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Introduction

Maintaining Cisco Service Provider Routing Protocols is intended to help prepare individuals to pass the Cisco Certified Network Professional: Service Provider Operations (Cisco CCNP SP Operations) Certification exams. This course and certification will also prepare and validate learner proficiency in monitoring and troubleshooting interior gateway protocols and Border Gateway Protocol on the service provider core next generation networking network. This course is designed to provide learners with the knowledge needed to provide support in a service-provider environment using an IGP such as Open Shortest Path First or Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System and BGP. It also provides learners with an understanding of advanced routing policies using route maps with Cisco IOS Software and Routing Policy Language with Cisco IOS XR Software. It focuses on monitoring and troubleshooting these technologies in service provider environments.

Pre-Requisites

Knowledge and skills that individuals must have before attending this course are as follows:

• Describe service provider operations, functions, models, and processes.
• Demonstrate IP NGN Operations Associate level knowledge.
• Execute basic Cisco IOS and Cisco IOS XR configuration and monitoring commands.
• Demonstrate service provider change management procedures.
• Demonstrate service provider configuration management procedures.
• Demonstrate IP NGN troubleshooting skills within a service provider core network.
• Appraise and optimize performance in the service provider IP NGN core and aggregation network components.
• Compare and contrast Interior and Exterior Gateway Protocols.
• Describe the fundamentals and basic operation of OSPF and IS-IS link-state protocols.
• Describe the fundamentals and basic operation of BGP.

Who should attend?

• Service provider network operations organizations, specifically mid to upper level network operations personnel like Tier II and Tier II support.
• Generally service provider customers or partners maintaining service provider IP NGN network infrastructures.
• Customers pursing Cisco Professional level certifications for their career growth.
• Personnel from mid or large enterprise networks that institute service provider or sometimes known as carrier class type operations.
• General service provider Partners like Build-Operate-Transfer partners, service provider outsource partners, manage services channel partners.
• Cisco service provider Engineers, Cisco Technical Assistance Center Engineers, Cisco Remote Operations Services personnel.

Course Objectives

Delegates will be able to meet these overall objectives on completion of this course:

• Identify the typical routing requirements in service provider networks, list the routing solutions, and describe the change, performance, and fault management procedures
• Change the routing configuration that is based on designs and implementation templates, as well as change management processes and procedures based on Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
• Gather and interpret performance statistics for routing protocols using various tools such as show commands and monitoring tools that are based on Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
• Perform fault management for routing protocols using various tools such as show commands and monitoring tools

Course Outline

Service Provider Routing Operation Processes

• Understanding Service Provider Routing Protocols
• Using Routing Protocol Tools
• Using Management and Monitoring Tools
• Applying Service Provider Routing Operation Processes Based on ITIL

Change Management for Routing Protocols

• Understanding Routing Protocol Requirements
• Adding Routers to the Core Network
• Modifying Core Routing Parameters
• Connecting Single-Homed Customers to the Network
• Connecting Multihomed Customers to the Network
• Modifying Routing Paths

Performance Management for Routing Protocols

• Auditing Internal Routing
• Auditing External Routing
• Testing Internal Routing
• Testing External Routing

Fault Management for Routing Protocols

• Troubleshooting Routing Issues in the Network
• Troubleshooting External Routing Issues