E-series MPLS Configuration Basics
Course No: EDU-JUN-ERXMPLS
Length: Three days
Cost: $2,025 (US) Schedule and Registration
Course Overview
This course provides technical network professionals with the skills they need to successfully install, configure, and troubleshoot the E-series router in a basic MPLS network. The course covers the fundamentals of MPLS, MPLS traffic engineering, and MPLS VPNs. Students learn about LDP, CR-LDP, and RSVP-TE as well as MPLS internetworking with IS-IS, OSPF, and BGP. The course consists of over 50% hands-on exercises.
Objectives
After successfully completing this course, you will be able to:
- Describe the basic MPLS label-switching model.
- Configure MPLS tunnels.
- Configure MPLS tunnel advertisement to an IGP.
- Describe the establishment of MPLS LSPs for traffic engineering.
- Configure the E-series router for MPLS explicitly routed tunnels.
- Configure MPLS traffic engineered tunnels.
- Define the terms P router, PE router, and CE router.
- Configure the E-series router to support VPNs over MPLS label-switched paths.
- Configure VRFs.
- Configure address family-based BGP advertisements.
Intended Audience
This course is intended for network professionals responsible for the integration, configuration, and management of E-series MPLS router networks.
Course Level
This is an advanced-level course.
Prerequisites
The prerequisites for the E-series MPLS Configuration Basics class are the following:
Course Contents
Day 1
Module 0: Introduction and Overview
Module 1: Multiprotocol Label Switching Overview
- MPLS Origin and Terminology
- Overlay Model versus MPLS
- MPLS Encapsulation Strategies and MPLS Switching
- MPLS Performance and Services
- MPLS LSPs
Module 2: Best-Effort Hop-by-Hop LSPs
- Building Label-Switched Paths using RSVP-TE
- Basic MPLS Configuration
- MPLS Interaction with IGPs
- Lab 1: Configuring MPLS Paths
- Lab 2: Configuring Best-Effort, Hop-by-Hop LSPs
Day 2
Module 3: Topology-Driven Label-Switched Paths
- Building Label-Switched Paths using LDP
- Downstream Unsolicited Configuration
- MPLS LDP over RSVP-TE
- Lab 3: MPLS Downstream Unsolicited LSPs
Module 4: BGP/MPLS VPNs
- Overview of BGP/MPLS VPNs
- MPLS/VPN Stacked Tunnel Setup and Forwarding Example
- BGP4 Multiprotocol Extensions
- Configuring BGP/MPLS VPNs
- VPN Configuration Options
- Lab 4: BGP/MPLS Virtual Private Networks
Day 3
Module 5: Multiprotocol Label Switching Layer 2 Virtual Private Networks
- MPLS Layer 2 VPN Theory and Operation
- Configuring MPLS Layer 2 VPNs
- Lab 5: Layer 2 Virtual Private Networks
Module 6: Multiprotocol Label Switching Traffic Engineering
- Overview of Traffic Engineering
- Traffic Engineering Signaling
- Reoptimization and Route Pinning
- Configuration Options
- Fast Reroute Protection
- MPLS in a DiffServ Domain
- Lab 6: MPLS Traffic Engineering Explicit Path
