Implementing Cisco MPLS Traffic Engineering & Other Features (MPLST) — A 5-day course

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Synopsis

The Implementing Cisco MPLS Traffic Engineering and Other Features (MPLST) course is recommended training for individuals seeking advanced MPLS based knowledge and skills. The course will enable learners to gather information from the technology basics to some of the more updated features and functions such as Traffic Engineering, Carrier Supporting Carrier and Any Transport over MPLS (AToM). The focus of the course is on technology issues of MPLS from the Service Providers perspective and how to configure some of those features and functions in an existing routed environment.

Course Objectives

After completing this training course the student will be able to:

• Identify MPLS's peer-to-peer architecture and explain label allocation, routing update distribution and packet forwarding model in this architecture
• Given a working MPLS network and diagram of a network, use the CISCO IOS commands required to successfully configure, monitor, and troubleshoot service provider support using the MPLS Carrier supporting Carrier service.
• Identify the MPLS Traffic Engineering architecture and explain how MPLS implements traffic engineering, establishes the constraint-based path and assigning traffic to traffic trunks.
• Given a working MPLS network and diagram of a network, use the CISCO IOS commands required to successfully configure, monitor, and troubleshoot MPLS Traffic Engineering.
• Given a working MPLS network and diagram of a network, use the CISCO IOS commands required to successfully implement a defined SLA using the MPLS QoS services.
• Given a working MPLS network and diagram of a network, use the CISCO IOS commands required to successfully configure, monitor, and troubleshoot layer-2 services using the Any Transport over MPLS service.
• Given a working MPLS network and diagram of a network, use the CISCO IOS commands required to successfully configure, monitor, and troubleshoot IPv6 support in a MPLS environment.

Intended Audience

• Employees
• Channel Partner/Reseller
• Cisco Customers

Prerequisites

• BGP - Configuring BGP on Cisco Routers
• QoS - Implementing Cisco Quality of Service
• MPLS - Implementing MPLS or have equivalent knowledge
• Practical experience with deploying and operating networks based on Cisco IOS and network devices is strongly recommended

Certification

Recommended as preparation for exam:

• TBA

Publicly scheduled dates, locations, and prices

Course Contents

MPLS VPN Review

• Populating the LFIB with MPLS labels
• Packet propagation across an MPLS network and PHP
• Configuring MPLS VPN’s
• The use of Route Distinguishers and Route Targets

MPLS Label Assignment and Distribution Frame-Mode/Cell-Mode

Carrier Supporting Carrier (CsC)

MPLS Traffic Engineering Technology

• What is Traffic Engineering
• Business drivers for Traffic Engineering
• Traffic tunnels: Concepts, Characteristics and Attributes
• Constraint based Path Computation
• Role of RSVP
• Implementing TE policies
• Propagating TE link attributes with Link-State Routing
• Path setup and maintenance
• Traffic Flow modifications and autoroute

Configuring MPLS Traffic Engineering

• MPLS TE on the interface
• MPLS-TE support in OSPF and IS-IS
• Explicit and dynamic path options
• Link protection
• Bandwidth control

MPLS Quality of Service

• QoS models
• MPLS support for DiffServ
• Configuring QoS in Cisco IOS modular QoS CLI
• QoS implementation

Any Transport over MPLS (AToM)

MPLS IPv6 support