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Computing-Aware Traffic Steering (CATS) Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) Framework
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CATS                                                               H. Fu
Internet-Draft                                           ZTE Corporation
Intended status: Standards Track                                  B. Liu
Expires: 13 April 2026                                             Z. Li
                                                            China Mobile
                                                                Q. Xiong
                                                         ZTE Corporation
                                                         10 October 2025

Computing-Aware Traffic Steering (CATS) Operations, Administration, and
                      Maintenance (OAM) Framework
                        draft-fu-cats-oam-fw-04

Abstract

   This document describes the OAM framework and requirements for
   Computing-Aware Traffic Steering (CATS).  The framework defines the
   CATS OAM layering model and OAM components.  It also describes the
   requirements to enable the fault and the performance management of
   end-to-end connections from clients to networks and finally to
   services instances.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  Requirements Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.  Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   4.  Motivation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   5.  CATS OAM Framework  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     5.1.  CATS OAM Layering Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     5.2.  CATS OAM Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
       5.2.1.  SI-OAM Component  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
       5.2.2.  TC-OAM Component  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
       5.2.3.  AF-OAM Component  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   6.  CATS OAM Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     6.1.  Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     6.2.  Administration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     6.3.  Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   7.  Deployment Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   8.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
   9.  Acknowledgements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
   10. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
   11. References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
     11.1.  Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
     11.2.  Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
   Contributors  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12

1.  Introduction

   As described in [I-D.ietf-cats-usecases-requirements], edge computing
   provides lower response time and higher transmission rate than cloud
   computing by moving computing instances to the network edge.  To meet
   the requirements of users that are highly distributive, service
   providers deploy the same type of service instances at multiple edge
   sites, which involves steering traffic from clients to the most
   appropriate computing instance.

   Compute-aware traffic steering (CATS) [I-D.ietf-cats-framework] is a
   traffic engineering approach as per [I-D.ietf-teas-rfc3272bis]
   developed to address the aforementioned traffic steering problem.
   This approach takes into account the dynamic nature of both the
   computing resources and the network states to optimize the way that
   traffic is forwarded towards a given service instance.  Various

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   metrics can be taken into account to devise and enforce such service-
   specific and computing-aware traffic steering policies.To achieve
   better service assurance, it is necessary to not only rapidly detect
   whether the QoS provided by the computing networks meets the SLA
   requirements of clients, but also dynamically trigger the calculation
   and the adjustment of both the computing and the networking services.
   There are some OAM technologies developed for networks, but they are
   only deployed to facilitate the operations and the maintenance of
   network operators, and cannot provide measurements of an end-to-end
   connection from a client to a service instance.

   To this end, based on the CATS framework as per [I-D.ietf-cats-
   framework], this document describes the OAM framework and
   requirements for Computing-Aware Traffic Steering (CATS).  The
   framework defines the CATS OAM layering model and OAM components.  It
   also describes the requirements to enable the fault and the
   performance management of end-to-end connections from clients to
   networks and finally to services instances.The deployment
   considerations are also described as well.

2.  Requirements Language

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
   "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in BCP
   14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all
   capitals, as shown here.

3.  Terminology

   This document makes use of the terms defined in [I-D.ietf-cats-
   framework].

   *  FM: Fault Management.

   *  PM: Performance Monitoring.

   *  SI-OAM: Service Instance OAM.

   *  TC-OAM: Traffic Classifier OAM.

   *  AF-OAM: Application Flow OAM.

   *  IOAM: In-situ OAM.

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4.  Motivation

   The main objectives of OAM are to detect anomalies before they
   intensify, reduce the number of traffic flows impacted by these
   abnormalities, and ensure that network operators fulfill their QoS
   guarantee commitments to meet the Service Level Agreement(SLA) of
   clients.

   As a traffic engineering method, computing-aware traffic steering
   (CATS) takes into account the dynamic nature of both the computing
   resources and the network states to optimize the way that traffic is
   forwarded toward a given service instance.  However, existing OAM
   technologies cannot be used to collect metrics associated with the
   computing resources.  Therefore, it is necessary to extend the
   existing OAM technologies to build an end-to-end OAM for CATS.  Key
   objectives include:

   *  Convergence latency is compressed from the order of tens of
      seconds to sub-second timescale: In CATS,the status information of
      the computing instances is collected by the CATS Service Metric
      Agent (C-SMA) component and processed at the control plane for
      performance monitoring and failure detection.  However, to limit
      control-plane load, such sensing mechanisms are typically
      engineered to operate on the order of tens of seconds..
      Accordingly, rapid detection of data-plane degradation affecting
      both service instances and network states is mandatory, so that
      CATS Path Selector (C-PS) convergence is triggered and its latency
      compressed from tens of seconds to sub-second scale.

