Advanced Services’ Cisco Service Control Application Solution Deployment Course (SCA-D) v1

5-Day Hands-On Course

Course Description

This course prepares students to install and configure the Cisco® Service Control Application Solutions components, including the Cisco Service Control Engine (SCE), SCA-BB Console, Cisco Collection Manager, Traffic Reporter, and Cisco Subscriber Manager. Students use Cisco’s planning, design, implementation, operation, and optimization (PDIOO) process to deploy several SCA solution topologies, including cascade (high availability) and multigigabit (MGSCP). Based on realistic use-case scenarios, students also use the SCA-BB Console to analyze network traffic with reports and design traffic control policies for link bandwidth optimization, to control traffic to the subscriber or application level, as well as to enable tiered service offerings.

Course Objectives

What you will learn:

• Describe the purpose, network insertion, architecture, and interoperability of the SCA solution components.
• Install the SCA solution components’ hardware and software, to include SCE, SCA-BB Console, Collection Manager, and Subscriber Manager.
• Generate detailed reports on bandwidth usage by subscriber and service type.
• Use the Service Control Editor to provision combinations of bandwidth controls: quota, time-based, and tiered services to support both subscriberless and subscriber-aware traffic control scenarios.
• Configure SCA Subscriber Manager and Quota Manager to affect subscriber-aware reporting and traffic control scenarios.
• Implement RADIUS and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) integration for dynamic subscriber awareness through login event generation (LEG) interfaces.
• Describe and configure an SCA virtual links configuration.
• Describe SCA solution design methodology, specific to sizing, high-availability considerations (cascade), and MGSCP topologies

Intended Audience

This course is for technical professionals who design, deploy, and support SCA solutions.

Prerequisites

The following are prerequisites for this course:

• Familiarity with the SCA solution to include knowledge of overall architecture and experience with the SCA-BB Console GUI for SCE provisioning. These skills are taught in the “AS’ Cisco Service Control Application for Broadband Training (SCA-BB)” course.
• Knowledge of Cisco CRS-1 16-slot LCC configurations and operations
• Knowledge of IP routing and switching fundamentals as well as Solaris is recommended for the best learning outcome.

Course Outline