Implementing MPLS (MPLS)

This five-day course is designed to provide lectures and comprehensive hands-on labs ranging from technology basics to more updated features and functions such as complex VPNs. The focus of the course is on MPLS technology issues as they apply to service providers and on how to configure new features and functions in an existing routed environment.

Course Objectives

• Describe basic MPLS frame-mode and cell-mode architectures and identify how it supports applications that are used to address the drawbacks in traditional IP routing
• Describe the LDP process by explaining label allocation, label distribution, label retention, label convergence and PHP in both frame and cell modes
• Objectives (8pt Arial) normally Identify the Cisco IOS command syntax required to successfully configure, monitor, and troubleshoot MPLS operations on frame, switched WAN, and LC-ATM interfaces, given a diagram of a typical MPLS network solution Describe the MPLS peer-to-peer architecture and explain the routing and packet forwarding model in this architecture
• Identify the IOS command syntax required to successfully configure, monitor, and troubleshoot VPN operations, given a diagram of a typical simple MPLS VPN solution
• Identify the IOS command syntax required to successfully configure VPN operations and describe how these models are used to implement managed services and Internet access, given a diagram of a typical simple, hub-and-spoke, overlapping and central services MPLS VPN solution
• Identify the IOS command syntax required to successfully configure, monitor, and troubleshoot an MPLS VPN and Internet integration, given a diagram of a MPLS network.

Prerequisites
Delegates are required to meet the following prerequisites: CCNA, BSCI, BGP, QOS 2.0 or equivalent knowledge


Who should attend
This course is aimed at network administrators and technicians responsible for implementing and troubleshooting basic IP multicast-enabled networks within a single domain. Cisco CCNP, CCDP, CCIE, and CCIP routing and switching candidates.
Course outlineMPLS Concepts

• Basic MPLS Concepts
• MPLS Labels and Label Stack
• MPLS Applications

Label Assignment and Distribution

• Typical Label Distribution in Frame-Mode MPLS
• Convergence in Frame-mode MPLS
• Typical Label Distribution over LC-ATM Interfaces and VC Merge
• MPLS Label Allocation, Distribution, and Retention Modes
• LDP Neighbour Discovery

Frame-Mode and Cell-Mode MPLS Implementation on Cisco IOS Platforms

• CEF Switching Review
• Configuring Frame-Mode MPLS on Cisco IOS Platforms
• Monitoring Frame-Mode MPLS on Cisco IOS Platforms
• Troubleshooting Frame-Mode MPLS on Cisco IOS Platforms
• Configuring LC-ATM MPLS
• Configuring LC-ATM MPLS over ATM Virtual Path
• Monitoring LC-ATM MPLS on Cisco IOS Platforms

MPLS Virtual Private Networks Technology

• Introduction to Virtual Private Networks
• Overlay and Peer-to-Peer VPNs
• VPN Categorization
• MPLS VPN Architecture
• MPLS VPN Routing Model
• MPLS VPN Packet Forwarding

Complex MPLS VPNs

• Advanced VRF Import and Export Features
• Overlapping VPNs
• Central Services VPNs
• Managed CE Routers Service MPLS Managed Services

Internet Access from an MPLS VPN

• VPN Internet Access Topologies
• VPN Internet Access Implementation Methods
• Separating Internet Access from VPN Services
• Internet Access as a Separate VPN

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