   *  Closed-loop network path evaluation : In CATS, the CATS Path
      Selector (C-PS) calculates and selects the paths towards
      appropriate egress PEs and computing service instances.  In this
      process, it is necessary to verify whether the calculation and the
      selection results meet the SLA requirements of clients taking into
      account both the network states and the computing instance status.

   *  Closed-loop service SLAs guarantee for flows : In CATS, subsequent
      packets of service flows in an established session are forwarded
      through the CATS Traffic Classifier (C-TC) to the same service
      instance.  However, during such a process, the computing/network
      performance may degrade.  To ensure consistent experience for end
      users, it is necessary to measure the flow-level performance of
      service instances and make appropriate adjustments, e.g., change
      segments of routing paths or enable backup paths, according to the
      SLA requirements.

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   *  Fault delimiting and troubleshooting: When user experience
      deteriorates, it is necessary to rapidly locate the fault on the
      end-to-end path from the user terminal through the network to the
      service instance to implement fast end-to-end fault location and
      troubleshooting.

5.  CATS OAM Framework

5.1.  CATS OAM Layering Model

   The CATS OAM layering model is shown in Fig. 1.  In this
   architecture,both the CATS router and the underlay node are deployed
   with the existing OAM technologies.These OAM technologies are used to
   detect anomalies and monitor service performance in the network
   domain, and can be divided into three categories: link OAM, tunnel
   OAM, and service OAM.

     +------+ +--+--------+    +---+----+   +--------+--+ +--------+
     |client+-+  CATS-    +----+underlay+---+  CATS-    +-+service |
     |      | |Forwarder 1|    |  node  |   |Forwarder 2| |instance|
     +------+ +-----------+    +--------+   +-----------+ +----+---+

              o------------- Service OAM -----------o---------------o

              o------------- Tunnel OAM -----------o

                         o----o      o----o       o----o    Link OAM

                   Figure 1: CATS OAM Layering Model

   *  In link OAM, anomaly detection and performance monitoring are
      conducted for a single ethernet link.  The link layer is an
      optional sublayer implemented in the data link layer between the
      Logical Link Control (LLC) and the MAC sublayer in the Open
      Systems Interconnection (OSI) model.  Common detection tools of
      link OAM include IEEE-802 .3ah.

   *  A tunnel bears multiple services so the tunnel OAM must ensure
      that the performance of a given service is not degraded when the
      network fails or the number of services in the tunnel increases.
      As a result, failure detection and performance monitoring are
      conducted on the LSP layer to implement service protection.Common
      detection tools of tunnel OAM include ITU-T Y.1711, MPLS-LM-DM,
      BFD, etc.

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   *  Service OAM is generally conducted for the L2VPN/L3VPN service
      layer that is provided by the network to evaluate the service
      quality and protect services.  Common detection tools of service
      OAM include ITU-T Y.1731, TWAMP, STAMP, etc.

   CATS simultaneously steers traffic along network paths and toward
   compute instances.  Within the network domain the three conventional
   OAM mechanisms remain applicable, yet link-level OAM can at best
   cover the direct link between compute instances; no effective OAM
   exists from the ingress/egress gateways to the compute instances
   themselves.  Moreover, the introduction of flow-affinity policies
   mandates that end-to-end quality assessment of service flows span
   both network and compute domains.

5.2.  CATS OAM Components

   The CATS OAM layering model should flexibly support existing OAM
   detection tools and it consists of the following three components,
   SI-OAM, TC-OAM and AF-OAM as Figure 2 shown.

