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MPLS Transport Networks, VPNs & Control Plane

5 Day Course
Code PDN072

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Overview

Many Carriers have been utilising MPLS for provision of core network transport. Today a family of MPLS variants, including IP/MPLS, MPLS-TE, G-MPLS, and MPLS-TP, exist that enable MPLS to be used in more innovative ways.

This 5-day in-depth course examines how MPLS in its various forms can be used to provide transport for layer 2 and layer 3 VPNs, to provide for guaranteed QoS enabled service, and to provide transport for Carrier Ethernet and Cloud connectivity in both the core and metro network.

Key areas covered in the course include the differences between the MPLS variants, the architecture and operation of each variant, what protocols are required to enable each variant to operate, how QoS and DiffServ are supported, how OAM is supported, and typical use-case scenarios for Mobile Backhaul, Carrier Ethernet, and Cloud connectivity.

Objectives

Upon completion candidates will be able to:

  • Describe the differences between IP/MPLS, MPLS-TE, G-MPLS, and MPLS-TP
  • Demonstrate a knowledge of the architecture and operation of the MPLS variants
  • Demonstrate a knowledge of the protocols used within MPLS operation
  • Describe how QoS and DiffServ are used to guarantee service performance
  • Demonstrate a knowledge of OAM functionality and operation
  • Describe how Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPNs are provisioned in MPLS
  • Describe how MPLS can be used to provide core and metro network connectivity for Carrier Ethernet, Mobile Backhaul, and Cloud Computing
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Target Audience

Who Should Attend:

Technical Engineers, Product Managers/Engineers, System Architects working within a Carrier network or Mobile Operator network, Carrier Ethernet/Mobile Backhaul/Cloud Computing Service Provision, and anyone requiring an in-depth knowledge of MPLS Transport Networks, VPNs and Control Plane.

Modules

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Introducing Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) (16 topics)

  • Objectives of MPLS
  • Applications of MPLS
  • Variants of MPLS: MPLS-TE; GMPLS; MPLS-TP
  • Architecture and Components of MPLS (LER, LSR, LSP, PE, CE, P)
  • Functions of Ingress/Egress Label Edge Routers
  • Forward Equivalence Class
  • Functions of Label Switched Routers & Requirements of LSPs
  • Label Distribution Methods: Piggybacked or Separate signalling protocol
  • Label Distribution Protocol (LDP)
  • MPLS Label & Payload
  • MPLS Modes: Label Distribution; Label Retention; LSP Control
  • Tunnelling & Label Stacks
  • Forwarding of Labelled Packets
  • Label operation; Reserved Labels; TTL Behaviour; MPLS MTU & Fragmentation; PATH MTU Discovery
  • MPLS mapping into different link layer technologies
  • OAM for MPLS RFC 4377

Internetworking with IP within the Core (6 topics)

  • Where IP fits into the Internet Protocol Suite
  • Functions of Internetworking Protocols
  • Addressing: Classless and Classful
  • Core Routing Protocols (RIP, OSPF, IS-IS, BGP)
  • Internet Services for carriers: How the Internet is built
  • Implication of Internet access across the core

MPLS with Traffic Engineering Extensions (MPLS-TE) (8 topics)

  • Traffic engineering with MPLS to support VPNs & QoS enabled services
  • Explicit route Label Switched Paths (ER-LSPs)
  • Constraint-based routing
  • Constraint based LDP and Explicit routes
  • Pre-emption, holding & priority of LSPs
  • RSVP-TE and explicit routes
  • OSPF-TE
  • Use of BGP

MPLS-based VPNs (3 topics)

  • Requirements of VPNs
  • Overlay VPN Model
  • Peer-to-peer VPN Model

IP VPNs (L3 VPNs) (12 topics)

  • MPLS VPN components and functionality
  • CE-PE interfaces
  • How packets are associated with VRFs
  • Label stacking aiding VPN support
  • Use of BGP within L3 VPNs
  • Forwarding packets across the MPLS network
  • Route Distinguisher
  • Route Target: Import and Export targets
  • Route distribution in MPLS L3 VPN
  • Route and Label advertisement
  • Independence from VPN addressing
  • CE-PE Routing Protocols

Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) (6 topics)

  • LDP Protocol Data Unit Structure & messages
  • Operation (Discovery; Session Management; Advertising/Withdrawing Label Mappings)
  • Targeted LDP Session
  • LDP Authentication
  • LDP Autoconfiguration
  • MPLS LDP Session Protection

L2 VPNs (17 topics)

