Implementing Cisco Service Provider Next-Generation Core Network Services (SPCORE)

1: Multiprotocol Label Switching

Learn the features of MPLS, how to configure them, and how MPLS labels are assigned and distributed.

• Introducing MPLS
• Basic MPLS Concepts
• MPLS Labels
• MPLS Applications

• Running Label Distribution Protocol
• LDP Process
• Forming Label Switched Path
• MPLS Convergence
• Platform Switching Mechanisms

• Implementing MPLS in the Service Provider Core
• Configure MPLS
• Monitor MPLS
• Troubleshoot MPLS
• LAB: Implement MPLS in the Service Provider Core

2: MPLS Traffic Engineering

Learn how to assess requirements for traffic engineering in modern service provider networks that must attain optimal resource utilization.

• Introducing MPLS Traffic Engineering Components
• MPLS TE Concepts
• MPLS TE Components
• MPLS TE Process

• Running MPLS Traffic Engineering
• Constraint-Based Path Computation
• Path Setup and Maintenance
• Assigning Traffic to Traffic Tunnels BGP Confederations

• Implementing MPLS TE
• MPLS TE Configuration
• MPLS TE Path Selection MPLS TE Process

• Protecting MPLS TE Traffic
• Link and Node Protection
• MPLS TE Bandwidth Control
• LAB: Implementing MPLS TE

3: QoS in the Service Provider Network

This provides an understanding of the concept of QoS and explains the need to implement QoS.

• Understanding QoS
• Understanding QoS
• Models for Implementing QoS

• Implementing Cisco QoS and QoS Mechanisms
• QoS Mechanisms
• Implementing QoS
• QoS in Service Provider Environment
• LAB: Use QoS Mechanisms

• Implementing MPLS Support for QoS
• MPLS QoS
• MPLS DiffServ QoS Models
• LAB: Implement MPLS Support for QoS

4: QoS Classification and Marking

This describes how to successfully classify and mark network traffic to implement a policy according to QoS requirements.

• Understanding Classification and Marking
• Classification and Marking

• Using the Modular QoS CLI
• Using MQC for Classification
• Using MQC for Class-Based Marking

• Implementing Advanced QoS Techniques
• Network-Based Application Recognition
• QoS Tunneling Techniques
• QoS Policy Propagation via BGP
• Hierarchical QoS
• LAB: Implement Classification and Marking

5: QoS Congestion Management and Avoidance

This describes different Cisco QoS queuing mechanisms used to manage network congestion and describes random early detection used to avoid congestion.

• Managing Congestion
• Introducing Queuing
• Understanding Queuing Implementations
• Configuring CBWFQ
• Configuring LLQ
• LAB: Implement Queuing

• Implementing Congestion Avoidance
• Introducing Congestion Avoidance
• Introducing RED
• Configuring WRED
• LAB: Implement Congestion Avoidance

6: QoS Traffic Policing and Shaping

This describes the concept of traffic policing and shaping, including token bucket, dual token bucket, and dual-rate policing.

• Understanding Traffic Policing and Shaping
• Traffic Policing and Shaping

• Implementing Traffic Policing
• Class-Based Policing
• Local Packet Transport Services
• LAB: Implement Traffic Policing

• Implementing Traffic Shaping
• Class-Based Shaping
• LAB: Implement Traffic Shaping