     +------+ +--+--------+    +---+----+   +--------+--+ +--------+
     |client+-+  CATS-    +----+underlay+---+  CATS-    +-+service |
     |      | |Forwarder 1|    |  node  |   |Forwarder 2| |instance|
     +------+ +-----------+    +--------+   +-----------+ +----+---+
         ^       ^                                   ^         |
         |       |                                   |         |
         |       |                               +---+----+    |
         |       |                               | SI_OAM |<-->|
         |    +--+-----+                         +--------+    |
         |    | TC_OAM |<------------------------------------->|
         |    +--+-----+                                       |
         |       |                                             |
         |    +--+-----+                                       |
         +----+ AF_OAM |<------------------------------------->|
              +--+-----+                                       

                 Figure 2: CATS OAM Functional Components

5.2.1.  SI-OAM Component

   The functions of this component include (but are not limited to)
   detecting the failures that happen between the CATS-Forwarder 2 and
   the service instance, and measuring the associated metrics such as
   latency, packet loss, and bandwidth.The SI-OAM component generally
   would not dive into the internal structure of the network between the
   CATS-Forwarder 2 and the service instance and only makes the
   measurements of the end-to-end connection.  These measurements are

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   generally fed back to the C-SMA component to achieve faster failure
   detection and performance monitoring than the CATS control plane.

5.2.2.  TC-OAM Component

   The functions of this component include but are not limited to
   detecting the failures that happen between the CATS-Forwarder 1 and
   the service instance of a certain specific ID, and measuring the
   associated metrics such as delay and packet loss.  The testing
   packets are delivered through the CATS Path Selector (C-PS) to the
   associated service instance according to the corresponding forwarding
   table entry of the CATS Traffic Classifier (C-TC) to verify whether
   the measurements of the connection meet the service level agreement
   (SLA) requirements.  And if it does not, recalculation is triggered.

5.2.3.  AF-OAM Component

   The functions of this component include but are not limited to
   measuring the metrics such as delay, packet loss, and bandwidth, of
   the service flow in CATS.  In general, the user experience of an
   active connection may be affected by a number of factors, such as the
   processing latency of the service instances may increase or the
   network performance may degrade due to the increase of the incoming
   traffic to the service instance.  For CATS-Forwarder 1, it is
   necessary to evaluate whether the SLA requirements of service flows
   are achieved, and if the SLA requirements are not achieved, conduct
   appropriate path adjustments to compensate for the deviation as much
   as possible to ensure the clients have consistent experience.  For
   client terminals, if the experience is degraded, it is necessary to
   accurately locate where the problem occurs and quickly conduct
   troubleshooting.  It should be noted that related OAM tools can also
   be developed, so that the entire network stack (L2-L7) can be
   observed for applications and the entire network stack,instead of
   merely traditional application-level visibility or network-level
   visibility, providing a comprehensive solution for operators'
   efficiency.

6.  CATS OAM Requirements

6.1.  Operation

   *  Sub-second/second-granularity telemetry SHALL be collected for
      CPU, GPU, memory, accelerator utilization and energy consumption
      to produce unified compute metrics (e.g., TOPS/W, TFLOPS).

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   *  These metrics SHALL be fused with network telemetry to generate an
      integrated “compute-network” telemetry stream encompassing packet
      loss, latency, throughput and compute load, providing real-time
      decision inputs to the C-PS.

6.2.  Administration

   *  Compute-resource provisioning: A node SHALL present a compute-
      capability template (type, capacity, affinity) at boot; OAM SHALL
      authenticate the template and synchronize it to the network-wide
      routing database.

   *  Service contract and billing: OAM SHALL generate a billing model
      from multi-dimensional factors—compute class, usage duration,
      network distance—and push the model to edge controllers.

   *  Unified orchestration: OAM SHALL abstract compute workloads into
      routable Compute-SIDs and, together with network SIDs, inject them
      into the SRv6/BGP SR Policy orchestration plane to enable resource
      scheduling across domains, clouds, and edges.

6.3.  Maintenance

   *  End-to-end quality assessment:1)Network segment: Employ BFD, TWAMP
      and IOAM to detect link/node faults; convergence latency SHALL be
      ≤ 50 ms.2)Compute segment: Utilize keep-alive plus health probes
      to monitor container/VM/accelerator liveness; crashes or overload
      SHALL be detected within seconds.

   *  Fault correlation and localization: OAM SHALL correlate “compute
      unavailable” events with “network-path degradation” events to
      determine whether the root cause is resource exhaustion or packet
      loss, eliminating needless path shifts.

