Building Core Networks with OSPF, BGP, and MPLS (BCN)

Length: 5-day Workshop

This workshop uses a combination of lecture, white papers, and hands-on laboratory exercises to teach participants how to design, deploy, and maintain an Internet Service Provider (ISP) backbone. It is focused on the operational design and scaling principles of routing protocols used in large-scale networks. The premise of the boot camp is to provide adequate hands-on practice with techniques used in implementing protocols such as OSPF, BGP, and MPLS in an ISP network so that students learn the techniques and can use them in their production network.

You will learn to:

• Given a large network design, identify the critical factors for scalability
• Implement an IGP, such as OSPF, into a large scale multi-layer network using best current practices for scalability
• Implement BGP into a large scale multi-layer network using best current practices for scalability
• Control routing policy by influencing the BGP path selection process using route maps and prefix lists
• Implement multihoming strategies
• Implement and verify MPLS functionality in a large scale multi-layer network
• Implement and verify MPLS VPN connectivity in intra-AS environments
• Implement and verify MPLS Traffic Engineering practices
• Characterize the features and requirements for implementation of Layer 2 VPNs (Any Transport over MPLS)

Recommended for:

• Individuals who deploy networks using OSPF, BGP, or MPLS technology in an enterprise or service provider environment
• Individuals who design high-end ISP networks that use scalable technologies such as OSPF, BGP or MPLS

Prerequisites:

• Field experience using the IOS® command line interface (CLI) to configure, maintain and troubleshoot Cisco® routers as this course is lab-intensive
• Cisco IOS®, routing fundamentals and IP addressing knowledge as covered in ICND (Interconnecting Cisco® Networking Devices) course, or equivalent experience. CCNA® certification is the preferred source to gain this knowledge
• Internetworking Design Guide - available on CCO at http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/idg4/index.htm
• Designing Large-Scale IP Internetworks - available on CCO at http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/idg4/nd2003.htm
• Internetworking with TCP/IP: Principles, Protocols, and Architecture, Vol. I, 2nd ed., by D.E. Comer

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