D--RFI for SDN and CDN Router

GENRAL OVERVIEW U.S. Army Information Systems Engineering Command (USAISEC), Technology Integration Center (TIC) is submitting this Request for Information (RFI) to identify equipment capable of providing a solution for the Internet Protocol/Multi Protocol Label Switching (IP/MPLS) Edge Devices. This document describes the process used for selecting the equipment list, documenting United States Army Europe (USAREUR) requirements for the device and identifying criteria used for selecting acceptable equipment for follow-on TIC-lab evaluation(s). Formal evaluation and approval of the equipment at the TIC is a requirement for consideration for selection in the final design process. The evaluations of the selected equipment will assess the functionality, performance, manageability, and security of the IP/MPLS devices. The evaluation will consist of five aspects: "Verify the ability of the equipment to perform against the core requirements "Validate the functionality of the advertised features of the equipment "Assess the performance capabilities of the equipment as delivered to TIC Labs, against USAISEC IP/MPLS Device Evaluation Criteria Scoring Matrix "Evaluate equipment interoperability with the USAREUR Network Management System manager of managers, Aprisma Spectrum Enterprise Manager. "Assess the security of the equipment BACKGROUND The United States Army Information Systems Engineering Command (USAISEC), Technology Integration Center (TIC), has been tasked by Product Manager, Defense Communications Systems  Europe (PM, DCS-E) to provide an engineering evaluation which will identify and provide a recommendation for the Core Distribution Node (CDN) and Service Distribution Node (SDN) routers. This RFI is to determine if the commercial market has routers with the capability to provide MPLS in either a Wide Area Network (WAN) or Campus Area Network (CAN) environment. The CDN and SDN equipment will be MPLS Label Edge Routers and interface into the European Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) Optical Transport Network (OTN). This network will provide access to Secret Internet P rotocol Router Network (SIPRNet), Non-secure Internet Protocol Router Network (NIPRNet), and Army Processing Centers (APC). BASELINE REQUIREMENTS Equipment submitted for consideration shall be capable of meeting the majority of items listed for survivability, feature set, switching, interface, and management requirements identified under the functional groupings below: Survivability The following items are requirements for survivability for the CDN and SDN routers: "Redundant, Load Sharing AC or DC power supplies "Redundant Switching Fabric/Backplane "Redundant Processing Modules Chassis "Environmental Sensor monitoring via network management systems "Field Replaceable Units (cards, power supplies, etc.) Hot-swappable "IOS Updates without Interruption Note: NEBs compliancy is not a requirement and backplane minimum was not specified. This RFI will also accept information on equipment that is not rated as 'carrier class', but does have high availability. Feature Set The following items are requirements for the feature set of the CDN and SDN routers: "Compliant with current Army and DoD network device security requirements "Compliant with Internet RFCs and drafts for Multi Protocol Label Switching "Supports Fast Reroute of Traffic Engineered Label Switch Paths "Supports Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) "Supports Resource Reservation Protocol with Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE) "Supports OSPF-TE and MP-BGP "Supports COS Mapping based on IP address, Diffserv code points, 802.1q priority bits, or layer 4 port numbers "Supports Quality and Class of Service marking "Supports Policing on all Interfaces "Supports Traffic Shaping on all Interfaces "Supports L3/L4 Filtering on Ingress and Egress Traffic at Wire Speed "Supports ATM over MPLS "Supports VPLS multipoint L2 Virtual Private Networks "Supports Martini point-to-point L2 tunnels "Supports L3 RFC 2547bis BGP based Virtual Private Networks "Compliant with current Army guidance on IPV6 (IPv6 capable in addition to IPv4 interoperable) Switching/Security The following items are switching/security requirements for the CDN and SDN routers: "Support VLANs/VLAN tagging (802.1q) "Support Port Mirroring "Support MAC/ARP Tables "Support L2 ACLs "Support L3 ACLs "Support L4 ACLs "Supports IEEE 802.1Q/P VLAN Tagging on Interfaces without Labels Interface The following items are interface requirements for the CDN and SDN routers: "10 Gigabit Ethernet Single Mode Optics (Standard and Extended Range) "1 Gigabit Ethernet Single Mode Optics (Standard and Extended Range) "1 Gigabit Ethernet Twisted Pair Copper "100BaseT Ethernet Twisted Pair Copper "100 Mbps Fiber Single Mode Optics (Standard and Extended Range) "Packet over SONET (OC-48 and OC-192) Management The following items are management requirements for the CDN and SDN routers. "Be interoperable with a manager of managers (Aprisma Spectrum) "Support SNMPv3 "Support SSHv2 "Supports management of VPNs (All specified types) "Supports explicit route traffic engineering "Monitoring can show status of reserved bandwidth on links "Supports manually establishing QoS on LSPs "User Performance Management (QOS Service level agreements, etc) "Auto discovery to include hardware and software for new nodes and changes to existing nodes "Diagnostic Management to include GUI display of failures "GUI Traffic Management tool "Scalable management platform with permission based multiple level graphical views "Management Reports with Ad Hoc capability "System Performance Management Statistics "Capable of in and out of band management "Fits into the NETCOM Enterprise management model (Tivoli, CAPTRENDS, and Net view) "Graphical views of the network "Graphical views of the physical device with drill down to port level and below "Real time alarms with Visual, audible automated notification (email, pagers, cell phone, etc) "System administration through the NMS (i.e. backup, restore, etc.) "Tie into existing management platforms "Extensible Markup Language (XML) support "Configuration support (i.e. write back, comparison, push images, etc.) RESPONSE/EVALUATION PROCEDURES Response Point of Contact (POC) Any vendor's equipment that is to be submitted for this RFI will need to contact Jorge Palau at +1 (555) 000-0000 or email contact@example.gov. Once contacted, Mr. Palau will send a formal document that contains the requirements in a matrix format. Response Requirements All vendors responding to the RFI shall complete the formal document as provided by Jorge Palau that contains the requirments matrix format, and will be submitted to Jorge Palau in an email no later than June 30, 2004. All vendor answers should be listed as a Yes or No with regard to the ability of their equipment to meet the requirement, along with the equipment make and model that will be submitted for evaluation. Any additional equipment capabilities that the vendor would like to address may be submitted in an addendum, not to exceed 2 pages. A price list is not required as this will not be a factor in the invitation selection process. It should be noted that carrier class was not stated as a requirement for consideration, but rather high availability. Procedures for Selecting of MPLS Devices for TIC Lab Evaluation Vendor's equipment that meets the majority of the core requirements will be sent an E-mail inviting them to come to the TIC at Fort Huachuca. Each vendor will be provided with a detailed list of the functional areas their equipment/products will be scored against. Then, each vendor will receive an interview and score using the Requirements Matrix and their products data sheet. Finally, each vendor will receive a score on their products capabilities. The interview panel will consist of engineers from the TIC. Full details are included in the formal document provided to intrested vendors. CONCLUSION Based upon the TICs evaluation of written responses received, Vendor's equipment deemed to have the capability to fulfill the identified SDN/CDN requirements will be invited to submit their equipment for formal TIC lab evaluation. The date for formal evaluation is currently scheduled for August and September 2005.