   *  Intelligent self-healing: 1)Compute-node failure SHALL trigger the
      CATS Path Selector to re-select a path and move traffic in real
      time to an alternate node in the same or a remote pool. 2)Network-
      link failure SHALL invoke TI-LFA/SR-TE protection switching within
      < 50 ms while simultaneously updating the compute topology to
      prevent black-holing.

7.  Deployment Considerations

   To demonstrate the complete CATS OAM procedure, a proper OAM
   detection tool needs to be selected and deployed on the network and
   service instance hosts of the CATS OAM architecture.  The selection
   of OAM detection tools is out of the scope of this document.

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                             +-------------------------+
                  +--------------+ Intelligent controller  +-------------+
                  |              +-------------------+-----+             |
                  |                                   |                  |
                  v                                   v                  v
            +-----------+                        +-----------+       +--------+
            |  CATS-    |                        |  CATS-    |       |  Edge  |
            |Forwarder 1|                        |Forwarder 2|       |  Site  |
            |           |                        |           |Service|        |
+--------+  |+---------+|                        |+---------+|Metrics|S-ID 1  |
| client |  ||  C-PS   ||       +--------+       ||  C-SMA  |<-------|SI-ID 1 |
|        |  |+---------+|Network|        |Network|+---------+|       |        |
|+------+|  |  ^    ^   |Metrics|Underlay|Metrics|       ^   |       |S-ID 1  |
||AF-OAM|+--+  |    |   |<------+ domain |<------|       |   |-------|SI-ID 2 |
|+--+---+|  |  |    |   |       +--------+       |   +---+--+| OWAMP |        |
|   |    |  |  |    |   |                        |   |SI-OAM|<------>|S-ID 2  |
+---+----+  |  |+---+--+|           OWAMP        |   +------+|       |SI-ID 1 |
    |       |  ||TC-OAM|+------------------------+-----------+------>|        |
    |       |  |+------+|                        |           |       |S-ID 2  |
    |       | ++-------+|           IOAM         |           |       |SI-ID 2 |
    |       | | AF-OAM |+------------------------+-----------+------>|        |
    |       | +--------+|           IOAM         |           |       |        |
    +-------+-----------+------------------------+-----------+------>|        |
            +-----------+                        +-----------+       +--------+

             Figure 3: An Example Of CATS OAM Deployment

   As illustrated in Fig. 3, the OWAMP and the IOAM tools are selected
   as examples to describe how the CATS OAM component works with these
   detection tools to fulfill the four objectives :

   *  Convergence latency is compressed from the order of tens of
      seconds to sub-second timescale: The SI-OAM component is deployed
      on the CATS-Forwarder 2 and the OWAMP tool is used to measure the
      delay and packet loss from the CATS-Forwarder 2 to the associated
      service instance.  The source and the destination IP of the
      detection packets are the CATS-Forwarder 2 interface IP and the
      service instance IP, respectively.According to the returned
      packets, the status and the metrics of both the service instance
      and the network that connects the service instance with the
      clients are obtained.  The SI-OAM component feeds back the
      measurement results to the C-SMA component, which further spreads
      the computing resource information in the CATS network to
      accelerate CATS Path Selector(C-PS) convergence to avoid black
      holes.

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   *  Closed-loop network SLA guarantee: The TC-OAM component is
      deployed on the CATS-Forwarder 1 and the OWAMP tool is used to
      measure the delay and packet loss from the CATS-Forwarder 1 to the
      associated service instance.  To ensure OWAMP packets are
      delivered according to the table item of TC, the source and the
      destination IP addresses of the detection packets are set to the
      IP address of the interface of CATS-Forwarder 1 and the IP address
      corresponding to the service ID, respectively.  OWAMP packets
      usually pass through the tunnel to the egress network and are
      forwarded to the service instance.  According to the returned
      OWAMP packets, the TC-OAM obtains the measurement results and
      feeds back the results to the C-PS component.  If the measurement
      results deviate from the expected SLAs, recalculation is triggered
      to fulfill the closed-loop network SLA guarantee for the service
      ID.

   *  Closed-loop SLA guarantee for service flow: for service flows that
      have been initiated, the flow affinity function is executed to
      guarantee that subsequent packets reach the same service instance
      as the first packet.  To conduct measuring and performance
      monitoring for the entire end-to-end flows, the flow-based
      detection tool such as IOAM is selected and the AF-OAM component
      is deployed on the CATS-Forwarder 1.  Note that the PostCard or
      the PassPort modes are generally used in the flow-based detection
      and a centralized collector is required to obtain the measurement
      results and feed the results back to the C-PS.  The network path
      can be adjusted according to the difference between the OAM
      measurement results and the SLA requirements to ensure a
      consistent user experience.

