Rakuten: SRv6 Journey and experience

Akash Agrawal (Technical Director – IP Engineering at Rakuten Mobile, Inc.) has presented Rakuten SRv6 Journey and Experience during the SRv6OPS WG meeting at IETF 120. Akash shared the outcome/benefits of the SRv6 uSID deployment which includes:

  • 98% reduction in IS-IS LSP in the core
  • 73% Reduction in total ISIS routes in Core
  • 96% Reduction in number of BGP sessions on Core routers (going from 55 to 2)
  • 90% Reduction in total routes to data centers (going from 6500+ to 500)
  • 86% Reduction in config touchpoints (going from 13-15 to 2)
  • 90% Improvement in convergence time (going from 500ms to 50ms)
  • 93% reduction in service affecting incidents

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Slides

Slides are available here.