Convergent Communications Inc. - Building Core Networks with OSPF, BGP, and MPLS Boot Camp v6.0

Convergent Communications, Inc. - A Cisco Systems Learning Partner

BUILDING CORE NETWORKS v6.0

Course Outline & Labs

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Building Core Networks with OSPF, BGP, and MPLS Boot Camp v6.0 - Powerful 5 Day Course

Course Description

Building Core Networks with OSPF, IS-IS, BGP, and MPLS Bootcamp (BCN) is a powerful hands-on course that provides you with the required knowledge and skills to design, deploy, operate, and maintain an Internet service provider (ISP) backbone network. You will learn the primary principles of the routing protocols that are used in very large networks. Hands-on labs reinforce the lecture materials to make sure that you have the working skills to affect the networks you support.

This latest version of BCN is a major rework of the course. Featuring a completely new lab and topology, your learning will be on more advanced hardware and software. In addition to more content, the course has been enhanced to include the latest Cisco IOS® Software features. The lab network now includes supporting infrastructure to provide a more real-world environment.

Course Objectives

After this course, attendees should be able to perform deployment tasks, such as:

Identify the critical factors for availability, scalability, and manageability
Implement an Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP, either OSPF or IS-IS) into a large-scale hierarchical network using best current practices for scalability
Implement BGP into a large-scale hierarchical network using best current practices for scalability
Control routing policy by influencing the BGP path selection process using route maps, prefix lists, and community strings
Implement multihoming strategies using multiexit discriminators (MEDs) and local preference
Implement and verify MPLS functionality in a large-scale network
Implement and verify MPLS VPN connectivity in intra-autonomous-system environments
Implement and verify MPLS traffic engineering practices
Implement Layer 2 VPNs using Any Transport over MPLS (AToM)

Course Audience

This course is intended for network professionals, including designers, implementers, and support staff involved with design and deployment of large-scale networks for large enterprises or high-end ISP networks that use scalable technologies such as Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (IS-IS), Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), or Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS).

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, students should have completed the following prerequisites:

Experience using the Cisco® IOS Software command-line interface (CLI)
Proficiency in routing fundamentals and IP addressing
CCNA® or the equivalent networking knowledge and experience

Network Topology

Course Outline

Course Introduction
Get Started with Core Networking
Implement Link State Protocols (OSPF and IS-IS)
Implement BGP
BGP Scaling Techniques
Implement BGP Policy Control
Implement and Troubleshoot MPLS
Implement Intranet and Extranet MPLS VPNs
Implement MPLS Traffic Engineering
Implement Layer 2 VPNs with AToM
Boot Camp Wrap-Up and Summary

Course Labs

Lab 0-1: Connect to the Lab Equipment
The purpose of this lab is to get you into the lab network so you can access reference materials used throughout the course and gain device access for later lab exercises.
Lab 1-1: Configure the Basics
During the lab exercise you will configure the basic information needed to operate and manage the network equipment. You will configure everything that this course has covered so far. You will import a configuration that installs a basic template, then configure many other elements manually.
Lab 1-2: Configure Interfaces and IP Connectivity
The purpose of this lab exercise is to construct the lab and introduce you to the basic principles of constructing and configuring an IP network. In this lab you will configure the interfaces and establish IP connectivity.
Lab 2-1 or Lab 2-2: Configure and Verify OSPF or IS-IS in the Core Network
The purpose of this lab is to continue building the lab by configuring infrastructure routing using either OSPF or IS-IS. Using the basic router configuration from the first exercise, you will configure basic interior gateway protocol routing.
Lab 3-1: Configure and Verify Basic interior Border Gateway Protocol (IBGP)
The purpose of this lab exercise is to introduce you to BGP and full mesh IBGP routing within the lab network.
Lab 3-2: Configure and Verify exterior Border Gateway Protocol (EBGP)
During this lab exercise you will establish EBGP peering and verify route advertisement and reachability across the network.
Lab 4-1: Scale BGP with Peer Templates and Route Reflectors
The purpose of this lab exercise is to configure route reflectors and observe the effect. You will also compare and contrast update groups to peer groups.
Lab 5-1: Configure BGP Route Filtering
The purpose of this lab exercise is to introduce you to the types of routing policy available in BGP. This lab is designed to practice filtering BGP updates using various filtering methods.
The methods focus on prefix lists, community filters, and AS-path access lists.
Lab 5-2: Configure Multihoming Policy
This lab exercise demonstrates how an autonomous system can use local preference to control outbound traffic and use MEDs or metrics to control inbound traffic when multihoming or having connectivity to more than one other autonomous system. The goal of the exercise is to demonstrate how to achieve a particular traffic flow using different methods.
Lab 6-1: Configure and Verify MPLS
This lab exercise demonstrates how to implement and verify MPLS functionality into an existing network.
Lab 7-1: Configure Intranet MPLS VPN
During this lab exercise you will learn how to implement MPLS VPNs into an existing network.
Lab 7-2: Configure Extranet MPLS VPNs
In this lab exercise you will simulate sharing VRF information with multiple sites. This could be a management LAN or a partner company.
Lab 8-1: Configure and Verify MPLS Traffic Engineering (TE)
In this lab exercise you will learn how to implement MPLS-TE tunnels.
Lab 9-1: Implement, Verify, and Troubleshoot EoMPLS
This lab exercise demonstrates how to implement and verify EoMPLS functionality. You will implement a point-to-point emulated wire service (EWS) between customer edge routers using port mode L2 transport.
Lab10-1: Final Wrap-Up Lab