MPLS - Implementing Cisco MPLS

Upon completion of the Internetworking With Cisco MPLS (MPLS) course the student will be able to:

• Describe basic MPLS frame-mode and cell-mode architectures and identify how it supports applications that are used to address the drawbacks in traditional IP routing
• Describe the Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) process by explaining label allocation, label distribution, label retention, label convergence and Penultimate Hop Popping (PHP) in both frame and cell modes
• Given a diagram of a typical MPLS network solution, identify the Cisco IOS command syntax required to successfully configure and monitor MPLS operations on frame, switched WAN and LC-ATM interfaces
• Describe MPLS's peer-to-peer architecture and explain the routing and packet forwarding model in this architecture
• Given a diagram of a typical simple MPLS VPN solution, identify the Cisco IOS command syntax required to successfully configure, monitor, and troubleshoot VPN operations
• Given a diagram of a typical simple, hub-and-spoke, overlapping and central services MPLS VPN solution identify the Cisco IOS command syntax required to successfully configure VPN operations and describe how these model are used to implement managed services and Internet access

• INTRODUCTION
• MPLS CONCEPTS
• MPLS LABEL ASSIGNMENT & DISTRIBUTION
• FRAME - MODE/CELL-MODE MPLS IMPLEMENTATION ON CISCO IOS PLATFORMS
• MPLS VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORKS
• MPLS VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORKS IMPLEMENTTION
• MPLS VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORKS ADVANCED FEATURES
• INTERNET ACCESS FROM A MPLS VPN