Implementing Cisco MPLS Traffic Engineering(MPLST)

This course is given on these dates and locations:

This course is recommended training for individuals seeking advanced MPLS based knowledge and skills.  The course will enable students 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 this course is on technology issues of MPLS from the Service Providers' perspective and how to configure some of those figures and functions in an existing routed environment.   Recommended prerequisites are BGP, QoS, and MPLS.

BGP, QoS, and MPLS recommended.

 Anyone pursuing CCIP or CCIE Certification.  Anyone pursuing advanced routing and switching knowledge.
Customers, Channel Partners / Resellers, Employees.

After completing this course the student should 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.

 Module 1: MPLS VPN Review

• Lesson 1:  Basic MPLS Concepts
• Lesson 2:  Label Distribution in Frame-Mode MPLS
• Lesson 3:  Configuring  MPLS
• Lesson 4:  MPLS VPN Routing Model & Packet Forwarding
• Lesson 5:  Configuring Simple MPLS VPNs

Module 2:  Carrier Supporting Carrier (CSC)

• Lesson 1:  Carrier's Carrier Overview
• Lesson 2:  Implementing the CSC Models

Module 3:  MPLS Traffic Engineering Technology

• Lesson 1:  Traffic Engineering Concepts
• Lesson 2:  MPLS Traffic Engineering Concepts
• Lesson 3:  Constraint-Based Path Computation
• Lesson 4:  Path Setup & Maintenance
• Lesson 5:  Assigning Traffic to Traffic Tunnels

Module 4:  Configuring MPLS Traffic Engineering

• Lesson 1:  Configuring MPLS Traffic Engineering on Cisco IOS Platforms
• Lesson 2:  Advanced MPLS-TE Path Selection
• Lesson 3:  Advanced MPLS-TE Link Protection
• Lesson 4:  Advanced MPLS-TE Bandwidth Control
• Lesson 5:  MPLS-TE Interarea Support
• Lesson 6:  Monitoring & Troubleshooting MPLS-TE

Module 5:  MPLS Quality of Service

• Lesson 1:  QoS Models
• Lesson 2:  MPLS Support for DiffServ
• Lesson 3:  Configuring MPLS QoS
• Lesson 4:  QoS in MPLS Applications

Module 6:  Any Transport over MPLS

• Lesson 1:  Introduction to any Transport over MPLS
• Lesson 2:  Configuring AToM on Cisco IOS Platforms
• Lesson 3:  Monitoring AtoM on Cisco IOS Platforms

Module 7:  MPLS IPv6 Support

• Lesson 1:  Review of IPv6
• Lesson 2:  Implementing IPv6 over MPLS
• Lesson 3:  Monitoring IPv6 over MPLS

Labs: 

• Implementing CSC in a Native IP Environment
• Implementing CSC Using LDP Label Distribution
• Implementing CSC Using MP-BGP Label Distribution
• Implementing CSC Using MPLS VPNs
• Implementing MPLS Traffic Engineering
• Implementing Link Protection for MPLS Traffic Engineering
• Implementing MPLS QoS
• Implementing MPLS QoS and DS-TE
• Implementing a Port-to-Port FRoMPLS Configuration (Case Study)
• Implementing a DLCI-to-DLCI FRoMPLS Configuration (Case Study)
• Implementing Cisco 6PE Support (Case Study)