Advanced MPLS Applications (2-day)

Students will gain a practical understanding of the emerging features and applications for MPLS: Multicast, Circuit Emulation, Multi-carrier, Hierarchical LSP’s and OAM.

Course objective:
To provide a practical understanding of the technical specifications regarding emerging MPLS features and the reasons service providers might implement these features in support of new and existing customer applications.

Module 1: MPLS review

• Why MPLS
• Players in defining MPLS specs
• Basic MPLS framework
• MPLS common applications

Module 2: MPLS Applications

• L2/L3 VPN
• Multicast / Triple play
• Inter-AS/CSC
• Circuit Emulation
• Hierarchical LSPs
• Resilience and OAM

Module 3: MPLS for Multicast

• Multicast L2/L3
• Mcast backbone requirements
• P2MP LSPs
• P2MP PW
• BGP P2MP
• mVPN

Module 4: MPLS Multi-service provider

• Inter-AS/CSC
• MPLS-ICI
• Multi-segment pseudowires

Module 5: MPLS circuit emulation

• Circuit Emulation concepts
• SAToP
• CESoPSN
• TDMoIP
• CEM

Module 6: Hierarchical Label Switched paths

• Hierarchical LSP’s overview
• Route aggregation and H-LDP (2 approaches)
• Hierarchical Resource reservation
• LDP LSP’s over RSVP-TE tunnels

Module 7: MPLS Resilience and OAM

• Fast Reroute
• Node/Network level recovery
• LSP/PW ping/traceroute
• VCCV
• PW redundancy
• MC-LAC
• MPLS/Ethernet OAM interworking

Module 8: Summary and Conclusions

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