MPLS - Implementing Cisco MPLS

This five-day instructor-led course will enable students to gather information from the technology basics to a basic introductory level of some of the more updated features and functions such as Traffic Engineering, Fast Reroute and Any Transport over MPLS (AToM).

The focus of the course is on VPN technology issues of MPLS from the Service Providers perspective and how to configure some of those features and functions in an existing routed environment.

After completing this course participants can register to sit the (MPLS) 642-611 exam.

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• 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 Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) process by explaining label allocation, label distribution, label retention, label convergence and Penultimate Hop Popping (PHP) in both frame and cell modes
• Identify the IOS command syntax required to successfully configure and monitor MPLS operations on frame, switched WAN and LC-ATM interfaces when given a diagram of a typical MPLS network solution
• Describe MPLS's peer-to-peer architecture and explain the routing and packet forwarding model in this architecture, and when given a diagram of a typical simple MPLS VPN solution, identify the IOS command syntax required to successfully configure, monitor, and troubleshoot VPN operations
• Identify the IOS command syntax required to successfully configure VPN operations and describe how these model are used to implement managed services and Internet access when given a diagram of a typical simple, hub-and-spoke, overlapping and central services MPLS VPN solution

Module 1:
• MPLS Concepts

Module 2:
• MPLS Label Assignment and Distribution

Module 3:
• Frame-Mode / Cell-Mode

Module 4:
• MPLS Implementation on IOS Platforms

Module 5:
• MPLS Virtual Private Networks Technology

Module 6:
• MPLS Virtual Private Networks Implementation

Module 7:
• MPLS Virtual Private Networks Advanced Features Cell-Mode Implementation on OS Platforms

This course is intended for individuals who wish to implement MPLS. It is also intended for CCIP candidates.

Students who are interested in attending this course should have the following certifications, or equivalent experience: CCNA, BSCI and BGP. QOS course or knowledge and practical experience with deploying and operating networks based on network devices and IOS is strongly recommended.