  • The Need for GMPLS or Any Transport over MPLS (AToM)
  • Ethernet over MPLS Overview
  • Pseudowire Architecture
  • IEEE 802.1Q VLANs and VLAN Tagging
  • MPLS VPWS (L2 Point-to-Point Pseudowires)
  • Discovery & Pseudowire Signalling (T-LDP)
  • Label Mapping Message TLVs
  • Frame Forwarding
  • The Control Word
  • QoS issues
  • MPLS VPLS (L2 Multipoint-to-Multipoint service)
  • VPLS Architecture
  • Signalling (T-LDP, MP-BGP), MAC Learning
  • Discovery
  • Frame forwarding (Unicast, Multicast)
  • QoS issues
  • Typical use cases for MPLS VPWS & MPLS VPLS including Mobile Backhaul

Pseudowire Emulation and Circuit Emulation Services (31 topics)

  • IETF PWE3
  • Pseudowires and PSN Tunnels
  • Encapsulating the emulated service
  • Timing, sequencing & the Control Word
  • Native service processing
  • Control Plane architecture
  • Pseudowires over an MPLS backbone
  • The MPLS Approach to PWE3
  • Establishing LSP Tunnels
  • Using LDP for signalling pseudowires
  • The IP Approach to PWE3
  • Routing PSN Tunnels
  • L2TPv3 signalling and control channels
  • L2TP sessions and pseudowires
  • Status and Keep-alive
  • Session identifiers and attachment circuits
  • GMPLS
  • GMPLS structure
  • GMPLS mechanisms
  • GMPLS Control Plane
  • Emulating Ethernet
  • LAN extension services
  • Ethernet encapsulation
  • Use of the control word
  • Tagged mode and raw mode
  • TDM Emulation over PSN
  • Structured TDM services
  • Frequency justification and pointers
  • Use of RTP for timing and sequencing
  • Packet synchronisation and transport timing
  • Unstructured PDH services (Structure agnostic TDM over Packet)

Quality of Service and DiffServ (21 topics)

  • The objectives of QoS
  • QoS options
  • Relationship between QoS and CoS
  • Traffic Engineering for QoS
  • Explicitly Routed LSPs
  • Constraint Based LSPs
  • Signalling constraint based LSPs using CR-LDP and RSVP-TE
  • Deploying QoS and DiffServ
  • Use of DSCP within IP & PCP field within Carrier Ethernet
  • Forwarding models for DiffServ LSRs: Tunnelling; Pipe; Uniform
  • RSVP extensions for DiffServ support
  • Delivering Reliability
  • Fault tolerance objectives for MPLS
  • Establishing a Fault Tolerant session with LDP
  • Recovering failed LDP sessions
  • Check-pointing and graceful termination
  • Fast reroute alternatives
  • Implementation issues
  • Delivering Quality in Practice
  • Queue management issues
  • Queue mechanisms: input & output; Flow-based queues; class-based queues; RED & WRED

MPLS-TP (25 topics)

  • Overview
  • Concepts
  • Where it fits
  • Benefits
  • Requirements
  • Layered concept
  • Data Plane
  • Control Plane
  • Protection and Recovery
  • QoS
  • Protocols
  • For the optional Control Plane (GMPLS, RSVP-TE)
  • Data Plane
  • Management Plane
  • Support for Network Management
  • FCAPS; Generic Associated Channel (GACh)
  • MPLS TP & Ethernet
  • Carrier Ethernet services over MPLS-TP
  • Static pseudowire establishment
  • Dynamic pseudowire establishment
  • LTE S1 and X2 interface implementations over MPLS-TP
  • Synchronisation
  • Synchronisation in MBH
  • Synchronisation mechanisms (SyncE, IEEE 1588v2 PTP)
  • Synchronisation implementation

OAM in MPLS, MPLS-TP and Carrier Ethernet (6 topics)

  • OAM concepts
  • How OAM is supported in MPLS and MPLS-TP
  • How OAM is supported in Carrier Ethernet
  • OAM Capabilities
  • Protocols and Procedures for Fault Management and Performance Management
  • Alarm handling and protection switching

MBH Solution options (4 topics)

  • Analysis of how to deploy Carrier Ethernet over MPLS & MPLS-TP
  • Identification of where & when to deploy IP/MPLS, Carrier Ethernet over MPLS or MPLS-TP in the backhaul tiers
  • Comparison of the merits of each technology in the backhaul tiers
  • Interworking issues

Prerequisites

Delegates should have a solid understanding of IP and WAN technologies

Scheduled Dates

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Pricing

Different pricing structures are available including special offers. These include early bird, late availability, multi-place, corporate volume and self-funding rates. Please arrange a discussion with a training advisor to discover your most cost effective option.

Code Location Duration Price Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun
PDN072
Virtual Classroom (Bangalore)
5 Days $4,045
04-08
PDN072
Virtual Classroom (Dubai)
5 Days $4,045
10-14
PDN072
Virtual Classroom (London)
5 Days $4,045
PDN072
Virtual Classroom (Reston, VA)
5 Days $4,045
PDN072
Virtual Classroom (Singapore)
5 Days $4,045
11-15
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