Implementing Cisco MPLS (MPLS)

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Description

Duration: 5 days

Implementing Cisco MPLS (MPLS) v3.0 is a five-day course that prepares students for the MPLS exam using real-world scenarios aligned with current network design and technologies. Enterprises and service providers often require capabilities that standard IP packet forwarding cannot adequately deliver, and MPLS addresses this by forwarding packets through a network using simple labels applied at edge routers, reducing lookup overhead. MPLS combines the traffic management and performance characteristics of Layer 2 data link with the scalability and flexibility of Layer 3 routing, enabling value-added network services.

Target Audience

  • Network administrators seeking to implement MPLS and MPLS Traffic Engineering
  • Network engineers seeking to implement MPLS and MPLS Traffic Engineering
  • Network managers seeking to implement MPLS and MPLS Traffic Engineering
  • Systems engineers seeking to implement MPLS and MPLS Traffic Engineering
  • Network designers
  • Project managers
  • Individuals preparing for the MPLS exam

Prerequisites

  • Intermediate to advanced experience configuring Cisco IOS Software
  • Experience configuring and troubleshooting EIGRP, OSPF, IS-IS, and BGP
  • Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices v2.0, Part 1 (ICND1 v2.0) and Part 2 (ICND2 v2.0), or the accelerated equivalent (CCNAX v2.0)
  • Implementing Cisco IP Routing (ROUTE v2.0)
  • Configuring BGP on Cisco Routers (BGP v4.0)
  • Building Cisco Service Provider Next-Generation Networks Part 1 (SPNGN1) v1.2
  • Building Cisco Service Provider Next-Generation Networks Part 2 (SPNGN2) v1.2
  • Deploying Cisco Service Provider Network Routing (SPROUTE) v1.2
  • Deploying Cisco Service Provider Advanced Network Routing (SPADVROUTE) v1.2

What's Included

What’s included?

  • Authorized Courseware
  • Intensive Hands on Skills Development with an Experienced Subject Matter Expert
  • Hands on practice on real Servers and extended lab support 1.800.482.3172
  • Examination Vouchers & Onsite Certification Testing – (excluding Adobe and PMP Boot Camps)
  • Academy Code of Honor: Test Pass Guarantee
  • Optional: Package for Hotel Accommodations, Lunch and Transportation

Training Solutions

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Curriculum

Learning Objectives
  • Explain the core features of MPLS
  • Explain how MPLS labels are assigned and distributed across a network
  • Configure and troubleshoot frame-mode MPLS on Cisco IOS platforms
  • Describe the MPLS peer-to-peer architecture and its routing and packet-forwarding model
  • Configure, monitor, and troubleshoot MPLS VPN operations
  • Explain how the MPLS VPN model supports managed services and Internet access
  • Compare available Internet access implementations and outline the advantages and limitations of each
  • Identify the tasks and commands required to implement MPLS Traffic Engineering
Course Outline
Module 1: Fundamentals of MPLS

Covers foundational MPLS concepts, the structure of MPLS labels and the label stack, and an overview of common MPLS applications. Includes module summary and self-check.

Module 2: Label Assignment and Distribution

Examines how LDP neighbors are discovered, how labels are typically distributed in frame-mode MPLS, and how convergence works in a frame-mode MPLS environment. Includes module summary and self-check.

Module 3: Deploying Frame-Mode MPLS on Cisco IOS Platforms

Introduces CEF switching and addresses the configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting of frame-mode MPLS on Cisco IOS platforms. Includes module summary and self-check.

Module 4: MPLS VPN Technology

Provides an introduction to virtual private networks and covers the MPLS VPN architecture, the MPLS VPN routing model, and the process for forwarding MPLS VPN packets. Includes module summary and self-check.

Module 5: Implementing MPLS VPNs

Addresses MPLS VPN mechanisms on Cisco IOS platforms, including configuring MP-BGP sessions between PE routers, setting up VRF tables, configuring routing protocols between PE and CE routers at small scale, monitoring VPN operations, configuring OSPF and BGP between PE and CE routers, and troubleshooting MPLS VPNs. Includes module summary and self-check.

Module 6: Advanced MPLS VPN Scenarios

Introduces overlapping VPN designs, central services VPNs, and the managed CE routers service model. Includes module summary and self-check.

Module 7: Internet Access with MPLS VPNs

Covers approaches to integrating Internet access with MPLS VPNs and the steps for deploying Internet access within an MPLS VPN environment. Includes module summary and self-check.

Module 8: Introduction to MPLS Traffic Engineering

Introduces MPLS Traffic Engineering components and how they operate, along with configuration and basic monitoring of MPLS TE on Cisco IOS platforms. Includes module summary and self-check.

Module 9: Lab Outline

Practical exercises covering: IP addressing and IGP routing for service provider and customer environments; core MPLS deployment in a service provider network; EIGRP-based VPN implementation; OSPF-based MPLS VPN implementation; BGP-based MPLS VPN implementation; and MPLS Traffic Engineering implementation. Each exercise includes both a guided walkthrough and an independent implementation component.