1+1 SR-APS Without Bridging

The Automatic Protection Switching (APS) feature provides link redundancy and allows switchover of Packet over SONET (POS) circuits in the event of circuit failure and is often required when you connect Synchronous Optical Networking (SONET) equipment to telecommunications equipment. In the single router (SR) APS feature both protect and working interfaces must be on same router.

APS is a mechanism of using a protect POS interface in the SONET network as the backup for a working POS interface. When the working interface fails, the protect interface quickly assumes its traffic load. Based on the configuration, the two circuits can be terminated in the same router. The protection mechanism has a 1+1 architecture with bidirectional connection. Bridging refers to the transmission of user data to both working interface and protect interface. In nonbridging scenario the user data is sent to working interface only.

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Prerequisites for 1+1 SR-APS Without Bridging

Configure the working interface first, along with the IP address of the interface. This configuration helps to prevent the protect interface from becoming the active circuit during APS configuration. If the protect interface becomes active in case if it has been configured first by mistake, you can use shut or no shut command to make the working interface active.

Restrictions for 1+1 SR-APS Without Bridging

  • Both the protect and working interfaces should be configured identically. No warning message will be displayed if the configurations are different between the interfaces.

  • Behavior of the APS pair (protect and working interfaces) will be indeterministic if the configurations of protect and working interfaces are not identical.

  • APS switch over within 50 milliseconds is not supported during online insertion and removal (OIR) or during crash of the shared port adapter (SPA) or carrier card (CC).

  • APS switching simultaneously with Route Processor (RP) or forwarding plane (FP) high availability (HA) need not be within 50 milliseconds.

Information About 1+1 SR-APS Without Bridging

1+1 SR-APS Without Bridging

The APS feature provides link redundancy and allows switchover of POS circuits in the event of circuit failure and is often required when you connect SONET equipment to telecommunications equipment. In the SR-APS feature both protect and working interfaces must be on same router.

APS is a mechanism of using a protect POS interface in the SONET network as the backup for a working POS interface. When the working interface fails, the protect interface quickly assumes its traffic load. Based on the configuration, the two circuits can be terminated in the same router. The protection mechanism has a 1+1 architecture with bidirectional connection.

In the 1+1 architecture, there is one working interface (circuit) and one protect interface, and the same payload from the transmitting end is sent to both the receiving ends. The receiving end decides the interface that needs to be used. The line overhead (LOH) bytes (K1 and K2) in the SONET frame indicate both status and action. When one interface is down or the K1/K2 bytes have changed, APS brings up the protect interface using regular interface configuration messages.

Bridging refers to the transmission of user data to both the working interface and the protect interface. In nonbridging scenario the user data is sent to the working interface only. You must set the working interface to be the active interface. Cisco ASR 1000 Series Routers (ASR1000) supports only the nonbridging scenario.

In the nonbridging scenario the ASR1000 (with the APS enabled) transmits a signal to the remote end. The ASR1k transmits the signal (except K1/K2 bytes) only to the working interface and not to the protect interface. The K1/K2 bytes are transmitted only to the protect interface. However, ASR1000 can be connected to devices that support bridging APS, which means the devices transmit the same signal to both working and protect interfaces of ASR1000. But the ASR1000 will send the user data (except K1/K2 bytes) only to the working interface of that device. The K1/K2 bytes are transmitted to the protect interface.

SR-APS uses Protect Group Protocol (PGP) between working and protect interfaces. The protect interface APS configuration should include an IP address of a loopback interface on the same router to communicate with the working interface using PGP. Using the PGP, POS interfaces can be switched in case of a degradation or loss of channel signal, or manual intervention. In bidirectional mode, the receive and transmit channels are switched as a pair.

In bidirectional APS the local and the remote connections negotiate the ingress interface to be selected for the data path. The egress interface traffic is not transmitted to both working and protect interfaces.

How to Configure 1+1 SR-APS Without Bridging

Configuring APS Working and Protect Interfaces

Perform this task to configure APS working and protect interfaces.

SUMMARY STEPS

  1. enable
  2. configure terminal
  3. interface pos slot/sub-slot/port
  4. aps working circuit-number
  5. aps protect circuit-number ip-address
  6. end
  7. show controllers pos
  8. show interfaces pos
  9. show aps

DETAILED STEPS

  Command or Action Purpose
Step 1

enable

Example:


Router> enable

Enables privileged EXEC mode.

