Building Core Networks with BGP, OSPF, and MPLS (BCMPL) Version 5.0

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Course Overview

This five-day workshop uses a combination of lecture, white papers, and hands-on laboratory exercises to teach participants how to design, deploy and maintain an Internet Service Provider (ISP) backbone. It is focused on the operational design and scaling principles of routing protocols used in large-scale networks. The premise of the workshop is to provide adequate hands-on practice with techniques used in implementing protocols such as OSPF, BGP, and MPLS in an ISP network so that students learn the techniques anc can use them in their production network.

Prerequisites

You will gain the most from this course if you have a basic understanding of the following topics:

• Field experience using the IOS command line interface (CLI) to configure, maintain and troubleshoot Cisco router as this course is lab-intensive
• Cisco IOS, routing fundamentals and IP addressing knowledge as covered in ICND or equivalent experience. CCNA Certification is the preferred source to gain this knowledge
• TCP/IP network design knowledge

Course Objectives

After completing this course the student should have the following skills and knowledge:

• Given a large network design, identify the critical factors for scalability
• Implement an IGP, such as OSPF, into a large scale multi-layer network using best current practices for scalability
• Implement BGP into a large scale multi-layer networking using best current practices for scalability
• Control routing policy by influencing the BGP path selection process using route maps and prefix lists
• Implement multihoming strategies
• Implement and verify MPLS functionality in a large scale multi-layer network
• Implement and verify MPLS VPN connectivity into intra-AS environments
• Implement and verify MPLS Traffic Engineering practices
• Characterize the features and requirements for implementation of Layer 2 VPNs (Any Transport over MPLS)

   

Course Outline

• ISP Network Design
• Navigating the Lab
• Implementing OSPF
• Implementing BGP
• Scaling BGP
• Impleneting BGP Policy Control
• ISP Case Study: PIPEX
• Implementing MPLS