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Supported Technologies

Supported Technologies

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This chapter outlines the technologies supported in Prime Network 3.8. Supported technologies are listed in Table 10-1. Technology support that was introduced in Prime Network 3.8 is marked as such in the table. provides different levels of support for each technology. The fact that a specific technology is listed in Table 10-1 does not imply that every aspect of every relevant standard is represented and supported. In addition, the specific level of support provided for a particular technology on individual network elements can vary. For details on technology support on individual VNEs, see Part 1—Cisco VNEs.

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Note Please refer to the Prime Network Technology Center on Cisco Developer Network (CDN) for information about technology IMOs and their attributes.

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Table 10-1 Supported Technologies 

Technology Family	Technology Group	Technology	Element Modeling	Network Modeling	Topology View
Network (Layer 3)	IP	IP (including IPv6)	Yes	Yes
		Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)	Yes	Yes
		Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP)	Yes
		Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)	Yes
		Carrier Grade NAT	Yes
		IP SLA Responder	Yes
		6PE (3.8)	Yes	Yes
		6RD	Yes
		X-LAT	Yes
		VRRP (3.8)	Yes
	Routing Protocols	Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Multiprotocol extensions (MP-BGP), external BGP (eBGP), internal BGP (iBGP)	Yes
		Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) and OSPFv3	Yes	Yes
		Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS)	Yes	Yes
	VPN and VRF	Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF)	Yes	Yes
		VRF-Lite (Multi-VRF)	Yes	Yes
		VPN	Yes	Yes
		CSCVPN	Yes
		6VPE	Yes	Yes	Yes
	BFD	Bidirectional Forwarding Detection	Yes
	SBC	Session Border Controller	Yes
Hybrid Network/ Data Link (Layers 3 and 2)	MPLS	Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)	Yes	Yes	Yes
		Label Distribution Protocol (LDP)	Yes
	MPLS TP	MPLS TP	Yes	Yes	Yes (3.8)
	MPLS TE	Multiprotocol Label Switching Traffic Engineering (MPLS TE)	Yes	Yes	Yes
		P2MP (Point-to-Multipoint) TE
		MPLS TE Fast Reroute (MPLS TE FRR)	Yes
	Pseudowire	Pseudowire Emulation Edge to Edge (PWE3)	Yes	Yes	Yes
		VCCV	Yes
		Pseudowire Redundancy	Yes
		Static Pseudowire	Yes
		TDM Pseudowire	Yes	Yes	Yes
		Multi-segment Pseudowire	Yes	Yes	Yes
		ATM over Pseudowire (ATM PW)	Yes	Yes	Yes
		PW-to-TP Tunnel Mapping	Yes	Yes
		PW-to-TE Tunnel Mapping	Yes	Yes
	Clocking	IE1588	Yes
		SyncE	Yes
		ACR	Yes
Data Link/MAC (Layer 2)	Ethernet	Ethernet (IEEE 802.3)	Yes
		VLAN (IEEE 802.1Q)	Yes	Yes	Yes
		QinQ (IEEE 802.1ad)	Yes
		LAG (IEEE 802.3ad)	Yes	Yes
		Ethernet Channel	Yes	Yes
		STP (IEEE 802.1D)	Yes	Yes	Yes
		RSTP (IEEE 802.1w)	Yes	Yes	Yes
		PvSTP	Yes	Yes	Yes
		MST (IEEE 802.1s)	Yes	Yes	Yes
		SVI	Yes
		VTP	Yes
		REP	Yes	Yes	Yes
		Access Gateway	Yes
		VPLS and VSI	Yes	Yes	Yes
		H-VPLS	Yes	Yes	Yes
		VSI	Yes	Yes	Yes
		PBB	Yes
		EFP	Yes	Yes	Yes
		Access Gateway (3.8)	Yes
		mLACP (Iccp Redundancy Group) (3.8)	Yes		Yes
	Ethernet OAM	CFM (Cisco and Draft 8.1)	Yes
		Link OAM	Yes
		Ethernet LMI	Yes
	ATM	ATM	Yes	Yes
		IMA	Yes	Yes
		ATM Cross-Connect	Yes	Yes
		ATM OAM	Yes
		IP over ATM (MPoA 1483R)	Yes
		Ethernet over ATM (MPoA 1483B)	Yes
	Frame Relay	Frame Relay	Yes
	ISDN	Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN)	Minimal
	PPP	Point To Point Protocol (PPP)	Yes
		POS	Yes
		PPPoA, PPPoE, PPPoFR	Yes
		Multilink PPP	Yes	Yes	Yes
	HDLC	High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC)
	L2TP	Layer 2 Tunnel Protocol (L2TP)
Data Link/MAC (Layer 2)	Discovery Protocols	CDP, LLDP	Yes
	L2TP	L2TP	Yes
	Local Switching	Local Switching	Yes
Physical Layer (Layer 1)	xDSL	Digital Subscriber Line (xDSL)	Yes
	IPoDWDM	Internet Protocol over Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (IPoDWDM)	Yes	Yes
	SONET/SDH	SONET/SDH	Yes
	TDM/DSx	TDM	Yes
		DSx	Yes
		CEM	Yes
		T3/E3	Yes
		Channelized T3, OC3, DS3 interface	Yes
	Serial	Serial	Yes
	Hardware	Pluggable Transceiver (3.8)	Yes
Other	Security	Access Control Lists (ACLs)	Limited
	Hardware	Physical Containment	Yes
		Logical Containment	Yes
	Common	Common Components	Yes
		Local Switching	Yes