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ITP Product Team

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Section 6 : ITP Capacity Planning

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Agenda

Hardware/CPU Dimensioning
Software/Capacity Limit
Sensitivity to SS7 Environment
Link Capacity Planning
ITP Fine Tuning

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7513 Chassis

7507 has 7 slots

- 7513 has 13 slots
- 1 Slot at least ( typically 2 ) for RSP
- All other slots can be VIP

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Cisco 7513
Route Switch
Processors (RSP)

Versatile Interface
Processors (VIP)

VIP4-80 / VIP6-80
Increase Performance

RSP8 / RSP16
Add second RSP for HA (RPR+)

Port and Services

70+ service / port adapters

Adaptors

Industry leading features

Scalable / high performance

Carrier-class high availability

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2 Power Supplies
for Redundancy

Industry Leading 70+ LAN & WAN

Adaptors To Choose From
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Versatile Interface Processors (VIPs)

VIPs hold can contain 2 port adapters with either IP or SS7 media
interface
While capable of containing a mix, recommended deployment is
not to mix port adapter types for performance reasons
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SS7 Port Adapters

Channelized E1 & E1/ATM (HSL)

V.35 (8 port & 4 port)

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Agenda

Hardware/CPU Dimensioning
Software/Capacity Limit
Sensitivity to SS7 Environment
Link Capacity Planning
ITP Fine Tuning

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Link Calculations per VIP

VIP LSL Capacity: 4096 MSUs IN and 4096 MSUs OUT

DS0=64kbps (64000bps/8 = 8000 bytes/sec)
Fail over at .6E. 8000 x .6 = 4800 bytes
Average MSU size is 120 bytes
4800 bytes / 120 = 40 MSUs/Sec/Link
4096 MSUs/sec Divided-by 40MSUs/sec/link
6000/40 = 102 Links

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Other ITP Capacity Milestones (M2PA/TDM)

Parameter/Platform
GTT Transactions/s (100% GTT)

7507/7513
20% Overhead

Max Entries in Routing Table

10,000

Max Entries in GTT Table

500,000

M3UA/SUA Routing Keys

10,000

Latency ( MTP3 and GTT MSUs )

5-8 ms

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ITP Family of Platforms

265x
Low-End

Dual
Power /
Dual
Processor

HotSwap
Line
cards

Max
Number of
Low-speed
Links
Supported

Number
or T1/E1
ports

MSUs per
Second

Dual
Power

No

1,500

Single
Processor

7204/6
VXR

Dual
Power

NPE400

Single
Processor

Mid-range
7507/13
High-End

(HW Limit)

Dual
Power

No

24

48

6,500

Yes

720

176

30,000

Dual
Processor

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