Nicolas Fevrier

Nicolas Fevrier

ex-Cisco


NCS-5500 IOS XR 7.2.1 New Features

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Introduction

Following the release of the IOS XR 7.2.1, we decided to gather information on the diverse new features added with this new version.
It should be considered a complement of the existing Release Notes giving the opportunity to multiple specialists to tell us a bit more about these innovations, sometimes illustrated by a short demo.

To download this IOS XR 7.2.1 release: https://software.cisco.com/download/home/286291132/type/280805694/release/7.2.1
Release Notes: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/iosxr/ncs5500/general/72x/release/notes/b-release-notes-ncs55k-r721.html

Many thands to the presenters:

  • Jose Liste
  • Phil Bedard
  • Jiri Chaloupka
  • Vaishnavi Kolimi
  • Bernhard Stascheit
  • Vincent Ng
  • Paban Sarma
  • Neeraj Garg
  • Tejas Lad
  • Rakesh Kandula
  • Akshaya Kumar Sankaran
  • Nicolas Fevrier

Videos

Considering the amount of ground to cover, we split the presentation in multiple parts.

Part 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eURgr9hgA2I

Covers many features around Segment Routing and EVPN.

Part 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PedQo7DRDf4

Covers both platform (NCS55A1-24Q6H-SS and new optics) and new features (WAN-Phy, QoS, ECMP, ACLs, …)

Part 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IYER-jIZ4Y

Covers other features including Security, DHCP, BVI, BFD, file management and bridge domains scale.

Part 4

Will be covered in a dedicated post.

Features in details

SR IGP: Flex Algo Prefix Metric

Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eURgr9hgA2I&t=110s

SR IGP: Rounding of Min-Delay Values

Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eURgr9hgA2I&t=254s

SR IGP: OSPF TI-LFA Weighted Remote SRLG

Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eURgr9hgA2I&t=345s

SR IGP - TI-LFA GRE as Outgoing Interface for Backup Path

Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eURgr9hgA2I&t=447s

SR-PCE - Flex Algo-aware Path Computation

Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eURgr9hgA2I&t=561s

SR-PCE - SRTE to BGP-LU Interworking

Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eURgr9hgA2I&t=726s

SR-PCE -MPLS-TE LSP Support

Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eURgr9hgA2I&t=838s

SRTE - Per-Flow ODN / AS

Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eURgr9hgA2I&t=920s

SR EPE - Manual BGP Peering SIDs for Segment Routing Egress Peer Engineering and Segment Routing BGP Peer-Set SID

Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eURgr9hgA2I&t=1200s

SR ODN - On-Demand Next Hop for EVPN and EVPN VPWS

Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eURgr9hgA2I&t=1405s

EVPN E-Tree Using RT Constraints

Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eURgr9hgA2I&t=1537s

EVPN Automatic Unfreezing of MAC and IP Addresses

Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eURgr9hgA2I&t=1675s

New product: NCS55A1-24Q6H-SS

Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PedQo7DRDf4&t=54s

New supported optics

Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PedQo7DRDf4&t=156s

WAN-Phy on NC55-MPA-12T-S

Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PedQo7DRDf4&t=239s

QoS: Share Policer

Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PedQo7DRDf4&t=300s

QoS: Conform Aware Hierarchical Policy

Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PedQo7DRDf4&t=452s

QoS: Egress Shaper Burst

Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PedQo7DRDf4&t=579s

ECMP: GTP Tunnels over MPLS

Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PedQo7DRDf4&t=652s

ECMP overs MPLS-TE

Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PedQo7DRDf4&t=752s

Chained/Common ACLs

Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PedQo7DRDf4&t=846s

ACL: Support of IPv6 Fragments (for Jericho2 platforms)

Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PedQo7DRDf4&t=1046s

Security: Password policy for user secret

Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IYER-jIZ4Y&t=61s

Security: 802.1x Port Control

Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IYER-jIZ4Y&t=122s

Security: Guideline for enabling FIPS

Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IYER-jIZ4Y&t=191s

DHCP:: v4 and v6 options on BVI

Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IYER-jIZ4Y&t=266s

DHCP: v6 client on management interface

Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IYER-jIZ4Y&t=310s

DHCP: v6 options 15, 16, 23 and 24

Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IYER-jIZ4Y&t=345s

DHCP Lab Demo

Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IYER-jIZ4Y&t=371s

BVI with 2 VLAN tags

Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IYER-jIZ4Y&t=474s

BFD for VRRP and HSRP

Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IYER-jIZ4Y&t=582s

BFP over unnumbered v4 Bundle

Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IYER-jIZ4Y&t=788s

File Mirroring

Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IYER-jIZ4Y&t=684s

Bridge Domain scale improvement

Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IYER-jIZ4Y&t=743s

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