment, and these will need to be addressed with careful
system design. The innovations that small cells bring also create oppotunities for large scale self-
organising networks and put the need for scalable, cost-effective system design into the limelight.
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