  • Enter your password if prompted.

Step 2

configure terminal

Example:


Router# configure terminal

Enters global configuration mode.

Step 3

interface pos slot/sub-slot/port

Example:


Router(config)# interface pos 2/0/0

Specifies the POS interface to be configured as the working interface and enters interface configuration mode.

Step 4

aps working circuit-number

Example:


Router(config-if)# aps working 1

Configures the interface as a working interface.

Step 5

aps protect circuit-number ip-address

Example:


Router(config-if)# aps protect 1 209.165.200.224

Configures the interface as a protect interface. Specifies the IP address of loopback interface on the same router that contains the working interface.

Step 6

end

Example:


Router(config-if)# end

Exits interface configuration mode and returns to privileged EXEC mode.

Step 7

show controllers pos

Example:


Router(config)# show controllers pos

Displays information about the POS controllers so that you can verify that the interface is configured correctly.

Step 8

show interfaces pos

Example:


Router(config)# show interfaces pos

Displays information about the configured interfaces.

Step 9

show aps

Example:


Router(config)# show aps

Displays information about APS on the configured router.

Configuring Other APS Options

Perform this task to configure other APS options.

SUMMARY STEPS

  1. enable
  2. configure terminal
  3. interface pos slot/sub-slot/port
  4. aps force circuit-number
  5. aps group group-number
  6. aps lockout circuit-number
  7. aps manual circuit-number
  8. aps revert minutes
  9. end

DETAILED STEPS

  Command or Action Purpose
Step 1

enable

Example:


Router> enable

Enables privileged EXEC mode.

  • Enter your password if prompted.

Step 2

configure terminal

Example:


Router# configure terminal

Enters global configuration mode.

Step 3

interface pos slot/sub-slot/port

Example:


Router(config)# interface pos 2/0/0

Specifies the POS interface to be configured as the working interface and enters interface configuration mode.

Step 4

aps force circuit-number

Example:


Router(config-if)# aps force 1

(Optional) Manually switches the specified circuit to a protect interface, unless a request of equal or higher priority is in effect.

Step 5

aps group group-number

Example:


Router(config-if)# aps group 20

(Optional) Allows more than one protect or working interface group to be supported on a router.

Step 6

aps lockout circuit-number

Example:


Router(config-if)# aps lockout 1

(Optional) Prevents a working interface from switching to a protect interface.

Step 7

aps manual circuit-number

Example:


Router(config-if)# aps manual 1

(Optional) Manually switches a circuit to a protect interface, unless a request of equal or higher priority is in effect.

Step 8

aps revert minutes

Example:


Router(config-if)# aps revert 3

(Optional) Enables automatic switchover from the protect interface to the working interface after the working interface becomes available.

Step 9

end

Example:


Router(config-if)# end

Exits interface configuration mode and returns to privileged EXEC mode.

Monitoring and Maintaining APS

Perform this task to monitor and maintain APS.

SUMMARY STEPS

  1. enable
  2. configure terminal
  3. show controllers pos
  4. show interfaces pos
  5. show aps

DETAILED STEPS

  Command or Action Purpose
Step 1

enable

Example:


Router> enable

Enables privileged EXEC mode.

  • Enter your password if prompted.

Step 2

configure terminal

Example:


Router# configure terminal

Enters global configuration mode.

Step 3

show controllers pos

Example:


Router(config)# show controllers pos

Displays information about the POS controllers so that you can verify that the interface is configured correctly.

Step 4

show interfaces pos

Example:


Router(config)# show interfaces pos

Displays information about the configured interfaces.

Step 5

show aps

Example:


Router(config)# show aps

Displays information about APS on the configured router.

Configuring SONET Alarm Reporting

To configure the thresholds and the type of SONET alarms that are reported, use any of the following commands. The commands listed in this section are optional. To display the current Bit Error Rate (BER) threshold setting or to view the reporting of the SONET alarms, use the show controllers pos command.

