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