   *  Service fault delimiting and troubleshooting: For fast
      delimitation and troubleshooting under user experience
      degradation, the AF-OAM component can be deployed on a user
      terminal when a flow detection tool such as IOAM is performed.The
      IOAM can use the postcard mode and can directly report the
      location where packet loss or longer delay occurs according to the
      measurement results obtained by a centralized collector.  This is
      a typical scenario of IOAM, and details are not described herein.

   For different detection targets, flexible choices of detection
   protocols and mechanisms can be made, which will not be elaborated
   upon here.

8.  Security Considerations

   To be discussed in future versions of this document.

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9.  Acknowledgements

   To be added upon contributions, comments and suggestions.

10.  IANA Considerations

   TBD.

11.  References

11.1.  Normative References

   [I-D.ldbc-cats-framework]
              Li, C., Du, Z., Boucadair, M., Contreras, L. M., and J.
              Drake, "A Framework for Computing-Aware Traffic Steering
              (CATS)", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ldbc-
              cats-framework-06, 8 February 2024,
              <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ldbc-cats-
              framework-06>.

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2119>.

   [RFC4656]  Shalunov, S., Teitelbaum, B., Karp, A., Boote, J., and M.
              Zekauskas, "A One-way Active Measurement Protocol
              (OWAMP)", RFC 4656, DOI 10.17487/RFC4656, September 2006,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4656>.

   [RFC7276]  Mizrahi, T., Sprecher, N., Bellagamba, E., and Y.
              Weingarten, "An Overview of Operations, Administration,
              and Maintenance (OAM) Tools", RFC 7276,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC7276, June 2014,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7276>.

   [RFC8174]  Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC
              2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI 10.17487/RFC8174,
              May 2017, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8174>.

   [RFC8402]  Filsfils, C., Ed., Previdi, S., Ed., Ginsberg, L.,
              Decraene, B., Litkowski, S., and R. Shakir, "Segment
              Routing Architecture", RFC 8402, DOI 10.17487/RFC8402,
              July 2018, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8402>.

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   [RFC8754]  Filsfils, C., Ed., Dukes, D., Ed., Previdi, S., Leddy, J.,
              Matsushima, S., and D. Voyer, "IPv6 Segment Routing Header
              (SRH)", RFC 8754, DOI 10.17487/RFC8754, March 2020,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8754>.

   [RFC9378]  Brockners, F., Ed., Bhandari, S., Ed., Bernier, D., and T.
              Mizrahi, Ed., "In Situ Operations, Administration, and
              Maintenance (IOAM) Deployment", RFC 9378,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC9378, April 2023,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9378>.

11.2.  Informative References

   [I-D.ietf-cats-usecases-requirements]
              Yao, K., Contreras, L. M., Shi, H., Zhang, S., and Q. An,
              "Computing-Aware Traffic Steering (CATS) Problem
              Statement, Use Cases, and Requirements", Work in Progress,
              Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-cats-usecases-requirements-07,
              10 June 2025, <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/
              draft-ietf-cats-usecases-requirements-07>.

   [I-D.ietf-teas-rfc3272bis]
              Farrel, A., "Overview and Principles of Internet Traffic
              Engineering", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-
              ietf-teas-rfc3272bis-27, 12 August 2023,
              <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-teas-
              rfc3272bis-27>.

Contributors

   Daniel Huang
   ZTE Corporation
   Email: huang.guangping@zte.com.cn

   Cheng Huang
   ZTE Corporation
   Email: huang.cheng13@zte.com.cn

   Wei Duan
   ZTE Corporation
   Email: duan.wei1@zte.com.cn

Authors' Addresses

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   Huakai Fu
   ZTE Corporation
   Email: fu.huakai@zte.com.cn

   Bo Liu
   China Mobile
   Email: liubo@chinamobile.com

   Zhenqiang Li
   China Mobile
   Email: lizhenqiang@chinamobile.com

   Quan Xiong
   ZTE Corporation
   Email: xiong.quan@zte.com.cn

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