SUMMARY STEPS

  1. enable
  2. configure terminal
  3. interface pos slot/sub-slot/port
  4. pos threshold {b1-tca | b2-tca | b3-tca | sd-ber | sf-ber } rate
  5. pos report {b1-tca | b2-tca | b3-tca | lais | lrdi | pais | plop | prdi | rdool | sd-ber | sf-ber | slof | slos }
  6. end

DETAILED STEPS

  Command or Action Purpose
Step 1

enable

Example:


Router> enable

Enables privileged EXEC mode.

  • Enter your password if prompted.

Step 2

configure terminal

Example:


Router# configure terminal

Enters global configuration mode.

Step 3

interface pos slot/sub-slot/port

Example:


Router(config)# interface pos 2/0/0

Specifies the POS interface to be configured as the working interface and enters interface configuration mode.

Step 4

pos threshold {b1-tca | b2-tca | b3-tca | sd-ber | sf-ber } rate

Example:


Router(config-if)# pos threshold b1-tca 4

(Optional) Configures the BER threshold values for signal failure (SF), signal degrade (SD), or threshold crossing alarms (TCAs).

Step 5

pos report {b1-tca | b2-tca | b3-tca | lais | lrdi | pais | plop | prdi | rdool | sd-ber | sf-ber | slof | slos }

Example:


Router(config-if)# pos report b2-tca

(Optional) Enables reporting of selected SONET alarms.

Step 6

end

Example:


Router(config-if)# end

Exits interface configuration mode and returns to privileged EXEC mode.

Configuring LAIS as an APS Switchover Trigger

When you place the working interface into administrative shutdown state, the switchover happens with or without pos ais-shut . When pos ais-shut is enabled on the interface, the interface sends the line alarm indication signal (LAIS) alarm to the remote end of the administrative shutdown, and the LAIS alarm makes the switchover bit faster. The carrier-delay msec milliseconds command and ppp timeout retry seconds [milliseconds ] command are also used to make the APS switchover happen faster.

The carrier-delay msec milliseconds command delays the link down event processing for POS interfaces. For example, if the carrier delay is set to 50 milliseconds (ms), the router will ignore all link down events that are cleared within 50 msec. If the link goes down there will be no APS switchover for 50 ms. The default carrier delay is 2 seconds and there will be no APS switchover for 2 seconds after the link goes down. Hence the carrier delay is set to 50 ms for faster switchover.

The ppp timeout retry seconds [milliseconds ] command sets the PPP retry timeout to the specified time. For example, if the timeout retry is set to 200 ms, the router tries to establish PPP link in 200 ms after it detects the signal outage due to APS switchover. If the default retry timeout of 2 seconds is used, then the PPP link will be established 2 seconds after the APS switchover. Hence the PPP timeout retry is set to 50 ms for faster switchover.

SUMMARY STEPS

  1. enable
  2. configure terminal
  3. interface pos slot/sub-slot/port
  4. pos ais-shut
  5. carrier-delay msec milliseconds
  6. ppp timeout retry seconds [milliseconds ]
  7. end

DETAILED STEPS

  Command or Action Purpose
Step 1

enable

Example:


Router> enable

Enables privileged EXEC mode.

  • Enter your password if prompted.

Step 2

configure terminal

Example:


Router# configure terminal

Enters global configuration mode.

Step 3

interface pos slot/sub-slot/port

Example:


Router(config)# interface pos 2/0/0

Specifies the POS interface to be configured as the working interface and enters interface configuration mode.

Step 4

pos ais-shut

Example:


Router(config-if)# pos ais-shut

Sends line alarm indication signal (LAIS) alarm on Admin shut of the interface.

Step 5

carrier-delay msec milliseconds

Example:


Router(config-if)# carrier-delay msec 50

Delays the link down event processing for POS interfaces and makes the APS switchover faster.

Step 6

ppp timeout retry seconds [milliseconds ]

Example:


Router(config-if)# ppp timeout retry 0 200

Sets the maximum waiting period for a response during PPP negotiation and makes the APS switchover faster.

Step 7

end

Example:


Router(config-if)# end

Exits interface configuration mode and returns to privileged EXEC mode.

