Implementing Cisco Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
MPLS is an apex technology that combines routing, tunneling, and multi-tenancy. This course will teach you how to configure and troubleshoot MPLS core and edge components using a large-scale network topology.
What you'll learn
The versatility and dynamicity of MPLS make it a technology worth knowing because it solves a variety of business problems. In this course, Implementing Cisco Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) , you’ll learn how to design, implement, and troubleshoot MPLS networks using a large topology as a testbed. First, you’ll build a basic MPLS transport network using OSPF and LDP, laying the groundwork for future MPLS edge services. Next, you’ll add BGP to the solution, providing global and multi-tenant transport across the core using layer-2 and layer-3 Virtual Private Networks (VPNs). Finally, you’ll learn how to optimize and troubleshoot MPLS networks using Traffic Engineering (TE) and Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) tools, respectively. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of MPLS networking needed to manage a medium sized service provider or a large multi-tenant enterprise network.
Table of contents
- The Value of BGP-free Cores in MPLS Networks 4m
- Demo: Transporting Global IPv4 over an IPv4 MPLS Core 4m
- Demo: Tracing LDP + IPv4 BGP Transport LSPs 5m
- Introducing IPv6 Provider Edge (6PE) 3m
- Demo: Transporting Global IPv6 over an IPv4 MPLS Core 5m
- Demo: Tracing LDP + IPv6 BGP-LU Transport LSPs 6m
- Module Summary 1m
- Understanding MPLS Layer-3 VPNs 5m
- BGP Route Reflection Refresher 3m
- Demo: Configuring a BGP VPNv4 Route Reflector 6m
- Demo: Building VRFs and PE-CE Interfaces 4m
- Demo: Forming eBGP Peers from PE to CE 6m
- Demo: Tracing LDP + VPNv4 BGP Transport LSPs 6m
- Introducing IPv6 VPN Provider Edge (6VPE) 3m
- Demo: Transporting IPv6 VPNs over an IPv4 MPLS Core 6m
- Demo: Tracing LDP + VPNv6 BGP Transport LSPs 4m
- Module Summary 1m
- OSPF as a PE-CE Routing Protocol 4m
- Demo: Exchanging IPv4 Routes with OSPFv2 7m
- Demo: Exchanging IPv6 Routes with OSPFv3 4m
- EIGRP as a PE-CE Routing Protocol 2m
- Demo: Exchanging IPv4 and IPv6 Routes with EIGRP 6m
- What Is an Extranet? 2m
- Demo: PE-CE Exchange with IPv4 and IPv6 Static Routes 4m
- Demo: Building a Hub/Spoke Central Services VPN 7m
- Module Summary 1m
- The World and Nomenclature of MPLS L2VPNs 5m
- A Closer Look at Ethernet Private Line (EPL) 5m
- Demo: Configuring and Verifying EPL Pseudowires 5m
- Demo: Enabling IS-IS Between L2VPN Customer Sites 4m
- Demo: We've Been Ignoring a Big MTU Problem! 5m
- Demo: Tracing LDP + tLDP Pseudowire Transport LSPs 4m
- Module Summary 1m
- Introducing MPLS Traffic Engineering and RSVP 4m
- MPLS-TE Path Options and Constraints 5m
- Demo: Enabling and Verifying RSVP-TE on MPLS Links 4m
- Demo: Avoiding Inner Core Links using Explicit Paths 5m
- Demo: Verifying RSVP Signaling Hop-by-hop 4m
- Demo: Directing Traffic into the MPLS-TE Tunnel 5m
- Demo: Avoiding Inner Core Links using the TE Metric 6m
- Demo: Tracing RSVP-TE + BGP VPNv6 Transport LSPs 5m
- Module Summary 1m