Description

The Course Name. Implementing Cisco Service Provider Next-Generation Edge Network Services (SPEDGE)

The Duration: 5 Days

The Overview:

The purpose of this course is to teach participants how to prepare for the SPEDGE exam required for the new CCNP-SP certification.

What You Will Learn:

  • VPN technologies used in the service provider environment
  • Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) VPN peer-to-peer architecture
  • Steps to provide MPLS Layer 3 VPN service in service provider networks
  • How to use the MPLS Layer 3 VPN model to implement managed services and Internet access
  • Layer 2 VPNs and Ethernet services
  • Traffic policing and shaping, including token bucket, dual token bucket, and dual-rate policing

The Course Index:

1. VPN Technologies

  • Introduction to VPNs
    • VPN Implementation Models
    • Benefits and Drawbacks
  • Introducing MPLS VPNs
    • MPLS VPN Architecture, Route Distinguishers (RDs), Route Targets (RTs), and Virtual Routing Tables
    • End-to-End Routing Update Flow
    • VPN Label Propagation between PE Routers and the MPLS VPN End-to-End Forwarding Mechanism

2. MPLS Layer 3 VPNs

  • Implementing MPLS Layer 3 VPN Backbones
    • Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF)
    • Enable VRF
    • Enable MP-BGP
  • Deploying Basic Routing in MPLS VPNs
    • Per VRF Static Routes
    • Static Route PE-CE Routing Sessions
    • RIP PE-CE Routing Sessions
    • EIGRP PE-CE Routing Sessions
  • Connecting Customers Using BGP or OSPF
    • Configuring an OSPFv2 PE-CE Routing Session
    • Configuring an OSPFv3 PE-CE Routing Session
    • Configuring a BGP PE-CE Routing Session
    • Troubleshooting MPLS VPNs

3. Special Connectivity in MPLS Layer 3 VPNs

  • Special Connectivity in MPLS Layer 3 VPNs
    • Central Service VPNs and Advanced VRF Features
    • Managed CE Router Service
  • Implementing Internet Access and MPLS Layer 3 VPNs
    • Common Customer Internet Connectivity Scenarios
    • Design Models for Combining Internet Access with MPLS Layer 3 VPN Services
    • Implementing Internet Access Service Separate from MPLS Layer 3 VPN Services
    • Implementing Internet Access Solutions in which the Internet Access is Provided as a Separate VPN
  • Introducing MPLS Inter-Domain Solutions
    • MPLS Inter-Domain Solutions
    • CSC Feature
    • Inter-AS MPLS Models

4. MPLS IPv6 and Interdomain Solutions

  • Deploying IPv6 in an MPLS Environment
    • IPv6 in MPLS Environments
    • Using Layer 2 MPLS VPNs to Support IPv6
    • 6PE Architecture
    • 6VPE Architecture
  • Introducing MPLS Interdomain Solutions
    • MPLS Interdomain Solutions
    • CSC Overview

5. Layer 2 VPNs

  • Layer 2 VPNs
  • Any Transport over MPLS (AToM)
    • Characteristics, Implementation, and Verification
  • Implementing VPLS
    • Implementing Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS) on Cisco IOS XR Routers
    • Implementing VPLS and H-VPLS
  • Enhancing Layer 2 VPN Scalability
    • VPLS vs. H-VPLS

Labs:

Lab 1: Implement MPLS Layer 3 VPN Backbones

Lab 2: Connect MPLS VPN Sites via Static, RIP, and EIGRP

Lab 3: Connect MPLS VPN Sites via BGP and OSPF

Lab 4: Overlapping and Common Services VPNs

Lab 5: Internet Connectivity in MPLS VPNs

Lab 6: Implement 6VPE

Lab 7: Implement CSC

Lab 8: Implement EoMPLS

Lab 9: Implement VPLS

Lab 10: Enhance Layer 2 VPN Scalability