Technical Education

Course Prerequisites and Recommended Reading Prerequisites

While there are no official course prerequisites, attendees of all Juniper Networks technical education courses are expected to have general familiarity with topics in the following areas:

TCP/IP basics
Link-state routing protocols, including a familiarity with either OSPF or IS-IS
Operation of BGP4 and knowledge of the BGP4 mandatory attributes
General interdomain routing issues

While not required, familiarity with the command-line interface of a routing platform or UNIX system is helpful.

Recomended Reading

The following references might be useful in preparing for your classes:

General

Doyle, Jeff. CCIE Professional Development: Routing TCP/IP Cisco Systems. ISBN: 1578700418
Perlman, Radia. Interconnections, 2rd Ed. Addison-Wesley. ISBN: 0201634481

BGP

Stewart, John W. BGP4 Inter-Domain Routing in the Internet Addison-Wesley Pub. Co. ISBN: 0201379511
Halabi, Bassam. Internet Routing Architectures Cisco Press, April 1996. ISBN: 1562056522
RFC1771, A Border Gateway Protocol 4

OSPF

Moy, John T. OSPF Anatomy of an Internet Routing Protocol Addison-Wesley Pub. Co. ISBN: 0201634724
IETG OSPF Working Group Home Page
RFC2328, OSPF Version 2

IS-IS

Intermediate System to Intermediate System Intra-Domain Routing Exchange Protocol for Use in Conjunction with the Protocol for Providing the Connectionless-mode Network Service (ISO 8473), ISO 10589, February 1990.
IETF IS-IS Working Group Home Page
RFC 1195, Use of OSI IS-IS for Routing in TCP/IP and Dual Environments

MPLS