Configuration Examples for 1+1 SR-APS Without Bridging

Example Configuring 1+1 SR-APS Without Bridging

The following example shows the configuration sequence for 1+1 SR-APS: 


interface loopback 1 
ip address 1.1.1.1 255.255.255.0 
interface pos 2/0/0 
     aps group 1 
     aps working 1 
     pos ais-shut 
     end 
interface pos 3/0/0 
     aps group 1 
     aps protect 1 1.1.1.1 
     pos ais-shut 
     end

The following example shows the sample output of APS configured on a router with a working interface: 


Router# show aps
POS2/1/1 APS Group 0: protect channel 0 (Inactive)
        Working channel 1 at 10.0.1.1 (Enabled) 
        bidirectional, revertive (60 seconds) 
        PGP timers (default): hello time=1; hold time=3
                hello fail revert time=120
        SONET framing; SONET APS signalling by default
        Received K1K2: 0x00 0x05
                No Request (Null)
        Transmitted K1K2: 0x00 0x05
                No Request (Null)
        Remote APS configuration: (null)
POS2/1/0 APS Group 0: working channel 1 (Active)
        Protect at 10.0.1.1
        PGP timers (from protect): hello time=1; hold time=3
        SONET framing
        Remote APS configuration: (null)

The following example shows the display of POS controllers: 


Router# show controller pos 2/1/0
POS2/1/0
SECTION
  LOF = 0          LOS    = 1                            BIP(B1) = 0
LINE
  AIS = 2          RDI    = 2          FEBE = 14         BIP(B2) = 0
PATH
  AIS = 2          RDI    = 2          FEBE = 4          BIP(B3) = 6
  PLM = 0          UNEQ   = 0          TIM  = 0          TIU     = 0
  LOP = 1          NEWPTR = 2          PSE  = 0          NSE     = 0
Active Defects: None
Active Alarms:  None
Alarm reporting enabled for: SF SLOS SLOF B1-TCA B2-TCA PLOP B3-TCA 
Framing: SONET
APS
 working (active)
  COAPS = 13         PSBF = 0         
  State: PSBF_state = False
  Rx(K1/K2): 00/00  Tx(K1/K2): 00/00
  Rx Synchronization Status S1 = 00
  S1S0 = 00, C2 = CF
  Remote aps status (none); Reflected local aps status (none)
CLOCK RECOVERY
  RDOOL = 0         
  State: RDOOL_state = False
PATH TRACE BUFFER: STABLE
  Remote hostname : SPA-APS2
  Remote interface: POS2/2/0
  Remote IP addr  : 10.1.1.1
  Remote Rx(K1/K2): 00/00  Tx(K1/K2): 00/00
BER thresholds:  SF = 10e-3  SD = 10e-6
TCA thresholds:  B1 = 10e-6  B2 = 10e-6  B3 = 10e-6
Clock source:  internal

The following example shows the configuration information and statistics for a POS interface: 


Router# show interface pos 2/1/0
POS2/1/0 is up, line protocol is up  (APS working - active)
  Hardware is SPA-4XOC12-POS
  Internet address is 10.1.1.2/24
  MTU 4470 bytes, BW 155000 Kbit/sec, DLY 100 usec, 
     reliability 255/255, txload 1/255, rxload 1/255
  Encapsulation HDLC, crc 16, loopback not set
  Keepalive set (10 sec)
  Scramble disabled
  Last input 00:00:02, output 00:00:01, output hang never
  Last clearing of "show interface" counters never
  Input queue: 0/375/0/0 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output drops: 0
  Queueing strategy: fifo
  Output queue: 0/40 (size/max)
  30 second input rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec
  30 second output rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec
     102477 packets input, 2459448 bytes, 0 no buffer
     Received 0 broadcasts (0 IP multicasts)
     0 runts, 4 giants, 0 throttles 0 parity
     4 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored, 0 abort
     102486 packets output, 2459934 bytes, 0 underruns
     0 output errors, 0 applique, 2 interface resets
     0 unknown protocol drops
     0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out
     10 carrier transitions

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Feature Information for 1+1 SR-APS Without Bridging

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Table 1. Feature Information for 1+1 SR-APS Without Bridging

Feature Name

Releases

Feature Information

1+1 SR-APS Without Bridging

Cisco IOS XE Release 3.1S

This feature provides support to 1+1 single router APS without bridging.

There were no commands introduced or modified by this feature.