- course id
- MPLSEA
- duration
- 2-3 day(s)
- Aimed At
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Those with a technical background and familiarity with data networking concepts and with MPLS who wish to acquire a more detailed knowledge of MPLS’s capabilities and future direction. This course is suitable for technical professionals who design and implement MPLS networks.
- Prerequisites
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You should have some prior familiarity with data networking concepts and TCP/IP. An understanding of Frame Relay, ATM, and TDM is helpful.
- Course in a Nutshell
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This course provides a high-level review of Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) basics followed by a detailed discussion of some of the up-and-coming features of MPLS such as circuit emulation, Multicast applications, scalability enhancements, and OAM features.
- Customize It!
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We will be pleased to customize this course to your specific needs, usually at little-to-no additional cost, by adding or omitting topics, increasing or decreasing the level of detail, or making other changes as requested. Those who need a detailed technical treatment of the subject should consider our longer MPLS course listed under Related Courses.
- Learn How To
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Upon course completion, you will be able to:
- Summarize the key capabilities and features of MPLS
- List the newer features of MPLS
- Describe the basic architecture of MPLS
- Explain the operation of MPLS
- List the major MPLS services and applications
- Course Outline
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- Introduction
- Why MPLS
- Players involved with the MPLS specs
- Basic MPLS framework
- Today’s MPLS applications
- MPLS Control Plane
- Routing Protocols
- Non-TE
- OSPF-TE
- IS-IS-TE
- Signaling Protocols
- LDP
- RSVP-TE
- MPLS Data Plane
- Shim header format
- Cell-mode header format
- Frame-relay mode header format
- GMPLS
- MPLS VPNs
- Layer 3: BGP-based
- Layer 2: Point-to-point
- Layer 2: Multipoint
- Layer 1 circuit emulation
- MPLS TE
- TE Parameters
- CSPF algorithm
- Backup mechanisms
- QoS guarantees
- Emerging MPLS Applications
- Multicast/triple play
- Inter-AS/CSC
- Circuit emulation
- Hierarchical LSPs
- Resilience and OAM
- Multicast L2/L3
- Mcast backbone requirements
- P2MP LSPs
- P2MP PW
- BGP P2MP
- mVPN
- Inter-AS/CSC
- Inter-carrier requirements
- MPLS-ICI
- Multi-segment PW
- Circuit Emulation
- SAToP
- CESoPSN
- TDMoIP
- CEM
- Hierarchical LSP’s
- Route aggregation and H-LDP
- Hierarchical resource reservation
- MPLS Resilience and OAM
- Node/network level recovery
- LSP/PW ping/traceroute
- VCCV
- PW redundancy
- MC-LAC
- MPLS/Ethernet OAM interworking
- Conclusion: Recap, Q/A, and Evaluation

