"Configuring BGP on Cisco Routers (BGP)"

"Implementing Cisco Quality of Service (QOS)"

"Implementing Cisco MPLS (MPLS)"

or equivalent background

After completing this course the student should be able to:

• Identify MPLS's peer-to-peer architecture and explain label allocation, routing update distribution and packet forwarding model in this architecture
• Given a working MPLS network and diagram of a network, used the CISCO IOS commands required to successfully configure, monitor, and troubleshoot service provider support using the MPLS Carrier supporting Carrier service.
• Identify the MPLS Traffic Engineering architecture and explain how MPLS implements traffic engineering, establishes the constraint-based path and assigning traffic to traffic trunks
• Given a working MPLS network and diagram of a network, used the CISCO IOS commands required to successfully configure, monitor, and troubleshoot MPLS Traffic Engineering.
• Given a working MPLS network and diagram of a network, used the CISCO IOS commands required to successfully implement a defined SLA using the MPLS QoS services
• Given a working MPLS network and diagram of a network, used the CISCO IOS commands required to successfully configure, monitor, and troubleshoot layer-2 services using the Any Transport over MPLS service.
• Given a working MPLS network and diagram of a network, used the CISCO IOS commands required to successfully configure, monitor, and troubleshoot IPv6 support in a MPLS environment.