Hands-ON MPLS Traffic Engineering
Services
CSI-HO-004
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Course Description
A fundamental flaw of Layer 3 networking has been its
dependency on Layer 2 to provide resiliency and control of access to bandwidth
without any integration of Layer 2 and Layer 3 performance attributes. For
instance, Layer 3 QoS cannot be integrated with Layer 2 ATM virtual circuit
bandwidth and delay without manual configuration and management.
Before the pressure on network operators to reduce budgets and slash costs, this
dependency was mandated by the design of the 7-layer OSI model and associated control planes.
Today, networking is very different. MPLS offers a tremendous opportunity
to enable cost savings via a common
control plane. One of the benefits designed into MPLS has also been the
ability to provide integrated constraint-based routing, bandwidth management, and improved
network performance for IP networking. This means L2 performance
integrated into Layer 3 networking - Traffic Engineering.
This course targets the subject of MPLS Traffic
Engineering by offering the student practical, hands-on skills that reveal the
details of Traffic Engineering on an MPLS domain. This is a skills-based
and knowledge based course, that is instructor led by certified MPLS specialists using real network routers to meet the objectives of the
course.
Course Objectives
The objectives of the course are:
- Develop a hands-on skill set targeted at MPLS Traffic
Engineering in the following key areas:
- Review IP and MPLS Basic Routing Operations
- Network Design Considerations for MPLS
Traffic Engineering Services
- Complex MPLS Traffic Engineering Options
- MPLS Network Protections and Survivability
- Master the basic MPLS Traffic Engineering Architecture
- Master MPLS Traffic Engineering related protocols and the common control
plane
- Master the MPLS Traffic
Engineering Services, functions and applications
- Master MPLS Fast Reroute
Target Audience
The target audience for this course is anyone in the
telecommunications field that requires a solid and complete understanding of the
operations of MPLS Traffic Engineering and desires hands-on skills that can be applied to
their job function. Ideal candidates are:
- Technical sales individuals that must be able to
correlate features with functionality
- Technical marketing individuals that want more than
just a basic understanding of MPLS Traffic Engineering
- Network Administrators
- Operations individuals that will provide MPLS Traffic
Engineering
configuration and support services
- Development Engineers that must know MPLS Traffic
Engineering in order to
provide hardware and software solutions
- Network Design Engineers that need to understand MPLS
Traffic Engineering
impacts to legacy IP Network Services and applications
- Network Management individuals that are providing
element and network management tools
- Certification Track individuals that need to expand
their knowledge and studies
Prerequisites:
CellStream has designed this course to appeal to anyone needing the skills
and knowledge of MPLS Traffic Engineering. The ideal student will have some
experience in Basic MPLS operations (for instance having taken the CellStream
Course on MPLS or the CellStream Course on Advanced MPLS). The course also uses
Command Line Interface skills training so the student will need to understand
how to operate Telnet-based services.
All students must attend with a lap-top computer in order
to interface to the CellStream Lab. If the course is held at a classroom where
computers are available, the Lap-top computer will not be required.
Course Materials:
Students will be provided with a Course Student Guide and
a Lab Guide. Also, a lab system for configuration and labs will be provided.
Related Content:
This course can be followed up with learning in two areas: 1.
Hands-On Advanced MPLS Networking (focuses on
handling IPv6, Multicast, Provider to Provider MPLS, Provider Serving Provider,
Hierarchical LDP and RSVP, TE Protection and Resilience and OA&M), and 2.
Mastering AToM, VPWS and VPLS (focuses on Layer
2 VPNs, Pseudowires, Encapsulation, Signaling and Control Extensions, EoMPLS,
and QoS) courses.
Course Outline
The course outline is as follows:
- Section 1: The Groundwork
- Overview and Introductions
- Definition of Traffic Engineering & the problem
it solves
- Performance Objectives
- Hose & Pipe Models
- MPLS TE Resources
- Brief Review of MPLS Fundamentals
- LAB 1: Getting
Set Up for MPLS Networking
- Section 2: Constraining Path Selection in MPLS TE
Networks
- Traditional Routing
- Constraint Based Routing (CBR)
- Section 3: MPLS TE Architecture
- Network Attributes
- Tunnel Attributes
- Section 4: Extending RSVP for MPLS TE
- Protocol Format
- Extensions for TE
- Reservation Styles
- Section 5: Enhancing OSPF and IS-IS for MPLS TE
- Section 6: Configuring MPLS TE
- Platform and Network
- IGP Configuration
- LAB 2:
Preparing Router Lab Network for TE Tunnels
- Configuring a Dynamic Tunnel
- LAB 3: Dynamic
Tunnels
- Configuring a Static/Explicit Tunnel
- LAB 4: Explicit
Tunnels and Network Failure
- TE Configurations Options
- Section 7: Troubleshooting and Monitoring MPLS TE
- Section 8: Advanced Traffic Engineering Features
- Forwarding Traffic into Traffic Engineered
Tunnels
- LAB 5:
Controlling Forwarding into TE Tunnels
- Section 9: Protection and Restoration of TE Tunnels
- Types of Protection
- Link Protection
- LAB 6: Link
Protect Lab
- Node Protection
- LAB 7: Node
Protect Lab
- Section 10: Integrating IP Quality of Service
- Review of QoS and MPLS QoS
- Tunnel Modes - Uniform, Pipe, Short Pipe
- Forwarding Diffserv into a TE Tunnel
- LAB 8: MPLS TE-QoS
- Section 11: Course Summary
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Course Type |
Hands-On Lab class, Instructor Led |
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Course Length |
2.5
days |
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List Pricing |
$425 per day*
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