Objectives and Pre-requisites

Course Objectives

• 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 assigns 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 requried to successfully configure, monitor and troubleshoot IPv6 support in a MPLS environment

Prerequisites

The knowledge and skills you must have before attending this course are as follows:

• Configuring BGP on Cisco Routers Version 3.2 (BGP)
• Implementing Cisco Quality of Service (QOS)
• Implementing Cisco MPLS (MPLS)