Implementing Cisco MPLS Traffic Engineering & Other Features

Course details

The Implementing Cisco MPLS Traffic Engineering & Other Features (MPLST) course will enable customers 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.

Target Audience

This course is designed for:

• Inpiduals seeking advanced MPLS based knowledge and skills.
• Pre- and Post-sales technical engineers who are responsible for designing, implementing, and troubleshooting MPLS networks or solutions that are based on MPLS technology.

Objectives

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

• Identify the MPLS peer-to-peer architecture and explain label allocation, routing update distribution, and packet forwarding as they relate to this architecture
• Use the Cisco IOS commands that are 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 assigns traffic to traffic trunks
• Use the Cisco IOS commands that are required to successfully configure, monitor, and troubleshoot MPLS Traffic Engineering
• Use the Cisco IOS commands that are required to successfully implement a defined SLA using MPLS QoS services
• Use the Cisco IOS commands that are required to successfully configure, monitor, and troubleshoot Layer 2 services using the Any Transport over MPLS service
• Use the Cisco IOS commands that are required to successfully configure, monitor, and troubleshoot IPv6 support in an MPLS environment

Course Outline

MPLS VPN Review

• Basic MPLS Concepts
• Label Distribution in Frame-Mode MPLS
• Configuring MPLS
• MPLS VPN Routing Model and Packet Forwarding
• Configuring Simple MPLS VPNs

Carrier Supporting Carrier

• Carrier’s Carrier Overview
• Implementing the CSC Models

Configuring MPLS Traffic Engineering

• Configuring MPLS Traffic Engineering on Cisco IOS Platforms
• Advanced MPLS-TE Path Selection
• Advanced MPLS-TE Link Protection
• Advanced MPLS-TE Bandwidth Control
• MPLS-TE Interarea Support
• Monitoring and Troubleshooting MPLS-TE

MPLS Quality of Service

• QoS models
• MPLS support for DiffServ
• Configuring MPLS QoS
• QoS in MPLS Applications

Any Transport over MPLS (AToM)

• Introduction to Any Transport over MPLS
• Configuring AToM on Cisco IOS Platforms
• Monitoring AToM on Cisco IOS Platforms

MPLS IPv6 support

• Review of IPv6
• Implementing IPv6 over MPLS
• Monitoring IPv6 over MPLS