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Cisco MPLS Traffic Engineering and Other Features v2.0

This set of lab exercises (lab bundle) contains the exercises associated with the Cisco MPLS Traffic Engineering and Other Features (MPLST) course. The lab exercises cover different aspects of MPLS configuration and monitoring with respect to MPLS Carrier’s Carrier (CsC), Traffic Engineering (TE), Quality of Service (QoS) and IPv6 over MPLS (6PE) scenarios. The lab exercises also serve as additional hands-on training for students who have attended any MPLS training in the past and would like to refresh and consolidate their MPLS troubleshooting and configuration skills.

Additionally, this lab bundle contains three case study exercises, that focus on features currently supported only on high-end routers. These case studies cover Fast ReRouting (FRR), and Port-to-port and DLCI-to-DLCI Frame Relay flavours of Any Transport over MPLS (AToM).

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This set of lab exercises contains the following exercises:

Objectives

Upon finishing this set of exercises, you will be able to:
Identify the MPLS peer-to-peer architecture and explain label allocation, routing update distribution, and packet forwarding as they relate to this architecture.

  • Configure CsC support on the service provider routers.
  • Configure LDP and OSPF, or eBGP to establish LSP path across the higher-tier service provider network.
  • Configure MPLS VPN support for CsC networks.
  • Determine how labels are assigned and propagated between and across the service provider networks.
  • Analyze the CsC forwarding plane.
  • Identify the MPLS Traffic Engineering architecture and explain how MPLS implements traffic engineering, establishes the constraint-based path, and assigns traffic to traffic trunks.
  • Configure MPLS-TE support on your routers.
  • Configure MPLS-TE tunnels using static paths.
  • Use the autoroute feature to forward the customer VPN traffic onto the MPS-TE tunnels.
  • Configure the inbound QoS policy with rate limiting on the ingress of the network.
  • Configure the QoS policy in the core.
  • Configure the outbound QoS policy on the egress routers.
  • Configure DS-TE support in the core.
  • Create a DS-TE Tunnel.
  • Assign the traffic to the DS-TE tunnels using policy-based routing.
  • Configure IPv6 routing between PE and CE routers
  • Configure MP-iBGP to simultaneously run IPv6 with IPv4
  • Determine how labels are assigned and propagated across the MPLS backbone
  • Analyze the Cisco 6PE forwarding plane

Importance

This lab bundle is mandatory for students attending the Implementing Cisco MPLS Traffic Engineering and Other Features training, as it provides the means of getting the desired hands-on skills in MPLS configuration and troubleshooting. The bundle is also highly recommended to students deploying advanced MPLS CsC, MPLS TE, MPLS QoS, AToM and 6PE features, particularly in environments supporting MPLS VPNs.

Target Audience

This lab bundle is targeted at pre- and post-sales technical support engineers who have to design and implement advanced solutions that are based on MPLS technology.

Prerequisite Knowledge

To successfully complete these exercises, you need extensive MPLS knowledge as well as some generic IP routing knowledge and skills in configuring and troubleshooting MPLS on Cisco IOS. This knowledge is best gained by attending the Implementing Cisco MPLS (MPLS), Implementing Internet Protocol version 6 Fundamentals (IPVSF), Implementing Cisco Quality of Service (QOS), and Implementing Cisco MPLS Traffic Engineering and Other Features (MPLST) courses.