MPLS Technology, Engineering, Applications, and QoS Training:

MPLS Technology, Engineering, Applications, and QoS Training Course by ENO

In this MPLS Technology, Engineering, Applications, and QoS Training course, you will study all of the key issues related to the design and implementation of MPLS in IP networks. We will begin with a quick review of IP routing and the OSI stack. We will then study the basics of MPLS label switching and continue with applications including VPNs, Quality of Service (QoS), and Traffic Engineering. Advanced and emerging applications of MPLS are next including multicast, circuit emulation, and hierarchical LSPs. We will finish up with a discussion of MPLS marketing opportunities. Examples and short exercises are interspersed throughout the MPLS Technology, Engineering, Applications, and QoS course.

What’s Included

• 3 Days of MPLS Technology, Engineering, Applications, and QoS Training from an Authorized Instructor
• MPLS Technology, Engineering, Applications, and QoS Electronic Course Guide
• Certificate of Completion
• 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed

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Customize It:

• Let us know your motivation for studying MPLS so we can customize the course to your specific needs.  If you are not already familiar with IP or other telecom basics, the course can be expanded to four days to cover these topics.

Objectives:

After completing this course, attendees will be able to:

• Identify the problems with conventional IP networks and how to correct them with MPLS
• Understand and implement MPLS labels and paths
• Analyze and implement Quality of Service (QoS) in IP networks using MPLS
• Analyze and implement VPNs using MPLS
• Implement new, advanced functions with MPLS that add value to your network offerings

Course Outlines:

Review of OSI protocol stack and packet switching

• Packet vs. circuit switching
• Connection-oriented and connectionless network architectures
• Reason for layered telecom architectures
• OSI stack
• The function of each layer
• Layer 2 switching
• Ethernet and OSI
• Packet construction and addressing

Overview of Routing and MPLS

• Layer 3 routing
• Native Hop-by-Hop Network Layer (Layer 3) routing
• Next Hop Selection Functions
• Advantages of Layer 3 switching
• Label Switching as way to speed packets through network
• MPLS implementation of label switching
• MPLS forwarding paradigm
• Integration of IP and MPLS
• Advantages of MPLS forwarding over conventional network layer forwarding
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MPLS Labels

• MPLS labels basics
• Label encapsulation
• Label assignment and distribution
• Label-switched routers and routing (LSR)
• Label distribution:  Purpose
• Label distribution:  Protocols (LDP)
• Label distribution:  Methods
• Label retention modes
• Label Switched Paths (LSP)
• LSP setup control

Route Selection

• Basics
• Standard IP and MPLS
• IP forwarding
• MPLS label distribution
• Label switched paths
• Explicitly routed LSP (ER-LSP):  Basics, example, advantages
• Hop-by-Hop vs. explicit routing

MPLS Architecture

• Design of MPLS networks
• MPLS operation
• MPLS node architecture
• MPLS elements
• Loop survival, detection, and prevention in MPLS

Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and MPLS

• Overview of VPNs
• Connection-oriented VPNs
• Connectionless VPNs
• Comparison of VPN technologies
• MPLS VPN operation
• Layer 1 MPLS VPNs (circuit emulation)
• Layer 2 MPLS VPNs (point-point, multipoint)
• Layer 3 MPLS VPNs
• Route reflectors
• Trace route enhancements
• Advantages of MPLS VPNs
• MPLS VPN management

MPLS Traffic Engineering

• Need for traffic engineering on Internet and other IP-based networks
• Unequal cost load balancing via metric manipulation
• Advantages of MPLS traffic engineering
• Basic concepts of MPLS traffic engineering
• MPLS traffic engineering elements (dynamic/static LSPs)
• MPLS traffic engineering configuration
• Resource Reservation Protocol for Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE)
• Configuration case study of an MPLS traffic-engineered network: Intermediate System-Intermediate System (IS-IS)
• Configuration case study of an MPLS traffic-engineered network: Open shortest path first (OSPF)
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MPLS and Quality of Service (QoS)

• Introduction to Quality of Service (QoS)
• Overbuild versus preferential treatment of packets
• Quality of Service vs. Class of Service (CoS)
• Integrated services
• IP precedence
• Differentiated Services (DiffServ)
• Modular QoS Command Line Interface (CLI)
• MPLS implementation of DiffServ
• MPLS VPN support of QoS
• MPLS QoS implementation
• Configuring QoS for MPLS VPNs
• MPLS QoS case study

MPLS Design

• MPLS VPN design and topologies
• Designing MPLS networks
• Additional MPLS design considerations

Generalized MPLS (GMPLS) and Multi-Protocol Lambda Switching

• Using packet-switch ideas in all-optical world
• Differences between lambda (wavelength) switching and conventional packet switching
• Basics of GMPLS
• Transitioning to GMPLS

Multicast L2/L3

• Mcast backbone requirements
• Point to multipoint (P2MP) LSPs
• P2MP Pseudowire emulation (PW)
• BGP P2MP
• Mobile VPN (mVPN)

Inter-AS/CSC

• Inter-carrier requirements
• MPLS-Inter-carrier-connect (ICI)
• Multi-segment PW

Circuit Emulation

• Structure-Agnostic Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) over Packet (SAToP)
• Circuit Emulation Switched Virtual Circuit (SVC) over Packet Switched Network (CESoPSN)
• TDM over IP Gateways (TDMoIP)
• Circuit Emulation (CEM)

Hierarchical LSPs

• Route aggregation and H-LDP
• Hierarchical resource reservation

MPLS Resilience and OAM

• Need for network protection
• MPLS error detection
• Thrashing links
• Practical applications
• Node/network-level recovery
• LSP/PW ping/traceroute
• Virtual Circuit Connection Verification (VCCV)
• PW redundancy
• Master Controller-Layer 2 Access Concentration (MC-LAC)
• MPLS/Ethernet OAM interworking
• Cisco’s Tunnel Builder vendor solution

MPLS and Advanced or Emerging Technologies

• Control planes and MPLS
• Fixing the problems of SONET
• Generalized MPLS (GMPLS) and Automatic Switched Optical Networks (ASON)
• Separation of connectivity and services: Next Generation Network (NGN)
• Getting rid of SONET: MPLS and Optical Transport Network (OTN)
• MPLS and emerging very high speed Ethernet (>100 Mb/s)
• New architectures for layer 2 functionality
• Virtualization and Software Defined Networking (SDN)
• Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and MPLS

MPLS VPN Marketing

• Who:  The user’s perspective
• What:  The money
• How:  Approaches to marketing and sales
• Market planning overview
• Case example
• Challenges
• Case study

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