Concise MPLS for engineers

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.

What will you learn

MPLS training course details

Anyone working with MPLS.

IP Routing
BGP

3 days

What does MPLS stand for? What is MPLS? Core
MPLS, MPLS and the 7 layer model, MPLS is a
protocol, MPLS is a standard, MPLS runs on
routers, MPLS history, Why MPLS? For service
providers, For enterprises.

Label Switch Routers, two types of LSR, PE and
P router roles, FEC, swapping labels, MPLS
packet format, Loops, TTL control.
Hands on:
Building the base network. Enabling MPLS. Simple testing and troubleshooting of MPLS.

Label review, label switch path, label distribution
methods, piggybacking, Label distribution
Protocols, LDP, LDP operation, LDP packets,
discovery messages, session messages,
advertisement messages, notification message,
Label Information Base, routing tables, the LFIB,
MPLS forwarding, penultimate hop popping,
handling labels, LSP control modes, when to
distribute labels, how long to keep labels,
aggregation, label merging.
Hands on: LDP traffic
analysis.

What is MPLS TE? Why TE? TE versus shorted
path, how MPLS TE works, CR-LDP, OSPF-TE,
IS-IS-TE, TE with BGP, RSVP-TE, MPLS Fast
reroute, MPLS QoS.
Hands on: Enabling
MPLS-TE.

BFD, hello the BFD protocol.

What is a VPN? MPLS VPN types, MPLS VPN
comparison, MPLS L3 VPN, VRFs, MBGP, MPLS
VPN architecture, VRF RD, VRF RT, the label
stack, L2 VPNs, VPWS, AToM, VPLS.
Hands on:
MPLS L3 VPN setup, troubleshooting.