MPLS training course description
A hands-on introduction to MPLS covering the basics of what MPLS is and how to configure it, through to more advanced concepts such as MPLS VPNs and traffic engineering with MPLS.
Who will benefit?
Anyone working with MPLS.
MPLS training course prerequisites
IP routing.
BGP.
MPLS training course objectives
By the end of the course delegates will be able to:
- Describe MPLS.
- Explain how MPLS works.
- Describe the interaction between OSPF/IS-IS/BGP and MPLS.
- Describe MPLS traffic engineering.
Duration: 3 days
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MPLS training
course contents
Introduction
What is MPLS?, Routers and problems with routing table lookups. Hands on: Building the base network for later exercises.
MPLS Technology
Label Switch Routers, Label Distribution Protocol, What MPLS does, How MPLS works, CE routers, PE routers, P routers. Hands on: Basic MPLS configuration.
MPLS operation
How MPLS works (detailed examples), MPLS protocol stack. Hands on: Analysing LDP packets.
MPLS History
Tag switching, Layer 3 switching, MPLS interaction with
ATM, New applications of MPLS, VPNs, MPLS standards.
MPLS Traffic Engineering
Constraint based routing, Path selection procedures, Path signalling, Data forwarding, Forwarding tables, RSVP-TE, CR-LDP. Hands on: MPLS TE.
MPLS VPNs (MPLS-VPN)
MPLS concepts and goals, routing information exchanges, forwarding mechanisms, MPLS interaction with OSPF, BGP and customer routing protocols, backbone and VPN addressing, extended communities. Hands on: vrf tables, MPLS and BGP, MPLS VPNs.
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