Cisco MPLS Courses

The Knowledge Academy Implementing Cisco MPLS 5 day course covers the following topics:

Who Should Attend

The primary audience for this course is as follows:

The target audience for Implementing Cisco MPLS consists of network administrators and technicians—Cisco CCNP®, CCDP®, CCIE®, and CCIP routing and switching candidates—who are responsible for implementing and troubleshooting basic IP multicast-enabled networks within a single domain.

The secondary audience for this course is as follows:

The course is targeted toward pre-sales and post-sales technical engineers who

are responsible for designing, implementing, and troubleshooting MPLS networks or solutions that are based on MPLS technology.

Prerequisites

The knowledge and skills that a delegate must have before attending this course include the following:

Cisco CCNA® certification or the equivalent level of working knowledge and experience

Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks

Configuring BGP on Cisco Routers

Course Objectives

Upon completing this course, the delegate will be able to meet these overall objectives:

Describe the features of MPLS

Describe how MPLS labels are assigned and distributed

Configure and troubleshoot frame-mode MPLS on Cisco IOS platforms

Describe the MPLS peer-to-peer architecture and explain the routing and packet-forwarding model in this architecture

Configure, monitor, and troubleshoot VPN operations

Describe how the MPLS VPN model can be used to implement managed services and Internet access

Describe the various Internet access implementations that are available and the benefits and drawbacks of each model

Describe the tasks and commands that are necessary to implement MPLS TE

Course Content

Module 1: MPLS Features

Describing Basic MPLS Concepts

Describing MPLS Labels and Label Stack

Identifying MPLS Applications

Module 2: Label Assignment and Distribution

Discovering LDP Neighbors

Describing Typical Label Distribution in Frame-Mode MPLS

Describing Convergence in Frame-Mode MPLS

Module 3: Frame-Mode MPLS Implementation on Cisco IOS Platforms

Using Cisco Express Forwarding Switching

Configuring Frame-Mode MPLS on Cisco IOS Platforms

Monitoring Frame-Mode MPLS on Cisco IOS Platforms

Troubleshooting Frame-Mode MPLS on Cisco IOS Platforms

Module 4: MPLS VPN Technology

Introducing Virtual Private Networks

Introducing MPLS VPN Architecture

Introducing the MPLS VPN Routing Model

Forwarding MPLS VPN Packets

Module 5: MPLS VPN Implementation

Using MPLS VPN Mechanisms of Cisco IOS Platforms

Configuring VRF Tables

Configuring an MP-BGP Session Between PE Routers

Configuring Small-Scale Routing Protocols Between PE and CE Routers

Monitoring MPLS VPN Operations

Configuring OSPF as the Routing Protocol Between PE and CE Routers

Configuring BGP as the Routing Protocol Between PE and CE Routers

Troubleshooting MPLS VPNs

Module 6: Complex MPLS VPNs

Introducing Overlapping VPNs

Introducing Central Services VPNs

Using Advanced VRF Import and Export Features

Introducing the Managed CE Routers Service

Module 7: Internet Access and MPLS VPNs

Combining Internet Access with MPLS VPNs

Implementing Separate Internet Access and VPN Services

Implementing Internet Access as a Separate VPN

Module 8: MPLS TE Overview

Introducing Traffic Engineering Concepts

Understanding MPLS TE Components

Configuring MPLS Traffic Engineering on Cisco IOS Platforms

Monitoring Basic MPLS TE on Cisco IOS Platforms